Word: malariae
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...Ronald Ross (1857-), English, Colonel in British Army, expert in tropical medicine, discoverer of transmission of the malaria parasite by the Anopheles mosquito...
...sanitary war against the mosquito and the housefly knows no armistice. While the Anopheles and Aedes aegypti, carriers of malaria and yellow fever germs, respectively, are not indigenous to the Northern States, nevertheless the common Culex is a menace to health and comfort...
Health. The League of Nations' Health Committee concluded its sixth session at Paris. The following business was discussed: plan for setting up a permanent health organization, investigation of cancer mortality, epidemilogical intelligence service, plans for fighting malaria on an international scale, Dutch plan to simplify port sanitary regulations, convention for sanitary control of inland waterways...
Paresis, or general paralysis of the insane, is a hitherto incurable brain disease caused by the penetration of Spirochaeta pallida, the germ of syphilis, to the higher nerve centers, and has been the object of attack by many neurologists without marked success (TIME, April 28). Malaria germs have recently been used to combat it. Since 1919, 42 advanced cases were treated with tryparsamide, 21 of which are now discharged and restored to useful work, and four more have shown great improvement. Whether the cures are permanent remains to be seen...
...William A. White, well-known American psychoanalyst, and superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the government institution for mental diseases, under whose care the Washington experiments have been made, is less sanguine, but believes that there is considerable hope from the malaria treatment...