The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-03-01
4 DEADLY Ely.


Aefripie fuses OF suffering aud Death Gauss
ed by Eggs it Deposits i'm the NostriIs.
Mr.; P. Auguste Conil has recently de-
scribed in the Aandles des Sciences Natures-
les some new cases of myiasis observed by
him in the Province of Cordoba, Argentine
Republic. This affection which is nearly
always fatal, is brought about by fly, Cal
hptorG ofathropophaga Conli1, dangerous
insect, which, depositing eggs in the nos
trils of an individual, lays the germs of a
horrible malady. We will allow Mr.. Conf
to describe in his own words one of the
cases that he witnessed.
The house situated alongside of mine is
occupied by Mr.. Auguste Ortiz, whose fam
lily lives at Tortoral, village lying sixty
miles to the north of Cordoba, very near the
line of railroad connecting the latter with
Tucuman. One of his sisters, Josefa Ortiz.
aged eighteen, was taken sick and expert
enced so acute pains that she decided to
consult physician, who, after questioning
and examining her. said that she had an at
tack of angina, and treated her for that af-
lection. In spite of all the remedies adj
ministered the pains, far from ceasing, in.
creased in intensity, and the mother Justly
alarmed, wrote to her son 10 consult anoth-
or practitioner Mt Cordoba.
9 He went at once to Dr. Lesbini and gave
him all the details that he had just received in
regard to his sisters case. On Sunday,
January 8, 1872 Josefa began to complain
ct insupportable itching in the right nostri
and on the same day had several attacks of
bleeding at the nose. The days following
she experienced violent pains in her face,
nape of the neck and throat. The physician
in attendance, finding that he had made a
wrong diagnosis, advised that the patient
should be sent to Cordoba in order that she
might be within reach of remedies and medi-
cal skill
" On the l4th of January her palate was
perforated, and two larvfe, accompanied by
matter, came out of her mouth. Having
smelled branch of basil, eighty larvse, pref
ty well developed, escaped from her right
nostril. The pains becoming more and
more violent, Auguste Ortiz was notified
and at once left for Tortoral Having arrived
at home, his sisters state seemed to him SO
grave that he resolved to take her with him
to the city. He narrated in all its details
the consultation he had with Dr. Iesbini,
and said that, according to the opinion of
the latter, Josefa's trouble was produced by
larve which, in the egg state, had been de-
posted in her nostrils by s. fly The relatives
of the patient, notwithstanding the larva ex-
PEELED, could not believe such an assertion.
as it seemed impossible that the worms that
they had seen could come from fly. They
doubted it all the more, too, becaue the pa
tent asserted that no fly had entered her
nose.
"Struck by what she had heard, one of
the sisters of the sick girl, and younger than
she, stated that on the evening preceding
fly entered her left nostril, and, since in the
evening she had begun to experience the
same symptoms as those exhibited at first
by Josefa, the family begin to think that
DIR. Lesbini might be right. The trip was
therefore resolved upon, and 1t was decided
that Eliza should be one of the party, a lie.
cision to which she undoubtedly owes he.
life. On Saturday, January 1S, at 1910,
the patient took the train. At the station
Jesus-Maria she got out and walked around
for moment; this was at about 1B0
When the train reached the station General
Paz, at 2.50 the patients state was so much
worse TINT her family was thrown into the
greatest inquietude lest she should not ar
rive alive at her destination. At 3 O'Clock,
when the train started, the patient became
senseless, and shortly after leaving the sta
ton she expired in her mothers arms. The
corpse having been taken to the brothers
house, was examined by DR.. Leshini and
two of His oonfreros, who had been at once
summoned. The former desired to make
an autopsy, but the family were firmly OPP
posed to it.
DR. Lesbini's diagnosis was fully con-
fr,ned by the larvae which came from the
mouth and nasal fosse of the patient, as
well as by the perforation of the palate
There Is no doubt then, that Josefa died
from the malady under consideration, mga-
SIS, and that it was caused by the larvae of
the Ca,aph0,a antlt,0pophago, which finally
penetrated the brain and lungs"
After citing a large number of similar
cases, Mr.. Conil gives a careful study of the
larva and perfect state of the dangerous in
sect.
Resuming the data which precede,'
says Mr.. Conil, " it results that an egg Of
the fly deposited ON the 18th of January In
the nasal of Eliza Ortiz Matched and had al
ready, four and half days afterward, at
tanned length of one-fifth of an inch; the
larva had attained its entire growth and had
transformed into pupa eight and half
days after the egg was laid; and, finally,
eleven days were sufficient for the pupa to
perfect its form and become transformed
into perfect insect. This makes, in all
nineteen days and half for the cycle of its
different metamorphoses
:" If we consider the quantity of eggs that
each female of the diptera under considera-
ton is capable of laying at one time, we
shall be astonished at the relatively small
number of cases of myiasis that occur, even
taking into account that many cases cannot
be ascertained by science, and are conse-
quently ignored. That the fly does not null
tiply to greater extent, seeing its wonder
full fecundity, must be due to the fact that
some enemy holds it in check, and prevents
q multiplication which would be so perni-
cious to our species. What the enemy is
the future will probably tell us / hope SO,
at least, and, if it be possible propose next
summer to pursue my observations on the
diptera, and to apply myself specially to bi.
illogical observations.
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