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De Meillon1 reported that various arthropods are killed when fed upon rabbits which had received ‘Gammexane’ by ingestion. Similarly, Dr. S. G. Wilson, of the Veterinary Research Laboratories, Entebbe, Uganda, has found that the blood of cattle which had received benzene hexachloride by oral ingestion was toxic to tsetse flies for a considerable time after treatment2. Although biological tests thus showed that the insecticide was circulating in the blood, it seemed useful to apply the normal methods for the analysis of benzene hexachloride to estimation of the concentration in the blood of treated animals.
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De Meillon, Nature, 158, 839 (1946).
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BARLOW, F. Determination of Benzene Hexachloride in the Blood of Cattle. Nature 160, 719–720 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160719b0
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