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THE physiology and nutrition of the bedbug (Cimex lectularius) has been the subject of investigation in this laboratory for a number of years. A preliminary report has been published1, and a paper dealing with the matter more fully is in the press. One of the problems we have set ourselves is to make the blood of the host unsuitable for the bedbug by altering it in one way or another. The ultimate aim was to find some substance, non-toxic for the host, which when fed to animals would kill or control bedbugs and other blood-sucking arthropods. Numerous attempts in this direction, with a wide variety of materials, have been made, and some success has been obtained. Recently, through the kindness of Dr. W. C. Walmsley, of African Explosives and Chemical Industries, Ltd., Northrand, a few grams of the pure gamma isomer of hexachlorocyclohexane was obtained. Results with this substance have been so striking that it has been considered of interest to make them known immediately.
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De Meillon, B., and Goldberg, L., Nature, 158, 269 (1946).
Kirkwood, S., and Phillips, P. H., J. Biol. Chem., 163, 251 (1946).
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DE MEILLON, B. Effect on some Blood-sucking Arthropods of Gammexane when Fed to a Rabbit. Nature 158, 839 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158839a0
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