| Show THE MANS FLY ANCIENT ENE ENEMY y The fly ny Is one one of mans man's most ancient ancient an an- dent enemies While It Is not on record record record rec rec- ord that Cleopatra ordered a slave poisoned for falling failing to Swat em still It is not unlikely For every Sunday scholar knows the history of the plagues cs of Egypt which numbered files flies among the tho calamities On the most ancient Egyptian eng engravings engravings en en- g slaves are shown holding palm leaves which were used for Cor fans I and fly flappers we now call can canth th them mI 1 Mosaic Tle-Mosaic Mosaic The laws and the laws enunciated in tn the Koran aim nim direct I ly at sanitation which which If they had I been observed would have prevent lit ed many of ot the fly borne diseases for tor fly reduction is merely a question of I efficient sanitation In 1865 KIrcher er propounded and I published in Rome that flies files played an Imports important role rolo in the transmission transmission I sion slon of disease which viewed in the light of our present-day present knowledge I shows him to have been a a. close observer observer observer ob ob- ob- ob server with a clear knowledge of scientific facts which in recent years yeaTs have been demonstrated ed as such Even earlier than thin this a a. celebrated ed Italian physician named Mercuri Mercurial I 1 alls alis al Is who lived from 1530 1630 tc to 1607 advanced a similar theory although the tho scientists and physicians of his day gave it scant credence Fossils of the house fly have also been found in the tertiary rocks and even in an earlier strata known as the Devonian I |
