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Plague, Lustig's injections for, 356


 * mortality of, 345


 * occupation and, 338


 * pathology of, 346


 * pneumonic, 335, 344


 * mortality of, 346


 * predisposing causes of, 336


 * prophylaxis of, general, 349


 * personal, 355


 * quarantine in, 349


 * relapses in, 345


 * rôle of flea in, 332


 * of rat in, 328


 * septiceemic, 343


 * sex and, 338


 * symptoms and stages of, 340


 * treatment of, 357

Planorbis boissyi, 745


 * olivaceus, 748

Plasmodium, characters of, 942


 * falciparum, 68, 78, 944


 * quotidianum, 51 (footnote)


 * kochi, 944 (figure)


 * life-cycle of, 944


 * malariae, 58, 78, 943


 * tenue, 51 (footnote)


 * vivax, 61, 78, 943


 * minuta, 51 (footnote)

Plerocercoides prolifer, 792

Plerocercus prolifer, 792

Pollenia, 212

Polycholia in malaria, 87

Polymastigina, 928, 938

Ponos, 203

Porocephalus armillatus, 805


 * moniliformis, 805

Potamon dehaanii, 798


 * obtusipes, 798

Prickly heat, 861


 * treatment of, 862

Principe, trypanosomiasis-prophylaxis in, 184

Proteosoma grassii, 944

Protomonadina, 928

Protozoa, classification of, 926


 * definition and characters of, 925


 * parasitic, some commoner, 924

Prowazekia, 928


 * cruzi, 929

Pseudorasbora parva, 804

Pseudo-typhus of Deli, 390

Psilosis (see Sprue)


 * pigmentosa (see Pellagra)

Pulex irritans and plague, 335 (footnote)


 * and transmission of trypanosomes, 931


 * serraticeps, 211

Pulicidse, 360, 934

Pulmonary affections in malarial cachexia, 95

Purru, 652

Pyosis Mansoni, 869

Pyrosoma hominis, 310

Quartan ague, 56, 58


 * parasite of, 51, 58

Quartana duplex, 52


 * triplex, 52

Quotidian ague, 56, 66


 * parasite of, 51, 67

Rat flea, bionomics of, 335


 * rôle of, in plague, 332


 * rôle of, in plague, 328

Rat-bite disease, 319

Rats, post-mortem indications of plague in, 348 (footnote)

Ray fungus, 877

Rectitis, epidemic gangrenous, 544

Relapsing fever, 228


 * diagnosis of, 243


 * etiology of, 229


 * geographical distribution of, 228


 * history of, 229


 * immunity from, 238


 * incubation period of, 239


 * morbid anatomy of, 243


 * mortality of, 243


 * parasites, 229


 * demonstration of, 230


 * species of, 234, 242


 * prophylaxis of, 245


 * symptoms of, 240


 * transmission of, 235


 * treatment of, 243

Remittent fever, non-malarial, 385

Reynier's white mycetoma, 880

Rhabdonema intestinale, 839

Rhicephalus sanguineus. 942, 948

Rhinosporidium kinealyi, 949

Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, 246


 * bursa, 246


 * eyertsi, 246


 * simus, 246

Rhizopoda, 927

Rodenwaldt's staining method, 685

Romanowsky's staining method, 44

Rosette body, 28

Ross's black spores, 103


 * researches in mosquito-malaria theory, 18


 * thick-film staining method, 46

Sabethini, 147

Sahib's disease, 203

Salvarsan in kala-azar, 217


 * in leprosy, 647


 * in oriental sore. 225


 * in pellagra, 455


 * in rat-bite disease, 319


 * in relapsing fever, 243


 * in trypanosomiasis of man, 179 (footnote)