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Because a Spaniard in Peru discovered just 300 years ago that crude quinine cured malaria, most devastating of diseases the world over,** a small group of learned botanists and pharmacologists met in St. Louis last week to celebrate...
...vast amount of knowledge has accumulated about malaria. The Anopheline mosquito bites a person and injects the malaria organism, a protozoon about one-fifth the size of a red blood cell. The protozoon gets into a red cell where it grows and reproduces (by subdivision) until it literally bursts its host. Its offspring invades other cells. While the protozoa are in their reproductive stage, the typical chills & fever of malaria develop. Quinine is a poison for malaria organisms. It kills them while they are in the blood cells (except when they are reproducing). Thus quinine is a specific antidote...
Peruvian Indians did not know the pharmacology of quinine. But they did know that the bark of a certain tree, from which quinine is derived, cured their malaria. They told their lore to a friendly magistrate, Juan Lopez Canizares, when in 1630 he developed the disease. He passed the information to Countess of Chinchon, wife of Peru's then viceroy, when she fell victim. It was after her that the cinchona tree and its quinine derivatives was named...
...Where the White House now stands was once called "foggy bottom," a malaria-infested swamp. At President Hoover's request, the Senate last week voted him $60,000 to rid the vicinity of mosquitoes...
What were the Good Queen's thoughts? She said nothing, quietly motored home. Soon cables told that Edward of Wales had shaken off the malaria in record time, was again, last weekend, hot after bigger beasts...