The practical study of malaria and other blood parasites

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