— — synonyms (footnote), 528
— constrictus, characters, 526
— — hosts of, 526, 527
— — organs of body invaded by, 526, 527
— — synonyms, 526
Port Natal sickness (Cape ailment), 488
Portal vein and liver, Schistosoma hæmatobium most easily found post mortem in, 273
— — and vena cava, communication between, how formed, 272
— — tributaries of, as illustrating distribution of Schistosoma hæmatobium in body, 272
Porter, A., Crithidia pulicis, 111
— — generic differences among insect flagellates, 103 (fig. 49)
— — Herpetomonas muscæ domesticæ, 102
— — Leucocytogregarina, 154
— — Theileria parva, 179
— see also Fantham and Porter
Portschinsky, deposition of ova of Oestrus ovis, 598
— method of destroying Tabanidæ, 601
Posner, case of amœbæ in urine, 46
Posselt, cutaneous tumours due to cysticerci, 662
— reasons for distinction of multilocular from hydatid or unilocular echinococcus, 358
Post-flagellate stage in herpetomonads, 103
— — in Crithidia, 104
Potassium iodide in treatment of cutaneous and muscular cysticerci, 663
— permanganate, application in Oriental sore, 628
Pou d’agouti, mite attacking man, 486
Poultry, fatal epizoötics among, due to Eimeria avium, 142
Poultrymen attacked with Dermanyssus gallinæ, 493
Poupée-Desportes, Guinea worm infection, 676
Powell, method of destruction of Sarcophaga larvæ, 723
Predtetschensky, expulsion of Hymenolepis nana, 661, 662
Pre-flagellate stage in herpetomonads, 103
— — in Crithidia, 104
Price, Dodds, method of prevention of Indian kala-azar, 627, 739
Prima, fatal case of myiasis externa, 716
Privies, disinfection of, as prophylactic against ancylostomiasis, 685
Proflagellata, 115
Proskauer, case of Oxyuridæ in nose, 696
Prostomata, 230
Protargol in balantidian dysentery, 637
Proteid destruction in ancylostomiasis, 647
— metabolism in anæmia, 645
Proteosoma, spread of malaria in birds by, 158
Protista defined, 29
— spirochætes classed among, 115
Protomonadina, 52, 60
— classification, 60, 61
Protozoa, 25, 756
— alternation of generations in, 27
— blood-inhabiting, examination of, 747
— characters, 25
— chromodial apparatus of, 26
— classification, 27
— clinical and therapeutical notes relating to, 617
— cytological details, method of examining, 748
— definition of, 25
— digestive apparatus, 26
— ectoplasm and endoplasm of, 25, 26
— encystment of, 27
— examination, methods for, 745, 746
— food of, 26
— genera of, precise definition sometimes impossible, 733
— hereditary transmission of (footnote), 19
— intra vitam staining of fresh preparations, 746
— nucleus of, 26, 27
— organellæ, 29
— parasitic in blood, culture media for, 744
— propagation of, 27
— sectioning tissue parasitized by, 749
— or bacteria, question whether spirochætes to be classed among, 115
Protozoology, notes on technique, 745–752
— recent researches in, 733
Prowazek, balantidian dysentery, 637
— Chlamydozoa, 207
— Entamœba bütschlii, &c., 34
— — buccalis, 43
— Herpetomonas muscæ domesticæ, 102
— lamblial diarrhœa, 625
— variety of Trichomonas intestinalis inhabiting oral cavity, 56
— and Aragao, filtration experiments with chlamydozoal granules, 209
Prowazekia, characters of, 63
— asiatica, 65
— cruzi, characters, 66
— javanensis, characters, 66
— parva, 66
— urinaria, 63
— — characters, 63
— — flagellate stage, 64
— — in cultures associated with bacteria, 65
— — synonyms, 63, 64
— weinbergi, characters, 66
Prowazek’s bodies, 208
Pruner, Porocephalus constrictus, 526, 527
Pruritus ani due to escape of ascarides, 688
— — set up by migration of Oxyuris vermicularis, 695
— nematode larvæ in blood associated with, 378
Prussia, oxen infected with Cysticercus bovis in, 341
— percentage of pigs infected with cysticerci in, 334
— proportion of trichinous to healthy pigs in, 429, 430
Pseudo-helminthes, 8
Pseudomeningitis due to Ascaridæ infection, 649, 650
Pseudo-myxœdematous form of Brazilian trypanosomiasis, 88
Pseudonavicellæ, 129, 130
— amœboid germs in, 130
Pseudoneuroptera, characters, 531
Pseudo-parasites, 6, 8
Pseudophyllidea, morphology, 308
Pseudotæniorhynchus, 576
— characters, 564
Psorophora, characters, 563, 571
— ovum of, 557, 558
Psoroptes, characters, 517
Psorospermia of Arthropoda, 184
Psorosperms (Myxosporidia), discovery of, 181
— egg-shaped, former name for Coccidia, 135
Psychodidæ (owl midges), moth-like appearance of, 581
Psychodinæ, characters, 581
Pterocephalus, host of, 135
Pterygota, classification, 531
Pulex, distinctive characters, 545
— irritans (human flea), bite of, effects, 714
— — — treatment, 714
— — carrier of plague bacillus, 543
— — characters, 545
— — larva of, 546
— — may transmit Trypanosoma lewisi, 92
— pallipes, 548
— serraticeps (dog flea), 546
Pulicidæ (true fleas), characters, 543
— classification of genera, 545
Pulmonary artery, ascarides in, 656
Pumpkin seeds as vermifuge, 673
Pupipara or Eproboscidæ, blood-sucking, 611
Purgatives for expulsion of ascarides, 693
— in arrest of development of trichinosis, 681
Pustules arising from clothes louse infection, 711
Putnam, Oxyuris in appendix, 654
Pycnosoma, characters of, 588
— and Chrysomyia, distinguishing features, 588
— putorium, spread of amœbic dysentery by, 614
Pyelitis following invasion by Eustrongylus gigas, 682
Pygiopsylla, distinctive characters, 545
Pyorrhœa alveolaris, association of Entamœba buccalis with, 43, 734
— — — of species of Treponema with, 128
— — treatment, 620
Pyretophorus, characters, 561, 567
Pyronin producing blepharoplastless trypanosomes (T. brucei), 101

Q.
Quincke and Roos, species of amœbæ named by, 31
Quinine, administration as preventive against malaria, 636
— administration in malaria, 635
— — — dosage, 635
— — — methods of administration, 635
— — — time for, 635
— — — treatment by, 635
— in Indian kala-azar, 626
— lotion, irrigation of lower bowel with, in gangrenous dysentery, 619

R.
Rabbit, development of hydatid scolices in, 353
— host of Eimeria stiedæ, 145
— intestinal coccidiosis in, 145, 147
— intestine of, section infected by Eimeria stiedæ, 145
— kidney of, use in cultivation of Treponema pallidum, 126
— liver of, section through nodule infected by Eimeria stiedæ, 147
— Sarcosporidia in, 187
Rabies, parasite of, cultivation, 210
Radiolaria, characters and habitat, 28
Radium treatment of Oriental sore, 628
Railliet, method of infection with Trichuris depressiuscula, 420
Rainey’s corpuscles, 189
Rain-water barrels, mosquitoes depositing ova in, 553, 557
Ramstedt, Oxyuris infection in relation to appendicitis, 653
Ranken, treatment of sleeping sickness with antimony, 623
Rasahus biguttatus, bite of, 540
— — geographical distribution, 540
— — synonyms, 540
Rat attacked by Dermatophilus (Sarcopsylla) penetrans, 613
— blood of, transference of Trypanosoma brucei from, to blood of snake, 102
— blood parasite, see Trypanosoma lewisi
— gut and cæcum of, Trichomonas from, 735
— infection with Trichinella, method of, 427
— — with Trichinella spiralis in slaughterhouses and knackers’ yards, 427
— — with Trypanosoma lewisi, mode of, 92, 93
— muscles of, invaded by Trichinella spiralis, 425
— normal host of Trichinella spiralis, 427
— pneumocysts in, 90
— sewer and black, hosts of Hymenolepis diminuta, 326
— flea (Ceratophyllus fasciatus), cysticercoid of Hymenolepis diminuta found in, 327, 328
— — host of rat trypanosome, 88, 90, 543
— — larval stages of Hymenolepis murina occurring in, 17
— — see also Ceratophyllus fasciatus
— Trypanosoma lewisi in, 88
Rectum, administration of quinine by, in malaria, 635
— bilharziasis of, 642
— — treatment, 644
— irrigation of, in intestinal myiasis, 728
— means of access of Schistosoma hæmatobium to, 272
— pathological changes in, due to Schistosoma hæmatobium, 274, 275
— plexus formed in, by superior hæmorrhoidal veins, 272
Redi, origin of flesh maggots, 10
Rediæ of trematodes, 225, 226, 227, 228
Reduviidæ, bites of, 537
— characters of, 537
— geographical distribution, 537
Reduvius personatus, bite of, sometimes fatal, 539
— — geographical distribution, 539
Red-water fever, European, in cattle, cause of, 177
Reighardia, 523
Relapsing fever, 120, 629
— — African, cause of, 116, 630
— — — incubation period, 630
— — — prophylaxis, 631
— — — symptoms, 630, 631
— — — treatment, 631
— — American, 630
— — Asiatic, mortality from, 631
— — — prophylactic measures, 631
— — — symptoms, 631
— — — treatment, 631
— — complications, 630
— — East African, cause of, 122
— — European, agent of, 122, 629
— — — incubation period, 630
— — — prophylaxis, 630
— — — symptoms, 630
— — — treatment, 630
— — Indian, cause of, 122
— — North African, prophylactic measures, 631
— — — — symptoms, 631
— — — — treatment, 631
— — — — and Egyptian, cause of, 122, 631
— — prophylactic measures, 630
— — spirochætes causing, 115, 120, 122, 508
— — transmission by lice, 120, 630
— — — by ticks, 117, 630, 631
— — treatment, 630
Remak, investigations of Coccidia, 135
Reptiles, hæmogregarines in, 153, 154
— Sarcosporidia in, 187
Resorcin ointment, application in creeping disease, 732
Respiration, organs of, in Insecta, 530
Retinal hæmorrhages in ancylostome anæmia, 646
Reyher, bothriocephalus anæmia, 644, 645
Rhabdites in gastric fluid obtained by lavage, 378
— mellio, presence in vagina, 377
— niellyi, 378
— — mode of infection in man, 378
— pellio, induction of facultative parasitism, 377
— — morphology, 377
— — synonyms, 377
Rhabdonema, alternation of parasitic and free-living generations, 20
— life-history of, 19
— propagation of, parasitic generation during free life, 18
Rheins, case of Oxyuridæ in nose, 696
Rhinosporidium, 195
— hosts of, 197
— in conjunctival polypus, 197
— in external auditory meatus, 196
— in horses, 197
— in nasal polypus, 195
— in papilloma of penis, 197
— kinealyi (or seeberi), 195, 197
— — causal agent of a nasal polypus, 195, 196
— — cysts of, 196
— — geographical distribution, 195, 196
— — pansporoblasts of, 196
— — trophozoites of, 196
— — tumours produced by, 197
Rhipicentor, characters of, 497
Rhipicephalæ, characters of, 496, 497
Rhipicephalus, characters of, 497
— species of, transmitting Theileria parva, 179
— annulatus, carrier of Texas fever in cattle, 494
— — moulting of, 496
— appendiculatus and R. simus, carriers of Rhodesian fever in cattle, 494
— bursa, transmitting agent of Babesia bovis, 177
— sanguineus, geographical distribution, 505
— — hosts of, 505
— — synonyms, 505
— — transmission of leucocytogregarine from dog to dog by, 155
— — transmitting agent of Babesia canis, 177
Rhizoglyphii, characters and habitat, 514
Rhizoglyphus parasiticus, characters, 514, 515
— — skin disease produced by, 514
Rhizopods, flagella occurring among, 52
— possible association with poliomyelitis acuta, 47
Rhodesian fever in cattle, carriers of, 494
Rhodinus prolixus, bite of, 541
— — geographical distribution, 542
Rhyncobdellidæ, 482
Rhyncobothrium, scolices of, 305
Rhyncota, see Hemiptera
Ricinidæ classed among mutualists, 6
Riley, see Walsh and Riley
Rinderpest and coccidiosis, 741
— method of transmission, 742
River fever set up by kedani mite in Japan, 487
Rivolta, experimental infection with Coccidia, 136
— on Sarcocystis lindemanni, 193
Robertson, Miss, development of Trypanosoma gambiense, 74, 75
— — — — — in Glossina palpalis, 74, 75
— — forms of Trypanosoma gambiense, 73, 737
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, carrier of, 496
— — tick fever, carrier of, 503
— — — — mortality, 504
Rodenwaldt, distribution of larvæ of Filaria immitis in body, 393
— periodicity of larvæ of Filaria bancrofti in peripheral blood, 393
Rogers, Sir L., agent transmitting kala-azar, 713
— — — cultivation of Leishmania donovani, 105, 106
— — — places Leishmann-Donovan body in genus Herpetomonas, 107
— — — transmission of surra by Chrysops, 601
— — — treatment of amœbic dysentery, 618
— — — treatment of Indian kala-azar, 626
— — — — of pyorrhœa alveolaris, 620
Rokitansky, perforation of intestine by Ascaris, 655
Romani, agglutinating hæmolytic action of serum of ancylostome patients, 648
Romanowsky stain, 749
— — slightly modified, formula of, 750
— — underlying principle of, 750
Roos, presence of cercomonads in gangrenous lung, 62
— and Harris, penetration of intestinal blood-vessels by amœbæ, 36
Rosenquist, proteid metabolism in anæmia, 645
Ross, E. H., Treponema pallidum, 124
Ross, Sir Ronald, campaign against mosquitoes in prevention of malaria, 636
— — — development of malarial parasite in mosquito traced in Plasmodium relictum by, 171
— — — discovery of transmission of malarial parasites by mosquito, 158
— — — “Prevention of Malaria,” 617, 633
— — — relapses in malarial fever, 161, 162
— — — trichomonads and cercomonads, 56
— — — and Thomson, D., cyclical variation of trypanosomes in blood, 78
— — — — — — method of determining number of trypanosomes in blood, 747, 748
Rossia, characters, 568
Rossiella, morphology, 174
— rossi, 174
Rostellum of Cestoda, 289
Rothschild, classification of genera of Pulicidæ, 545
Roubaud, cause of myiasis in French West Africa, 614
— life-history of Cordylobia anthropophaga, 614
— Pycnosoma putorium, 614
Rovelli, larval stage of Hymenolepis diminuta, 327
Row, experimental production of Oriental sore, 109
— treatment of Oriental sore, 628
Rudolphi, origin of helminthes, 12
Ruffer, lesions produced by Oxyuris vermicularis, 695
Runchiomyia, characters, 565

S.
Sabadill vinegar, lotions of, in head louse infection, 710
Sabatier on change of hosts, 21
Sabethes, characters, 565
Sabethoides, characters, 565
Sachs, treatment of scabies, 707
Sack, treatment of scabies, 707
Sahara, Central, human myiasis occurring in mountains of, 598
St. Artault, Trichomonas pulmonalis, 56
Saline solution, physiological, lavages of, in myiasis, 719
Salol as tapeworm drug, 674
Salt water, mosquito larvæ living in, 557
Salvarsan in Asiatic relapsing fever, 631
— in North African relapsing fever, 631
— in Oriental sore, 628
— in relapsing fever, 630
— in tropical syphilis, 632
— in trypanosomiasis, 623
— in yaws, 632
— — dosage, 632
Salzmann, mode of infection in intestinal myiasis, 727
Sambon, L. W., Linguatula serrata, 527
— — personal experiments with regard to malarial infection, 158
Samelsohn, retinal hæmorrhages in ancylostome anæmia, 646
Sandal oil in chyluria from Filaria bancrofti infection, 677
Sand flea, see Dermatophilus (Sarcopsylla) penetrans
— flies, 577
— — and fever due to them in North China, 613
— — biting in Hampshire, 579
Sandflies, haunts of, 613
— — see also Simulium
Sandler, trichocephalus anæmia, 651
Sandwith, F. M., toxic symptoms following thymol administration, 686
— — treatment of bilharziasis, 643
Santonin in bilharziasis, 643
— in expulsion of ascarides, 692
— — of Oxyuridæ, 697
— in intestinal myiasis, 728
Sapo viridis and tar, application in creeping disease, 732
Sarcocystin, isolation of,