Memoirs : with a full account of the great malaria problem and its solution / by Ronald Ross.

  • Ronald Ross
Date:
1923
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Credit: Memoirs : with a full account of the great malaria problem and its solution / by Ronald Ross. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    years ago, namely, “ Otho,” 44 The Triumph,” 44 Evil,” 44 The Marsh ” (pages 96), and 44 The Roy’s Dream, ” containing some lyrics taken from Edgar (page 45)—the first two had already appeared in The Nation. On 17 May 1920 he published The Revels of Or sera [122], the romance written by me in 1894-5 frpm my drama, The Deformed Transformed. A fierce critic said of Sir Harry Johnston and myself that we ought to be ashamed of ourselves for trying to win literary fame after having acquired some of that article in other fields ; it did not occur to the poor man that, with me at least, literature was the first love, and that my romance had been written a quarter of a century previously. When Peter Paul Rubens was Ambassador in England, an English courtier found him seated at his easel. 44 So His Excellency the Ambassador plays at being a painter,” exclaimed the courtier. 44 No,” replied Rubens, 44 His Excellency the painter plays at being an Ambas¬ sador.” Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind, Art the Integral Calculus ; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined. No one can be blamed for trying to combine them. On 8 February 1916 my daughter Dorothy was married to Lieut.-Colonel James William Langstaff, D.S.O., R.A.M.C. ; and on 18 September 1917 my daughter Sylvia to Captain James Blumer, then of the Durham Light Infantry, now of Darlington. Roth marriages were held at St. George’s Church, Hanover Square ; and at the latter one several pieces of music, composed by me forty years previously, when I was a student’ were beautifully played by the organist. My son, Charles Claye, went to Magdalen College, Oxford, in May 1921. In July 1908 I had entered the Territorial Force as Major in its Medical Service, and in November 1913 was promoted to Lieut.-Colonel in the same. From 21 December 1914 I was appointed, with that rank, Consulting Physician in Tropical Diseases to the hospitals for Indian troops in England ; and in July 1915 was sent to Alexandria, with Captain D. Thomson as my staff officer, for similar work in connection with the terrible outbreak of dysentery in the Dardanelles ; but, when this ceased, was allowed to relinquish the post, after a short visit to Salonika, and to return to England (30 November 1915). In 1916 severe malaria appeared among the troops in Salonika, and our great chief, General Sir Alfred Keogh, started special hospitals and researches in all the eight British Com¬ mands to deal with the invalids, and appointed me Consultant in Malaria to the War Office (where I was given a room later),