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Handbook of Medical Entomology
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169 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 17, 2007
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March 26, 2017
Extremely interesting from a historical perspective. Much of the science was still new and developing, and since antibiotics were still decades away, the primary danger from most insect bites was the risk of secondary infections. The standard "is it venomous?" test seemed to be "grind it up, suspend in saline, and inject into your assistant." Lyme disease had not yet been discovered, and the cause of Polio was just being figured out. Non-consensual human experimentation is mentioned in passing without any notes regarding ethics. Appendix includes a recipe for fumigating a house with cyanide gas (!!).
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