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  • 104, 145, 146, 147, 148, 166, 167, 168, 184, 185, 193, 194, 198, 200, 209, 211, 219, 234, 236, 237, 238, 250, 297, 299, 300, 304, 305, 314, 323, 335, 336, 338, 339; proves microbe cause of anthrax, 115; pure culture microbes discovered, 125, 126; works on cause of tuberculosis, 128–138
  • Laveran, A., discovers malaria parasite, 281; microbe of, demonstrated by Manson to Ross, 282; other references to, 296, 342, 343
  • Lavoisier, A., 77
  • Lazear, J., 311–333; bitten by yellow fever mosquito, 318; died of yellow fever, 320
  • Lazear, Mrs. J., 312
  • Leeuwenhoek, Antony, 3–24; an admirer of God, 12; discovers human sperm, 19; discovers microbes, 10, 11, 12; discovers microbes in mouth, 17, 18; experiments on origin of microbes, 13; failure to find disease microbes, 22; letters to Liebniz, 23; letters to Royal Society, 9; microbes in pepper water, 14; other references to, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 44, 51, 61, 76, 77, 106, 108, 109, 111, 114, 128, 137, 138, 209, 228, 250, 334, 358
  • Leibniz, Gottfried W., 23
  • Leucart, R., 209
  • Leupold, 349
  • Le Verrier, 83
  • Liebig, J., 70, 73
  • Linnæus, 59
  • Lister, J., 100, 106, 182
  • Loeffler, F., discovers diphtheria microbe, 185–187; foretells diphtheria toxin, 187; other references to, 129, 131, 132, 138, 188, 189, 193, 331
  • Louvrier, the horse doctor, 149–150
  • Lutchman, 287
  • Maillot, M., 94
  • Maisonneuve, Dr., 231
  • Malaria, 278–310; human, Grassi proves carried by anopheles mosquito, 301–306; Manson’s theory mosquito carries, 283; of birds carried by gray mosquito, 292–298; prevention of practical demonstration of, by Grassi, 307
  • Mal de caderas, 342–350; Ehrlich cures by chemical, 343–345
  • Malta Fever, Bruce discovers microbe of, 254 ff.
  • Manson, Patrick, 282–298, 315; announces Ross’s success at Edinburgh, 296, 297; other references to, 235; theory mosquitoes carry malaria, 283
  • Maria Theresa, 45
  • Marquardt, M., 348, 349, 356
  • Martin, M., 203
  • Meister, Joseph, vaccination of, for rabies, 17
  • Metchnikoff, E., 207–233; acquires drug habit, 210; assistants of, Blagovestchensky, Gheorgiewski, Hugenschmidt, Saltykoff, Sawtchenko, Wagner, 222, 223; attempts suicide, 210; attempts to prolong life, 228–233; champions theory of evolution, 209; comedy of Bulgarian bacilli, 232–233; feeds cholera to self and assistants, 225; founds phagocyte theory, 214–229; nicknamed “God-is-not,” 207; nicknamed “Mamma Metchnikoff,” 222; nicknamed “Grandpa Christmas,” 228; other references to, 187, 234; starts circus at Pasteur Institute, 219–220; syphilis, prevented by, 229–232
  • Metchnikoff, Ludmilla, 210, 211
  • Metchnikoff, Olga, 211, 212, 213, 214, 219, 220, 228, 233
  • Microbes, origin of, 13, 31; Bruce discovers Malta fever, 254; of diphtheria discovered by Loeffler, 185–187; of Texas fever discovered by Th. Smith, 244; of the air, 83, 84, 85, 86; of tuberculosis discovered by Koch, 128–138; pure culture discovered, 125, 126; spontaneous generation of, 31, 32, 33, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 78, 79, 86, 97
  • Molyneux, 16
  • Moran, John, 322, 327, 328; volunteers for mosquito bite, 322, 323
  • Mosquito, gray carries bird malaria, 292–298; anopheles carries human malaria, 301–306; stegomyia carries yellow fever, 317–329
  • Mozart, W., 222, 280
  • Musset, M., 83, 86
  • Nabarro, 264
  • Nagana, 255–262; trypanosome of, discovered by Bruce, 257; tsetse fly carries, 259–262
  • Napoleon I, 55, 58
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