The Parasitic Amoebae of Man

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE. From the time of the first description of a parasitic amoeba of man the classification and nomenclature of these organisms has occasioned much confusion and difficulty. This is due to the great resemblance in the general morphology of the parasites belonging to the various species and to the difficulty and labor of studying their life cycle. While for years all authorities have agreed that these organisms belong to the Protozoa, almost every writer, until recently, has differed in his classification or in his conception of the biological history of the amoebae associated with dysentery, and it was not until Schaudinn's observations were published that a really satisfactory classification of these parasites was possible. However, it is probable that the present accepted