Word: plasmodium
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...other investigators have been 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...
...Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), French military surgeon, discoverer of Plasmodium vivax, germ of tertian malaria...
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...