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INDEX 



Hay fever, tropical, treatment, 404 

 Health, maintenance of, in Tropics, 



general rules for, 541 

 Heart failure cause of sudden death in 



Asiatic relapsing fever, 15 



treatment of, in typhus, 380 



Heat as means of disinfection, 593 



exhaustion, 530 



stroke (sunstroke), aetiology, 391 



and heat syncope, differences 



between, 390 



causation, theories as to, 391 



definition, 391 



diagnosis, 394 



(direct), 391 



■ (indirect), 393 



. mortality, 393 



prophylaxis against, 392 



results of, 392 



• symptomatology, 392 



treatment, 394 



syncope, 389 



aetiology, 390 



definition, 390 



• symptomatology, 390 



treatment, 391 



Heating in sterilization of water, ^58 

 Helminth ova in faeces, preservation of, 



323. . . 

 Helminthiasis, complication of African 



trypanosomiasis, 146 

 Helminths, diseases due to, 226 



distribution, 228 



factors controlling, 228 



grouping of, 231 



mode of infection by, 320 



■ nomenclature, 230 



pathogenic action, variation of, 229 



preservation and examination of. 



^21-2 



. toxic, 449 



Herpetomonas, 5 



Hindu water-carriers, vessels used by, 552 



Hirsuties, 471 



treatment, 471 



Hirudiniasis, aetiology, 324 



definition, 323 



• symptomatologx', 324 



treatment, 324 



Histoplasma capsulatum, 6 



date of discovery, 6 



diseases caused by, 6 



habitat, 6 



Horny growth from cheek, 504 

 Horse, preparation of antitoxic sera 

 from, 599 



serum, immune in spirochtetosis 



icterohaemorrhagica, 19 



Horsley, Sir Victor, death of, from heat 

 stroke, 393 



Hot-air sterilizer, 622 



Hot climates, pathological effects on 

 Europeans, 538 



, physiological effects on Euro- 

 peans, 537 



House-fly (Musca domestica), enemies of, 

 225 



habits, &c., of, 224 



how man is infected by, 225 



ways of suppression of, 225 



Houses, disinfection of, fumigation as 

 means of, 595 



suitable, construction in tropical 



districts, 535, 536 



Hughes, Basil, method of cleansing 

 washing water, 560, 561 



Humerus, chondrosarcoma of, 498 



Hydatid disease, cystic form of, due to 

 infection by Echinococcus granulosus, 

 267 



multilocular form of, pro- 

 duced by Echinococcus multilocularis, 

 268 



Hydrocele, see Orchitis and hydrocele , 

 filarial 



Hydrochloric acid in sprue, 360 



Hydrochloride (emetine) in amoebic dys- 

 entery, 42 



Hydrophinae, 425 



■ genera of, 426 



in Australia, 433 



Hydrophine venom (snake bite), sym- 

 ptoms, 442 

 Hydrophis coronatus, photograph of, 424 

 Hygiene, constitutional, 535 



relation to tropical diseases, 539 



Hymenolepis diminuta common to rats 



and mice, 263 



nana, dwarf tapeworm of man, 263 



■ intestinal irritation and 



anaemia resulting from infection by, in 

 children, 263 

 Hyperaesthesia, deep, in African trypano- 

 somiasis, 142 



in cerebral stage of African trypano- 

 somiasis, 145 



Hyperkeratosis, 495 



Hyperpyrexial fever, high mortality in, 



396 

 Hyphomycetes, divisions of, 630 



ICHTHYOL in acrodermatitis vesiculosis 

 tropica, 460 



in climatic bubo, 411 



in filarial lymphangitis, 281 



ointment, application to Calabar 



swellings, 300 



Ichthyosis glossae, 477 



hystrix, 473 



treatment, 473 



simplex, 473 



Immunity, acquired, definition, 598 



active, 16:5 



• natural, 165 



definition, 598 



passive, 165 



theories of, 163 



to diseases afforded by vaccines and 



sera, 601 

 Impetigo, 473 



treatment, 473 



Incubation of trypanosomiasis, African 



incubation, 139 

 India, bacterial standards for purity of 



drinking water in, 649 



deaths from snake bite annually 



in, 419 



diet of natives and Europeans con- 



trasted in relation to incidence of 

 typhoid fever, 215 



