William A. Riley epub Handbook of Medical Entomology (Classic Reprint)

Handbook of Medical Entomolog is the outgrowth of a course of lectures along the lines of insect transmission and dissemination of diseases of man given by the senior author in the Department of Entomolog of Cornell University during the past six years. More specifically it is an illustrated revision and elaboration of his Notes on the Relation of Insects to Disease published Januar ,1912. I ts object is to afford a general surey of the field, and primarily to put the student of medicine and entbmolog in touch with the discoveries and theories which underlie some of the most important modem work in preventive medicine. At the same time the older phases of the subject the consideration of poisonous and parasitic forms have not been ignored. Considering the rapid shifts in view Doint, and the development of the subject within recent years, the authors do not indulge in any hopes that the present text will exactly meet the needs of every one specializing in the field, still less do they regard it as complete or final. The fact that the enormous literature of isolated articles is to be found principally in foreign periodicals and is therefore difficult of access to many American workers, has led the authors to hope that a summary of the important advances, in the form of a reference book may not pro eunwelcome to physicians, sanitarians and working entomologists, and to teachers as a text supplementing lecture work in the subject. Lengthy as is the bibliography, it covers but aver small fraction of the important contributions to the subject. It will scr eonly to put those interested in touch with original sources and to open up the field. Of the more general works, special acknowledgment should be made to those of Banks, Brumpt, Castellani and Chalmers, Comstock, Hewitt, Howard, Manson, Mense, Neveau-L cmairc, Nuttall, and Stiles. To the many who have aided the (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)