Handbook of Medical Entomology, by Wm. A. Riley, Ph.D., and O. A. Johanssen, Ph.D

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Author

Johannsen, O. A. (Oskar Augustus), 1870-1961

Title

Handbook of Medical Entomology

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Produced by Bryan Ness, Iris Schimandle, Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

RC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Subject

Medical parasitology

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eBook-No.

34279

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34279

Release Date

November 11, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRANSCRIBERS' NOTES — HANDBOOK OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY
2. 2.WM. A. RILEY, Ph.D.
3. 3.O. A. JOHANNSEN, Ph.D.
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.INTRODUCTION — EARLY SUGGESTIONS REGARDING THE TRANSMISSION OF DISEASE BY INSECTS — THE WAYS IN WHICH ARTHROPODS MAY AFFECT THE HEALTH OF MAN
8. 8.ARTHROPODS WHICH ARE DIRECTLY POISONOUS — ARANEIDA OR SPIDERS — THE PEDIPALPIDA OR WHIP-SCORPIONS — THE SCORPIONIDA, OR TRUE SCORPIONS — THE SOLPUGIDA, OR SOLPUGIDS — THE ACARINA, OR MITES AND TICKS — THE MYRIAPODA, OR CENTIPEDES AND MILLIPEDES — The Diplopoda — The Chilopoda — THE HEXAPODA OR TRUE INSECTS — PIERCING OR BITING INSECTS POISONOUS TO MAN — Hemiptera — DIPTERA — STINGING INSECTS — NETTLING INSECTS — LEPIDOPTERA — Vescicating Insects and those Possessing Other Poisons in their Blood Plasma — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.PARASITIC ARTHROPODA AFFECTING MAN — Acarina or Mites — The Trombidiidæ, or Harvest Mites — Ixodoidea or Ticks — Argasidæ — Ixodidæ — Tarsonemidæ — Sarcoptidæ — Demodecidæ — Hexapoda or True Insects — Siphunculata — Hemiptera — Parasitic Diptera or Flies — Psychodidæ or Moth-Flies — Culicidæ or Mosquitoes — The Simuliidæ, or Black Flies — Chironomidæ or Midges — Tabanidæ or Horse-Flies — Leptidæ or Snipe-Flies — Oestridæ or Bot-flies — Muscidæ — The Siphonaptera or Fleas
10. 10.ACCIDENTAL OR FACULTATIVE PARASITES — Acarina — Myriapoda — Lepidopterous Larvæ — Coleoptera — Dipterous Larvæ
11. 11.ARTHROPODS AS SIMPLE CARRIERS OF DISEASE — The House-fly As a Carrier of Disease
12. 12.ARTHROPODS AS DIRECT INOCULATORS OF DISEASE GERMS — Some Illustrations of Direct Inoculation of Disease Germs by Arthropods — The Rôle of Fleas in the Transmission of the Plague
13. 13.ARTHROPODS AS ESSENTIAL HOSTS OF PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS — Insects as Intermediate Hosts of Tapeworms — Arthropods as Intermediate Hosts of Nematode Worms — Other Nematode Parasites of Man and Animals Developing in Arthropods
14. 14.ARTHROPODS AS ESSENTIAL HOSTS OF PATHOGENIC PROTOZOA — Mosquitoes and Malaria — Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever
15. 15.ARTHROPODS AS ESSENTIAL HOSTS OF PATHOGENIC PROTOZOA — Insects and Trypanosomiases — Ticks and Diseases of Man and Animals
16. 16.ARTHROPODS AS ESSENTIAL HOSTS OF PATHOGENIC PROTOZOA [ Continued ] — Arthropods and Spirochætoses of Man and Animals — Typhus Fever and Pediculidæ
17. 17.SOME POSSIBLE, BUT IMPERFECTLY ESTABLISHED CASES OF ARTHROPOD TRANSMISSION OF DISEASE — Infantile Paralysis or Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis — Pellagra — Leprosy — Verruga peruviana — Cancer
18. 18.HOMINOXIOUS ARTHROPODS — CRUSTACEA — MYRIAPODA — ARACHNIDA — HEXAPODA (Insects) — ORDERS OF THE ARACHNIDA — ACARINA [E] — HEXAPODA (Insecta) — SIPHUNCULATA ( page 275 ) — HEMIPTERA ( page 275 ) — LEPIDOPTERA — DIPTERA ( page 285 ) — SIPHONAPTERA ( page 316 ) — COLEOPTERA — HYMENOPTERA — SIPHUNCULATA AND HEMIPTERA — Reduviidæ of the United States — DIPTERA (Mosquitoes, Midges, Flies) — SYNOPSIS OF THE PRINCIPAL GENERA OF THE MUSCIDÆ OF THE WORLD — SIPHONAPTERA. Fleas — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.APPENDIX — HYDROCYANIC ACID GAS AGAINST HOUSEHOLD INSECTS — The Proportions of Ingredients — A Single Room As an Example — Fumigating a Large House — Precautions — LESIONS PRODUCED BY THE BITE OF THE BLACK-FLY — Resume and Discussion of Experimental Findings — Summary
20. 20.BIBLIOGRAPHY
21. 21.INDEX — TRANSCRIBERS' NOTES

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