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INDEX. 



Liver-rot, cause of, 132 

 Lock-jaw (see tetanus) 

 Lues (see syphilis) 

 Lysis, 18 



Madura foot, epitome, 198 



Malarial fever, epitome, 198, 199; 

 Plasmodium of, 11 3-1 15; ter- 

 tian and quartan, 115 



Measles, epitome, 119; in Faroe 

 and Fiji Islands, 78 



Measles, German (see rubella). 



Measles, due to embryo tape- 

 worms, 139 



Membranous croup (see diph- 

 theria) 



Metabolism, 35 



Metastasis, in infections, ^^ 



Metchnikoff, theory of phagocy- 

 tosis, 28, 103 



Micrococci, 44 



Milk, danger of, 178 



Mosquitoes, in filariasis, 120; 

 malaria, 73, 116; yellow fever, 

 72 



Mumps, epitome, 200 



Mountain-climber's disease, 3 



Mouth, portal of entry, 174 



Myiasis, 141 



Napoleon, sufferer from itch, 148 

 Necrobiosis, 106 



Occupation, predisposing to in- 

 fections, 92-94; mortaHty table, 

 92 

 Old age, pneumonia in, 97 

 Ophthalmia neonatorum (see 

 gonorrhoea) 



Opisthorchis sinensis, 131 



Opsonin, 27 



Organism, 6 



Osier, prophylaxis in typhoid 



fever, 211 

 Oxygen, relation of, to bacteria, 



, 55 . 



Oxyuris vermicularis, 125 



Painters' colic, 4 



Parasite, definition, 8; kinds, 109; 

 cycle of development, no 



Parasites, exits from body, 152; 

 expectoration, 156; skin, 162, 

 173; suppurations, 165; feces, 

 159; urine, 161; vomit, 156 



Parasitic flies, 141 



Parasitic haemoptysis, 130 



Paragonimus Westermanii, 130 



Phagocytosis, 104; opsonin in, 28 



Pin worm, 125 



Pneumonia, epitome, 200; as sec- 

 ondary infection, 23 



Pott's disease, 97 



Predisposition, 74; age, 94; in- 



,' fluence of region, climate, 81; 



^individual, 80; inherited and 

 acquired, 80; family, 79; phys- 



.^Jical conditions of country, 85; 



. .occupation, 92 



Proglottides, of tape- worm, 134 



Protozoa, 6, in 



Ptomain poisoning, 4 



Pus, 107 



Pyaemia, 21 



Pyogenic bacteria, 107; in infec- 

 tions of childhood, 97 



Quick consumption, 21 



