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INDEX 



Bacteria, mclliods uf locomotion, 162 



non-pathogenic, in water cause of 



muco-enteritis, 553 



physiology, 162, 163 



reproduction by simple fission, 162 



by spore formation, 162 



resistant to effects of sunlight, 645 



■ shape of, 162 



staining for, 604 



susceptible to effects of sunlight, 645 



Bacterial activity, products of, 163 



• emulsions, 509 



Bacteriolysins, 164 



Balantidium coli, 7, 40, 45, 46 



parasite of ciliary dysentery, 44 



— — minutum, 7, 46 



Balfour and Archibald, bacteriological 

 examination of river and well water 

 in Khartoum, 642, 643 



Balkan War (1913), vaccination against 

 cholera during, results, 213 



Banana flour in infant feeding, 582 



Bandaging in elephantiasis of legs, 286 



Barcoo rot, 461 



Basic stains, 604 



Beans causing favism, 389 



Beef broth as nutrient medium for cul- 

 tures, preparation of, 621 



Bees and wasps, sting of, symptoms, 452 



treatment, 452 



venom of, 451 



Beetles, venomous, 453 



Belladonna, application in climatic bubo, 



4" . . 



Benzoic acid and sodium benzoate as pre- 

 servative, test for, 577 



Beriberi, aetiology, 2:^7 



atrophic, dry or paralytic variety, 



343, 344 



deficiency disease, 337 



definition, 336 



diagnosis, 347 



dietetic causes of, 571 



geographical distribution, 336-7 



history, 337 



hypertrophic, wet or oedematous 



variety, 345-6 



infantile variety, 347 



mixed variety, 346-7 



oedematous variety, 344 



pathology, 341 



post-mortem examination, 341, 343 



prognosis, 349 



resemblances to and differences from 



epidemic dropsy, 348-9 



spread and onset of, prevention, 540 



treatment, 349-50 



varieties, 343 



wet, acute, 346 



Berkefeld filter, 558 



Beta-naphthol treatment of ankylostomia- 

 sis, 319 



Beverages, kinds of, causing pain in 

 sprue, 357 



Big heel, course of, 412 



geographical distribution, 412 



treatment, 412 



Bile, leaking tumour discharging fluid 

 giving reaction of, 501 



Bilharzia Mission (1Q15), conclusions as 

 to prevention and treatment of schisto- 

 somiasis based on, 249, 250 



Bilharziasis, transmission of molluscs 

 essential for, 543 



Binary fission, asexual method of repro- 

 duction in protozoa, 3 



Biotripsis (life-wear), 461 



Bismuth-milk treatment in amoebic 

 dysentery, 43 



iodide (emetine) in amtebic dys- 

 entery, 43 



Black tongue, 476 



Blackwater fever, blue pigment in, 628 



diagnosis of yellow fever 



from, 370 



■ — presumed cause of, 6 



see also H anioglohinnric fever 



Bladder, post-mortem appearance in 



schistosomiasis, 245, 246 



stricture in schistosomiasis, 248 



Blastomycetes, diagnosis of, 631 

 Blastomycosis, diagnosis, 462 



ocular, due to fungi, 511 



symptomatology, 461 



treatment, 462 



Blindness, 508 



• • causes classified, 508 



due to lightning, 510 



Blood, acidity of, in cerebral stage of 

 African trypanosomiasis, 145 



cells, abnormal, 605 



red, abnormal, 606 



• counting of, 606 



ha^mophilic, 606 

 nucleated, 606 



transitional, 605 

 white, abnormal, 605 

 counting of, 607 



of, 



changes in, 173 



staining for, 604 



condition in verruga peruviana, 364 

 condition in yellow fever, 367 

 count, differential normal, results 

 605 



counting of_, 606, 607 



in varieties of malarial fever, 



609, 610 



— detection in faeces, 635 



— dust, 60; 



— effects of tropical climates on, 537 



— examination of, 604 

 in ankylostomiasis, 317 



— films, fixation of, 605 



— fresh, examination of, for micro- 

 filariae, 610 



— in blackwater fever, 387 



— malaria-infected, injections of, re- 

 sult, 72 



— malarial parasites in, 72, 73 



— serum, as nutrient medium, prepara- 



— specific gravity of, method of 

 estimating, 612 



— spectroscopic examination of, 612 



— state of, in sprue, 357 

 tonicity of, 613 



tion of, 623 

 Boiling in sterilization 

 Boils, treatment, 462 

 tropical, 462 



of water, 558 



