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Alt, K. (1892 a), Die Taubenzecke als Parasit des Menschen. Miinchen. med. 



Wochenschr., xxxix. 531-533, 2 Figs. (Cit. Xuttall, 1899, p. 45, A. reflexus.) 

 (1892b), Die Taubenzecke als Parasit des Menschen. Thiermcd. Rundschau, 



Halle a. S., vi. 265-269. (1 Sept. ; A. reflexus.) 



(1893), Die Taubenzecke als Parasit des Menschen. Centralbl. f. Bacteriol., 



xiv. 468. (Rev. by Kniippel.) 



Amaral Leal, J., and Sant'Anna, J. F. (1909), Ornithodorus moubata in Lourenco 

 Marques. Arch. Med. Lisbon, n. 87-88. 



Anderson, J. F. (1903), Spotted fever (Tick fever) of the Rocky Mountains. A new 

 disease. Treasury Dept., Public Health and Marine Hosp. Service of the U.S'., 

 Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin, No. 14, 50 pp. (3 col. plates, 2 photos, charts and 

 maps). 



Anon. (?), Australian Ticks. Amer. Micr. Journ., xxi. 123. 



Anonymous author (1702), An extract of some letters sent to Sir C. H. relating to 

 some microscopal (sic) observations. Communicated by Sir C. H. to the 

 publisher. Philos. Trans., London, xxm. 1362 (1702-1703). (Found a small 

 black tick attached to his arm after a walk in the woods. Describes the mouth- 

 parts and refers to figs, which do not accompany the text. His description of 

 the hypostome of the " wood-tick " might apply to that of ricinus £ . In the 

 " dog-tick " there were 8 teeth in a row on the " snout " (hypostome), which is 

 aptly compared to the proboscis of a swordfish.) 



Aragao, H. de B. (1908), Algumas novas especies de carrapatos brazilieros. 

 Trabalho do Lnstituto de Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, reprint 19 pp. no figs. 

 (Haemaphysalis kodii, Amblyomma lutzi { = A. cooperi Nutt. and Warb.), 

 Amblyomma braziliense, Amblyomma parvum, n.spp.) 



(8. VI. 1908). Mais uma nova especie de carrapato brazileiro. Brazil-Medico 



(Rio de Janeiro), xxn. 251-252 {Amblyomma mantiquirense, n.sp.). 



(22. XI. 1908), Mais um novo carrapato brazileiro. Brazil-Medico (Rio de 



Janeiro), xxir. 431-432 {Amblyomma pseudoconcolor, n.sp.). 



Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Hist. anim. ed. Frankf. 1587 (full quotations from the 

 Greek original are given by Pagenstecher, 1861, p. 2). We glean the following: 

 p. 142, 1 : " Ticks (Kporcovfj) come out of the grass." P. 151, 22 : "The ass has no 

 lice nor ticks ; oxen have both... among dogs Cynorhaestes {Kwopmarai) are 

 plentiful." Theodorus Gaza interprets the latter as meaning ricinus, "a 

 disgusting parasitic animal"; Cratander's (ed. Basil., 1534) Latin version reads 

 "the tick {ricinus) is natural to dogs and takes its name Cynorhaestes from the 

 dog" ; Gaza, on the other hand, renders /crotch- = redivus [reduvius] : "except the 

 ass, which not only has no lice, but is even immune to the tick." Aristotle 

 {Rhetoric, lib. n. cap. ii. ed. Didot, 1848, vol. I., p. 370, b) recounts a story of 

 ^Esop : "A fox, crossing a river, got into difficulty ; she had many ticks adhering 

 to her body. A hedgehog wandering that way pitied her and asked her if she 

 wanted the ticks pulled off, but she did not ; when the hedgehog asked her 

 'why,' 'because,' said she, 'they are already full of me and they are drawing very 

 little of my blood, whereas if you tear these out, other famished ones will come 

 along who will take the little blood that is left to me.'" The name of Croton is 

 derived from the tree called Kporcov whose yellowish, greasy seed resembles the 

 tick. The saying " more healthy than a tick " appears, according to Zenobius, 

 a.d. 200, to refer to the belief that the tick possessed no vent. 



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