INDEX 



677 



Ankylostomiasis, complications, 318 



life-history, 3i() 



prophylaxis, 318 



spread of, factors necessary for, 543 



■ symptomatology, 317 



treatment, 318-g 



Ankylostomum duodenale, 314-5 

 ova of, 637 



Anopheles maculipennis, larva of, 295 

 Anthrax bacillus, diagnosis of, 616 

 Anti-bacterial action, how produced, 164 

 Antibactericidal substances, probability 



of, in snake venom, 441 

 Antibodies, 600 

 Antidote, or retention theory of protection 



afforded by sera and vaccines, 600 

 Antidysenteric serum, summarizing of 



work by Flexner, 201 

 Antifibrin ferment in snake venom, 441 

 Antigens, 600 



Antihasmolysins in snake venom, 441 

 Antimony in kala-azar, 61 



preparations in treatment of African 



trypanosomiasis, 148 



Antitoxic sera, 599 

 Antitoxins, 163 



Antityphoid vaccine, effect on case in- 

 cidence and case mortality of typhoid 



fever, 601 

 protection afforded b\-, length 



of, 601 

 Antivenene in snake bite, 446 

 Ants, venom of, symptoms, 452 

 Anuria in yellow fever, treatment, 371 

 Appetite perverted in cerebral stage of 



African trypanosomiasis, 145 

 Archibald's fever, definition, 397 



symptomatology, 397 



Archibald and Balfour, bacteriological 



examination of river and well water 



in Khartoum, 642, 643 

 Archoplasm in protozoa, 3 

 Argas persicus (tick) attacks poultry and 



humans, 21 

 Arm, elephantiasis of, 293 

 Arrow poisons, treatment, 457 

 Arsenic emetic in treatment of African 



trypanosomiasis, 149 



in afebrile splenomegaly, 417 



in lichen planus, 475 



in onyalai, 417 



in psoriasis, 487 



Arsenical poisoning in zetiologv of beri- 

 beri, 337 



preparations in treatment of African 



trypanosomiasis, 148 



treatment in rat-bite fever, 398 



Artesian wells, 551 



Aryan races, vegetarianism of, 566 



Ascariasis, definition, 309 



geographical distribution, 309 



parasite causing, 309 



symptomatology, 311 



treatment, 311 



Ascaris lumbricoides, examination 



of 



faeces for eggs of, 311 



life-history, 309, 311 



morphology, 309, 310 



ova of, 637 



parasite causing ascariasis, 309 



Asia, poisonous snakes in, 428 

 Aspergillinas, diagnosis of, 630 

 Aspergillosis, 461 



ocular, due to fungi, 511 



Aspirin in filarial lymphangitis, 281 



in phlebotomus fever, 361 



in yellow fever, 371 



Asthenia in African trypanosomiasis, 142 

 Asthenopsia, sponge-fishers', 509 

 Atoxyl in pellagra, 336 



in treatment of African trypano- 

 somiasis, 148 



Atripliasmus, 454 



symptoms, 454 



Antigens, 600 



Auchmeromyia luteola, larvae of, causing 



myiasis, 483 

 Auto-intoxication in aetiology of beriberi, 



340 

 Aviation, dangers of atmospheric changes 



in, 532 



Babesia hominis, 6 

 Bacilli, 162 



capsulated, 618 



characters of, 1C2 



Bacillus asiaticus fever, symptomatology, 

 397 



botulinus, diagnosis of, 617 



coli, diagnosis of, 618 



— ■_ in water, quantity of, testify- 

 ing to measure of purity of, 652 



enumeration by method 



of British sanitarians, 651 



diphtheriae, diagnosis of, 619 



lepras, 180 



diagnosis of, 616 



mallei, diagnosis of, 621 



oedematis maligni (Bacillus septi- 



cus), diagnosis of, 617 



of timothy grass, diagnosis of, 616 



paratyphosus A, geographical distri- 

 bution, 215 



- paratyphosus B, geographical distri- 

 bution, 214 



- pestis, behaviour of, 168 



carried by fleas, 177 



characters, 168 



cultures of, 170 



diagnosis of, 619 



habitat, 168 



— pseudo-tuberculosis of Pfeifl'er, dia- 

 gnosis of, 616 



— pyocyaneus, diagnosis of, 620 



— typhosus, diagnosis of, 619 

 vibrio in flies, transmission of 



cholera by, 206 



welchii, diagnosis of, 617 



Ascites, chylosus, 284 



■ in filariasis, 279 



Bacteria, death of, how produced, 163 



demonstration of, in laboratory 



work, 626 



detection in faeces, 635 



diseases due to, 161, 162 



distribution, 164 



entrance into tissues, 165 



general features of, 162 



in aetiology of pellagra, 331 



in waters, examination by methods 



of British sanitarians, 650, 651 



infection by, conditions necessary 



for, 164 



life of, conditons necessary for, 163 



