Word: malariae
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...train pounded into Ohio, and the rolling country with the sun glinting on the stacked bales of hay reminded the marines of Australia. They had loved Australia, even though most of the time they were recuperating from malaria. "I'll never forget the head night nurse in the Adelaide Hospital...
Point of No Return. Since mid-1942, when the Raj last imprisoned the Mahatma, both he and his political instrument, the All-India National Congress, had declined in power. Malaria, amoebic dysentery, low blood pressure, hookworm, anemia, weak heart & kidneys had sapped his body. His wife had died. All the leading members of the Congress Working Committee had been jailed since they voted an ultimatum to Great Britain to leave India to the Indians immediately or face mass civil disobedience (Gandhi's famed, fateful "Quit India" resolution...
Progress in Military Medicine. Lieut. Colonel Francis Raymond Dieuaide's paper on malaria was censored for security reasons. A hint of what Colonel Dieuade had to say was given by Brigadier General Hugh Jackson Morgan, who presided at the meeting. He read an A.P. dispatch to the effect that malaria among U.S. troops in New Guine? has been cut 95% in the past year...
...complete isolation of quinine, which was formally announced last month by the Harold Company, was accomplished by two 37-year-old Harvard scientists, Robert B. Woodward and William E. Doering. In less than 14 months, they ended a hundred year old search for a method of producing the anti-malaria medicine synthetically. Commercial output, however, is still uncertain...
Censorship was lifted last week from one of the great scientific discoveries of World War II. It is an insecticide called DDT. DDT stopped a typhus epidemic in Naples. It promises to wipe out the mosquito and malaria, to liquidate the household fly, cockroach and bedbug, to control some of the most damaging insects that prey on the world's crops. Lieut. Colonel A. L. Ahnfeldt, of the U.S. Surgeon General's office, exclaimed last week: "DDT will be to preventive medicine what Lister's discovery of antiseptics was to surgery...