Malaria according to the new researches / by Angelo Celli.

  • Angelo Celli
Date:
1900
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Credit: Malaria according to the new researches / by Angelo Celli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    In the same year (1896) Mendini, in his 'Guida Igienica di Eoma,' ^ supported the hypothesis of the inoculation of malaria by mosquitoes ; and in 1897 Coronado of Havana gave great importance to these arthropoda in the propagation of malaria. Up to then, however, only indirect arguments were forthcoming. The direct experimental joroof was given only recently with the above-mentioned studies of Eoss on the malaria of birds, and with the studies made in the Santo Sj)irito Hospital by Grassi, Bastianelli, and Bignami on the malaria of man. For some time Bignami caused healthy men to be bitten by mosquitoes captured in malarious places ; these were afterwards found to be of the o-enus Culex. But he did not succeed in reproducing the fever. Then came Grassi, who suggested using the Anopheles, and by their agency malarial fever of the ^stivo-autumnal type was exjDerimentally repro- duced for the first time in man, and subsequently the spring tertian was also reproduced by the same means. The objection that these experiments prove nothing in a positive way, inasmuch as at Eome, and in the Santo Spirito Hospital, malaria could be contracted spontaneously, falls to the ground before the mildest criticism. The experiments have always been made on persons who for years have been ^ This book has been translated and edited by me, with the title of Dr. Mendini's Hygienic Guide to Borne. (The Scientific Press, London, 1897.)—[Translator.]
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