The practical study of malaria and other blood parasites
- The University press of Liverpool by Longmans, Green & CO. 1903
- 378 p. ilus.
Preparation of wet and dry blood films. Fixing, staining, Romanowsky stain Normal blood. Varieties of leucocytes. Platelets. Abnormal constituents Forms, of the malaria parasite commonly seen in blood, films. Rings, large forms, crescent and spherical bodies. Pigment melanin. Flafellation. Distinction of species, simple tertian, malignant tertian, and quartan. Gametes Subsidiary signs of malaria. Pigmented leucocytes. An increase in the percentage of large mononuclears. Normal leucocytic values Examination of tissues. Smears. Simple apparatus for embedding in paraffin Life history of malaria parasite. Explanation of terms Mosquitoes. Diptera. Life history of mosquitoes. Culicina and anophelina. Capture of mosquitoes Examination of eggs of stegomyia, culex, taeniorhynchus, anopheles, etc Larva and nymph. Respiratory syphons of larva and nymph, generic differences Feeding mosquitoes on man; on birds. Breeding out mosquitoes Dissection of mid-gut, viscera, etc. Detection of zygotes. Salivary glands and sporozoits. To cut section of mosquitoes Internal anatomy. Histology To collect and preserve mosquitoes External anatomy. Proboscis and palpi. Escape of sporozoits and filarial embryo. Thorax. Wing venation. Legs Classification and identification of the culicidae. Scale structure Classification and identification of anophelina Anopheles, habits, distribution, hibernation, dispensal. Domestic and wild species. food. Fecundation Anopheles. Examination of eggs Anopheles. The larva. Clypeal and palmate hairs. The nymph Anopheles. Breeding-places. Selective action of species Anopheles. Identification of larvae. Larvae of Indian Anopheles Anopheles. Relation of species to malarial endemicity Endemic malaria. Endemic index. Mode of determination. Endemic areas of a country Clinical study of malaria. The leucocytes. The urine. Determination of cycle of development of a parasite. The absorption and elimination of quinine. Post-mortem changes Blackwater fever. Examination of the blood and urine. Post-mortem changes The haemamoebidae. Proteosoma, halteridium, parasites of bats, monkeys, cattle, reptiles. The haemogregarines of reptiles, fish, etc. The poroplasmata. Texas fever. African Coast fever. Spotted fever. etc. Ticks, anatomy and classification. The yellow fever protozoon. Stegomyia fasciata. Spirillar fever and ticks The trypanosomata. T. roratorium. T. carassii. T. eberthi. T. Cobitis. T. lewisii. T. Brucei Ngana, tsetse flies. T. evansi Surra. T. equinum mal de Caderas. T. equiperdum Dourine. T. gambiense human. T. ugandense sleeping sickness. Ttheileri. T. transvaliense. The trypanoplasmata Filaria, human, mammlian, avian