INDEX
959
- Kala-azar, epidemiology of, 206
- etiology of, 208
- history of, 204
- incubation period of, 213
- mode of transmission of, 211
- morbid anatomy of, 215
- of lower animals, 211
- parasite of, 209
- predisposing causes of, 213
- prophylaxis of, 218
- symptoms of, 213
- treatment of, 217
- with antimony, 217
- Kaladunkh (see Kala-azar)
- Katayama disease, 764
- Kerandel's symptom, 169
- Klein's methods of bacteriological diagnosis of cholera, 478
- prophylactic for plague, 357
"Koch's bodies," 947
L
- Lagochilascaris major, 815
- minor, 815
- Lamblia infection, 525
- intestinalis, 525, 939
- Lamus (Oonorhinus) megistus, 156, 188, 192, 934
- Laverania immaculata, 67, 78
- malariæ, 68, 78
- præcox, 67, 78
- Laveran's staining method, 45
- Leeches as pests, 907
- Leishman body, 203, 209
- Leishmania, 203, 208, 935
- donovani, 203, 209, 211, 219, 221, 504, 935, 936
- infantum, 206 (footnote), 208
- parasites resembling, 937
- tropica, 219, 935, 936
- Leishmaniasis, 203
- Americana, 225
- Irishman's stain, 45
- Lelaps echidninus, 942
- Leprosy, 611
- age and, 638
- bacillus (see Bacillus lepræ)
- climate and, 638
- contagiousness of, 642, 645
- diagnosis of, 636
- etiology of, 638
- cured-fish theory of, 644
- geographical distribution of, 613
- heredity and, 640
- history of, 611
- in rats, 634
- leproma in, 622, 634
- mixed, 621, 631
- nerve, 625
- prognosis of, 638
- nodular, 622
- prognosis of, 638
- occupation and, 638
- pathological anatomy of, 631
- prevention of, 644
- Leprosy, prognosis of, 638
- rise of modern knowledge of, 613
- sex and, 638
- social and hygienic conditions and, 638
- stages of, 617
- incubation period, 618
- primary exanthem, 620
- infection, 617
- prodromata, 618
- specific deposit, 621
- symptoms of, 615
- treatment of, 645
- by drugs, 646
- by nastin, 649
- by nerve-stretching, 648
- by tuberculin, 647
- hygienic, 645
- vaccination and, 645
- Leptoconops, 449
- Leptodera intestinalis, 839
- stercoralis, 839
- Leptomonas, 934, 936
- Leptus autumnalis, 315
- Leucocytozoon, 946
- ziemanni, 233
- Leucopodia guntheri, 804
- Lichen tropicus, 861
- Light treatment of oriental sore, 225
- Ligula mansoni, 790
- Linguatula armillata, 805
- constricta, 805
- taenoides, 807
- Lithobius forficatus, 940
- Liver, abscess of (see Abscess of liver)
- blood of, in malaria, 85
- enlargement of, in kala-azar, 215
- in trypanosomiasis, 172
- in malaria, 83
- in malarial cachexia, 97
- parasites of, 800
- tropical (see Tropical liver)
- Loa loa, 776
- characters of, 779
- distribution of, geographical, 778
- zoological, 779
- history of, 776
- larva of, 780
- life-history of, 782
- pathogenesis of, 785
- Local diseases of uncertain nature. 911
- Loffler's methylene blue stain, 43
- Low fever, 385
- Lund's larva, 905
- Lustig's injections for plague, 356
- Lymph scrotum, 716
- Lymphangitis and elephantoid
- fever, 711
- Lymphatic trunks, thickened, 715
- varicea cutaneous and deeper, 715
