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

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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
zooelogists, biologists and physicians are studying with untiring zeal to
learn what they can in regard to the development and habits of the