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INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



discovery of antitoxin, 122, 126- 

 152. 



Licenses under the Act, 327-330, 

 334. 



Ligature, the absorbable, 315. 

 Lister, Pasteur, and Semmelweis, 

 88-96. 



Localisation of spinal and medul- 

 lary centres, 62-69 > °f cerebral 

 centres, 69-79. 



Lymphatics, the, observations of 

 Rudbeck and Bartholini, 27. 



Magendie and Bell, 60, 62 ; 

 importance of Magendie's work 

 on the selective action of drugs, 

 300-302. 



Magic, its former influence on 

 medicine, 299. 



Malaria, Laveran's discovery of 

 the ftlas?nodium malarice, 256 ; 

 Manson's work, 256-273 ; Mac- 

 Callum's, 257 ; experiments by 

 Ross, 257-259; malaria expedi- 

 tions, 259 ; preventive measures 

 in Italy, 260 ; the Campagna 

 experiment, 261 ; Grassi's experi- 

 ment, 263 ; self-infections under- 

 gone in London and New York, 

 264 ; Koch's work in New 

 Guinea, 265 ; the four methods 

 advocated for fighting against 

 infection, 265-272 ; the campaign 

 against Anopheles^ 283-288. 



Mallein, Helmann's discovery of, 

 and his death, 306. 



Malta fever, 252 ; Bruce's work, 

 and Netley, 252 ; cases of acci- 

 dental inoculation, 253. 



Manometer, the, 12-15, 17-22. 



Mesenteric disease, 113, 117. 



Microscope - work and pathology, 

 85-89. 



Morphia, its action on animals, 



344-345, 372. 

 Mortality and case-mortality, 124. 

 Mosquitoes as agents of infection, 



254-288. 



Municipal work of bacteriology, 

 35i 5 358, 366. 



Myxcedema : first description of the 

 disease, by Gull, 294 ; Ord's 

 work, 294 ; Reverdin and Kocher 

 (cachexia strumipriva), 295 ; 

 Clinical Society's Committee, 

 295 ; Horsley's experiments, 297 ; 

 George Murray's discovery of 

 thyroid-extract, 297 ; treatment 

 of myxcedema and sporadic 

 cretinism, 298. 



Nervous system, the, 51-79 ; 

 Galen's experiments, 52 ; neglect 

 of his method, 53 ; Bell's experi- 

 ments, on the nerve-roots 57, 

 on the cranial nerves 59 ; Mar- 

 shall Hall, 62 ; Flourens, 64 ; 

 Bernard, 65 ; experiments on the 

 brain, 69-77. 



Operations of surgery, 61, 90, 98, 

 315. 



Orbital muscles, Bell's experiment 

 on, 56. 



Oxygen, inhalation of, 315. 



Pain and mutilation, inflicted in 



sport, and in the breeding of 



animals, 371, 373. 

 Pancreas, the, early theories of, 



42 ; de Graaf, 43 ; Bernard, 44 ; 



Mering and Minkowski, 45 ; 



pancreatic diabetes, 45; Vaughan 



Harley and Starling, 46. 

 Parasites, the grosser, old ideas of 



their origin, 290 ; trichina 



