Word: malariae
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...loose ends of his black string tie, which he always wears in a bow, flop about as he explains the case. "This man," he says in effect, "is in the early stages of paresis.* The paralysis has not advanced hopelessly. By injecting into his blood the germs of malaria or serum from the blood of people sick with malaria, we will stop the spread of the syphilis. The malaria toxins, in some way not yet conclusively proved, counteract the toxins of syphilitic spirochetes. We have patients so treated who for ten years now have been able to live and work...
...visitors know that the old doctor has been using fever-causing toxins 'to treat paralysis since 1887; that since 1919 his malaria method has been in wide...
...When he enters the lecture room the students salute him by standing. In a soft, kindly voice and with simple terms he explains that in paresis the spirochetes attack first the meninges (covering of the brain). Later they ulcerate the front lobes of the brain. Paralysis results. Attacks of malaria seem to cure the ulcers. A paretic patient can never be completely cured...
Health. In each county are medical units financed jointly by the states, the counties, the Rockefeller Foundation, the U. S. Public Health Service. The Red Cross furnishes medical supplies. So vigorously have these units worked that, save in a few counties, the flood-area people now have less typhoid, malaria, pellagra, etc., than in normal non-flood years...
...leaving a constant threat of new floods from even slight rises in the Mississippi. Some Arkansas farmers have already planted three crops, seen them all washed away, are now planting a fourth. Stagnant waters have formed tremendous swamps, mosquito-infested. There is fear of a large scale outbreak of malaria. Mr. Hoover has estimated that Red Cross funds will last till Nov. 1, with $3,000,000 left over. There seemed little prospect that the flood area, as a whole, would be in any way self-supporting by November or for some time after...