Malaria at Home and Abroad
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it summarises the author's long experience of malaria in India and in the tropics. The illustrations are mostly original and are particularly clear and well executed. Chapter I surveys the general life history of the malarial parasites and the mode of spread of malaria. Chapter II deals with the factors concerned in the spread of malaria: and brings out the important point that " even one infected
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