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

  • Ronald Ross
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1923
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    REFERENCES I. MALARIA AND MOSQUITOES 1. M. T. Varro (118-28 b.c.). Rerum Rusticarum, Lib. I. Says that in marshes there are animals which are too small to be seen but which enter the mouth and nostrils and cause troublesome diseases. 2. R. T. A. Palladius (4th century a.d.). De Re Rustica, Lib. I. Connects marshes with pestilence and inimical animals. 3. J. M. Lancisi. De Noxiis Paludum Effluviis, Eorumque Reme¬ dies, Roma 1717. Repeats the same conjectures, studies mosquitoes, and advocates drainage against malaria. 4. IL. Meckel. Alg. Zeitsch. f. Psychiatric, 1847. Discovers the malarial pigment. 5. D. L. Beauperthuy. Gaceta Official de Cumana, Venezuela, 23 May 1854. Conjectured that malaria might be produced by the poison of mosquitoes injected under the skin when they bite us. 6. A. Laveran. Bull. Acad, de Medecine, Paris, 23 Nov. 1880. Discovers the parasites of malaria. 7. P. Manson. Linnean Society 1878 and Pathological Society 1881. Describes partially the development of Filaria ban- crofti in certain mosquitoes. 8. C. Finlay. Anales de la Real Academia de Ciencias, 14 Aug. 1881. Conjectures that mosquitoes carry yellow fever by their bites from the sick to the healthy. 9. A. F. A. King. Insects and Disease—Mosquitoes and Malaria. Popular Science Monthly, New York, Sept. 1883. Conjectures that mosquitoes carry malaria from marshes to men and gives nineteen reasons for this supposition. 10. A. Laveran. Traite des Fievres Palustres. Doin, Paris, 1884. Conjectures (page 457) that mosquitoes may play the same role in malaria as in filariasis. 11. R. Ross. Fever with Intestinal Lesions : South Indian Branch, Br. Med. Assoc., 1892. Cases of Febricula with Abdominal Tenderness; Enteroseptic Fevers; a Study of Indian Fevers ; all in Indian Medical Gazette, 1892. Conjectures that malarial fevers, or at least many fevers, may be due to intestinal sepsis. 12. T. Smith and F. L. Kilbome. The Nature, Causation and Prevention of Texas or Southern Cattle Fever. Bur. of Animal Industry, Dep. of Agric. Bull. I., Washington, 1893.