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Index of Subjects 



Lamus megistis, 559, 561 

 appearance, 561 

 breeding habits, 562 

 habitat, 562 

 habits, 562 

 Larynx, bacteria in, 76 

 Latapie's animal holder, 230 



instrument for preparing tissue pulp, 

 138 • 

 Latent tuberculosis, 717 

 Lateral-chain theory of immunity, 116 

 Leeuwenhoek's discovery of bacteria, 



18 

 Leishman-Donovan body, 563 

 Leishmania donovani, 563 . 

 cultivation, 565 • 



distribution, 566 

 evolution, 564 

 lesions from, 566 

 morphology, 563 

 furunculosa, 569, 571 

 cultivation, 571 

 pathogenesis, 571 

 infantum, 568 

 Leistenkern, 117 

 Lepra anaesthetica, 746 

 cells, 746 

 nodosa, 746 

 Leprolin, 747 

 Leprosy, 739 

 anesthetic, 746 

 bacillus of, 739. See also Bacillus 



lepra. 

 Carrasquilla's serum for, 747 

 distribution, 739 

 etiology, 739 

 histoiy, 739 

 leprolin in, 747 

 lesions, 746 

 nasal lesions in, 745 

 nodular, 746 

 pathogenesis^ 745 

 rat, 748 



sanitation in, 748 

 specific therapy, 747 

 transmission of, 745 

 Leptopsylla musculi, 600 

 Leptospira, 534 

 Leptothrix, 38 



Lethargy, African. See Sleeping sick- 

 ness. 

 Leuconostoc, 36 

 Leukocidin, 314 , 

 Leukocytes, washed, opsonic value of 



blood in, 280 

 Levaditi's method of staining Trepon- 

 ema pallidum in sections, 765 

 Liborius' tube for anaerobic cultures, 



2l8 



Lice, 530 



Ligatures, disinfection of, 175 

 sterilization of, 177 



Light, influences of, on growth of bac- 

 teria, ss 



Ligni6res cuti tuberculin reaction, 722 



Liquefaction of gelatin by bacteria, 6$ 

 Listerism, 24 

 Litmus milk, 200 



Liver abscess in amebic dysentery, 686 

 postmortem appearance, in diph- 

 theria, 436 

 Lobar pneumonia, 464 

 Lockjaw, 359 

 Lockwood's method of hand dismfec- 



tion, 177 

 Loffler's blood-serum mixture, 198 

 method of detecting Spirillum chol- 

 erse asiaticse, 618 

 of isolating Bacillus typhosus and 



Bacillus coli, 650 , 



of staining, 154 



Bacillus diphtheriae, 430 



mallei, 750 

 flagella, 161 

 Louse, body, 529, 53^ 

 crab, S3 1 

 head-, 529, 530 

 Luetin, 770 



Lumbar puncture, technic, 401 

 Lumpy jaw, 775 

 Lungs, bacteria in, 76 

 Lupus, avenue of infection in, 89 

 Luzzani's stain for Negri bodies, 381 

 Lysin, 107 



Lysol as disinfectant, 181 

 Lyssa, 375. See also Hydrophobia. 



MacConkey's method of isolating 



Bacillus typhosus, 652 

 Macrocytase, 113, 122 

 Macrogametocyte, 501 

 Macrophages, 112 

 Madura-foot, 786 

 Maladie du sommeil. See Sleeping 



sickness. 

 Malaria, 495 



ague-cake in, 512 

 ^ algid, sio 



congestive chills in, 51° 



diagnosis, 502 



fever of, 49s 



geographic distribution, 495 



history, 495 



parasites, animal inoculation, 5x2 

 Bass' method of concentrating, 



S°3 . . 

 classification, 498 

 cultivation, 510 



Bass' and Johns' method, 510 

 estivo-autumnal, 507 

 examination of fresh blood for, 502 



of stained blood films for, 502 

 flagellation in, 496 

 human, 504 



inoculation, 512 

 life cycles of, 499 

 method of infecting mosquitoes 



with, 519 

 parthenogenesis of, 502 

 pathogenesis, 512 



