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    Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
    Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
    Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
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    Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases

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      Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases - Rennie Wilbur Doane

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      Title: Insects and Diseases

      A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread

      or Cause some of our Common Diseases

      Author: Rennie W. Doane

      Release Date: February 24, 2009 [EBook #28177]

      Last updated: March 2, 2009

      Language: English

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      An artificial lake, nearly dry and partly filled with rubbish, has become a breeding-ground for dangerous mosquitoes.

      American Nature Series

      Group IV. Working with Nature

      INSECTS AND DISEASE

      A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE WAY IN WHICH

      INSECTS MAY SPREAD OR CAUSE SOME

      OF OUR COMMON DISEASES

      WITH MANY ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM

      PHOTOGRAPHS

      BY

      RENNIE W. DOANE, A.B.

      Assistant Professor of Entomology

      Leland Stanford Junior University

      LONDON

      CONSTABLE & COMPANY LIMITED

      1910

      Copyright, 1910,

      BY

      HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

      Published August, 1910

      THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS

      RAHWAY, N.J.

      PREFACE

      The subject of preventive medicine is one that is attracting world-wide attention to-day. We can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine without seeing the subject discussed in some of its phases, and during the last few years several books have appeared devoted wholly or in part to the ways of preventing rather than curing many of our ills.

      Looking over the titles of these articles and books the reader will at once be impressed with the importance that is being given to the subject of the relation of insects to some of our common diseases. As many of these maladies are caused by minute parasites or microbes the zoölogists, biologists and physicians are studying with untiring zeal to learn what they can in regard to the development and habits of these organisms, and the entomologists are doing their part by studying in minute detail the structure and life-history of the insects that are concerned. Thus many important facts are being learned, many important observations made. The results of the best of these investigations are always published in technical magazines or papers that are usually accessible only to the specialist.

      This little book is an attempt to bring together and place in untechnical form the most important of these facts gathered from sources many of which are at present inaccessible to the general reader, perhaps even to many physicians and entomologists.

      In order that the reader who is not a specialist in medicine or entomology may more readily understand the intimate biological relations of the animals and parasites to be discussed it seems desirable to call attention first to their systematic relations and to review some of the important general facts in regard to their structure and life-history. This, it is believed, will make even the most complex special interrelations of some of these organisms readily understandable by all. Those who are already more or less familiar with these things may find the bibliography of use for more extended reading.

      My thanks are due to Prof. V.L. Kellogg for reading the manuscript and offering helpful suggestions and criticisms.

      Unless otherwise credited the pictures are from photographs taken by the author in the laboratory and field. As many of these are pictures of live specimens it is believed that they will be of interest as showing the insects, not as we think they should be, but as they actually are. Mr. J.H. Paine has given me valuable aid in preparing these photographs.

      R.W.D.

      Stanford University, California,

      March, 1910.

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      INSECTS AND DISEASE

      CHAPTER I

      PARASITISM AND DISEASE

      PARASITES

      he dictionary says that a parasite is a living organism, either animal or plant, that lives in or on some other organism from which it derives its nourishment for a whole or part of its existence. This definition will serve as well as any, as it seems to include all the forms that might be classed as parasites. As a general thing, however, we are accustomed to think

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