Word: malariae
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Therefore, is it possible that quinine, seeping into the blood of the fetus when a pregnant woman with malaria doses herself, is responsible for the major part of the congenital deafness...
...collate all the Saint's recorded symptoms and from them make a diagnosis of what troubled the holy man. Dr. Edward Frederick Hartung of Manhattan concludes that St. Francis suffered grievously from an eye infection contracted in Egypt and at the age of 45 died of malignant malaria contracted in swampy Italy. Dr. Hartung's data appeared last week in the Annals of Medical History...
Recognizing the complications of St. Francis' malaria, however, fills Historian Hartung with greater pride. The malaria was the quartan type and gave the Saint a chill every four days during the last twelve years of his life. No doctor attempted to treat this disease. St. Francis' stomach, spleen and liver were infected, causing him great anguish. He developed those other signs of malignant malaria, dropsy and hemorrhages...
...There is one complication of quartan malaria not seen frequently today, but occasionally met with in the past before the advent of adequate treatment. That is purpura [purplish hemorrhage of blood into the skin]. We know that purpura occurs as a complication of malaria, that it is usually distributed symmetrically, that its usual location is on the hands and feet, and that it appears as ovoid, bluish, at times slightly elevated spots...
...second half of each year malaria is rife in the South. Quinine is the specific drug which victims of malaria take to combat that distressing disease. And quinine has a special, destructive effect on the auditory nerves...