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Insects and Disease 



Believes that F. perstans is conveyed from man to tick and 

 from tick to man. 



KALA-AZAR AND BEDBUGS 



Girault, A. A. The Indian Bedbug and Kala-azar Disease. 

 Sci., N. S., Vol. XXV, 1907, p. 1004. Indian bedbug is 

 C. rotundatus Sig. Its distribution. Summary of Dr. Patton's 

 paper on "Preliminary Report on the Development of the 

 Leishman-Donovan Body in the Bedbug." 



Patton, W. S. The Development of the Leishman-Donovan 

 Parasite in Cimex rotundatus. Scientific Mem. of Gov. of 

 India, Nos. 27 and 31, 1907. Traces the development of this 

 parasite; believes that the bedbug is concerned in transmitting 

 this disease. 



See also Manson's Tropical Diseases, pp. 178-190. 



TEXT OR REFERENCE BOOKS IN WHICH THE RE- 

 LATION OF INSECTS TO VARIOUS DISEASES IS 

 DISCUSSED 



Abbott, A. C. Hygiene of Transmissible Diseases. Phil., 

 1899. Causes, modes of dissemination, prevention, treatment 

 of infectious and contagious diseases. 



Allbutt, T. C, and Rolleston, H. D. A System of Medicine. 

 London, 1907. Vol. II, Pt. II, contains sections on tropical 

 diseases; animal parasites and the diseases they carry and 

 zoological articles dealing with Protozoa, mosquitoes, flies and 

 ticks. All articles have bibliographies, some of them quite 

 extensive. 



Balfour, Andrew. Review of Recent Advances in Tropical 

 Medicine. Supplement to Third Rept. Wellcome Research Lab., 

 London, 1908. Notes, extracts and references in regard to 

 important articles during the preceding few months. 



