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and the plasmodium has an extremely complicated lifecycle
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in both man and mosquito.
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And the involvement of the mosquito
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also is scientifically complicated;
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in other words,
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it was useful and important that Grassi was a naturalist,
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was well as a physician.
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Parasitology was scientifically interesting,
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and intellectually so.
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To study malariology, one needed to be a physician,
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but also an entomologist, a naturalist,
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and to have a knowledge of the basic sciences.