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MOSQUITOES 



3*5 



disease, but because their buzzing is annoying, while the 

 punctures they inflect in the skin are painful and 

 often very irritating. 



Tin- Mosquito (Aniijilictex macttlipenni*). The 

 conveyor of the parasite of malaria. 



Although malaria has been known for centuries, and 

 accurate accounts of it are to be found in the works 

 of Hippocrates, Galen, and Celsus, its cause was not 

 detected until Lave ran in 1880 discovered in the blood 

 of patients suffering from malaria a protozoon, since 

 named Plasmodium malaria. Blood parasites of this 



