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The Man Who Conquered Malaria.
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A great benefactor of the haman, tine duties as medical officer in the raco lies sorely stricken at the In-military stations to which he was atitute which he founded at Putney Heath. It is Sir Ronald Ross, the medical scientist who first discover- ed-in popular phrase-the ageret of malaria.
Worked on Undaunted,
His brother officers of his own. standing thought him clever, but rather mad. His superiors were
His name is celebrated through out the world; his fame ia secure for all time. Yet I would suggesture that, whather mad or not, he that if some public exprosion of was troublesome and should be national appreciation wore toureyed kept in his place. Any excuse was to him now it would comfort him judged good enough to deny him the opportunities ho sought for the in his hour of trial.
more intensive prosecution of his researches.
Ross and his mosquitoes were a
Sir Ronald in his time has broken many a lance with officialdon. He has flung his challenges gallantly, sometimes perhaps a little reckless-familiar joke at a score of regi- ly, but never with a thought of permental messes. A Crimean veteran, senal ambition. Recognition there the chief medical officer of one dis. has been, for it could not be with,trict; judged his theories flat blas held, But it would rejoice thou-phemy and suggested that Head quarters should find occasion to re. sands if a graceful act of homage were paid to the genius of one who move him from the Indian Medical Service as being of unsound-and has deserved so well of his country:
impious mind. That he was also Malaria the World's. Scourge. a poet and a novelist added other
counts to the indictment.--
Nevertheless, he worked on un-
Malaria is endemib over one third
of the world's surface. It is one
of humanity's most terrible scour.daunted, and in conditions like
(August 0.)
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The physical debasement of the most degenerate tribes of Darkest Africa, the enfeeblement of vast native populations in India, which still pays annual toll to malaria in more than a million lives, the collapse of and virtual extinction of almost forgotten races in Central und South America, are directly tracelhio to malaria,
Need more be said to justify tho assertion that a supreme discovery was made by Burgeon-Major Ross; of the Indian Medical Service, when on August 21, 1807, after years of detective labour, he found the part- site of malaria in the stomach of an Anopheles mosquito.
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"Polly of the
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occasional stegomyia rovenged herself on me for the death of her friends. The scrows of my microscope were rested with sweat from my fore- head and hands and its last re maining exo-piece was cracked."
花盒
The Great Discovery,
Ross had dissected hundreds of
In the Teeth of Official Apathy. mosquitoes, of all species, in the A French army surgeon, Lave hope that at last he would find the ran. observing certain conical para parasito-carrier. Then, one broil sites, called Plasmodia, in the ing afternoon, his head aching with blood corpuscles of a malaria the heat and long application to patient, had catablished that his microscope, he came to his last malaria was due to a parasite and specimen. The moment of reward not to miasma or cfluvium, as had arrived. medical science had believed for centuries. Patrick Manson had sus pected mosquitoes of conveying this parasite to drinking-water. It was Ross who detected the actual |apuciea¬of¬mosquito-which-convey, ed the parasito direct to the blood. of the human victim.
Reas has told his own story in pages charged with enthusiastic...... even religious zeal for humanity, unique in the annals of medical re soarch.
"The dissection was excellent. and I went carefully through the tissues now so familiar to me, searching every mieron with the same passion and care as one would search gome vast ruined -palage-for-a-little-hidden trea sure. Nothing. No, these new mosquitoes also were going to bo a failure; there was something wrong with the theory;
But the stomach tissues still remained to be examined-lying He had to work in the teeth of there, empty, flaccid, before mo official, apathy, and discouragement *on the glass slide a great white which at times amounted to perse expanse of cells like a large court- cution. He had to combine hia.re yard of flagstones, each one of search work with his ordinary ropretinsed at foot of nant column.)
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which must be scrutinised, half an hour's labour at loast.
"I was tired and what was the use I must have examined the stomach of a thousand mosquitoes by this time.
!
"But the Angel of Fate fortu nately laid his hand on my head, and I had scarcely commenced the search again when I saw a clear and almost perfectly. circular Joutline before me' of about twelve
microns in diameter. The outline- was much too sharp, the cell too small to be an ordinary stomach cell of a mosquito. I looked little further. Here was another and another exactly similar cell."- The afternoon kopt very hot and overcast. Iloss recalls opening the
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