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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1800.

ROUND THE GLOBE.

Why Grow Old?

THE MOSQUITO-MALARIA THEORY.

The British Medical Journal of 20th A foreign scientist who has given many treatments on these lines regards prematuro Supt. containe a paper by De Patrio's old ego as chiefly due to inheritance, especiManson, in which he gives fall details of ally from hysterical parents. Its sign are the experiment previously noticed in wäich melancholy and hesitation, sleeplessness, his son, Mr P. Thurburn Manson (of Gay's forgetfulness, distaste for exertion, continual College was infected by the malacial

the binok side of things, and brooding on uiter selfinances. The last-named symom, nusquitoes from Italy. The experiment we should say, in characteristic of every age carried on by redio man in this Campagu and ountry. The worst cason he has found of Reise is atau referted to, and the beat yield to some extent to his troutmout, and means of sleeting, preserving and forward- in most cases he obtained extraordinary vo auita-which are not out in this new numbering no-quitoes to London aro describod of the Royal Magazine.

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Ale ani at the sama timas readily compre.Surgeon Dentist, handed by laymen, was required.

Grassi in conjunction with Bignami bad

Late I cannot help being struck by the fact, succeeded in conveying soalana by mesquiżo these experimesiters took Although

to oxcinilo fallacy, the fact that every daro to writes a contributor to the Sketch, that the e China War has absolutely heen of no use to the experiments were made in Rane, itself these small traders. Not a single Disp of fever repate and in the middle of a highly- prating Empresa or Dragen, or even afslarial district, lind an indoubted influence Pada, have I seen, and Admiral Seymour is preventing due appreciation by the public jud General Gaseles might never have of the conclusive nature of their work. Fur existal, es for a buttons are concerned, thermore, things occurring at a distance and in s strange land do not appeal so strongly But hurttom have had their day. We see a few now and then tu pcopin's hats, but as do things-hoppning in our midst. 16 the trays-fall of them have long since dis- ccurred to me, there are, that if I repeated

rai and Bigram'esperintents in a more HOTEL is situated in a quiet

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t'if I fed appeared.

drastic and crucial meiner,

destory-red maquitos on a malarial tient want couity and subsequent ly carried the masquites to the centre of haltby individual from from any suspicion of being malarial, and if this individual within a short period of being bitten de velopel matrial fever and showed in his bed the characteristic pale, the vem, clusion that alatis is evayed by the Lo quite wohl evident te very understand. ding and could not possibly be evaded.

Should Missionaries Marry?

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locality, away from the din and a delightful Garden it is a fuel pláce of datathance of the Uity, and surrounded by Residurige The building stands on eininence, giving gheent view of the within sy assess of the Rowing Wharves, where the principal Anil Sterners disom lark Tassengers, and from which there is regular ferry service to Hougkung. Dowling alloyal Willards. The Cuisine is Excellent.

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The Rer. W. H. P. Arden, to, and there set them to bite Harbour and the City of Victoria. £t is! chaplain to the Forest Winchester agrees with the condgatory remarks whisk the labe nanki on the question of espring misstries wires and children such horns as those of which have wely taken plouo in China,

have, 5 Me Ardon, no Missionarios right to wares: end, being card to the fast that upwards of fifty children have bery stared and butchered in Ciamberof Eampenos-who had never sutter- during the present trouble, he urges that from malaria kept in good health al it is time to call attention to the senseless free front malaria during an butire mudarial and useless surifice of the lives of children

the mission field,"

Why Americans Look Sad.

It also occurred to me that if pourtain.

so in un intensely malarial locality, where all inhabitants and visitors

Buffered fron materia, mud if they kept well with- out the use of quinine" ne, other mis: dicinal prophylactic simply by avoiding the above conclusion

No wonder that fier American cousins mosquito bite.

look pinched and fairly dama dy by the world he accentnated; and, also, that if

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this bannity ware attained by itp. tire they have to late Liverpool or South-expensive insans-nous which did put interfero scriiusly with consfort. pleasure, ampton for the Status.

for business--il squito-talaria theory They seem hover quis for in minutes not only be proved to the satisfac

public world he tarker. Kalahs are in momentary re-tion of the public, but the publi quisition. Some one or sumilking has twilling to accept the sanity measures to shit at every few moments; and orm fich the theory and Axperiments indicated. After raving obtained panicus of sup when delayed for a short time zi milway

stations, pictorial postcards are filled upport from the Colonial Ofise snc from the and despatched on foute.

For notisity and a determination to see everybody and everything, asserts the Londa Argus, Britichors are nowhere with thon.

Quite Forgotten!

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1787

The Maples.”

Loudon School of Tropic Medicins, and

No. 85, Blu, Vokohama, Japan further to accentuate y objet ring accured valiteets for the experi and to rest the attention of those princ

AN Ideal health resort presenting the pally interested, I publicly announced in a popdar lecture at the Colonial Institute advantages of a first-class HOTEL tut the above experiments were about to be undertaken, and with the une chjet

At the Chatham Tustitute, where umuyin view I ventured to forecast their insule

[Details of the experiments follow, and important military documents are kept, a souiry has been on guard from time i Dr Manson' sous up thus:] memeril. In the dim and distant pist

It remains for the public to apply the this sentry stunt & preser-by who failed to lessor tight by those experients. Will respond to his challenge. After this our this be done? Already I have heard ob renes the avatry was armed with a heaty jestions and difkulties mooted. I saw it. aluir instead of a rifle Up to that date the advanced recently that it is impossible to sentry at fis point had been supplied Warod mosquito bite in the tropica, sud that ten rounds of munition, olbors having it was useless trying to do so, Onu bas & doctor, After the club replaced the Rumetimes to go cut in the evening; & only four. riflo na ten rounds of amanunition contin-for example, must visit his patient at any eed to be served out to him as before, and,bour This is quite true but surely be says Truth, they still are to this day!

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dinary growth of cities and towns in the Jep nese empire during the past twelve years. At present the number of cities losquito bite habitually, so that he gets

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Naw London Pirates.

same man systematically protected hizaself from mosquito late, and in onsegneren, of his care reduced the chances of being bitten to once a month, he might be a hundred years in British Central Africa before he beaume infected. This minimising of risk, 1865. is certainly worth striving for

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