Dr. A.R. Campbell (another Great Scot) was a Texas doctor who discovered that smallpox was only spread by the bite of the bloodsucking insect called the BEDBUG or Cimex Lectularius. Cimex is the Latin for "bug" and Lectularius is Latin for "couch" or "bed." Dr. Campbell proved that smallpox is not contagious and is not an airborne disease.
Dr. Campbell graduated from the University of Tulane Medical School and was licensed to practice medicine by the State of Texas. He was president of the San Antonio Academy of Medicine and was a member of the Bexar County Medical Society.
Dr. Campbell was another victim of the Medical Inquisition. This great doctor, scientist and naturalist is not mentioned in any of the hundreds of biographies on medical men and their discoveries.
Dr. Campbell discovered how to colonize bats in order to destroy the malaria carrying mosquito.
Dr. Campbell was the head Bacteriologist for the city of San Antonio, Texas. His work on eradicating the malaria causing mosquito led him to construct a BAT HOUSE and colonize bats as you would bees. For his great discovery, he was nominated for the Noble Prize for Medicine by the State of Texas on Feb. 10,1919.