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Antrycide was developed by two young chemists, Drs. D. Garnet Davey, 36, and 39-year-old Francis Henry Swinden Curd (who was killed in a railway accident last November). In 1944 they were working on Paludrine, a drug for malaria. One of the compounds they tested proved slightly effective against trypanosomiasis. Three more years of work produced a related drug that did the job, with complete success on mice...
...that it was. He then went on to say: "You must put off your . . . knowledge . . . you must live in my world . . . if I can't inhabit yours." To make sure, he went to stay a few days with Russell in Cambridge, rushed away in a state of "melancholic malaria." "I wish you would swear a sort of allegiance with me," he said. ". . . I have been much too Christian . . . I must drop all about God . . . You must drop all your democracy . . . There must be an aristocracy . . . a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents & democracies...
...first confused days, the military facts of the invasion had been wildly exaggerated. Actually, the invading force numbered scarcely 300, including 100 tattered, malaria-ridden Nicaraguans. They had occupied the border village of La Cruz, then sat down to wait for the internal uprising that never came...
Robert was not enthusiastic. He explains: "I was just out of service, still in my uniform. I had four months leave and I wanted to use it. I was full of malaria and so nervous I was ready to bawl if anyone looked at me. I agreed to conduct the Christmas service but I didn't want to stay. I wanted no part of society people who were looking for someone to say sweet things to them on Sunday. I know now that I misjudged them, but at that time I didn't think they meant business-that...
Despite Dr. Müller's surprise, DDT's place in preventive medicine is secure. It kills the mosquitoes that carry malaria, the flies that carry cholera, the lice that carry typhus, the fleas that carry the plague, the sand flies that carry kalaazar and other tropical diseases. Because of DDT, the tropics are becoming safer places to live; because of it typhus was no serious threat in World...