540 



INDEX 



Blepharoplast, 29; see also Para- 

 basal body. 



Blood, immunity reactions, 20-22; 

 relation to anaphylaxis, 23-24. 



Blood corpuscles, white, see Leuco- 

 cytes. 



Blood flukes, discovery, 7, 8; 213- 

 220; relation of sexes, 213; 

 possibility of introduction into 

 United States, 219-220. See 

 also Schistosoma. 



Bloodsuckers, see Leeches. 



Blowflies, maggots parasitic on birds, 

 511. 



Bodo, 115; 117-118. 



Bolivia, oriental sore, 87. 



Bombay, relapsing fever, 43. 



Bont tick, see Amblyomma hebrceum. 



Borax, and calcium borate for treat- 

 ing manure, 508. 



Botflies, mouth parts, 464; in human 

 skin, 513-516; and intestinal 

 myiasis, 524. 



BOZZOLO, C., 8. 



BRAUN, M., 36. 



Brazil, yaws, 63; kala-azar, 77; 

 espundia, 90, 488; trypanoso- 

 miasis, 94, 108-114; bug-proof 

 houses, 114; Trichomonas 

 pathogenic, 121; Enteromonas 

 hominis, 122; hookworm dis- 

 ease, 255; (Esophagostomum 

 stephanostomum thomasi, 283; 

 Filaria magalhaesi, 308; Tria- 

 toma, 380-381; Anopheles cruzi, 

 habits, 442; Dermatobia and 

 mosquitoes, 452, 453. 



Breakbone fever, see Dengue. 



BREINL, A., 73D. 



British Columbia, tick paralysis, 

 358-359; Dermacentor venustus, 

 363. 



British Guiana, Sparganum mansoni, 

 252; hookworm disease, 262; 

 filarial infections, 308. 



British Isles, see Great Britain. 



British Plague Commission, 411, 412. 



British Royal Commission on Vene- 



real Diseases, report, 50, 58, 

 59-60. 



British Trench Fever Commission, 

 187, 397, 399. 



Bronchitis, caused by spirochsetes, 

 71. 



BRUCE, D., 7, 98, 108, 397. 



BRUMPT, E., 83. 



Buba braziliensis, 89. 



Bubalis caffer, host of Glossina 

 morsitans, 500. 



Bubonic plague, see Plague. 



Buenaventura, yellow fever in, 70. 



Buffalo, host of Glossina morsitans. 



Buffalo gnats, see Blackflies. 



Bugs, see Hemiptera. 



Bulgaria, typhus in, 398. 



Bullinus contortus and B. dybowskii, 

 intermediate hosts of Schisto- 

 soma in Egypt, 215, 216, 217. 



Bursa, of hookworms, 256. 



Butter, on clothing to prevent lousi- 

 ness, 402. 



BY AM, Maj. W., 397. 



Bythinia striatula, var japonica, inter- 

 mediate host of Clonorchis, 226. 



Cachexia, malarial, 161, 162; treat- 

 ment, 164. 



Cairo, prevention of Schistosoma in- 

 fections, 216s. 



Calabar swellings, 309. 



CALANDRUCCIO, S., 284. 



Calcium borate, and borax for treat- 

 ing manure, 508. 



California, hookworm in mines, 262; 

 hookworm introduced by Hin- 

 dus, 268; Dermacentor occiden- 

 talis, 358, 363; Ornithodorus 

 coriaceus, 364-365; plague in 

 ground squirrels, 411; Pulex 

 irritans, 415; Ceratophyllus acu- 

 tus, 418. 



CALKINS, G. N., 33. 



Calliphora vomitoria, cause of my- 

 iasis, 521. 



erythrocephala, cause of myiasis, 

 521. 



