Abstract
When an outstanding biologist who is also a master of English prose chooses to discuss parasitology for the layman, the result will be fascinating, entertaining, and instructive. Just such a book was written by the late Dr. Hegner, who won his chief fame with an outstanding and highly successful textbook of parasitology. But he also wrote in a lighter and more popular vein. This little book, originally published in 1938, is now reprinted in an inexpensive but handsome soft-bound edition. The book provides an introduction to the whole subject of parasitology. It is designed for the layman, a term that in this context applies not only to persons who know no medicine at all, but also to physicians (and medical students) who have only a dim knowledge of the subject. The exposition provides much concrete information about parasitology but, more important, invests the hard facts with general biological and social
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