Volume 32, Number 4—April 2026
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Giovanni Battista Grassi and Malaria
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Figure. The life cycle of the malaria parasite, from Giovanni Battista Grassi’s Studies of a Zoologist on Malaria. Drawn with a camera lucida directly at the microscope, the figures capture with extraordinary precision the life cycle of the malaria parasite. Source: Wellcome Collection, London, UK (https://wellcomecollection.org/works/baxa2uau).
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