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Dr. Campbell's experiments. Bed bugs and smallpox.
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lieutenantdan
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Excerpts from Dr. Campbell's experiments.
I wanted to bring this to the attention of everyone again. I think you will find it interesting.
This study has been discussed and is currently under the consideration of our top bed bug Entomologists.http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0302hsted/030212campbell/campbell%203-1.htm
See Bed Bugs Year 1905 in the threads sectionand scroll down to read the study.Dr. Campbell's experiments.
Believing that a close relationship existed between variola and bedbugs, I began in the year 1900 to study the nature and habits of the bedbug, and I am now of the firm opinion that I have established this particular insect as being the diffusing agent of smallpox.
The ability of bedbugs to remain under water for an indefinite time is also established by the following experiment : I first took a pole about seven feet long, and putting a number of these bugs on one end of it, I placed this end almost at the bottom of a tank containing about five feet of water; immediately the bugs began crawling through the water and up the pole; I then changed ends and reversed the operation, submerging the bugs on top of the pole again in the water, and I continued this operation for five hours without intermission—but to all appearances the bugs were not in the least injured, notwithstanding the fact that, in addition to the submersion, they had travelled a distance of nearly 550 yards.
On another occasion I took some bugs and placed them in a glass receiver, the outlet of which was covered with a piece of gauze. The inlet of the receiver was then placed over a faucet of hydrant water; the water was turned on and permitted to run for five hours; the current of the water forced the bugs against the gauze covering the outlet, and they were thus continuously submerged for that length of time; but, as soon as the stream was turned off and the water removed, the insects showed that they had suffered no injury or inconvenience from the
PART III
Résumé of Experiments on Variola
By CHARLES A. R. CAMPBELL, M. D.
San Antonio, TexasMy Observations on Bedbugs
By CHARLES A. R. CAMPBELL, M. D.
San Antonio, TexasEradication of Small Pox by Other Means Than
Vaccination. (Founded on the above.)
By J. A. WATTS, M. D.
San Antonio, Texas
Dedicated to the People of MexicoForeword
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Fri Jun 8 2007 11:37:51
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WTW: we have flouride in the water (drinking water), not chlorine. Just had to get you back for you saying I said seahorses were fish, lol.
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Fri Jun 8 2007 11:51:17
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Hi Willow,
I though that you would get a kick out of that. I had you in mind when I posted. -
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I know scientists are always researching whether bed bugs can transmit disease, and I am sure the possibility that they will begin doing so is there.
However, There are reasons to be skeptical about the validity and replicability of Dr. Campbell's experiments--not least of which is the fact that his illustration for his research on "bed bugs" is the "blood-sucking cone nose", which I believe is a completely different species.
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Fri Jun 8 2007 12:05:31
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This is great info: any bed bug I ever put into water seemed to die or play dead or simply float. Maybe it is the chlorine or the fluoride (or is it fluorine?)used in the tap water we have nowadays: donno.
I hope others will check the water thing out. Say, put it in bottled water and see what happens as opposed to tap water. However, I never saw a bed bug swim, and--it is not as if I put a lot of them into water. Only seven or eight of them. (None of these were sea horses, and that is to the best of my understanding.)
Reading thru this entire thing--which is about half way down the page--I'd like to know more but that and the hint that bed bugs have a "cannibalistic nature.". This article shows how abandoning a place and expecting it to become bed bug free is next to ludicrous. The article suggests the bugs do hop off walls and land rather succinctly onto beds. it also said in 5 hours 550 yards can be traveled through water on a pole by bed bugs.
WOW?
I still say, it was “static electricity†that made the baby bedbug hop in the plastic container that I had it in. There was a very fine film of Vaseline left on the plastic and I felt the static electricity with my hands.
Can they hop?
Who knows?
With edits--we can overcome errors. A sea horse is not a fish. Hi jammin
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Fri Jun 8 2007 12:05:34
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There have been studies on bedbugs to see if they are a vector in spreading hepatitis, which is extremely easily spread so it is a good disease to test. No conclusive results and at this point there is no proof that bedbugs spread specific diseases. Mosquitoes are causing deaths--several a year in my state.
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Fri Jun 8 2007 12:11:51
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Bedbugs are a serious health issue, including allergies, skin problems, mental health and anxiety issues. But for the scarce municipal dollars allocated to eradicating bugs, bedbugs will still compete with bugs that are known to be causing deaths, such as the mosquitoes spreading Triple-E.
What I like about Dr. Campbell's work is the careful research he did on bedbugs. Bedbug scientific research is starting up again, now that the population is growing and there is industry money in fighting them. Hotels, cruise lines, casinos, hospitals, college dorms--all are affected economically by bedbugs. There is money to be made by solving the bedbug problem.
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Fri Jun 8 2007 12:22:59
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Keets, will people still go on vacation knowing they can get bbs? I dunno. It may take awhile before the economic effect is felt by the corporations. Their stock on Wall Street should go down when bbs are reported, but it does not. How about being sued. Suing a hospital? Hospitals lose enough money as it is by people not having insurance, HMOs, etc. Suing would make them lose more money. Better for us.
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Fri Jun 8 2007 13:17:31
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Thanks again to LTND. Dan for re-linking us to the above article. The section on Bed bugs is a "must read."
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Fri Jun 8 2007 14:06:42
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Thanks Willow.
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Sat Jun 9 2007 11:14:05
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To see more recent (and reliable) research on bed bugs, see the links I've collected here:
http://del.icio.us/bedbugger/pubmedHave you all seen http://del.icio.us ? It's a wonderful way to save links and share with others. There's a little button you pop in your browser and you can EASILY save and "tag" articles to save and share. Like bookmarks, but accessible to anyone anywhere.
I've also collected articles on a number of other bed bug-related topics. You can see them all by going to http://del.icio.us/bedbugger
It's also linked from the blog.
If you use del.icio.us and want to send me links on bed bugs to add to my set, you can tag them "for:bedbugger" and I will see them too.
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