INDEX 



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onicum, 218; lung flukes, 220, 

 221; human liver flukes, 224; 

 Echinostomum ilocanum, 228; 

 Tcenia solium, 24:l;(Esophagosto- 

 mum apiostomum, 283; Anoph- 

 eles ludlowi, habits, 442; Musca 

 domestica and intestinal myiasis, 

 527. 



Phinotas oil, for blackflies, 483. 



Phlebotomus, and oriental sore, 86, 

 471; and Oroya fever, 181, 472- 

 473; and phlebotomus fever, 

 184-185, 470-471; 463; 466- 

 473; general description, 466- 

 468; life history, 468-470; and 

 diseases, 470-473; control, 473. 

 pernidosus, and phlebotomus 



fever, 470. 



minutus, and oriental sore, 86, 471; 

 and phlebotomus fever, 470; 

 habits, 471; description, 472. 

 minutus, var. africanus, and orien- 

 tal sore, 86, 471. 



papatasii, and phlebotomus fever, 

 184, 185, 470; life history, 469; 

 description, habits, etc., 470-471. 

 verrucarum, and Oroya fever and 

 verruga peruviana, 181, 472- 

 473. 



Phlebotomus fever, parasites of, 

 182; 184-185. 



Phthirius, hosts, 389. 

 inguinalis, see P. pubis. 

 pubis, 389, 396-397; dispersal, 

 400; remedies, 401. 



Physaloptera mordens, 282. 



Physopsis africana intermediate 

 host of Schistosoma hcematobium 

 in South Africa, 216. 



Pigeon, Argas reflexus, 364. 



Pin worm, see Oxyuris vermicularis. 



Piophila casei, and intestinal myi- 

 asis, 526, 527. 



Piroplasmata, 27, 168; Bartonella a 

 member of, 180-181; and 

 spotted fever, 168; and kedani, 

 190-191; transmission by ticks, 

 168, 181, 360. 



Pito bug, 382. 



Plague, in Europe, 2, 411; in Uni- 

 ted States, 2, 411; in India, 3, 

 411; and bedbugs, 378; and 

 lice, 399-400; and fleas, 410- 

 413; and rats, 411. 

 Planorbis, occurrence in United 



States, 220. 



boissyi, intermediate host of 

 Schistosoma mansoni in Egypt, 

 215, 216, 217. 



guadelupensis, intermediate host 

 of Schistosoma mansoni in Ven- 

 ezuela, 217. 



olivaceus, intermediate host of 

 Schistosoma mansoni in Brazil, 

 217. 



Plasmodium, discovery, 7; cultiva- 

 tion, 9; 35; 149-159; species, 

 149-150; life history, human 

 cycle, 150-154; relation to red 

 blood corpuscles, 150-151; mos- 

 quito cycle, 154-156; effects of 

 temperature on development in 

 mosquito, 156. 



falciparum, 150-166; life history, 

 human cycle, 150-154; clogging 

 of capillaries, 152; sporulation, 

 152-153; numbers in blood, 153; 

 crescents, 154; mosquito cycle, 

 154-156; resistance to low tem- 

 peratures, 156. 



malaria, 150; description, 157. 

 vivax, 150; resistance to low tem- 

 peratures, 156; description, 

 156. 



PLATE, J. T., 118, 134. 



Platyhelminthes, 196-198. 



PLENCIZ, M. A., 6. 



Plerocercoid, nature of, 235. 



PLINY, 372. 



Poliomyelitis, acute, anterior, see 

 Infantile paralysis. 



Pork, measly, 241; trichina in, 286, 

 287, 292; killing of trichina in, 

 295; inspection, 295-296; fit- 

 ness for food, 296-297. 



Pork tapeworm, see Tcenia solium. 



