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recorded concerning the transmission bv bedbugs of anthrax, bubonic plague 
mouse-septicemia, chicken-cholera. Bacillus septicus, relapsing fever, and tuber- 
culosis. Nuttall concluded that nothing had been positively proven, and his 
conclusion holds up to the present time. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PATHOGENIC RELATIONS OE 
THE BEDBUG. 
1887. Metschnikoff, Elias. Ueber dem phagocytenkampf beim ruckfalltyphu s 
Archiv f. pathologische anatomie und physiologic, und f. klinische 
medicine, herausgegeben von Rudolf Virchow (Virchow’s Archiv) 
Berlin, Bd. 109, ,pp. 176-192. 
General references to transmission of diseases by the bedbug. 
1892 a. Dewevre, (Docteur). Note sur le role des pediculi dans a propaga- 
tion de I’impetigo. Gomptes rendus hebdo madaires des Iseances et 
memoires de la Soc. de biologie. Paris, tome quatrieme, nevieme series" 
pp. 232-234. 
From Nuttall (1899), p. 32. The reference is evidently a wrong one ; 
tuberculosis and the bedbug are not mentioned. 
1892b. Dewevre, (Docteur). Note sur la transmissibilite de la tuberculose par 
la punaise des lits. Revue de medicine, Paris, XII, pp. 291-294. 
Account of a case of supposed transmisison, with discussion. “La 
punaise des lits pent done jouer quelquefois un role assez important dans 
la propagation de la tuberculose, et nous estimons qu’ a I’avenir I’hygiene 
devra tenir compte de ce facteur noveau en edictant les regies minutieuses 
de la desinfection.” P. 294. 
1892. Editors. Bedbugs — . Medical Record, New York XLII, p. 347. Brief 
summary of Dewevre ( 1892 b). Cf. Riley and Howard (1S93). 
1893. Riley, Charles Valentine and Leland Ossian Howard. An insect trans- 
mitter of contagion. In.sect Life, U. S. Dep. .\gric., Division Ent., 
Washington, V, p. 210. 
Quote Editors ( 1892). 
1894. Alleger, W. W. On the limitation of tuberculosis. Bedbugs as sources 
of infection. .Vmerican monthly microscopical journal, Washington, 
