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Some early medical entomology. Athanasius Kircher's illustration of the Italian tarantulaand the music prescribed as an antidote for the poison of its bite. (1643).HANDBOOK OF MEDICALENTOMOLOGY
WM. A. RILEY, Ph.D.
Professor of Insect Morphology and Parasitology, Cornell University
and
O. A. JOHANNSEN, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Cornell University
ITHACA, NEW YORK
THE COMSTOCK PUBLISHING COMPANY
1915
COPYRIGHT, 1915
BY THE COMSTOCK PUBLISHING COMPANY,
ITHACA, N. Y.
Press of W. F. Humphrey
Geneva, N. Y.
PREFACE
The Handbook of Medical Entomology is the outgrowth of acourse of lectures along the lines of insect transmission anddissemination of diseases of man given by the senior authorin the Department of Entomology of Cornell University during thepast six years. More specifically it is an illustrated revision andelaboration of his "Notes on the Relation of Insects to Disease"published January, 1912.
Its object is to afford a general survey of the field, and primarilyto put the student of medicine and entomology in touch with thediscoveries and theories which underlie some of the most importantmodern work in preventive medicine. At the same time the olderphases of the subject—the consideration of poisonous and parasiticforms—have not been ignored.
Considering the rapid shifts in viewpoint, and the developmentof the subject within recent years, the authors do not indulge in anyhopes that the present text will exactly meet the needs of everyone specializing in the field,—still less do they regard it as completeor final. The fact that the enormous literature of isolated articles isto be found principally in foreign periodicals and is therefore difficultof access to many American workers, has led the authors to hopethat a summary of the important advances, in the form of a referencebook may not prove unwelcome to physicians, sanitarians andworking entomologists, and to teachers as a text supplementinglecture work in the subject.
Lengthy as is the bibliography, it covers but a very small fractionof the important contributions to the subject. It will serve only toput those interested in touch with original sources and to open upthe field. Of the more general works, special ackno