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
American Mosquito Extermination Society. _Year Book for 1904-05._
N.Y., 1906. Containing reports of meetings and discussions of
various problems. Several interesting papers, among them "Criminal
Indictment of the Mosquito," F.W. Moss. "Mosquito Work at Panama
Canal," W.C. Sorgas. "Diversities Among New York Mosquitoes," E.P.
Felt. "Mosquito Extermination in New Jersey," J.B. Smith. "The
Mosquito Question," Quitman Kohnke.
Antimalarial Work in the Panama Canal Zone. Editorial in _Jour.
Trop. Med. & Hyg._, XI, Aug. 15, 1908, p. 251. Notes on the success
of the measures adopted there.
MOSQUITOES AND DISEASE
DOTY, A.H. The Mosquito, Its Relation to Disease and Its
Extermination. _New York State Journal of Medicine_, May, 1908.
FINLAY, CHAS. Mosquitoes Considered as Transmitters of Yellow Fever
and Malaria. _Med. Record_, May 27, 1899, pp. 737-739. Review of
his theory in regard to mosquitoes and disease and the probable
necessary changes in view of recent discoveries.
HOWARD, L.O. Mosquitoes as Transmitters of Disease. _Review of
Reviews_, XXIV, 1901, pp. 192-195. A review of the work of various
investigators.
SMITH, J.B. Sanitary Aspect of the Mosquito Question. _Medical
News_, Mar. 7, 1903. Note on mosquitoes and their relation to
disease.
TAYLOR, J.B. Observations on the Mosquitoes of Havana, Cuba.
Reprint from _La Revista de Medicina_, June, 1903, p. 27.
MALARIA
BANKS, C.S. Experiments in Malarial Transmission by Means of
_Myzomyia ludlowii_. _Phil. Jour. Sci._, B. 2, 1907, pp. 513-535.
Breeding-places of mosquitoes, life-histories of the species;
mosquitoes and malaria.
CRAIG, C.F. Malarial Fevers. _Osler's Mod. Med._, Vol. I, p. 392,
1907. Historical; distribution; malarial parasites; classification;
development; malarial mosquitoes; pathology; treatment, etc.
CRAIG, C.F. Studies in the Morphology of Malarial Plasmodia after
the Administration of Quinine and in Intracorpuscular Conjugation.
_Jour. Infec. Diseases_, VII, No. 2, 1910. See also same, IV, 1907,
pp. 108-140. Gives the evidence upon which he bases his theory of
the meaning of intracorpuscular conjunction.
CRAIG, C.F. The Malarial Fevers, Hemoglobinuric Fever and the Blood
Protozoa of Man. N.Y., 1909. A thorough consideration of the
subject of malaria and good discussion of the other subjects noted
in title. Bibliography.
DEADERICK, W.H. Malaria. Philad., 1909. The chapter on ætiology
treats of the transmission by mosquitoes.
HARRIS, S. Prevention of Malaria. _Jour. Amer. Med. Assn._, 53,
Oct. 9, 1909, pp. 1162-67. Effects of malaria, transmission by
mosquitoes, etc. In the discussion of the paper J.H. White
summarizes the fight against yellow fever in New Orleans.
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