Paul Chester Beaver (1905-1993)

Abstract

, but his retirement was in name only for he continue to work in his office and laboratory until a few months before his death. He served Tulane for more than 45 years.Dr. Beaver' interests and experience in parasitology and tropical medicine were broader than most, if not all his contemporaries. He was noted for his work in amebiasis, biology and control of "soil-transmitted" helmints, quantification of infections with intestinal helminths, visceral and cutaneous larva migrans, filariasis, tropical eosinophilia, ocult helminthiasis and the diagnosis of parasites in tissues. These studies lead to the description of the visceral larva migrans syndrome and the identification of the larvae of Toxocara canis as its primary cause. This contribution as well as the widely known two text books he coauthored, Clinical Parasitology and Animals Agents and