Volume 1

The prevention of malaria / by Ronald Ross ; with contributions by L.O. Howard [and others].

  • Ronald Ross
Date:
1910
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Credit: The prevention of malaria / by Ronald Ross ; with contributions by L.O. Howard [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    malaria, by means of certain Anophelines [1902]. N. Jancso infected ten out of fifteen persons at Kolozsvar in Hungary in 1904 by means of A. maculipennis (section 17). My work on the Proteosoma of birds has been confirmed by Koch [1899], C. Daniels [1899], B. Grassi [1900], R. Ruge [1901], Ed. and Et. Sergent [1907], R. O. Neumann [1908]. The mosquito cycle of the human parasites has been further worked upon by Fernside [1901], Stephens and Christophers [1899-1903], Schiiffner [1902], Jancso [1904], Schaudinn and others. Reviewing this history we shall see that the great stream of research on malaria, descending to us through more than two thousand years, is composed of three main tributaries finally mingled together. One tributary rises in the work of the ancients on the different clinical forms, and consists of the discovery of the cinchona bark ; the work of Torti (1753) ; the discovery of the plasmodin by Meckel (1847); °f the parasites by Laveran (1880); and of the confirmations and extensions of Golgi, Danilewsky and many others. Another tributary consists of the ancient observations con¬ necting the disease with marshes ; the speculations of Varro, Columella, Lancisi, Beauperthuy, King, Laveran, Koch and Manson ; and the valuable researches of those who tried to find the organism in marshes. The third tributary consists of the early work on para¬ sites; the discovery of metaxeny by Abildgaard (1790), Steenstrup (1842), and Kiichenmeister (1851); the discoveries of Leukart, Fedschenko (1858), Melnikoff (1868), Manson (1877), regarding certain worms; that of Smith and Kilborne (1889) regarding Piroplasma; of Bruce on trypanosomes my work on human and avian malaria (1895-1899); and the confirmations and extensions which followed. 7. Recent History of Prevention.—It is open to question whether the extensive drainage works of the ancients had
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