Tropical hygiene for Anglo-Indians and Indians / by Sir Pardey Lukis and R. J. Blackham.

  • Lukis, C. P. (Charles Pardey), 1857-1917.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Tropical hygiene for Anglo-Indians and Indians / by Sir Pardey Lukis and R. J. Blackham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    Frontispiece, Diagram showing the two ways in which the malaria parasite viultiplies,— B shows the asexual cycle in the blood-corpuscles of man. On the left side are shown crescents (at C) being sucked by a mosquito These develop 'nto rnale and female (at M) in the mosquito's stomach (shaded black). The fertilised female encysts on the stomach wall, and from her burst forth a family of young oarasites (at S) which settle in the mosquito's salivary gland (shown by tde laree arrow). If the mosquito now bites someone else these young parasites iniected with the saliva, infect the blood-corpuscles of the person bitten. Here thev grow, and while some pursue the cycle B. some may become crescen s and be sucked UD by another mosquito, to go through the sexual cycle in its body -(From Indian Insect Life by kind permission of Mr. Maxwell Lefroy).