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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HEAVY. xv, 723pp, index, bibliography, 50 bw photographs & 650 line drawings, 20 distribution maps, endpaper maps. Original pictorial laminated boards. Ex library with unobtrusive stamps (including cancelled), remnants of bookplate, barcode, and usual impedimentia. Otherwise an excellent example. Comprehensice introduction to insects and other arthropods that affect human health. The emphasis is on systematic aspects of medical entomology ie diagnostic features and biology of each medically related group and how the important families, genera and species can most easily be identified. The chapter on each group reviews diseases concerned and provides an outline of vector control. While focused toward postgraduate tropical medicine the book is also designed to be of use to field entomologists, research workers and librarians in bio-medical institutions whose work is primarily concerned with insect-borne human diseases. Size: 4to.…