Annals of medical history . n this (tropical)climate the microscope will plainly reveal adultparasites (des acarus) that have escaped fromthe abdominal cavities and attached themselvesto the body of the fly. This experiment, which iseasily made, requires very little practice withthe microscope. These parasites (acariens) mayreach the human integuments by ordinarylocomotion, but this is not the usual method;as a rule they are carried by the common housefly to which they attach themselves. The latter,laden with decomposing matter upon whichtheir parasites feed, unload on the skin ormucous membra
Annals of medical history . n this (tropical)climate the microscope will plainly reveal adultparasites (des acarus) that have escaped fromthe abdominal cavities and attached themselvesto the body of the fly. This experiment, which iseasily made, requires very little practice withthe microscope. These parasites (acariens) mayreach the human integuments by ordinarylocomotion, but this is not the usual method;as a rule they are carried by the common housefly to which they attach themselves. The latter,laden with decomposing matter upon whichtheir parasites feed, unload on the skin ormucous membrane of human beings or onobjects that surround them their disease-producing germs or acari. These deposits onthe lips and nasal orifices produce a markedirritation of the parts and give rise to small vesicles such as one sees in herpes febrilis. . .Intermittent, remittent and pernicious fevers,as well as yellow fever, cholera morbus and thetoxemias from serpents and other poisonousanimals owe their toxicitv to an animal or. Tablet Markim, nii: (iKWE of Loi is Owiii Bi-auiER-Tiiuv IN THE Officers Cemetery, H. i\1. S. Henal Settle-ment, Mazaruni River, British Guiana vegeto-animal virus, the introduction of whichinto the human system occurs by poisonous agent, after an incubation period,sets up at first chiefly nervous symptoms; laterthere is a true decomposition of the blood andother fluids of the body, affecting the circula-tion, the respiration, the digestion and all theother functions. . Intermittent fever is aserious disease spread by and due to the pre-valence of mosquitoes; and these fevers dis-appear or decrease in severity in forest regionsthat, because of their altitude, discourage thedevelopment of insect pests, quite apart fromthe amount of decaying matter in the neighbor-hood. . Indians living in marshy districts,as a preventive of fever and ague, build smokyfires at night in front of their huts. This is anefficacious means of driving away mosquitoes
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