Word: malariae
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...healing art was not easy. He claims he finally won his popularity by luck on several cases. He predicted that a certain man would die of tuberculosis in a year and one year later, to the day, he died. One native sowbwa (chief) was already getting well of malaria (though he did not know it) when the doctor came. Dr. Seagrave got "the credit for a marvelous cure...
Building the Road. Until the war came, Seagrave's worst worry was malaria. Nearly as worrisome were the narrow, precipice-hugging, sandy or muddy roads, which hampered his movements when he wanted to visit an outpost clinic. He was glad to see the building of the Burma Road, but that was heartbreaking too. "Even on that short stretch of road there must have been 10,000 coolies at work. The hillsides were black with them: Chinese, Shans, Kachins. Huge goiters hampered their work. Dozens were lying by the road shaking with fever. In the rockiest parts coolies were tediously...
...Seagrave slept without a mosquito net. He has not been free of malaria since. When the bombing of Rangoon began and the American women and children were ordered out of Burma, Mrs. Seagrave reluctantly agreed to go (she had malaria...
Patients are assigned to wards according to their injuries: there are orthopedic wards, head and spine wards, malaria, abdominal wound and dysentery wards. At his ward a patient is undressed, put in pajamas. His clothes, except for his shoes, helmet and gas mask, are stored away in a labeled bag. After that, he is X-rayed to find whatever metal he is carrying inside him, or the extent of his hurt. Then he is given what dressings and surgery he needs. As soon as a patient's condition warrants moving, he is sent to a hospital farther...
...malaria killed 1,500,000 Indians; cholera killed nearly 100,000 (a death rate of 29.3 per 100,000 compared with a Philippine rate of zero to .01); smallpox killed about 50,000 (a rate of 16.2 per 100,000 compared with zero for The Netherlands Indies and the Philippines). Tuberculosis is spreading...