The animal parasites of man : a handbook for students and medical men / by Max Braun.

  • Braun, Max (Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl), 1850-1930.
Date:
1906
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    woman suffering from cancer.* They were found at Shrewsbury. Hagen - reports the larvae of this fly as occurring alive in the urethra of a patient. —F. V. T.] 5. Homalomyia scalaris, Fabri. [This is not a synonym of the above, but a distinct species. H. manicata, Meigen, is also distinct.—F. V. T.] 6. Musca domestica, L. and M. {Calliphora) vomitovia, L. and allied species ; the larvae have been repeatedly found in the intestine and nose of man (Mankiewicz, &c.).* Fig. 278.—Larva of Anthomyia Canicularis (enlarged). Fig. 279.—Larvae of Musca vomitovia (en- larged). Fig. 280. — Larva of Lucilia macellaria. (After Cone].) 4/1. 7. Lucilia macellaria (Fabricius), 1794. Syn. : Luc. hominovorax, Coq., 1858; Calliphova infesta, Phil., 1861 ; Calli- phora anthropophaga, Conil, 1878. An American fly which deposits its eggs on ulcers, in the auditory canal or in the nostrils of persons who may be sleeping in the open air. The larvte (screw worms), which are provided ' “First Report Economic Zoology/’ p. 55, Brit. Mus. {Nat. Hist.), Theobald. - Hagen, Proc. Bost. Soc., N.H., xx., 107. ® Larva of a Musca, probably M. corvina, were passed in numbers per rectum by a child in Liverpool with Homalomyia larvae.—“ Second Report Economic Zoology,” p. 16, 1903, Theobald.