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INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



L+, definition of, 208 

 Lo, definition of, 207 

 Lab enzymes, 46 

 Lactase, 50 



Lactic-acid bacilli in therapy of gastro- 

 intestinal autointoxication, 715 

 Lactic-acid fermentation, 50 

 bacteria of, 50 

 in milk, 701 

 Lactose-bile medium, Jackson's, for 



colon-typhoid differentiation, 137 

 Lactose-litmus agar, 129 

 Laked blood, 225 

 Lamblia intestinalis, 739 

 Langenbeck, discovery of Oi'dium albi- 



cans by, 640 

 Lautenschlager's thermo-regulator, 158, 



159 



Leishmania, 755 

 Leishmania braziliensis, 759 

 Leishmania donovani, animal patho- 



genicity of, 758 

 as cause of Kala-azar, 757 

 morphology of, 757 

 transmission of, 758 

 Leishmania infantum, 758 

 Leishmania nilotica, 759 

 Leishmania tropica, 758 

 Leprolin, 502 

 Leprosy, 505 



bacillus of, 502, 505 

 cultivation of, 506 

 by Clegg, 506 

 by Duval, 506 



differentiation of, from tubercle ba- 

 cillus by staining, 106, 506 

 inoculation with, 507, 509 

 morphology of, 505 

 occurrence of, in body, 508 

 pathogenicity of, 507 

 relation of, to tubercle bacillus, 



509 



staining of, 505 

 toxic products of, 509 

 clinical varieties of, 508 

 contagiousness of, 509 

 in rats, 510 

 occurrence of, 507 



Leprosy, tuberculin administered in, 

 results of, 510 



Leptothrix, 619 



morphology of, 618 



Leucocidin of Staphylococcus pyogenes 



aureus, 329 



action of, upon leucocytes, 330 

 discovery of, 329 



leucotoxin differentiated from, 331 

 obtaining of, 330 



Leucocyte extract, 289 



effect of, upon infections in animals, 



290 



in man, 291 



experimentation with, 291 

 obtaining of, 290 



Leucotoxin, 201, 331 



Liborius' method of anaerobic cultiva- 

 tion of bacteria, 149 



Light in destruction of bacteria, 63 

 action of, 64 

 resistance to, 63 

 varieties of, 64 



Lime, chlorid of, as disinfectant, 76 



Limes death, definition of, 208 



Limes zero, 207 



"Limex amebae," 723 



Linen, etc., disinfection of, 87 



von Lingelsheim, discovery of Diplococ- 



cus mucosus by, 387 

 discovery of Micrococcus pharyngis 

 siccus by, 387 



Lipase, 47 



Liver and gall-bladder, inflammatory 

 conditions of, attributed to colon 

 bacillus, 395 



Lobar pneumonia, infectiousness of, 352 



Loeffler and Schiitz, discovery of glan- 

 ders bacillus by, 528 



Loeffler's malachite-green media, isola- 

 tion of typhoid bacillus in stools by, 

 409 



Loeffler's method of staining flagella, 

 100 



Loeffler's serum medium, 131 



Lustgarten, discovery of smegma ba- 

 cillus by, 503 



Lynchia lividocolor, 761 



