Word: malariae
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Announcements were made from Copenhagen and Washington of remarkable improvement in cases of general paresis (a degenerative disease of the brain, usually fatal, and caused by syphilis in the central nervous system) by the introduction of Plasmodium vivax, the germ of tertian malaria. Authorities in a Danish insane asylum have been experimenting with the method for five years and claim to have obtained absolute cures...
...family advisor is more a remnant of the days when the efficacy of herbs was thought to lie in the incantations breathed over them by the "medicine man" and when exposure to the moon often brought a deathly sickness. It was the spirit of the French scientist which drove malaria out of Cuba, and which acting through the men trained in the medical schools may yet discover the cause of sleeping sickness and combat the plague in the East which is now wining out whole towns of India. Dr. Thayer, himself a member of the French Academy and actively engaged...
...made martyrs of many of its students. The whole history of progress is marked by similar sacrifices, the acts of heroes most of whom have suffered in obscurity and silence, and who have usually been neglected in the records of heroism. The story of the voluntary victims to malaria, who allowed the disease to run its course with them so that a serum could be found and the tropics made safe for white men, was one of the first to become widely known. But there have been many like it--surgeons who have experimented on their own bodies, chemists...
...Shinier in Sanitary Engineering: Mr. E. R. Clarkson on "The mosquito and Malaria Problem in Arkansas Pierce...
...Theobald Smith was the first one to prove that an infectious disease can be transmitted by an insect. After working with Texas fever, a disease of cattle resembling malaria, he demonstrated that this infection is transmitted from one animal to the next by means of a tick. This discovery, made in 1893, opened up the entire field of insect-borne diseases and soon afterwards Ross discovered that human malaria is transmitted by the mosquito, and Reed, Carrol, and the Army Medical Commission demonstrated that yellow fever is transmitted also by a mosquito. Since then it has been shown that plaque...