Protozoa

Supplement: Clinical and Therapeutical Notes.

INTRODUCTION.

The aim of the present volume is to give an account of the animal parasites of man, the number of which is very large. The Protozoa that infest man are very important, and the literature relating to them and to the treatment of the diseases that they produce is very extensive. All that can be done in this Appendix is to give a very brief outline of some of the more recent and approved methods of treatment, for further details of which the reader should refer to standard medical works, among which the following are noteworthy:—

Allbutt and Rolleston (1907): “System of Medicine,” vol. ii, part 2, “Tropical Diseases and Animal Parasites,” London.

Castellani and Chalmers (1913): “Manual of Tropical Medicine” (second edition), London.

Laveran and Mesnil (1912): “Trypanosomes et Trypanosomiases” (second edition), Paris.

Manson (1914): “Tropical Diseases” (fifth edition), London.

Mense (1905): “Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten,” Leipzig.

Ross (1911): “The Prevention of Malaria,” London.

Scheube (1910): “Die Krankheiten der Warmen Länder,” Jena.

References to the treatments tried in many parasitic diseases can be found in the Sleeping Sickness Bulletin and Kala-azar Bulletin, both now superseded and greatly extended in scope in the Tropical Diseases Bulletin, published by the Tropical Diseases Bureau, Imperial Institute, London, S.W.

The following diseases, due to protozoa and allied forms, are discussed:—

I. Amœbic Dysentery.

II. Trypanosomiases.

III. Flagellate Diarrhœa and Dysentery.

IV. Leishmaniases—Kala-azar and Oriental Sore.

V. Spirochætoses—Relapsing Fevers, Yaws, Syphilis and Bronchial.

VI. Malaria.

VII. Balantidian or Ciliate Dysentery.