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LIST
OF
PLATES
LIST
OF TEXT
FIGURES
EDITORIAL
FOREWORD
PREFACE
AND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1. What is a Parasitic Animal?
2. The Kinds of Parasitic Animals
3. The Lone Hands
4. The Lone Hands (continued)
b. Animals Twice Parasitic in One Lie
6. Animals Twice Parasitic in One Life (con-
tkUed)
7. Animals Parasitic Three or More Times in
One Lie
8. The Malarial Parasites
9. The Human Trypanosomes
10. The Skin as a Home or a Source of Food
11. Gain and Loss for the Parasite
-,
1% Host versus Parasite. Control of Parasitic
Infections. Why Worry about Pxasitic
Animals?
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FURTHER
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List of Plates
~(a) I%scio& hqpatzix, the common liver fluke of sheep, cattle,
man, etc. An example of a hermaphrodite Trematode
(6) Tania se
the beef tapeworm of man. An example of
a Cestode worm
e(a) Head of Tarnid saghtata, the beef tapeworm of man,
showing the four suckers
(6) Tf?ichh
tricbra,
a whipworm. An example of a round-
worm (Nematoda)
S(a) Enterobaks rmmiidd,
the human threadworm (seat-
worm). Adult females. Roundworms (Nematoda)
(b) Human Hookworms. LcJt, two adult males; right, two adult
females. Roundworms (Nematoda)
4(a) Ascar& bbricoidks,
the large roundworm (Nematoda)
parasitic in man and the pig. Adults blocking up the
piece of the small intestine shown
(6) Larva of the trichina worm, %2h&aeZL~
qWr&s, coiled in its
cyst in the muscle of its host
5(u) The human head louse, Pe&ultu
humanus var. capz’tib, a
wingless insect adapted for life on the skin of its host
(6) Egg (nit) of the human head louse, attached to a human
haii
6
The Cat-Flea,
