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also proved that the infection acquired by a louse is hereditary, the 

 individuals arising from eggs laid by an infected louse transmitting 

 the disease. 



RouBAUD (E.). Oestrides gastricoles et cavicoles de I'Afrique occiden- 

 tale francaise. [Stomach and Sinus-inhabiting Oestrids of French 

 West Ainca.]— Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, vii, no. 3, 11th March 

 1914, pp. 212-215. 



The sheep bot of French West Africa and its ravages have been 

 described by the author in a previous paper. The present paper gives 

 a short account of other bots of that region that have been more 

 recently collected. The stomach-inhabiting Oestrids mentioned 

 are, Gastrophilus asininus, Brauer, in the stomach of horses, and 

 Cohholdia loxodonds, in the stomach of elephants. The following 

 Oestrids, inhabiting the frontal sinuses of Bubalis major were found : 

 Oestrus variolosus, Lw., Gedoelstia cristata and Kirkia surcoufi, Gedoelst. 



Gedoelst (L.). Note sur un Genre Nouveau d'Oestrides. [Note on a 

 new genus of Oestrids.] — Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, vii, no. 3, 

 11th March 1914, pp. 210-212. 



In 1893 Blanchard described an Oestrid larva found in the frontal 

 sinus of Boselaphus [Bubalis) lichtensteini, but differing from the larvae 

 of other known genera ; he called it Kirk's larva. It is now described 

 by the author under the name Kirkia blanchardi (gen. et sp. n.). 



Sergent (Edm.) & Foley (H.). Transmission de la Fievre Recurrent 

 par D6p6t sur les Muqueuses Intactes du Produit de Broyage de 

 Poux pr61ev6s sur un Spirillaire. [Transmission of Recurrent 

 Fever by deposits on the mucous membrane of healthy persons 

 of crushed Lice taken from a case of Recurrent Fever.] — C. R.Soc. 

 Biol, Paris, Ixxvi, no. 11, 27th March 1914, pp. 471-472. 



The investigations made previous to this by Nicolle, Blaizot, Conseil 

 and Sergent on the transmission of recurrent fever, show that infection 

 may occur when abrasions in the skin, or the eyes, are rubbed with 

 fingers contaminated with infected lice, or when blood containing 

 the spirilla enters the eyes ; [see this Review, Ser. B, i, pp. 70-72 and 

 235.] In the present paper experiments are described which show 

 that monkeys can be infected when the products of crushed lice, fed 

 for six days on a patient in the later stages of a first attack, were placed 

 on the mucous membrane of the nose. Lice taken from the same 

 patient four days after the end of a second attack and crushed and 

 applied similarly to the nasal mucous membrane of a man, caused 

 no infection, although containing numerous spirilla ; it should be 

 noted that the subject was syphilitic and had recently been under 

 prolonged iodo-mercury treatment. 



Lewis (J. C). Equine Granuloma in the Northern Territory of 

 Australia. — Jl. Camp. Path, and Therap., London, xxvii, pt. 1, 

 March 1914, pp. 1-23. 



Equine granuloma is a disease confined to horses and occurring in 

 tropical Australia ; though more common in marshy, low-lying 

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