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of the vapours produced b)?' a spirit lamp, without a wick. 

 Mosquito traps might also be placed in dark corners of rooms. Quinine 

 is administered daily by means of tablets of chlorhydrate of quinine, 

 two or three of which should be taken daily according to circumstances. 

 By means of notices, posters, etc., the importance of these anti-malarial 

 measures is brought to the notice of the men. 



Laveran (A.). La Prophylaxie du Paludisme dans I'Armee d'Orient. 



[Prophylaxis of Malaria in the Balkan Army.] — -BulL Soc. Path. 

 Exot., Paris, x, no. 6, 13th June 1917, pp. 400-455. 



In this paper, malarial conditions in the environs of Salonika are 

 discussed and methods of control against mosquitos and preventive 

 quinine prophylaxis described. 



MoucHET (R.). Contribution k T^tude des Myiases. [Contribution to 

 the Study of Myiases.] — Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, x, no. 6, 

 13th June 1917, pp. 467-472. 



Throughout almost the whole Katanga region of the Belgian Congo 

 cutaneous myiasis has been observed in man and various animals. 

 Dogs in particular are frequently attacked, but the favourite host of 

 the larva causing the myiasis is the rat or mouse foimd in dwellings. 

 Field rats are never infested. The life-cycle of the larvae was 

 completed in the laboratory and they were found to give rise to two 

 species of flies, Cordylobia anthropophaga, BL, and Sarcophaga haemor- 

 rhoidalis, Meig. {minis, Edi.). Eggs are normally laid in the lair of the 

 host and not directly on the skin ; hence Europeans, sleeping in beds, 

 are more frequently attacked than natives. While in rats the 

 myiasis produced may cause death, in man the disorder lasts about 

 10 days. 



In the Belgian Congo other Muscid larvae are known to infest both 

 man and animals, but only occasionally. These include Ghrysomyia 

 chloropyga, C. putoria, C. megacephalu and Lucilia sericata. 



RouBAUD (E.). A Propos do la Communication de M. Mouchet " Con- 

 tribution a I'Etude des Myiases." [Respecting the Communica- 

 tion of M. Mouchet " Contribution to the Study of Myiases.] — 

 Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, x, no. 6, 13th June 1917, pp. 

 472-474. 



The history of the African furuncular myiasis described in the 

 preceding paper is given and the author points out that the infestation 

 of man, when it occurs, is merely accidental. The larvae of Cordylobia, 

 anthropophaga, after hatching, may stay in the dust on the floor for about 

 a fortnight awaiting a favourable host. In this way they may become 

 attached to clothing or bed-clothes and thus reach the skin. In no case 

 are eggs laid on the skin of the host. The other fly referred to, Sarco- 

 phaga haemorrhoidalis, Meig., is not a specific agent of myiasis. It is a 

 common sarcophagous Muscid of world-wide distribution, the larvae of 

 which live in excrement, on decomposing meat, or in wounds. In the 

 case mentioned there was certainly a secondary infection of necrosis 

 tumours caused by Cordylobia. This was fortuitous and is no proof 

 of an association between the two parasites. 



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