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Prefuce and Acknowledgements
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TH I s book was originally published in 1957 by Penguin Books
Ltd in their Pelican Medical Series, and the gratifying sale of it
in that form has encouraged the writer to revise it for publication
in its present form. It attempts to provide, primarily for the
reader who is not specially trained in biology or in human or
veterinary medicine, a readable account of the animals that may
be parasitic in man in various parts of the world. At the same
time an attempt has been made to provide for the medical stud.ent,
and for others who may, for various reasons, wish to learn
the essential facts concerning human parasitology, accounts of
the parasitic animals that cause human disease. A further aim of
the book is to indicate the general principles on which the comparatively
young science of parasitology is based. The last
Chapter explains the battle that man is nowadays waging with
animals parasitic in him and the gravity c;f the injury that these
animals do to his heal& and civilization.
The line illustrations in the text have been drawn by Mr J.
Walkey from sketches supplied by the author and the author is
indebted to Mr Walkey for the trouble he has taken over them.
The diagrams of the life .histories have been specially designed
for this book, but the other line illustrations are based on drawings
used by the author in teaching. These latter inevitably owe
much to the work of the parasitologists of many countries of the
world and the author gratefully acknowledges the debt he owes
to all these workers.
For the photographs the author is greatly indebted to: Dr D.
Robertson, North of Scotland College of Agriculture for Plate
1 (a), and Plate 7 (b); Mr G. I-I. Werts, Imperial Chemical
(Pharmaceuticals) Ltd for Plate 9 (b), Plate 4( (a), Plates 5 and
6, Plate 7 (a), and Plate 8; Dr H. Spencer, St Thomas’s Hospital,
London for Plate 4 (b) ; Dr Seaton, Liverpool School of Tropical
Medicine and the Editor of TZX J&z& for Plate 1 (b) and Plate
2 (a); and the Director of the Wellcome Museum of Medical
Science, London for Plate 9 and text figures 6 and 43.
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