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...nightmares with living and decomposing bodies together in a gloomy and dripping atmosphere which would have been depressing by itself. We carried surgical dressings and we did what we could by binding up the appalling ulcers which most of these men have acquired as a result of leech bites, insect bites...
...summer, the two Army doctors verified the belief that the disease may exist clinically in the U.S. without positive laboratory identification. Epidemic encephalitis, erroneously called "sleeping sickness," is not related to the curse of Africa but it has many of the same symptoms and apparently shares the same animal-insect-man cycle...
...deliver all the equipment that invasion forces may require-entrenching tools, materials for emergency airfields, medicines for insect bites...
...also another way of saying that the power of the termite attack is greater than the power of the human defense. No important new anti-termite measures (present cost: some $7,000,000 a year) can be devised until man learns more about his insect enemy. Meanwhile the ingenious termites are also learning how to circumvent...
...insects, as Naturalist Julian Huxley explains, microscopic air tubes carry oxygen "directly to and from the tissues instead of using dual mechanisms of lungs and blood stream. Laws of gaseous diffusion are such that [this system] is extremely efficient for very small animals, but becomes rapidly less efficient with increase of size, until it ceases to be of use at a bulk below that of a house mouse. [So] no insect has become moderately large by vertebrate standards or moderately intelligent." If the termite had a proper trachea, man might never have appeared on earth...