INDEX 



693 



Phlebotomus fever, treatment, 361 



papatasii, carrier of phlebotomus 



fever, 362 



characters, 



habits. 362 



life-historv and 



Phosphorus, in food, deficient, in aetiology 

 ■ of beriberi, ssg 



Photodynamic theory in aetiology of pel- 

 lagra, 330-1 

 Pickles for preservation of meat, 575 

 Piedra, 471 



treatment, 485 



Pigmentary fever, 395 

 Pigmentation of viscera 



explained, 72 

 Pinguecula resulting from 



wind and dust, 510 

 Pinta (carate), 485 



symptoms, 485 



treatment, 486 



Pits as latrines for natives, 585 



deep, as latrines for Europeans, 5? 



for natives, 586 



in malaria, how 



exposure to 



Pityriasis rubra ; see Dermatitis exfolia- 

 tiva 



versicolor ; see Tinea versicolor 



Plague, 165 



abortion in, 173 



ambulatory, 174 



antitoxic serum in, value, 599 



bacillus causing, 168 



blood changes in, 173 



bubo, inguinal, external appearance, 



173 



of. 



bubonic, 167, 174 

 - transmission 



to man, mode 



'/ j 



where 



. 171 



carrier of, 171 



cause of death in, 



— historical memoranda, 166 



— in rats, acute, i6g, 170 



— chronic, i6g, 170 



— incubation period, 172 



— introduction into countries 

 obliterated, 543 



— mode of onset, 173 



— mortality, 174 



— or cholera on infected ships, quaran- 

 tine measures respecting, 597 



— pathology, 171, 172 



— pneumonic, 167 



in Manchuria, how started, 171 



primary infection in, 172 



primary and secondary, 174 



transmission, mode of, 171 



post-mortem appearances, 172 



prodromal symptoms, 172 

 prophylaxis against, private, 

 public, 175 



176 



— septicsemic, general features, 174 

 — ; species of rat principallv infected 

 with, 170 



resistant to, 171 



— spread of, by ground squirrel, 171 

 by rats, 167 



conditions favouring, 539 



— symptomatology, 172, 173 



— transmission from one species of rat 

 to another, 170 



— vaccine, effect on case mortality, 



601 



Plague, varieties of, general characteris- 

 tics, 174 



Plasmodium malariae, cause of quartan 

 malarial fever, j^ 



vivax, cause of tertian malarial 



fever, 73 



Platyhelmia (group of helminths), 231 

 Pneumonia a complication of African 



trypanosomiasis, 146 

 lobular and lobar, in pneumonic 



plague, 172 

 Podophyllin in treatment of tapeworms, 



269 

 Poikiloxytosis, 606 

 Poison ordeals, 456 

 Poisons for animals, 457 



for fish, 457 



taken accidentally by man, 453 



Polychromatic cells, (3o6 

 Polymori^honuclears, percentage in nor- 

 mal blood count, 6ot 



when increased physiologically and 



when pathologically, 605 



Polyneuritis, sciatic nerve of fowl suffer- 

 ing from, 342 

 Ponos, limited to young children, 413 



resemblance to biliary cirrhosis, 413 



symptomatology, 414 



Popliteal nerve in case of acute beri- 

 beri, 342 



Pork, inspection in proph\laxis against 

 trichiniasis, 309 



Porocephalosis, geographical distribution, 

 325 



pathology, 325 



symptomatology, 325 



Porter-Clarke process for softening 



water, 555 

 I^otash, permanganate of, sterilization of 



water by, 557 

 Potassium iodides in blastomycosis, 462 

 in framboesia tropica, 27 



salts, vegetable products rich in, 563 



" Poudrette " method in disposal of ex- 

 creta, 590 



Precipitins, action of, 600 



Prepuce and legs, elephantiasis of, 288 



Preservatives, chemical, 576 



external, for preservation of meat, 



57S 

 Prickly heat, 486 



aetiology, theories as to, 486 



treatment, 486, 487 



Protargol in amoebic dysentery, 43 



ointment for ulcerative lesions in 



framboesia tropica, 27 



Protein deficiency theorv in cTetiology of 

 pellagra, 331 



foods, proprietarv, constituents of, 



567 



Proteolytic ferments, 441 



probability of, in snake venom, 



44, 441 

 Proteroglypha, 423 

 Protozoa as factors in causation of 



tropical diseases, 2 



classification, 4 



definition, 2 



diseases due to, i 



life-history, 3 



morphology, 3 



