PIONEERS IN MOSQUITO SANITATION 



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Dr. C. L. A. Laveran 



Dr. C. L. A. Laveran (ordinarily written A. Laveran), member of 

 the Institute of France; member of the French Academy of Medicine; 

 famous protozoologist; professor of protozoology, Pasteur Institute, 

 Paris. He was the first to demonstrate the true cause of malaria and 

 to describe the malarial parasite; is a very learned man in protozoology 

 and has occupied himself much of late years with the subject of tropical 

 diseases as they occur in the tropical and oriental French colonies. 



