Word: malariae
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...Autumn of 1921 Dr. Kleine went to Africa with a compound. He set up a camp of wooden huts in the interior of Rhodesia. In the Autumn of 1922 Dr. Kleine's party crossed into Belgian Congo. Finally the cure was "proved." Sleeping sickness is a kind of malaria. The remedy-"Bayer 205"-is first dissolved in water, then injected...
...Violet, too, began to wither and pine. Then Henry fell ill and refused to go to the hospital ? Violet broke under the strain and had to be taken off for an operation ? and, at the worst possible moment, Joe returned, in the clutches of acute malaria. Elsie had to hide him in her room and nurse both him and Henry, without Henry's finding out the situation ? poor Elsie! Poor Henry and Violet, too ? for Violet proved too insufficiently nourished to rally after the operation and Henry died the next morning in front of his beloved...
...working on pneumonia remedies, mostly of a serological nature. Dr. Tomarkin's cure merits favorable consideration, at least, from the fact that it is vouched for by Professor Ettore Marchiafava, one of the most respected of Italian medical scientists, famous for his work on plasmodium, the germ of malaria...
...fact that cancer is not apparently contagious, that no microbe has been isolated, need not negate Dr. Smith's theory. The parasites of syphilis, yellow fever, leprosy and many other diseases have been isolated only within very recent years. Some diseases, like malaria, are not transmitted directly from person to person, but their parasites must spend some time in the body of an-other animal host...
...religion of the patient. Areas of dullness are distinguished for Catholics, Methodists, Seventh Day Adventists, Theosophists, Protestants and Jews! The diagnoses seem to be restricted in number, but include several serious microbic diseases ? tuberculosis, typhoid, acquired or congenital "diminished resistance" (euphemistic for syphilis), carcinoma (cancer), sarcoma (tumor), gonorrhea, malaria, influenza, colon septicaemia, streptococcus and staphylococcus infections. Most patients have traces of several of these, and the majority are found to have some form of syphilis. Autographs of Samuel Johnson, Poe, Longfellow, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys and Bret Harte have been tested by Dr. Abrams, revealing that all of them...