Report of the Yellow Fever Expedition to Parà of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Abstract

THIS is the seventh memoir published by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and it is printed and got up in the same excellent style as its predecessors. It embodies the results of the Para expedition of Messrs. Durham and Myers, and is written by the former, Dr. Myers having, as is well known, fallen a victim to the disease he was investigating, a circumstance which lends a melancholy interest to the report. When the expedition left this country, the remarkable and conclusive work of the United States Army Commission in Cuba under Major Reed in proving the conveyance of yellow fever by gnats was not known, but this problem, with many others awaiting solution as regards the disease, was present in the minds of the observers, as is seen in the preliminary report, which is here reprinted from the British Medical Journal. In the course of their work, they became acquainted with the results of the Americans, and a number of observations are chronicled in the report with regard to the gnat (Stegomyia fasciatd) incriminated in Cuba. It was bred in captivity and studied in its native. haunts, and much useful information gathered as to its habits-the most striking being its essentially urban habitat, and its custom of biting by day and not at night.

Report of the Yellow Fever Expedition to Parà of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

By H. E. Durham. Pp.79. (London: Published for the University Press of Liverpool by Longmans, Green and Co., 1902.) Price 7s. 6d.