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INDEX 



Diet of natives of India and of Euro- 

 peans contrasted, in relation to in- 

 cidence of typhoid fever, 215 



Voit's standard, 565 



classification, 5C5 



Digestion in cerebral stage of African 



trypanosomiasis, 145 

 Digitalis, tincture of, in heat stroke, 304 

 Dionin in iritis, keratitis, glaucoma and 



corneal ulcers, 527 

 Diphtheria, antitoxic serum in, value, 599 

 Diplococci, arrangement, 162 

 Diplococus pneumonia?, diagnosis of, 620 



stain, method of finding, 615 



Dipylidium caninum, parasite found in 



dogs and cats, 262 

 Diseases, general, ocular manifestations 



of, 522 

 Disinfectants, chemical, 595 



characters of, 593-4 



in eye diseases, 527 



Disinfection, 592 



• chief means of, 592 



Distillation of water, 558 



Dog, Schistosoma japonicum from, 251 



Dogs and cats, infection from, to man 



of Dipylidium caninum, 263 

 Double continued fever, low mortalit\ 



in, 396 



■ • symptomatology, 396 



Dover's powder in dengue, 378 

 Dracontiasis, geographical distribution, 



301 



parasite causing, 301 



pathological lesions, 304 



prophylaxis against, 305 



symptomatology, 304 



treatment, 304-5 



Dracunculus medinensis (guinea-worm), 

 host and intermediate host of, 301 



■ life-history, 301, 304 



■ morphology, 301, 302, 303 



parasite causing dracontiasis, 



301 

 Drawer's ointment, in psoriasis, formula 



^0'''.487 

 Drinking water, boiling and filtration, in 



prophylaxis against dracontiasis, 305 



distillation from salt water, 544 



in India, bacterial standards, 



^.49 

 Drinks in tropics, 522 

 Dropsy, epidemic, aetiology, 350 



definition, 350 



diagnosis, 351 



geographical distribution, 350 



resemblances to and difi"erences 



from beriberi, 348-9 



symptoms, 350-1 



treatment, 351 



Drug-takers, Whitmore's disease common 



in, 415 

 Drugs in typhoid fever in the tropics, 222 



useless in hypcrpyrexial fever, 395 



Dusting powder, antiseptic, application, 



in filarial lymphangiectasis, 282 

 Dysenteries (the), causes, 29 



classification, 29 



history, 27 



of Ancon hospital, classification, 29 



protozoal, 29 



Dxsenterics, pseudo-dysenteries, most 

 common in temperate climates, 29 



verminous, 29 



Dysentery, amoebic, 146 



acute, symptomatology, 36 



chronic, 39 



complication of African try- 

 panosomiasis, 146 



■ • complications in, 41 



cysts in stools of, 30 



definition, 30 



diagnosis, 42 



geographical distribution, 30 



histology, illustrations of, 33, 



34, 35 



36 



m 



lesions in great intestine, 



— • liver abscess in, 50 



method of search for cysts 



stools of patient suffering from, 41 



parasite of, 30 



pathology, 32 



macroscopic, 34 



section from intestine in case 



of, showing ulcer of Harris, 38 



treatment, 42 



— antitoxic serum in, value, 599 



— ■ bacillary, 29 



acute, symptomatology of, 198 



and amoebic, diflferentiation be- 

 tween, 42 



— ■ aetiology of, 196 



— ■ chronic attacks, treatment of, 



symptomatology of, 199 



complications of, 199 

 definition of, 196 

 diagnosis of, 200 

 geographical distribution of. 



202 



196 



358 



of 



pathology of, 197 



prognosis of, 200 



sequelae, 200 



spread of, factors in, 540 



symptomatology of, 198 



treatment of, 200 



bacilli, main types, ig^ 

 bacillus, diagnosis of, 619 



types of, 619 



cause of, 553 



chronic, diagnosis of sprue from, 



ciliar (Balantidium coli), parasite 

 44 



treatment, 46 



(Lamblia intestinalis), treat- 

 ment, 46 



mortality from, 44 



— • (Tetramitus mesnili), 47 



— ■ spread of, factors in, 540 

 vaccines, bacterial, 602 



Dysidrosis exfoliativa, 467 



Earth, bacteriology of, 646 

 Echinococcus granulosus causing cystic 

 form of hydatid disease, 267 



dangers of, to man, 268 



geographical distribution, 267 



life-cycle, 267 



morphology, 267 



pathogenicity, 268 



