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
STILES, C.W. Insects as Disseminators of Disease. _Virginia Medical
Semi-monthly_, Vol. 6, No. 3, May 10, 1901, pp. 53-58. Good
statement of subject with list of recent workers.
WHERRY, W.B. Insects and Infection. _Cal. State Jour. of Med._,
Nov., 1907. Discusses the rôle of insects, ticks, etc., in the
transmission of infectious diseases.
Symposium on Yellow Fever and Other Insect-borne Diseases.
_Science_, N.S., Vol. 23, Nos. 584-585, 1906. The Protozoan
Life-cycle, G.N. Calkins. Filariasis and Trypanosome Diseases, H.B.
Ward. The Practical Results of Reed's Findings on Yellow Fever
Transmission, J.H. White. Difficulties of Recognition and
Prevention of Yellow Fever, Q. Kohnke. The Practical Side of
Mosquito Extermination, H.C. Weeks. Without Mosquitoes There Can Be
No Yellow Fever, Jas. Carroll. Estivo-autumnal Fever, Cause,
Diagnosis, Treatment and Destruction of Mosquitoes Which Spread the
Disease, H.A. Veazie.
MOSQUITOES--SYSTEMATIC AND GENERAL
BALFOUR, ANDREW, AND STAFF. _Second Report of the Wellcome Research
Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College_, Khartoum, 1906.
Includes reports on work on mosquitoes and other noxious insects.
BOYCE, SIR ROBERT W. Mosquitoes or Man? The Conquest of the
Tropical World. N.Y., 1909. Reviews medical and sanitary work in
the tropics and discusses the relation of insects to various
tropical diseases.
BUSCH, AUGUST. Report on a Trip for the Purpose of Studying the
Mosquito Fauna of Panama. _Smith. Miscell. Coll._, Vol. 5, Pt. I,
1908, p. 49. Work that is being done in Panama to control the
mosquitoes. Annotated list of species.
FELT, E.P. Mosquitoes or Culicidæ of New York State. In _N.Y. State
Museum Bull. 79_, Entomology 22, 1904. Discusses distribution,
migration and life-history of various species of mosquitoes and
mosquito diseases. Bibliography.
GILES, GEO. M. A Handbook of Gnats or Mosquitoes, Giving the
Anatomy and Life-History of the Culicidæ. London, 1902. Whole
subject treated very fully.
GRUBBS, S.B. Vessels as Carriers of Mosquitoes. _Pub. Health and
Mar. Hospt. Ser. Bull._ II, Mar. 3, 1903. Believes that mosquitoes
may come aboard when the vessel is lying at anchor one-half mile
from shore, and that under favorable conditions they may come
aboard when the vessel is fifteen miles from shore.
HOWARD, L.O. Mosquitoes. _Osler's Mod. Med._, Vol. I, p. 370, 1907.
General notes on classification and habits particularly in relation
to diseases.
HOWARD, L.O. Notes on Mosquitoes of the United States. _U.S. Dept.
Agric., 1900. Div. of Ento. Bull. No. 25_, N.S. Account of the
structure; biology; remarks on remedies.
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