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 hanging-indent=2em| * 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

"Koch's bodies," 947
 * prophylactic for plague, 357

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