Busvine's introductory account of the evolutionary histories of
insects and mites leads on to a fascinating study of human
reactions to ectoparasites. It shows how the extent of man's
curiosity about them and references to their prevalence provide a
continuous commentary both on the history of biological science
from Aristotle to the present day and on the modes and manners of
ages past. Subjects of ribald verse, quack medicine and morbid
imagination as well as literary symbols of piety, love and human
insignificance, this is also the history of how medicine discovered
that ectoparasites acted as transmitters for epidemic diseases.
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