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...these mass tests are successful, Fieser's drug may be a major solution of the malaria problem. Clinical tests so far have indicated that the drug not only gives immediate relief, but has curative powers...
During World War II synthetic derivatives of the chemical lapachol were successfully tested on animals infected with malaria at a U.S. government laboratory in Memphis. The attempt to use these chemicals to combat malaria in humans failed. The failure was attributed to metabolic oxidation which deactivated the chemicals...
India will be an excellent testing ground for the new drug since there are 75,000,000 cases of malaria a year in that country. The Malaria Institute of India at Delhi and the School of Tropical Medicine in Calcutta are cooperating with Fieser in the tests...
Hatch spent 18 years in Martandam. The villagers soon nicknamed him "Double-Your-Money" Hatch. They learned to breed the best poultry in India, instead of the semi-wild jungle fowl that laid an egg every two weeks. They learned to build roads, how to control malaria and cholera, weave baskets, rugs and rope. Instead of their sticky, grimy jaggery (unrefined sugar candy), Hatch taught them to make clean palmyra sugar to be sold at double the price of jaggery. He introduced scientific beekeeping, revived the art of kuftgari (working designs on iron and silver). At the same time...
Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists are not always close friends. But in the Chinese city of Wuchow, Dr. William L. Wallace, Baptist medical missionary and superintendent of Wuchow's Stout Memorial Hospital, was for 15 years on the best of terms with the Maryknoll priests and sisters whose malaria, skin ulcers and other illnesses he treated. Even during the war years, Dr. Wallace stayed in China and kept on with his work, which Maryknoll's Father Thomas Brack last week called "a vocation of sacrifice and love...