104 Girault, Bibliography of the Bedbug, Cimex lectularius Linnaeus. 



Digest of Nuttall (1899) and Coplin (1899); no proof of the 

 conveyance of tuberculosis has been furnished. ^ 



1901. Dawson, Charles F., The dissemination of infectious diseases by 

 insects. American veterinary review, New York, XXV, p. 267. 



Quotes the case of De we vre (1892 c). 

 igoi. Homan, George, On the agency of parasitic vermin and other 

 insect pests in the spread of disease. American medicine, Philadelphia, 



n, pp- 536—537- 



Read before the Division of Maritime Hygiene and Quarantine, 

 Third Pan-American Medical Congress, Havana, February 1901. General 

 article; contains the following, very interesting sentences: "One of the 

 most cosmopolitan and formidable of human parasites remains to be 

 mentioned — Cimex lectularius — and one whose potency for harm 

 in a public health sense has hardly been adequately measured perhaps 

 by reason of its ** nocturnal habits ********^ 



************, but its activity in temperate climates coincides very 

 nearly with the usual maximum prevalence of yellow fever and malarial 

 diseases; *''**. Its stubborn inhabitancy of human dwellings, how^ever, 

 points significantly to it as at least a coadjutor in the persistence of 

 the first-named disease, where it is endemic, and as an influential agent 

 in the spread of other infections as certain forms of tuberculosis, 

 syphilis, leprosy, carcinoma, and peradventure bubonic plague." p. 537. 



1902. Flügge, Carl, Grundriss der Hygiene für Studirende und prak- 

 tische Ärzte, Medicinal- und Verwaltungsbeamte. Leipzig, fünfte, ver- 

 mehrte und verbesserte Auflage, pp. 473, 532, et al. Edit, i, 1891. 



Believes that vermin in general spread Febris recurrens. 

 1902. a) Howard, Leland Ossian, How insects affect health in rural 

 districts. Farmer's Bull. No. 155, U. S. Dep. Agric, Washington, 1901, 

 p. 18, fig. 15. Yearbook U. S. Dep. Agric, Washington, 1901, p. 190, 

 fig. 19. 



Contains the following sentence, in referring to the transmission 

 of diseases by insects: "Even the common bedbug is strongly suspected 

 in this connection." Figures adult. 



1902. c) Idem, Mosquitoes. How they live; how they carry disease; how 

 they are classified; how they may be destroyed. New York, p. 65. 



Grassi (1900) excludes the bedbug from being a possible carrier 

 of malaria on the strength of its wide distribution. Grassi is not listed. 



1903. Jennings, William Ernest, A manual of plague. London, p. 32. 



Bugs may be carriers of plague. 



1904. Bergey, D, H., The principles of hygiene. A practical manuel for 

 students, physicians, and health-officers. Philadelphia, New York and 

 London, edit. 2, revised, pp. 378, 390, 391, 394, 400, 412. 



The bedbug is believed to be instrumental in disseminating the 

 parasite of relapsing fever; and other diseases. 

 1^04. Herzog, Maximilian, The plague: Bacteriology, morbid anatomy, 

 and histopathology, including a consideration of insects as plague car- 

 riers. Bull. No. 23, (U. S.) Dep. Interior, Bureau Government Labora- 

 tories, Biol. Laboratory, Manila, pp. 75, 83. 



