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Index 



Leprosy, 762 



anesthetic, 771, 773 

 etiology, 763 

 nodular, 771 

 sanitation in, 774 

 serum, 774 

 therapy in, 774 

 Leptothrix, 41 

 Lethargy, African, 554 

 Leuconostoc, 39 

 Leukocidin, 347 



Leukocytes, washed, in testing op- 

 sonic value of blood, 211 

 Leumann and Hankin's method for 

 differential diagnosis of plague 

 bacillus, 588 

 Levaditi's method of staining tre- 



ponema pallidum, 790 

 Liborius' tube for anaerobic cul- 

 tures, 261 

 Life, infusorial, 19 



spontaneous generation of, doc- 

 trine, 17 

 Ligatures, disinfection of, 209 



sterilization of, 210 

 Light, effect of, on tubercle bacillus, 



727 

 influences on growth of bacteria, 



61 



Liquefaction of gelatin, 70 

 Listerism, 25 

 Litmus, method of preparing, 239 



milk as culture-media, 239 

 Litmus-lactose-agar-agar, 654 

 Liver, abscess of, in amebic dysen- 

 tery, 697 



Lobar pneumonia, 492 

 Lockjaw, 385. See also Tetanus. 

 Loffler-Klebs bacillus, 451. See 



also Bacillus diphtheria. 

 Loffler's alkaline methylene-blue, 

 staining Bacillus diphtherias with, 



452 



blood-serum mixture as culture- 

 media, 236 

 method for detecting spirillum 



cholerae Asiaticse, 615 

 of cultivation of Bacillus diph- 

 therias, 454 



of differentiating typhoid bacil- 

 lus by means of malachite 

 green, 660 

 of staining, 182 



Bacillus mallei, 776 

 flagella, 189 

 Luetin, 798 



Lugol's solution, dilute, 183 

 Lumpy jaw, 803, 811 

 Lungs, bacteria in, 85 



Lupus, 99 

 Lysin, 120 

 Lysol, 215 

 Ly ssa, 412. See also Hydrophobia. 



MAcCoNKEY's medium for ty- 

 phoid bacillus, 66 1 



method for detecting colon bacil- 

 lus in water, 66 1 

 Macfadyen's typhoid serum, 648 

 Macrocytase, 127, 145 

 Macrogametocyte, 531 

 Macrophages, 126 

 Madura-foot, 812 

 Maladie du coit, 562 



du sommeil, 554 

 Malaria, 524 



ague-cake of, 540 



algid cases, 539 



and mosquitoes, relation, 526, 



54i 



congestive chills of, 539 

 enlargement of spleen in, 540 

 estivo-autumnal parasite of, 537 

 geographic distribution, 524 

 history, 524 

 parasites of, 525, 532 

 animal inoculation, 539 

 cultivation, 539 

 human, 532 



inoculation, 539 

 pathogenesis, 539 

 paroxysms of, 524 

 prophylaxis, 540 



human beings, 540 

 ' mosquitoes, 540 

 quartan, parasite of, 532 

 temperature in, 524 

 tertian, parasite of, 534 

 Malignant carbuncle, 401 

 edema, 374 

 polyadenitis, 581 

 pustule, 407 

 Mallein, 781 

 Mallory's differential stain for en- 



tamoeba, 698 

 method of staining, 186 

 Malta fever, 520 



bacteriologic diagnosis, 521 

 treatment, 522 

 Mastigophora, 51 

 Matino's method of staining proto- 

 zoa, 198 

 Measurement of micro-organisms, 



200 

 Meat, bacteria in, 297 



extract, preparation of bouillon 

 from, 229 



