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
SANDILANDS, J.E. Epidemic Diarrhea and the Bacterial Control of
Food. _Jour. Hyg._, 6, 1906, pp. 77-92. Believes that house-flies
convey these diseases from the excrement of infected infants.
SIBTHORPE, E.H. Cholera and Flies. _Brit. Med. Jour._, Sept., 1896,
p. 700. Flies considered scavengers, think they thus help abate the
disease.
SMITH, T. The House-fly as an Agent in Dissemination of Infectious
Diseases. _Amer. Jour. Pub. Hyg._, Aug., 1908, pp. 312-317. Points
out that flies on account of their habits, are dangerous sources of
contamination.
SMITH, THEOBALD. The House-fly at the Bar. Merchants' Assn., New
York, 1909, pp. 1-48. Letters from various authorities giving their
opinion; quotations from various authors. Bibliography.
VEEDER, M.A. Flies as Spreaders of Sickness in Camps. _Med.
Record_, 54, 1898, pp. 429-430. Flies feed on typhoid excreta and
pass to food. Cultures made from fly tracks and excreta show many
bacteria present.
VEEDER, M.A. The Relative Importance of Flies and Water Supply in
Spreading Disease. _Med. Record_, 55, 1899, pp. 10-12. Reasons for
believing that flies spread disease in many instances. Burial of
infected typhoid material no protection but a menace.
Dangers from Flies. E.P.W. _Nature_, Vol. 29, pp. 482-483. Review
of an article by Dr. B. Grassi in regard to flies and various
diseases. Opthalmia is discussed. Flies may ingest and pass
unharmed eggs of various human parasites including tapeworm.
HUMAN MYIASIS
ALLEN, CHAS. H. Demonstration of Locomotion in the Larvæ of the
OEstridæ. _Proc. Amer. Assn. Adv. Set._, Vol. 24, 1875, pp.
230-236. Larvæ taken from flesh of child, one had moved thirty-six
inches and one six inches.
FRENCH, G.H. A Parasite the Supposed Cause of Some Cases of
Epilepsy. _Canad. Ento._, 32, 1900, pp. 263-264. Larvæ of
_Gastrophilus_ or _Dermatobia_ in the alimentary canal supposed to
have caused spasms in young boy.
GILBERT, N.C. Infection of Man by Dipterous Larvæ with Report of
Four Cases. _Archives of Internal Med._, Oct., 1908. Historical;
various kinds sometimes found in man; good summary of subject.
Bibliography.
HARRISON, J.H.H. A Case of Myiasis. _Jour. Trop. Med. & Hyg._, XI,
Oct. 15, 1908, p. 305. Over 300 larvæ of _Lucilia macellaria_
removed from face of negro woman.
HUMBERT, FRED. _Lucilia macellaria_ Infesting Man. _Proc. U.S. Nat.
Museum_, 6, 1883, pp. 103-104. Records several cases in which the
screw-worm infested patients.
JENYUS, LEONARD. _Trans. Ento. Soc._, London, Vol. II, 1839, pp.
152-159. Notice of a case in which the larvæ of a dipterous insect,
supposed to be _Anthomyia canicularis_, Meig., were expelled in
large quantities from the human intestines.
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