Volume 1
A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South.
- Adolph Wilhelm Otto
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![passed by the urethra. In Lempriere, On the diseases of the Army in Jamaica, Vol. II. p. 182, is mentioned the case of a lady who died in consequence of the larvee of some species of Muscid@ making their way from the cavity of the nose in which their eggs had been deposited, through the crybriform plate of the ethmoid bone into the brain. There is also a horrible case mentioned in Kirby and Spence, Vol. I. p. 138, in which a man, who was accustomed to place his superabundant food within his shirt, and next to his skin, having been taken ill and laid down in a field on a very hot day, the meat soon became putrid, flies were attracted to it, and deposited their eggs not only in it, but also in the body of the man himself, who, being found some little time after, was so eaten by the maggots that he died in a few hours.—Elophilus Pendulus, in the larval state, was found in the stomach of a woman. v. Bonnet Chuvres d’histoire naturelle et de philosophie, Vol. X. p-. 144. 8vo. Neufchatel, 1779. T.] (12) To wit, Xenos and Stylops, under the abdominal plate of wasps, and Andrena ; Cleptes coccorum, Fabr. on the coccus kind, Cryptus aphidum, Fabr. on the vine fretters; Conops rufipes in the Bombus lapidarius and terrestris ; Conops ferruginea in Apis mellifica. (13) For instance, in the Diploleparie, Nees, or Ciniptera, Latr., in the larve of the gall fly; the genus Foenus in the larve of bees ; all Ichneumonides in caterpillars and other larve; the Musca larvarum in caterpillars. (14) Some species of the genus Cha/cis, and some Ichneumonides gemini. (15) Redi Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl’ Insetti. 4to. Firenze, 1788. 5th edition, lat. Amstel. 1671, 1686, 1712. -- de Géer Mémoires pour servir a ’histuire des Insectes. 7 vols. 4to. Stockh. 1752—78.—Hermann Mémoire aptérologique. fol. Strasb. 1804.—-Nitzsch Die Familien und Gattungen der Thierinsecten, INSECTA EPIZOICA, als Prodromus einer Naturgeschichte derselben, in Germar and Zinken Magazin der Entomologie. Vol. III. p. 261 ff. (16) The G. marginatus in the diseased skin of men, even in the brain and eye-ball; also in swallow’s nests; other kinds on mammalia and birds. Here, perhaps, the observations of Bory de St.- Vincent. vy. Rapport des trav. de l’ Acad. des Sc. pour l’an 1823, p. 42, with engravings. -—- Jb. Sur un nouveau genre d’Acaridiens sorti du corps d’une femme, in Annal. des Sc. naturell. Vol. XV. p- 125. Oct. 1828. [Gammasus gymnoptorum, Mus. Roy. Coll. Surg. No. 370 B, in a humble-bee; G. coleoptratorum, No. 370 C, in a cetonia; Cellularia bassani in cellular tissue of gannet, Montagu, in Wern. Trans. Vol. I. p. 191. T.] (17) Especially on chafers. (18) Here Sarcoptes, or Acarus siro, or Scabiei, in the itch pustules of men; also in those of horses, dog's, cats, and on birds, &c. such animals occur. (19) Especially I. ricinus, the dog-tick, and reticulatus, which live upon hair, but commonly bury themselves deeply in the skin of dogs, oxen, horses, and other quadrupeds. I found them also in the hare, even in the tortoise, and sometimes they multiply astonishingly; both occur also on men; also in Nor- way, I. sanguisugus, in America, J. nigra, in Egypt. I. e@gypticus. [Ixodes ricinus, No. 878, Mus. Roy. Coll. Surg. in dogs and cattle; J. splendens, No. 373 A, from a tiger, and 373 B, from a tapir; 373 C, from the perineum and vulva of a rhinoceros; 374, from an iguana. T.] (20) Upon pigeons. (21) Upon bats. (22) To wit, the Lepius autumnalis, which lives on grass, &c., and buries itself in the human skin, where it produces painful itching. (23) Under the wings of the Ditiscus marginalis. v. 4ndouin in Bullet. des Se. par la Soc. philom. 1822, p. 12. Drawings in Dict. classique d’histoire nat. Paris, 1822. (24) The two latter kinds from insects. (25) SuBGENERA are Docophorus, Nirmus, Lipeurus and Gonioides, all of which occur as parasitic in birds. (26) On mammalia, viz. the dog, cat, sheep, goat, oxen, &c. (27) The SusceNERA are Colpocephalum, Menopon, Trinoton, Eureum, Lemobo- thrion and Physostomum, entirely in birds. (28) 'I'wo species of these from Cavia Cobaya.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0094.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
