Index 



797 



Leprosy, lesions, 702 



sanitation, 704 



specific therapy, 704 

 Leptopsylla musculi, 560 

 Leptotlirix, 36 

 Leuconostoc, 35 

 Leukocidin, 305 

 Leukocytes, washed, in opsonic value 



of blood, 272 

 Levaditi's method of staining Trepo- 

 nema pallidum, 721 

 Leveling apparatus for making plate 



cultures, 205 

 Liborius' tube for anaerobic cultures, 



216 

 Lice, SOS 



body, 503 



crab, S04 



head_, 503 



r6le in transmission of typhus fever, 

 S42 



transmission of plague by, 553 

 Ligatures, disinfection of, 172 



sterilization of, 175 

 Light, influences on growth of bacteria, 



Ligni^res cutituberculin reaction, 679 



Liquefaction of gelatin by, 60 



Listerism, 23 



Litmus, preparation of, 199 



Litmus-lactose-agar-agar, 606 



Litmus- milk, 199 



Lobar pneumonia, 444 



Lock-jaw, 340, 347 



Lockwood's method of disinfection of 



hands, 174 

 Lofder's alkaline methylene-blue, 151 

 blood-serum mixture, 197 

 method for detection of Spirillum 

 cholerae Asiatics, 577 

 of isolation of Bacillus typhosus, 



611 

 of staining Bacillus mallei, 707 

 bacteria, isi 

 flagella, 138 

 Loops, inoculating, 2S4 

 Luetin, 724 



reaction, Noguchi's, in diagnosis of 

 sjTshilis, 727 

 Lumbar puncture, technic in, 388, 389 

 Lumpy jaw, 732 

 Lungs, bacteria in, 72 

 Luzzani's method of staining Negri 



bodies, 369 

 Lysin, loi 

 Lysol, 179 

 Lyssa, 363. See also Hydrophobia 



MacConkey's method of isolation of 



BaciUus typhosus, 612 

 Macrocytase, 107 

 Macrophages, 106 

 Madura-foot, 741 

 Makrogametes, 477 

 Makrogametocyte, 477 



Maladie du coit, 514 



Maladie du sommeU, 506- See also 



Sleeping sickness 

 Malaria, 471 

 fever in, 471 



geographic distribution, 471 

 history of, 471 

 parasites of, 472 



animal inoculation, 486 

 cultivation, 484 



Bass and Johns' method, 484 

 human, 478 



inoculation with, 486 

 paroxysms of, 471 



pathogenesis, 486 

 prophylaxis, 486 

 human beings, 486 

 mosquitoes, 486 

 relation of mosquitoes to, 473, 488 

 Malignant edema, 329 



polyadenitis, S43- See also Plague 

 pustule, 359 

 Mallein, 711 



Mallory's differential stain for en- 

 tamoeba, 647 

 method of staining, 155 

 Malta fever, 467 



bacteriologic diagnosis, 468 

 treatment, 469 

 Manouelian's method of staining 



Treponema pallidum, 722 

 Marino's stain for protozoa, 164 

 Mastigophora, 45 

 McFadyen's method of diagnosis of 



glanders, 709 

 Meat, bacteria in, 246 



extract, preparation of bouillon 



from, 191 

 fresh, preparation of bouillon from, 

 190 

 Meat-infusion, igo 

 Meat-poisoning, 59, 247 

 Medical contributions, 20 

 Mediterranean fever, 467 

 Megastomum intestinalis, 655 

 Melanoid mycetoma, 741, 744 

 Meningitis, cerebrospinal, 386 

 Meningococcus, 386 

 Mercuric chlorid as disinfectant, 177 

 Merismopedia, 34 ' 

 Merozoits, 477 

 Metabolism, influences on growth of 



bacteria, S7 

 Metazoa, 44 

 Metschnikoff's theory of phagocytosis, 



106 

 Meyer's syringe, 222 

 Mice, destruction of, by Bacillus typhi 



murium, 630 

 Micrococci, 34 



Micrococcus catarrhalis, 388, 400 

 cultivation, 401 

 general characteristics, 400 

 morphology, 401 

 pathogenesis, 401 



