The House-Fly: Musca Domestica Linn: Its Structure, Habits, Development, Relation to Disease and ControlFirst published in 1914, this volume was written in response to rising concerns regarding the role of the house-fly in the dissemination of infectious diseases, and its relationship to unhygienic conditions. Given the role played by the house-fly in these circumstances, it was decided that a thorough study of its entomological and medical significance was required. The volume was not intended as a popular treatise on the subject, this role had already been fulfilled by the author's House-flies and How they Spread Disease. Instead, it was designed for professionals in entomology and public health, together with students developing a specific interest in these areas. Numerous detailed illustrations of house-fly anatomy are included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in entomological studies and the history of public health. |
Contents
PART I | 1 |
THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF MUSCA DOMESTICA | 28 |
THE HABITS AND BIONOMICS OF THE HOUSEFLY | 65 |
THE EXTERNAL FEATURES OF THE FULLGROWN LARVA | 115 |
9 | 129 |
PART III | 151 |
EMPUSA MUSCAE COHΝ | 160 |
INSECT AND VERTEBRATE ENEMIES | 167 |
PART V | 218 |
THE CARRIAGE OF TYPHOID FEVER BY FLIES | 229 |
THE RELATION OF FLIES TO SUMMER DIARRHOEA OF INFANTS | 252 |
58 | 261 |
THE DISSEMINATION OF OTHER DISEASES BY FLIES | 266 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 288 |
THE RELATION OF FLIES TO MYIASIS AND TO THE SPREAD | 301 |
PART VI | 317 |
Other editions - View all
The House-Fly, Musca Domestica Linn.: Its Structure, Habits, Development ... C. Gordon 1885-1920 Hewitt No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
abdomen alimentary tract anthrax appear attached bacillus bacteria blow-fly body breeding places calcitrans canicularis carried carriers cells cent cephalic cephalo-pharyngeal chitinous cultures curves deposited described diarrhoea disease dissemination dorsal side duct eggs Empusa enteric fever epidemic erythrocephala excrement experiments faeces Fannia feeding female flagellate flagellum ganglia ganglion glands Graham-Smith habits Habronema Health house-fly houses imaginal discs infection intestine Journ large numbers larvae larval stage lateral latrines legs length life-history longitudinal Lowne manure mature larva median mesothoracic milk mites Musca domestica muscles myiasis nerves nervure number of flies oblique observations occurred oesophagus oral lobes organisms pairs parasitic pharyngeal pharyngeal mass plates portion posterior end posterior spiracles proboscis prothoracic proventriculus pupae pupal region salivary sclerite segment similar species spiracles spiracular processes spores stabulans Stomoxys summer diarrhoea temperature thorax transverse typhoid fever typhosus ventral side ventriculus wings دو دو