IQ6 Girault, Bibliography of the Bedbug, Cimex lectularius Linnaeus. 



ic)o6. b) Idem, The present status of the bedbug in the transmission of 

 human diseases. Journal American Medical Association, Chicago, 

 XL VII, pp. 85-87. 



An account of what is known to date. 

 1906. Editors, Bedbugs and disease possibilities. Journal American Me- 

 dical Association, Chicago, XL VI, pp. 804—805. 



Editorial. Very little known of its life -history and habits; its 

 relation to smallpox epidemics and other diseases. Review of Girault 

 (1905) and Girault and Strauss (1905). 



Vide Kellogg (1905). 



c) Therapeutic. 



IS 16. Dioscorides, Pedaci, Anazarbei De cimicibus lectulariis. De 

 medicinali materia libri quinque. De viruletis animalibus , et venenis 

 cane rabioso, et eorum notis, ac remediis libri quattuor Joanne Ruellio 

 Suessionensi interprete. Libri secundus, p. 33. 



An old materia medica; various uses and properties ascribed to 

 bedbugs as a medicine, especially for fevers. 



1566. Idem, De las chinches qui se crian en las camas. Acerca de la 

 materea medicinal, y de las venenosmoetiferos, traduzido de lengua 

 griega, en la vulgar castilian, y illustrado con ciaras y substan- 

 tiales annotationes, y con los figuras de innumeras plantas exqui- 

 sitas y raras, par el Doctor Andres de Laguna, medico de Julio. III. 

 Pont. Maxi. Salamanca, p. 143, text-fig. 

 Spanish translation of Dioscorides. 



1610. Idem, Wandtlauss. Cimices. Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbaei, von 

 allerly wolriechenden krauten gewürtzen, kostlichen oelen und salben, 

 bäumen, hartzen, gumi, getrayt, kochkräuten, scharpffschmeckenden 

 krauten und andern so allein zur artzney gehörig, krautwein, metalln, 

 steinen, allerly erden, allem und jedem gifft viel und mancherley thieren, 

 und derselbigen heylsamen und nutzbaren stuck. Joannes Danzius 

 und Petrus Uffenbach, Braunsweig, pp. 450 — 451. 



German translation of Dioscorides. "*****^ sindt gut wider das 

 quarton Fiber. ^*******^ wider der Schlangen bissz ****. In wein oder 

 essig getruncken vertrieben sie die Sugegel." 



1661. Lovell, Robert, Wall-louse, Cimex. Sive panzoologicomineralogia. 

 Or a compleat history of animals and minerals, containing the summe 

 of all authors, both ancient and modern, etc., etc. Oxford, pp. 9 (intro- 

 duction), 290—291 (entomologica), 115 et al (pammineralogicon). 

 Various curious uses to which bedbugs were put in the practice of 

 medicine. 



j668. Charleton, Gualterus, Cimex. Onomasticon zoicon, plerorumque 

 animalium differentias et nomma propria pluribus Unguis exponens. 

 Cui accedunt mantissa anatomica; et quaedam de variis fossilium 

 generibus. Londoni, MDCLXVIII, pp. 39, 49. 



Listed, but specific name not given; derivation of Cimex. 



