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Dr. Nott's Theory Of Insect Causation Of Disease, William A. Riley
Dr. Nott's Theory Of Insect Causation Of Disease, William A. Riley
Harold W. Manter Laboratory: Library Materials
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The danger in using isolated sentences from an article as a basis for interpreting the author's theories, is generally recognized, but sometimes the most careful workers fall into the trap. Once the mistaken interpretation is published, it may be copied over and over again until it rises to the dignity of a dogma.
A striking illustration is afforded by the practical unanimity with which writers on the subject of insects and disease credit Dr. Josiah Nott with being the earliest to formulate definitely the theory of mosquito transmission of yellow fever.
Nuttall, in his classic monograph On the Role …
Summary Of Two Years' Study Of Insects In Relation To Pellagra, Allan H. Jennings
Summary Of Two Years' Study Of Insects In Relation To Pellagra, Allan H. Jennings
Harold W. Manter Laboratory: Library Materials
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With the growing interest in pellagra, following the authoritative recognition of its presence in the United States in 1907, the study of its etiology was taken up by various investigators and the several theories of causation were subjected to close scrutiny.
Prominent among these theories was that of insect transmission, first advanced by Sambon, who limited this function to the species of blood-sucking gnats comprising the genus Simulium.
The importance of the disease and the possibility of such a factor in its causation, led the Bureau of Entomology, late in 1911, to undertake an investigation of the subject …