Word: malariae
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...mighty plantations of U. S. Rubberman Harvey Firestone (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). One such ambitious colonizer was Thomas B. Wells, 26, a Yale graduate. With his young wife he recently went out to what seemed a promising job on one of the Firestone plantations. There he contracted malaria. Prudent, he and his wife left Liberia, speeded home. Last week they were crossing the Atlantic aboard the French Line's majestic Ile de France...
...reason why quinine is important is that it is a specific against malaria. It is useful also as a tonic, its bitterness causing the secretion of saliva and gastric juices. When quinine gets into the blood it causes beneficent sweating. It is a bactericide also, slightly stronger than the same strength of carbolic acid, yet not exceptionally powerful. Bacteria are low-grade vegetable organisms. The thing which causes malaria is animal?plasmodium malariae?introduced into the human blood stream by a breed of mosquito. Quinine in the blood kills the plasmodium in the blood...
...amphitheatre of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Medical Centre, Manhattan, a little old Dutchman, Professor C. W. Ariens Kappers, got up to talk. He began immediately to use the names of mysterious and exotic sicknesses-African Sleeping Sickness and how it had been cured by Bayer, malaria injections and how they helped general paralysis (TIME, April 2. June 4). For several minutes Professor Kappers stressed the past success of quiet cures wrought in maniacs and melancholies by somnifen injections over a period of 14 days. Somnifen produces a hypnotic sleep in which there is loss of consciousness...
Malarial fever has been used for many years in the U. S. and Europe in an attempt to cure general paresis. Many of the paretics inoculated with malaria have improved, but since there are occasional spontaneous but temporary improvements in this disease, it is still a little early to tell just what part the malaria has played. The outlook seems most favorable however...
However, a party of explorers from the American Museum of Natural History, who were back in Manhattan last week pallid from malaria, recently reached the top by following a ledge* that ran thinly up Mt. Roraima from the Brazilian side. Atop Mt. Roraima they found themselves on a remarkably flat tableland, 12 miles square, something like the flat land of Arizona through which the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River cuts...