Mosquitoes, malaria, and man
Subtitle: a history of the hostilities since 1880
By: Gordon Harrison ; [line drawings by Wynne Brown].
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780525160250
Subjects: Malaria -- Prevention -- History.; Mosquitoes -- Control -- History.; Malaria -- Transmission.; Mosquitoes as carriers of disease.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 297-306.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Caliban's curse; title: Laveran's germ; title: Ronald Ross, the unlikely hero; title: The mosquito theory; title: Follow the flagellum; title: Diversions; title: The bite; title: Dapple-wing; title: Mosquito day; title: The flagellum caught; title: Pigeons and sparrows; title: Ross's cycle; title: The Roman quarrel; title: The three lives of Plasmodium; title: "A war of extermination..."; title: "...Wherever economically possible"; title: Appreciation of the enemy; title: Victory in Panama; title: Italy and Koch's way; title: Rockefeller and the American way; title: A preference for pig; title: Epidemic; title: Toward total war; title: "An almost perfect insecticide"; title: Eradication; title: India : model for the world; title: Relapse