1912] Rosenmi & Brues — Transmission of Poliomyelitis by Stomoxys 191 



NOTE ON THE EOLLOWING ARTICLE 



Although the following article is written from a medical stand- 

 point, it deals with a matter of practical importance to economic 

 entomologists, and presents the first experimental data bearing 

 on the hypothesis ^ that poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) may be 

 carried by Stomoxys calcitrans. 



Since it appeared, Anderson and Frost^ of the Public Health 

 and Marine-Hospital Service have reported similarly successful 

 results in transmitting poliomyelitis among monkeys, by repeat- 

 ing these same experiments with Stomoxys. They have further 

 been able to induce the disease in a third monkey by inoculation 

 with an emulsion of the spinal cord taken from a monkey that 

 developed the disease after being bitten by infected flies, thus 

 proving the diagnosis in the case of the fly-bitten monkeys, (Ed.) 



SOME EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS UPON MON- 

 KEYS CONCERNING THE TRANSMISSION OF 

 POLIOMYELITIS THROUGH THE AGENCY OF 

 STOMOXYS CALCITRANS, A PRELIMI- 

 NARY N0TE.3 



By M. J. RosENAU, 



Professor of Preventive Medicine aed Hygiene, Harvard Medical School, 



and 

 Charles T. Brues, 



Bussey Institution, Harvard University. 



The work we are about to report was done for, and under, the 

 auspices of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts. 



We should like to have it distinctly understood, and therefore 

 emphasize the fact right in the beginning, that this announcement 

 is to be considered as a preliminary report, for the work is still 



1 Brues, C. T. & P. A. E. Sheppard, The Possible Etiological Relation of Certain Biting 

 Insects to the Spread of Infantile Paralysis. Month. Bull. State Board of Health of Massa- 

 chusetts, Dec. 1911, pp. 338-340 and Journ. Econ. Entom., Vol 5, pp. 306-324 (Aug. 1912). 



2 Anderson, J. H. and Frost. 



' Reprinted from the Monthly Bulletin of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, 

 Vol. 7, n. s., pp. 314-317. (September, 1912). 



