How to live in tropical Africa : a guide to tropical hygiene and sanitation the malaria problem the cause, prevention, and cure of malarial fever / by J. Murray, M.D. ; maps and climatological memoranda by E.G. Ravenstein ; edited by Leo Weinthal.

  • Murray, John
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[1912]
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Credit: How to live in tropical Africa : a guide to tropical hygiene and sanitation the malaria problem the cause, prevention, and cure of malarial fever / by J. Murray, M.D. ; maps and climatological memoranda by E.G. Ravenstein ; edited by Leo Weinthal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER X. The Malarial Problem—continued. PART I.—Latent Malaria. Discovery by Koch and Others of Human “Reservoirs.” Segregation and Screening of the Infected. PART II.—Pseudo-Malaria. PART III.—The Heat-Regulating Mechanism of the Body. Sanitary Episode of Stanley’s Relief Expedition. The Territorial Army of the Body in Peace and War-Time. Professor Koch’s Discoveries. The world is much indebted to Professor Ivoch. In 1882 he isolated the tubercle bacillus, the cause of consumption. In 1884 he discovered the cholera spirillum, or comma bacillus, which causes cholera. Discovery of Human Reservoirs or Foci of Malaria. Somewhat later, being sent to Africa by the German Government, he made another great discovery, that 80 to 90 per cent, of native children, most of whom were apparently in good health, were carrying malarial germs in their blood. In such children the crescent parasite predominated, hut all varieties of parasites were represented.
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