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tusks of elephants and the eggs were easily found on the outer surface 

 of the tusk near the lip where the ivory is not continually subjected 

 to friction by the movements of the trunk. Although several flies 

 of the second species were bred out, none of them would oviposit. 



NicoLLE (C.)- Le role des moustiques dans la transmission du palu- 

 disme suspecte en 1774. [The role of mosquitos in the transmission 

 of malarial fever suspected in 1774.] — Bull. Soc. Path Exot., Paris, 

 viii, no. 5, 12th May 1915, pp. 279-280. 



The following passage is quoted from " Voyage en Dalmatie " by 

 Jean-Baptiste de Fortis, translation published at Berne in 1778, Vol. ii, 

 pp. 216-217, letter iv, addressed to Lord Frederic Harvey, Bishop 

 of Londonderry. " All the inhabitants of this country (the lower 

 part of the Narenta) sleep under tents to protect themselves against 

 mosquitos ; delicate persons even pass the day in hot weather under 

 gauze tents. At the time of my visit the number of these annoying 

 insects was so great as to be insupportable. A priest told me that 

 he suspected that the fevers from which the inhabitants of the country 

 suffer severely, arose from the bite of these insects, which after feeding 

 on a rotten carcase or a poisonous plant, settle on men. It is not 

 impossible that miasmata are communicated in this way." 



Legendre (J.). Destruction des poux de corps par le cr6syl et le 

 brossage. [Destruction of body lice by cresyl and brushing.] — 

 Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, viii, no. 5, 12th May 1915, 

 pp. 280-283. 



Perhaps the best method of destroying both lice and their eggs in 

 clothing is to subject the garments for twenty minutes to the action 

 of steam under pressure. The whole of the clothing must be treated 

 at the same time, and as complete change is not possible in the field, 

 the process fails in practice even when the somewhat cumbrous 

 apparatus can be set up. The author steeped verminous body linen 

 in solutions of cresyl in water at 10, 5 and 3-3 per cent, for 10 minutes 

 and hung it in the sun. The result was, in all cases, the death of the lice. 

 Further experiment showed that a 2 per cent, solution, freshly prepared, 

 was quite sufficient to kill all lice with which it was in contact for ten 

 minutes. A quart of cresyl in 12| gallons of water was enough to kill 

 the lice in the body linen of 62 men, each garment being wrung out 

 to recover the liquor as far as possible. Careful and vigorous brushing 

 of uniforms with a hand brush in the open will rid them of both lice 

 and eggs, which fall on the soil and die. 



RiNGENBACH (J.) & Guyomarc'h ( — ). Notos ds Geographio m6dicale 

 de la Section francaise de la Mission de delimitation Afrique 6qua- 

 toriale francaise-Cameroun en 1912-1913. [Notes on medical 

 geography by the French section of the Franco-Kamerun boundary 

 commission in 1912-1913.] — Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, viii, 

 no. 5, 12th May 1915, pp. 301-313. 



The natives of the districts visited were unanimous in declaring that 

 the jigger {Dermatophilus penetrans) was introduced into their country 

 by the Senegalese. It is found everywhere, but is strictly seasonal in 

 its habits and attains its maximum numbers in the dry season. 



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