Show why a bite hurt hamboldt who was a firm believer in the poisonous nature of the mosquito bite considered the sucking out of the poison to be the explanation of the pain come wounds he affirmed that if the insect were allowed to suck to satiety no swelling tools place and no pain was left behind and considered that when pain was produced it resulted from the hasty interruption of the process of sucking since then thelast infused poison would not be able to be withdrawn he experimented with one of the most virulent species allowing it gently to bettle on the back of his hand and reports of it 1 I observed that the pain though violent in the beginning diminishes in proportion aa the insect continues to suck and ceases altogether when it voluntarily flies away knowledge |