688 



INDEX 



Koch's comma bacillus, 62 1 



cause of cholera, 205 



Kraurosis vulvic, 477 

 Krcotoxismus, 45 ^ 



treatment, 45s 



Laboratory, hints for work in, 603 



Lacertilia, 423 



Lactose fermenting organisms in water, 



test for, 643 

 Lake water, bacteriology of, 648 

 Lakes, purity of, 547 



water supplies from, 547 



Lamblia intestinalis, 5, 47 



parasite of ciliar dysentery, 46 



Lamus megistus as agent in spreading 



South American trypanosomiasis, 154 

 Lanoline, amplication in ichthyosis 



hystrix, 473 



ointment in filarial lymphangitis, 



281 



Laryngitis, complication of African try- 

 panosomiasis, 146 

 Latah, geographical distribution, 406 



symptomatology, 406, 407 



Lathyrismus, 453 



causes of, 572 



symptoms, 453, 454 



treatment, 454 



when endemic and when epidemic, 



453 



Latrines, Chinese, 587 



European, 588 



for troops in the field, chemical 



method, 588 



in tropics, 1585 



Indian, 588 



native, 585 



separation system in, 587, 588 



river, practice of, insanitary, 586 



Lead and opium lotion in filarial lym- 

 phangitis, 281 



in filarial orchitis and 



hydrocele, 281 



dissolution from water pipes by 



peaty water, 5:52 

 — in water, method of estimating, 655 

 lotion, application in climatic bubo. 



411 

 Leeches, land and water, in aetiology of 



Hirudiniasis, 324 

 Legs, elephantiasis of, 284-287, 293 

 Leishman-Donovan parasite of kala-azar, 



r 5.7 



Leishmania, 6 

 Leishmaniases, 55 

 Leishmaniasis, canine, 68 



acute and chronic, 69 



dermal (oriental sore), 63 



aetiology, 63 



definition, 63 



diagnosis, 65 



points to be noted in, 65 



distribution, 63 

 histopathology, 63 

 prognosis, 65 

 symptomatology, 64 

 treatment, 66 



naso-oral and oro-pharyngeal, 68 



symptoms, 68 



treatment, 68 



Leishman's stain, 604 



for staining malarial parasite 



in blood, 608 

 Leproline in leprosy, i8g 

 Leprosy, Eesthctic, macular in, 187 



deformities in, 184 



variety, 186 



antitoxic serum in, 599 



bacillus, 180 



definition, 179 



geographical distribution, 180 



history, 179 



how spread, 181 



little influenced by climatic and 



tropical conditions, 540 



— mixed variety, 188 



— nodular, in Hindoo woman, 183 



— pathology, 181 



— post-mortem appearances, 182 



— prognosis, 188 



— symptomatology, 182-3 



— treatment, 188 

 tubercular variety, 184, 186 



Leptothrix, 471 



treatment, 471 



Leucocytes in lymphatic leukaemia, 606 



percentage in normal blood count, 



605 



total, diseases during which 



diminished, 605 



Leucocytosis in blackwater fever, 387 



in verruga peruviana, 364 ' 



Leucocytozoida?, 5 



Leucoderma, 474 



treatment, 474 



Leucolysins in snake venom, 441 

 Leucopenia in dengue, 3,77 



in sprue, 357 . 



Leukaemia, lymphatic, leucocytes in, 606 



spleno-meclullary, myelocytes in, 



606 



Leukoplakia of tongue, 477 



varieties, 477 



Lice, venom of, 451 

 Lichen convex, 474 



treatment, 474 



planus, 4715 



treatment, 475 



external, formula for, 475 



■ formula for, 475 



Ligature in snake bite, 445 

 Lightning causing blindness, 510 

 Lime, chloride of, use in purification of 

 water, 5 55 



chlorinated, for purification of 



^vater, 5 56 



Limnatis in a!tiology of Hirudiniasis, 



.324 

 Li]5omatosis, nodular, 483 

 Licj[uor arsenicalis in pellagra, 336 



plumbi a])plication to Calabar 



swellings, 300 



Liver abscess, causation, 48 



diagnosis, 52 



high mortality, 53 



in amoebic dysentery, 50 



incidence, 48 



— operation for, after-treatment. 



54 



method of, 53 



pathology, 50 



