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Leprosy 25, 615-623 



Animals, insusceptibility of, to. 618 ; contagiousness 

 of, 616 ; distribution of bacilli in the body, 620 ; 

 extension and occurrence of, 615 ; fish, relation of 

 to, 619 ; infection atria, 619 : intercurrent infec- 

 tions, 621 ; phagocytosis in, 621, 622 ; potassium 

 iodid in treatment of, 621 ; prophylaxis. 622 ; pro- 

 tective factors in, 622 ; serotherapy of, 623 ; spon- 

 taneous disappearance of, 621 ; susceptibility to, 

 622 ; transmission of, 618 ; tubercular, 621 ; see 

 Bacillus leprw. 



Leptothrix, infections by 634 



Leptothrix bvocoH* 634 



Leptothrix raginalis 634 



Leucocidin 178. 346, 539. 547, 549 



Antitoxin for 539 ; influence on phagocytosis, 539. 

 Leucocytes. 



Absorption of toxins by, 321 ; complement in, 269 ; 

 formation of precipitins by, 236 ; immunity, rela- 

 tion to, 306-323 ; in inflammations. 145 ; phago- 

 cytic properties of, 145, 146, 147 ; see also individ- 

 ual disease ; see Phagocytosis. 



Leucocytic exudates, bactericidal action of 546 



"Loop," standard 215 



Leucotoxic serum 297, 298 



Leucotoxin ; see Leucotoxic Serum. 

 "Lumpy jaw ;" see Actinomycosis. 



Lupus, influence of streptococcus on 529 



Lymphangitis, streptococcus in 520-522 



Lymphatotoxin ; see Leucotoxic Serum. 



Macrocytase 308 



Macroparasites 21 



Macrophages 146, 298, 308, 314 



Madura foot ; see Mycetoma. 



Hal de caderas ; see Trypanosomiasis in animals. 



Malaria 654-670 



^Estivo-autumnal, 655 ; sestivo-autumnal, parasite of ; 

 see Plasmodium prcecox ; anemia in, 690; "black- 

 water" fever in, 663 ; cachexia in, 662 ; cerebral 

 symptoms, 663 ; epidemiology of, 664 ; etiology of, 

 654 ; fever, relation of to developmental cycles 

 of parasites, 660 ; hemoglobinuric fever in, 663 ; 

 immunity, acquired, 667, 668 ; incubation period, 

 659 ; intestinal symptoms, 663 ; malanemia in, 690 ; 

 methylene blue in, 661 ; mixed infections, 662 ; mos- 

 quitoes, transmissions by, 654 ; neuralgia in, 663 ; par- 

 asites, localization of, 663 ; prophylaxis of, 666, 667 ; 

 quartan, 655 ; quartan, parasites of ; see Plasmodium 

 malaria?, quinin in prophylaxis and treatment of, 

 663, 666, 667 ; quotidian, 662 ; relation of clinical 

 symptoms to developmental cycles of parasites, 

 663 ; susceptibility to. 667 ; tertian, 655 ; tertian, 

 parasite of; see Plasmodium rivax ; toxins, 661: 

 transmission ; see Anopheles ; see Plasmodium of 

 malaria. 



Malaria of birds, halteridium in: proteosoma in 669 



Malignant pustule ; see "Anthrax." 



Mallein 364, 625, 628 



Malta Fever 498-500 



Accidental infections, 500 ; agglutination reaction in, 

 499 ; difference from typhoid fever. 499 ; distribu- 

 tion of bacillus in body, 499, 500: immunity, 500; 

 occurrence, 498 ; serum, properties of, 499 ; sero- 



