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masks. ^ All were hard at work with their probosces, the 

 delicate anatomy of which surpasses everything one can 



55. Pioliuscis of tlie Oummun Fly, seeu through the Microscope. 



AVith us it is quite an exceptional occtirrence for the 

 domestic insect to attack man. Nevertheless, the nieat- 



1 1 am not speaking at all hyperliolically here. The children I mention had their 

 faces literally covered with a layer of flies, which only allowed their eyes to be seen. 



Some years ago one of our great surgeons, .Jules Cloquet, puljlished the history 

 of a drunken man who, having fallen asleep in the open air near Paris, was 

 carried to one of the hospitals in that city with legions of blow-flies developed iu 



