The medical entomology of Salonica /by Andrew Balfour.

  • Andrew Balfour
Date:
[1916?]
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Credit: The medical entomology of Salonica /by Andrew Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY OF SALONICA By Temp. Lieut.-Cot. ANDREW Batrour, C.M.G., M.D., R.A.M.C. SuRGEON-GENERAL WHITEHEAD AND GENTLEMEN :— At the outset I would ask you kindly to disabuse your minds of any idea that I claim to be an expert entomologist. Indeed, I am only sorry that Mr. Austen of the British Museum, now in Egypt, is not here to speak to you in my place. In his absence, however, I must do my best, and I can at least claim to have suffered many things from many insects. To use a time-honoured sporting phrase, my claret has been tapped by seroot flies on the Upper Nile, by beautiful green and vicious Lepidoselaga on the Orinoco, Magdalena. and _Atrato Rivers, and by Mosquitoes, Ceratopogons, Simulide, Stomoxide,Phlébotemus and a host of other flies in several parts of the old and’ the new world, Hence, I feel I can address you with some. confidence. Further, I intend, this afternoon, to confine myself more or less strictly to Medical Entomology, and as I have myself suffered from malaria, phlebotomus fever and paratyphoid, the last-named almost certainly the result of fly infection, I can claim to have some practical experience of my subject. It seems to me that the most simple way of approaching the medical entomology of Salonica is to divide its insect pests into the winged and the wingless forms. Some may think it is rather presumptuous on my part to attempt to deal with the insect fauna of a district to which I was a stranger three weeks ago, but, after all, there is no need to enter into minute details, and, so far as I have seen, the pernicious insects of Salonica do not greatly differ from those of other parts of Southern Europe with which I am _ to some collecting as occasion offered. At least, like yourselves, I am only too well acquainted with the first of the winged insects I will bring to your notice, namely, the House Fly, Musca domestica (Fig. 1).
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