INDEX 



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Plasm odium rivax, lesions set up by, not 

 marked, 634 



life-cycle of, 160, 164 



merozoites of, 165 



- migration, 165 



- micro- and macrogametocytes of, 165 

 pigment granules, 165 



small variety, 166 



" stippling/' 165 



synonyms, 164 



Platyhelminthes (flat worms), 211 



central nervous system of, 211 



classification, 212 



definition, 211 



diseases caused by, 638 



excretory apparatus, 211 



hermaphroditic, 211 



integument of body of, 211 

 - method of reproduction, 211 

 morphology, 211 



Plerocercoid, definition of, 301 



Plerocercus, definition of, 301 



Pleurae, invasion by Paragonimus ringeri, 

 251 



Plica polonica due to head louse infection, 

 709, 710 



- treatment, 710 



Plimmer, H. G., treatment of sleeping sick- 

 ness with antimony, 623 



- and Bradford, Sir J. Eose, Trypano- 

 soma brucei, 93 



Pliny, Ascaris lumbricoides known to, 464 



Pneumocystis carinii, 90 



Pneumocysts in rats, 90 



Pocock, geographical distribution of Orni- 



thodorus moubata, 508, 509 

 Podophyllin in expulsion of ancylostomes, 



687 

 Polar capsule, 181, 183, 184, 186 



filament, 183, 184, 186 



Polecat, intestine of, Isospora bigemina 



parasitic in, 149 

 Poliomyelitis acuta, possible rhizopods in, 46 



carrier of, 610 



epidemic, insects transmitting, 612 



virus of, 536 



- carried by house-fly, 586 

 Pollack, invasion by Loa loa, 678 

 Poly mas tigina, 52 



Polymitus of Plasmodium vivax, 160, 165 



form of malarial parasites (footnote), 162 

 Polypus, nasal, caused by Rhinospori- 



dium Mnealyi, 195, 196 

 Polysporea, 182, 184 

 Polysporulea, 195 



Polystomum integerrimum, organs of, 218 

 Ponds, mosquitoes depositing ova in, 553 

 Pork, cysticerci in, cause of decrease, 334 



eating of, cause of trichinosis, 423 

 means of infecting man with cysti- 

 cerci, 334 



inspection of, in prophylaxis against 



trichinosis, 429 

 Porocephalus, 523 



armillatus, 527 



synonyms (footnote), 528 



Porocephalus constrictus, characters, 526 



- hosts of, 526, 527 



organs of body invaded by, 526, 527 



synonyms, 526 



Port Natal sickness (Cape ailment), 488 



Portal vein and liver, Schistosoma hcema- 

 tobium most easily found post mortem 

 in, 273 



and vena cava, communication be- 

 tween, how formed, 272 

 tributaries of, as illustrating distri- 

 bution of Schistosoma hcematobium in 

 body, 272 



Porter, A., Crithidia pulicis, 111 



generic differences among insect 



flagellates, 103 (fig. 49) 



Herpetomonas muscce domesticce, 102 



- Leucocytogregarina, 154 

 Theileria parva, 179 



see also Fantham and Porter 

 Portschinsky, deposition of ova of Oestrus 



ovis, 598 



method of destroying Tabanidoe, 601 

 Posner, case of amoebae in urine, 46 

 Posselt, cutaneous tumours due to cysti- 

 cerci, 662 



reasons for distinction of multilocular 



from hydatid or unilocular echino- 



coccus, 358 

 Post-flagellate stage in herpetomonads, 103 



in Oithidia, 104 



Potassium iodide in treatment of cutaneous 



and muscular cysticerci, 663 



permanganate, application in Oriental 



sore, 628 



Pou d'agouti, mite attacking man, 486 

 Poultry, fatal epizootics among, due to 



Eimeria avium, 142 

 Poultrymen attacked with Dermanyssus 



gallinoe, 493 

 Poupee-Desportes, Guinea worm infection, 



676 

 Powell, method of destruction of Sarco- 



phaga larvae, 723 

 Predtetschensky, expulsion of Hymenolepis 



nana, 661, 662 

 Pre-flagellate stage in herpetomonads, 103 



- in Crithidia, 104 



Price, Dodds, method of prevention of 



Indian kala-azar, 627, 739 

 Prima, fatal case of myiasis externa, 716 

 Privies, disinfection of, as prophylactic 



against ancylostomiasis, 685 

 Proflagellata, 115 



Proskauer, case of Oxyuridce in nose, 696 

 Prostomata, 230 



Protargol in balantidian dysentery, 637 

 Proteid destruction in ancylostomiasis, 647 



metabolism in anaemia, 645 

 Proteosoma, spread of malaria in birds by, 



158 

 Protista defined, 29 



spirochaetes classed among, 115 

 ! Protomonadina, 52, 60 



classification, 60, 61 



