INDEX 



553 



l.(l)iosy, spread by bedbugs, 379. 



Ia ptoinoitnfi, see Hcrpelomouas. 



Leplo!<pira, 67. 



Lcptu.s, 336; see also Harvest mites. 

 akmnushi, and kedani, 191, 333. 

 amcricainu'^, 336. 

 autumiiAilis, 336. 

 irritans, 336. 



Leuckaht, R., 7, 202. 



Lciicorytcs or white l)l()od corpuscles, 

 l)rey on parasites, 20. 



Lice, intermediate hosts of Dipylid- 

 ium caninum, 245; fumigation, 

 386, 387-403; importance, 387; 

 general structure, 388-389; hu- 

 man species, 389; specificity of 

 action of salivary juice, 393; 

 lice and disease, 397-400; and 

 typhus, 8, 378, 397-399; and 

 relapsing fever, 44-46, 378, 399; 

 and bubonic jjlague, 399-400; 

 and syphilis, 400; dispersal, 400; 

 prevention, 400-403; control in 

 war, 402-403; body louse, see 

 Pediculus humanus; head louse, 

 see Pediculus capitis; crab-lous(!, 

 see Phthirius pubis. 



Life histories of parasites, discoveries 

 of, 7. 



LiM.\, A. C, 458. 



Limrioea, host of Fasciola hepaticn, 

 208; host of Schistosoma japoni- 

 cum, 219; occurnnice in United 

 States, 220. 



Limnatis nilotica, 316; in nose and 

 mouth, 317-318. 



Linquatula rhinnrin, 349-350. 



Linguatulina, 333, 348-351. 



LiNSTOw, O. F., VON, 245. 



LisTON, W. G., 411. 



Liver ab.scess, .sequel of amebic dj^s- 

 entery, 134; in a case of myiasis, 

 527. 



Liver flukes, of .sheep, goats, etc., 

 208-210, 224; human, 224-228; 

 symptoms, 227; prevention, 

 227-228. 



Livingston, D., 360. 



Llama, host of Taenia sugitiulu, 240. 



Li.oYO, L., 49."), 496. 



Luu loa, 308-310; and Chrysops, 489. 



London, copra itch, 340. 



Looss, A., 258. 



LoscH, F., 7. 



Louisiana, extermination of Aedcs 

 calopus and yellow fever, 185. 



Louse-mite, see Pediculoides ventri- 

 cnsns. 



Lricilid, 521. 

 ccBsar, 521. 



Luetin test, for syphilis, 55. 



Lung flukes, relation of crabs to, 8, 

 220-224; distribution, 220; re- 

 lation to liost, 220-221; life 

 history, 221-223; mode of in- 

 fection, 223; prevention, 223- 

 224. 



Lunule, frontal, 465. 



LuTZ, A., 217. 



Lymphangitis, in filarial disease, 305. 



Lynch, K. M., 117, 120, 137. 



Lyon, H., 409. 



Lyperosia irritans, sec Hcematohia 

 scrrata. 



Lysol, in prevention of filarial infec- 

 tions, 307; for chiggers, 420. 



MacConnell, J. F. P., 7. 



McCuLLOCH, Miss L, 112, 381. 



McDonald, W., 448. 



Macfik, J. W. Scott, 98, 507. 



MacGregor, W., 7. 



Mackie, F. p., 81. 



McNaughton, J. G., 306. 



MacNeal, W. J., 9, 10. 



Macronucleus, 28. 



Macrostoma mesnili, 122-123. 



Madagascar, Triatoma ruhrojasciala, 

 381; surra, 487. 



Maggots, in espundia sores, 90; and 

 myiasis, 509-528; characteris- 

 tics, 509-510: blood-sucking, 

 511-513; under skin, 513-519; 

 in woimds and natural cavities 

 of body, 519-523; in intestine, 

 523-528; in urinary passages. 



