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



States Nutt all's (1897) results; bacteriological examination of 

 five bedbugs taken from a room in which a plague patient slept. 



1904. Titus, Edward Sharpe Gaige and Frederick Charles Pratt, 

 Catalogue of the exhibit of economic entomology at the Louisiana 

 purchase exposition, St. Louis, Mo., 1904. Bull. No. 47, U. S. Dep. 

 Agric, Bureau Ent., Washington, p. 120. 



Listed under the heading — Insects which may spread 

 disease. 



/po/. Bolduan, Charles and Mary E. Goodwin, A clinical and bacte- 

 riological study of the communicability of cerebro-spinal meningitis and 

 the probable source of contagion. Medical news. New York, LXXXVII, 

 p. 1226. 



"The vermin theory of infection also presupposes the presence 

 of the meningococcus in the peripheral blood of the patients. *** **. 

 Even when present it does not appear to be so abundant that fleas 

 or bedbugs would be likely to ingest one very often." 



i<)oj. Girault, Alecandrè Arsène and John Frank Strauss, The 

 bedbug, Clinocoris lectularius (Linnaeus), and the fowlbug, 

 Clinocoris columbarius (Jenyns): host relations. Psyche, Boston, 

 Mass., XII, pp. 117 — 120. Vide Editors (1906). 



Adults and larvae attack in confinement recently dead, and living, 

 mice. Brief discussion. 



1905. Harrington, Charles, The relation of insects to human diseases. 

 Bedbugs. A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and 

 medical officers. Edit. 3, revised, Philadelphia and New York, pp. 640 

 —641. 



Dewèvre's (1892) case cited. Nut tail's (1899) experiments 

 negative. Mühling (1899) agrees that no danger of infection is to 

 apprehended from the bites alone. 

 1905. Simpson, W. J., A treatise on plague, dealing with the historical, 

 epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic, and preventive aspects of the 

 disease. Cambridge, p. 222. 



Gives the case of Calmette and Salimbeni (1899). 

 1905. Walsh, James J. (Anon.), Disease and dirt and the tramp. The 

 Independent, New York, LVIII, pp. 680-681. 



Lengthy editorial on probable transmission of cerebro-spinal 

 meningitis by insect blood parasites. Reference to the transmission 

 of relapsing fever by the bedbug. 

 igo6. a) Girault, Alecandrè Arsène, The bedbug, Cimex lectu- 

 larius Linnaeus. Part. II. Critical remarks on its literature, with 

 a history and bibliography of pathogenic relations. Psyche, Boston, 

 XIII, pp. 42-58. Idem, p. 107. 



Synonomy corrected ; disproportion between the literature in bulk 

 and the facts actually known of its life-history; complete bibliography 

 of the literature on its relation to the spread of diseases; literature 

 referred to in parts I and II. Vide Girault (1905). 



