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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
The history of parasitology is a fascinating one, and parasites have been the subjects of some of the most exciting discoveries in the field of infectious diseases. We now know that many of the important parasites encountered today not only existed but were widespread in their distribution before written records began, and our early ancestors must have been aware of the presence of the largest and most common worms and of some of the diseases caused by parasites. The subsequent history of human parasitology revolves around early descriptions of a particular disease and the identification of the parasite causing the disease, not necessarily in this order; the elaboration of the life cycle; and, finally, the establishment of the causal relationship between the parasite and the disease. In this review, it has been possible only to touch on the major events and some of the personalities involved in these discoveries, but the history of parasitology has been well served in the scientific literature and the interested reader is referred to the appropriate sections in books that are concerned mainly with aspects of medicine, particularly tropical medicine, such as those by Ackernecht (2), Brothwell and Sandison (25), Bynum and Porter (35), Chernin (42), Cox (48), Kiple (137), Mack (171), Norman (204), Ranger and Slack (221), Ransford (222), and Scott (238). There are also a number of publications dedicated to the history of parasitology, including those by Cox (49), Foster (89), Garnham (95), Hoeppli (120, 121), and Warboys (270). The most comprehensive work on the history of any aspect of parasitology is A History of Human Helminthology (105), which contains over 800 pages of detailed accounts of all the discoveries in the field of human helminthology. The two-volume Tropical Medicine and Parasitology: Classical Investigations edited by Kean et al. (136) requires a special mention, since it is an invaluable source of information consisting of whole articles, excerpts, and translations of most of the important papers in the history of parasitology. Previous SectionNext Section Previous SectionNext Section Дата добавления: 2015-10-19 | Просмотры: 437 | Нарушение авторских прав |