INDEX 



291 



Influenza, incubation period, 2O2 



mortality from, 199, 200 



predisposing causes, 202 



prevention of, 203 

 Inoculation for smallpox, 76 



Lepers, isolation of, 189 

 Leprosy, 181 



bacillus of, 182 



disinfection in, 190 



history of, 186 



in Great Britain, 187 



in India and China, 187 



in Norway, 188 



in United States, 189 



inoculation experiments, 182 



transmission of, 186 

 Leucocytes, phagocytic action of, 71 

 Lime as a disinfectant, 59 



Lye as a disinfectant, 58 

 Lysol, 60 



Malaria, 235 

 Malarial fevers, 234 



fevers, geographic distribution of, 

 245 



fevers, mortality from, 247 



fevers, period of incubation. 240 



fevers, prevention of, 249-251 



fevers, seasonal prevalence of, 246 



parasite, 237, 241 



parasite, discovery of, 234 



parasite, varieties of, 240-242 

 Measles, 228 



complications of, 230 



disinfection in, 230, 231 



mortality from, 229 



period of incubation, 228 



prevention of, 231 



second attacks, 233 

 Membranous croup, 194 

 Metchnikoff's theory, 72 

 Micrococci, 16 



Micrococcus of erysipelas, 265, 267 



of pneumonia, 206 



of pneumonia, discovery of, 205 



of pneumonia, where found, 208 



of puerperal fever, 266 

 Micro-organisms, 8 

 Milk, antitoxins in, 82 



from tuberculous cows, 175 

 Mineral acids, as germicides, 57 

 Mortality of armies, 129, 143 

 Mosquitoes, infection by, 21 



malarial parasite in, 243 



transmission of yellow fever by, 



255 

 Mucous membrane, infection through, 



21 



Natural immunity, 63 

 Oysters, infection by, 18 



Pasteur Institute, statistics of, 287, 



288 



Period of incubation, 6 

 Phagocytosis, 71, 72 

 Plasmodium malariae, 237 

 Pneumonia, 205 



epidemics of, 209 



in Chicago, 207 



in United States, 206 



mortality from, 207 



predisposing causes, 206 



prevention of, 210 



Pocket flasks for consumptives, 172 

 Potash as a germicide, 58 

 Protective inoculations, 75-78 



inoculations in bubonic plague, 

 107, 108 



inoculations in cholera, 124 



inoculations in typhoid fever, 139 

 Protophyta, 10 



Protozoa, 10 

 Ptomaines, 30 



