Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common DiseasesDoane, Rennie Wilbur
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Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
Doane, Rennie Wilbur
Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease
SIMPSON, W.J.R. Recent Discoveries Which Have Rendered Antimalarial
Sanitation More Precise and Less Costly. _Brit. Med. Jour._, 1907,
II, pp. 1044-46. Discussion of the various factors in mosquito
control.
STEPHENS, J.W.W., AND CHRISTOPHERS, S.R. The Practical Study of
Malaria and Other Blood Parasites. London, 1908. Chapters on
mosquitoes, flies and ticks and their relation to diseases.
STERNBERG, G.M. The Malarial Parasite and Other Pathogenic
Protozoa. _Pop. Sci. Mo._, Vol. 50, 1897, pp. 628-641. Account of
the discovery of the malarial parasite and more recent studies on
it.
STERNBERG, G.M. Malaria. _Smith. Rept._, 1900, pp. 645-656. Review
of the experimental evidence in support of the mosquito-malaria
theory.
Malarial Fever. _Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg._, II, Mar. 16, 1908, pp.
96-98. A list of literature mostly for the years 1906 and 1907.
YELLOW FEVER
ADAMS, S.H. Yellow Fever, a Problem Solved. The battle of New
Orleans against the mosquito. _McClure's Magazine_, Vol. 27, June,
1906, p. 178. An interesting popular article.
CARROLL, JAMES. Yellow Fever. _Osler's Mod. Med._, Vol. II, 1907,
p. 736. History, ætiology, treatment. A good review of the work of
the Yellow Fever Com. and the results of their work.
CARROLL, JAMES. The Transmission of Yellow Fever. _Amer. Med.
Assn._, 40, 1905, pp. 1429-33. Shows the relation of the mosquito
to the disease.
CARROLL, JAMES. Yellow Fever. Lessons to be learned from the
present outbreak of yellow fever. _Jour. of Amer. Med. Assn._, Vol.
45, 1905, pp. 1079-81. Among other things recommends that
mosquitoes be kept from patients.
CHAILLE, S.E. The _Stegomyia_ and Fomites. _Amer. Med. Assn._, 40,
1903, pp. 1433-40. Concludes that the mosquito is the only proven
disseminator of yellow fever. Extended discussion by various
physicians.
DASTRE, A. The Fight Against Yellow Fever. _Smith. Rept._, 1905,
pp. 339-350. History of the yellow fever epidemics, its
geographical distribution, and the work that is being done to
control it.
DOTY, A.H. On the Mode of Transmission of the Infectious Agent in
Yellow Fever and Its Bearing upon the Quarantine Regulations. _Med.
Record_, Oct. 26, 1901, pp. 649-653. Review of older theories in
regard to the spread of yellow fever. Believes that the quarantines
are now unnecessary.
FINLEY, CHAS. The Mosquito Theory of the Transmission of Yellow
Fever and Its New Development. _Med. Record_, Jan. 19, 1901. Refers
to his early observations on the subject, giving extracts from some
of his earlier papers to show that he had long held the mosquito
responsible for the dissemination of yellow fever.
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