(1)Medical Entomology (2) Medical Entomology: a Survey of Insects and Allied Forms which affect the Health of Man and Animals

Abstract

WHILE medical entomology is mainly concerned with the parts played by insects and ticks in the transmission, causation and spread of disease, its limits have to go farther afield. It needs to embrace all kinds of stinging creatures, species with vesicating and urticating properties, and other forms which function solely as intermediary hosts of human parasites. The growing subject of myiasis requires full exposition and, to-day, the utilisation of dipterous larvæ as healing agents in cases of chronic osteomyelitis can scarcely be passed over. A modern textbook will also need to discuss the role of Oscinid flies in connexion with conjunctivitis: the little-known diseases of turalsemia and onchocerciasis, together with the growing importance of mites (Trombicula, etc.), and of sand-flies in relation to obscure tropical and subtropical diseases. The literature in these diverse fields grows with such rapidity that few, excepting professed medical entomologists, can keep properly abreast of current developments. This task is rendered the more difficult owing to the range of periodicals, monographs and government publications that have to be consulted. (1)Medical Entomology. Prof. Robert Matheson. Pp. xiii + 489. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1932.) 29s. (2) Medical Entomology: a Survey of Insects and Allied Forms which affect the Health of Man and Animals. Dr. William A. Riley Dr. Oskar A. Johannsen. (McGraw-Hill Publications in the Zoölogical Sciences.) Pp. xi + 476. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1932.) 27s. net.