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Yellow 

 Fever— 



wh5"^i '^^f"'' insects should be destroyed by sulphur or formaldehyde fumigation 

 conii.,,.^ u '^ ^^ ''^""'°'^ °"' efiic.cntly. (Sec " Mosquitoes," page 135.) For the fun S°ori 



co.Unu^ of th thrum burned in the proportion 'of one pLi(d per^houZl ub f feet 



An exposure of two hours will stupefy the mosquitoes, causing them to fall to the 

 ground whence they can be swept up and burnt.' For the pui'pose of freeh^g a s Mp 



wTh nror:;;.£ petltutr^' '- ^--^^^^^^ -''' ^^'P^^-^- ^'^ '^^ '^^^^ tan^s^o^et^ 



It is essential that shipping should be under rigid inspection. If yellow fever has 



occurred on boai|cl a vessel, the case should be isolated in a quarantine hospital free from 



to Seen days '""'" P^'^^^"*^"^ ^^""^ communicating with the shore for a period of ten 



Fnfotn^l"*/° ^•el^.*i°°^t°/- /«-^«««« may be noted, viz., the United States Bureau of 

 Entomology have discarded the term S. fasciata for that of S. calopus.^* 



hv fjf^'L^i^f -r^ ^'^n''* ^^' ^''". *^™'^° "P"*^ '^^ ^"gi'i^l discovery of the part played 

 by the mosquito m yellow fever and malaria. t"*!" i'layeu 



Dr. Aristides Agramonte, in a recent article in the Cronica Medico Qnimrgica de la 

 Sahana on sporadic cases of yellow fever, informs his readers that the credit of be ng the 

 first observer to call attention to the part played by the mosquito in yellow feve? and 

 vHHn ' • ' ?r M *^' ''V° D^-- Beauperthuy ; for it was Is far backls 18-53 thSsrauper huy 



Ts ve fw f! I ''T'^.t' °^ *^' ^"^"'^ '^^'''^ '^' ^'''"-'««' ^^^^ that *e affection known 



as yellow fever is due to the same cause as that producing intermittent fever, and that both 

 diseases are caused by the bites of mosquitoes. It is of interest to not; how accurate 

 fhirj^tp. "^'°.^'''T*'ru°" yellT^'^"^- ^^^-^ '"the light of our present knowledge of 

 dose to the tmh. "" ' ''""'^^ '" '^' '"'J^°* °^ ''-'''' '"^ g^>^^'-^l ^^-^ remarkibly 



was Ju^J'^o^'^hpif 1'.?'TP'k ^"^t*^'°"'/ '^''^ ''°' ^■'''^•^^' ^t that time, the recognition that 

 Tf Lw If' . '' ^^J' fitting and just that this observer should receive the credit 



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' "The American Term for Stegomyia Fasciata - (January 12th, 1907). Brilish Mcdkal Journal 

 ' A Pioneer in Research on Yellow Fever " (May 30th, 1908). Brilish Medical Journal, p. 1306. 



• Article not consulted in the original. 



