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Arthropods and Human Skin (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Arthropods and Human Skin (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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To the entomologist all insects have six legs; the layman tends to
use the term "insect" to include the eight-legged spiders and
mites. All these creatures are correctly classified as arthropods.
Many thousands of the hundreds of thousands of recognised species
of arthropods are found in the human environment-domestic,
occupational and rec reational. Those species which are obligate
parasites of man, the human scabies mite and the head and body
lice, produce familiar clinical syndromes. They remain important in
medical practice and have been the subject of a great deal of
recent research. This is beginning to throw much light on the
immunological mechanisms which largely determine the reactions of
the host. Dr. Alexander has provided a detailed survey of this
work. The wasps, bees, ants and other Hymenoptera which may sting
man in self-defence can cause painful, even fatal reactions. The
recent work on this important subject has also been thoroughly
reviewed. Every dermatologist of experience will admit that he sees
many patients in whom he makes a diagnosis of "insect bites," if he
has the confidence to do so, or of "papular urticaria" or "prurigo"
when he lacks such confidence, mainly because he is at a loss to
know which arthropod is likely to be implicated. In his survey of
the enormous literature in the entomological, public health and
dermatology journals Dr. Alexander has provided an invaluable guide
in which the solutions to these clinical mysteries can be sought."
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