CHAPTEE VII 



MOSQUITO, AN INSECT NAVVY, AND 

 RHYNGIA 



The Mosquito. 



A SCEKTAINING the life-history of the 

 -*- mosquito is one of the grand achieve- 

 ments of modern times. Several prominent 

 medical experts have taken an enormous 

 amount of trouble in this direction, and have 

 even risked their lives in their desire to find 

 some reliable means of combating or prevent- 

 ing malarial fever, the germs of which are 

 carried by the mosquito. 



Malaria, or ague, is a disease peculiar to 

 man, and it is caused by an extremely minute 

 parasite which lives in the red corpuscles of 

 the blood. The malaria parasite is transmitted 

 to man by the * stab ' of the mosquito. 



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