Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever 



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ascribed yellow fever to the bites of mosquitoes, the work of Fin- 

 lay,* who in 1881 published an experimental research showing that 

 mosquitoes spread the infection of yellow fever, and the interesting 

 and valuable observations of Carter t upon the interval between in- 



Fig. 227. — Stegomyia fasciata (Stegomyia calopus): a, male; b, female (after 



Carroll). 



fecting and secondary cases of yellow fever, turned their attention 

 to the mosquito. Securing mosquitoes from Finlay and continuing 

 the work where he had left it, they found that when mosquitoes 

 , . [Stegomyia fasciata seu calopus) were permitted to bite patients suf- 

 fering from yellow fever, after an interval of about twelve days they 



*" Annales de la Real Academia," 1881, vol. xvm, pp. 147-169. 

 t "New Orleans Med. Jour.," May, 1900. 



