Further reports (no. 5) on flies as carriers of infection.

Date:
1912
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    ill tlio loft frontal region. l1io disoliarg'o was never purulent. For aliout six weeks various lotions were used with- out g‘Ood result. Then, after using a dilute Mandl solution (HI XV in ^ j) twice, four grulis came away from tlie nose, and she was relieved. She remained quite well for another two weeks, during which she attended the liospital There was no particular smell noticed likely to attract the fly. The case seems to have been very readily cured, no doubt because the accessory sinuses were not invaded.”(“) Specimens of the perfect insects bred from some of the larvae were examined by Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, late Assistant-Keeper, British Museum (Natural History), who pronounced the species to be Piophila casei, L. In Italy larvae of this species have been expectorated by a patient suffering from an affection of the chest,and the author has examined specimens of the fly bred from larvae from a case of intestinal Myiasis at Lisbon. Reference,s. (^) Cf. Fr. Boie, Isis, 1830, p. 256. (^) Dr. B. Wagner, Die Made von Eristalis arhustorum, L., als Parasit im menschlichen Darmkanale ” : Stettiner En- tomologische Zeitung, Bd. XXXI., pp. 78-80 (1870). (^) Insect Life, Yol. II., pp. 261, 262 (1890). (^) Table Showing the Distinctive Characters of the More Important Species of Flies Found in Houses, in their Various Stages,” by E. E. Au,sten : Reports to the Local Government Board on Public Health and Medical Subjects (New^ Series No. 5), 1909. (•’’) Cf. L. 0. Howard, Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Yol. II., pp. 581-582 (1900):—In A Con- tribution to the Study of the Insect Fauna of Human Excrement.” [With Especial Reference to the Spread of Typhoid Fever by Flies.] By L. 0. Howard, Ph.D. : ihid., pp. 541-604, Plates XXX., XXXI., and 22 figures in the text. (®) Cf. H. C. Blankmeyer, Journal of the American Medical Association, May 4, 1907. () Rev. Leonard Jenyn.s, M.A., F.L.S., &c., Notice of a Case in which the Larvaz of a Dipterous Insect, supposed to he the Anthomyia Canicularis, Meig., were e.'vpelled in large quantities from the huwan intestines; accornpanied by a description of the same ” : Transactions of the Entomo- logical Society of London, Yol. II., pp. 152-156, PI. XY., figs. 1-8 (1839). («) C. H. Cattle, M.D., M.R.C.P., A Case in Which Large Quantities of Dipterous Larvae Were Passed per Anum ” ; British Medical Journal, July 14, 1906, p. 77, figs. 1 and 2. (”) Rene Chevrel, ‘‘Sur La Myase des Yoies IJrinaires ”; Archives de Parasitologic, T. XII., No. 3, February 10, 1909, pp. 369-450 (figs, in text).