Key-catalogue of insects of importance in public health / by C.W. Stiles and Albert Hassall.

  • Charles Wardell Stiles
Date:
[1928]
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Credit: Key-catalogue of insects of importance in public health / by C.W. Stiles and Albert Hassall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pathogenic bacteria to food; not infrequently found in soup, bread, pie, salads, etc.; alleged to spread diphtheria, typhoid, and tuberculosis, especially on board ship; potentially a possible transmitter of f462 Gongylonema to man; known transmitter of cancer f462 Gongylonema to rats; one species under suspicion as possibly the intermediate host of a tapeworm, f305 Davainea madagascariensis, of man. Common pests in houses and hospitals, especially in food rooms. Pseudoparasites in ear (several authentic cases) resulting in severe pain. Attack face, eyelashes, lips, fingers, and toenails, attracted by grease. Used in folks therapeutics (crushed with sugar, to cure ulcers, cancer, worms; ashes used as purgative; alcoholic extract to cure dropsy; intestine boiled in oil to cure earache). Salted roaches have been used as food. Lay belief as cause of Bright’s disease. See fl078. species Baldwin, 1906, Brit. Med. J., v. 2, 197: Cockroach (common ordinary). Haunts kitchens.—External auditory meatus .-^London, species Herrick, 1916, Ins. Inj. Hous., 128: Cockroach. “Large brown species common throughout Brazil.—Attacks eyelashes and toenails.— Corumba on Upper Paraguay, Brazil. Household pest. 1078(1081; 1083). Blattinae; seu Periplanetinae. See f 1079. 1079 (1080). * Blatta *3 Linn., 1758a, 342, 424; tsd. (1810) 7th sp. oriental™. Lay superstition that if certain black roaches enter the room or fly against a person, severe illness or death follows. *onentalis Linn., 1758a, 424: Blatta; Steleopyga0; Kakerlac0; Periplaneta.1— Cosmopolitan. Supposed to come from Asia, spread by commerce; abundant in U. S. A. Oriental cockroach; gemeine Kiichenschabe, Brotschabe, Kakerlak. 43 yr. d71 patient; slept in kitchen; ringing in ear, headache; insect dead in ear; had been there several days. In hospital February 19, 1895; discharged March 12, 1895 (fide Mader, 1897a).—Alleged to have cut a person’s finger nails (Herrick 1916, 136). Syns.: badia Saussure; culinaris de Geer; ferrugineo-fusca Gronov. 1080 (1079). Periplaneta Burm., 1838, Handb. Ent., v. 2, 502; tsd. (1890; 1903) 1st sp. americana.—[C. 25a, 266; B. & M. 15a.] americana Linn., 1758a, 424 [Blatta1]: Peri-planetar.—America1; Orient; Russia; Sweden; Finland. Tropical and subtropical American cock¬ roach; surinamischer Kakerlak.—Spread by commerce. Experimen¬ tally infected with virulent plague bacilli; inoculated with virulent plague into leg; some died and in one case a guinea pig inoculated therefrom contracted plague infection. Experimental passage through cockroaches: Bacillus coli communis, Streptococcus, B. proteus vulgaris, Pneumococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, S. citreus. Experimentally: Bacillus tuberculosis pa*sses through intestine up to 14th day; Bacillus leprae 1 or 2 days; cysts of f37 Endamoeba histolytica and f37 Endamoeba coli up to 3 days; cysts of fl39 Giardia lamblia; eggs of f387 Ancy- lostoma duodenale; of f387 Ancylostoma ceylanicum; of f390 Necator americanus, of480 Ascaris lumbricoides; of f370 Trichuris trichiura; o f325d Taenia saginata; of f281 Schistosoma haematobium. A few experiments negative for Gonococci, B. typhosus, B. paratyphosus and U'-dysenteriae, and for eggs of fl511 Aphiochaeta xanthina, fide Macfie, 1922, Ann. Trop. Med., Liverpool, 448. Experimental host for f462 ongylonema Vulchrum. Cut finger nails, book bindings. Ship pest. 1081 (1078). Ectobiinae. Syn. EctobinaeA See fl082. xt134.SItS': KalieTlac ° Latr-’1825’ 411 tnvi* tsd- (19°2) orientalis; Steleopyga ° Fischer, 1833, Bui. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou, v 6, 356 [Kakerlac renamed] as of Shelford, 1911, Ent. Res. Journ., 242, tsd. (1911) orientalis Lnot as of Caudell, 1911, Psyche, 88, tsd. 3d sp., by elimination, trichoprocta].