Word: malariae
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...lavish freak of Nature, Sardinia has been endowed with coastal lowlands recalling Holland, dense forests, a few crags of grandeur, rich vine and olive lands, and extensive malarial swamps. To these last the people have adapted their constitutions through long generations, and are now virtually immune to malaria...
Upon arrival in Monrovia the capital of the republic, medical investigations were immediately entered upon. Eighty six per cent of the children were found to be suffering from the effects of malaria, and, although the percentage decreased as they went inland, it was still found to be over 25 per cent. An incipient epidemic of smallpox in a small village was stopped by medical members of the expedition by isolation of the cases...
...only other specific drug against a disease is quinine for malaria...
...doctor-professor is Julius Wagner von Jauregg, who last week received the 1927 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his malaria treatment of paresis...
...Starting from his discoveries, doctors are experimenting with malaria to treat tuberculosis. In the Leipzig Zeitschrift fur Tuberkulose, O. Weselko writes that the treatment is lasting. The body is made able to resist the tuberculosis germs. But in the London Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, M. Freiman writes that in districts where malaria is prevalent, patients apparently free from tuberculosis, often after they had contracted malaria, suddenly showed acute signs of tuberculosis. On the other hand, consumptives with malaria grew worse and often died...