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management and control of infectious diseases. Insects as transmitters 
of infection. The American yeardrook of meilicine and surgery, I’hila- 
delphia, ((iould), pp. 996-997. 
.\ digest of the e.\i)eriments of Nnttall ( 1S97, iSpcS). ISedbugs transmit 
hut rarely. 
1899. Calmette, and .\. T. .Salimheni. La peste bubonique. Ktude de 
I’epidemie d’tjporto en 1899, Serotherapie. .\nnales de I’institut pas- 
teur, Paris, XI [I, p. 883. 
* * * *^ jg point de dejrart de la lesion avait etc une piqiire de 
punaise.” Observations. 
1899. C'armichael, I ). .V. Leprosy in the Hawaiian fslands. The .Medical 
News, New York, L.X.XIV, p. 95. 
■Abstract from Public Health Reports, to .Supervising Surgeon-General, 
C. S. Marine-Hospital Service, Dec. 30, 1898. 
“It is suspected that certain insects play a part in the transmission of 
leprosy, the common house fly, mosquito, and bedbug being the principal 
carriers of the infection.” 
1899. Coplin, William M. Late. The propagation of diseases by means of in- 
sects, with special consideration of the common domestic types. Phila- 
delphia meil. journal, Philadelphia HI, pp. 1303-1307, 6 te-vt-tigs. 
.\ddress delivered before the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, Johns- 
town, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1899. 
General account of the part played by household insects in transmitting 
diseases, with an account of e.vperiments performed with bedbugs 
roaches, and Hies as carriers of bacteria, especially the bacilli of typhoid 
fever. Figures petri cultures made by contact with infected bugs. 
“'I'he danger from the beilbug and roach would probably be great in 
diptheria, and all would share in the possible dissemination of tubercu- 
losis, anthra.x, and similar bacterial diseases.” p. 1306. 
1899. Miihling, Paul. I )ie uebertragung von krankheitserregern durch wanze 
und blutegel. Gentralblatt f. bakteriologie, parasitenknnde and infec- 
tionskrankheiten, Jena, Pd. X.XV, erste abteilung, jip. 703 — 706. 
Original e.xperinients with bedbugs. . “.\us alien diesen Thatsachen 
ergeibt sich also sicher; dass der U'anzenstich an sich nichtszu bedeuten 
