Annals of medical history . er into thebody should beproductive otgrave disor-ders? Magen-die has shownthat a fewdrops of fluidmaterial fromdecomposedfish injectedinto the blood-stream of animals produces, after a shortinterval, symptoms analogous to those oftyphus and yellow fever. Is it not practicallyan injection of rotten fish poison that theseinsects make beneath the skin and into thecellular tissue of man? The animalcule peculiarto yellow fever thus introduced spread in alldirections, swimming in the have a rotary movement, first fromright to left, then from left to ri
Annals of medical history . er into thebody should beproductive otgrave disor-ders? Magen-die has shownthat a fewdrops of fluidmaterial fromdecomposedfish injectedinto the blood-stream of animals produces, after a shortinterval, symptoms analogous to those oftyphus and yellow fever. Is it not practicallyan injection of rotten fish poison that theseinsects make beneath the skin and into thecellular tissue of man? The animalcule peculiarto yellow fever thus introduced spread in alldirections, swimming in the have a rotary movement, first fromright to left, then from left to right. A smalldose of sulphate of quinine instantly inhibitsthese movements and the organisms are thencarried along in the current without showingthe least sign of self-propulsion. As will be seen frfjm the foregoingexcerpts, Bcaupcrthuy undoubtedly con-sidered the mosquito to be the carrier ofthe infection that is immediately responsiblefor malaria, yellow fever and other is very emphatic in slating his case and. llii ON Kaow Island, Mazaruni River, British Guiana. One of Fiitv in THE Pavilion Hospital Plan Adopted bv Beauperthly for His Treatment OF Leprosy. (Kirke) in denying the verity of the older theories,although it remained for others to establishthe exact character and origin of the again and again insists that in the causa-tion of malarial and other fevers insectsare the intermediate hosts of the materiesmorbi (the specific cause of the disease) andthat they alone inoculate their victims withthe poisons in question. Nevertheless hefell into the error of asserting that the mor-bific agent is some extraneous substance—some decomposing organic material likethe ptomaines of putrid fish—and not, as we now know,live organismstransferred bythe insectfrom man toman. How-ever, in spiteof these de-fects in histheories ofthe relationsof insect lifeto epidemicdiseases, onemay, withBoyce, recog-nize in Bcau-pcrthuy a medical man with a strongbiological tren
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