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beings, causing immense swellings of various parts of the body. 

 These parasitic worms are probably injected into the body of the 

 victim when an infected mosquito bites him. 



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Malaria — Cause and Control, by W. B. Herms. — The Macmillan Co., 

 N. Y. City. 



The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies, by 

 Howard, Dyar, and Knab. — Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Bulletins and Circulars published by the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. De- 

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