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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH, 1922.

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THE WAR ON MALARIA. SIR RONALD-ROSS'S LIFE WORK

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"Every effort should now have been made by me to demonstrate the same law regarding human malaria (though this A STORY OF 2,000 YEARS,

was already a foregone conclusion); bat the Indian authorities interrupted me for It is announced from Paris that the gate kala-azar. It is true they gave me the third time by forcing me to investi "Academy of Medicine has elected Sir another six months to do it in Already Ronald Ross a foreign Associate Howearied out, I failed in the second task; has been a corresponding member of and as they would not assure my con- this body since 1004. The new honour tinuance in this kind of work, I resigned is but one of very many by which the the Service early in 1809. nations have recognized the importance "At that time Manson's scheme for the of his researches in malaria. following interview Sir Ronald Ross was maturing under the agis of Joseph In the formation of schools of tropical medicine tells the story of those researches. Chamberlain I joined the proposed

[BY A SPECIAL: CORRESPONDENT OF

school at Liverpool, but, not being dis "THE TIMES."},

posed merely to teach students, started in August for Sierra Leone with Drs. Auster, entomologiat Museum. There, in a few days, we of the British

parasites of malaria are carried by two MANILA showed that all three species of the human kinds of mosquitoes belonging to the saine group as those in which I had found HAIPHONG the spotted winged mosquitoes called BORNEO the parasites at Sekunderabad namely, anopheles.

I found Sir Ronald Ross engaged on his Memoirs, which are to be published by Mr. Murray, probably in two or three months' tíma I don't like this job,' he said, "it is like. digging up one's old bones and piecing them together, as though they belonged to some extinct mammal. But it's a duty."

When I asked him to tell me the story of his malaria work he was inclined to think people would not be interested. 1 protested that it was one of the most interesting stories in the world. Without prejudice to his own opinion he at last agreed to relate it briefly,

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workers had done the same thing with "In the meantime certain Italian regard to the Italian anopheles. These gentlemen, by misrepresenting or omitting TIENTSIN It is a story 2,000 years long," he their investigations were original, though BANGKOK

to mention my work, 'pretended that began. The ancients knew the differis is an easily proved fact that they were ent kinds of malaria, that they are conthoroughly conversant with everything nected with stagnant water, and even that I had done. They succeeded, neverthe 60cm. But they knew nothing further. years amongst those who had not follow- they might be associated with insects in less, in getting most of the credit for Early in the 17th century the cinchona ed the literature. bark, from which quinine is made, was brought to Europe from South America, of abstract science, but for the cause of "My work was done, not for the sake and, has been known as the specific for practical sanitation in the tropics-for malaria, when properly used. since then. saving, huwan life on the large scale. In 1880 the great discovery of the cause It followed from researches that, in order of malaria was made by Dr. Alphonse to reduce malaria in most cities and Lateran, now of the Institut Pasteur towns of the topics, we had only to re He found that it was due to millions of duco the carrying mosquitoes. This could living each within one of the red blood puddles, pools, marshes, or every collec corpuscles, like a maggot in a Subsequently Golgi, in Italy, showed that I did not propose to destroy mosquito in nuttion of water in which their larva lived. there are three species of these parasites, the world, but simpy to reduce their causing respectively the quartan, the numbers in the centres of civiisation, tertian, and the malignant forms of which could be affected at comparatively malaria. Quinine acts by killing the small cst. We proposed this measure organiams, but must be continued for at once for Freetown, Serra... Leone, and months if the enormous hordes of them I went there twice again in order to teach are to be exterminated in the body.

my lesson thoroughly.. In 1909 the Suez mailia of malaria on my advice. ~ Canal Company completely cleared Is

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Of course, everybody who remember ed the connection between malaria, and marshes now thought that these parasites

FIGHTING YELLOW FEVRE.' must breed in marshes, but all efforts to yellow fever also is carried by another "The Americans had discovered that prove it experimentally were failures. Meanwhile, a number of savants, includsroup of mosquitoes, and Colonel Golgas ing Laveran himself, resuscitated the both diseases, in Havana, Cuba. In 1904 had succesfully reduced these insects, and ancient idea that malaria might be con the Americans asked me to go to Panama, nected with mosquitoes, and in 1894 where they were just going to start mak- Patrick Manson, by means of a greating the Canal: Gorges was induction, gare a new and powerful and already knew what to do.

in charge. reason for this hypothesis." But none of magnificently he did it everybody knows. How these thinkers experimented on the sub He was given the K.C.M.G. just before. ject. Manson communicated bis indue his death in London in 1020 by our wise tion to me-I had been working for years King. In 1907 and 1813 similar work, was on malaria and I determined to work begun in Mauritius and Cyprus with good out the thing in India

1 was then, & surgeon-major in the in this practical line has been achieved

results; but perhaps the best work done) Indian Medical Service, and attacked the by Dr. Malcolm Watson in the Federated investigation on returning to my rogi Malay States, by Dr. Balfour at Khartum, ment at Sekunderabad. Some people and by Dr. Clarke at Hongkong. I include myself among them nowadays On the whole, however, I have been thought this was very foolish, under much disappointed that the Britian taking; there are some 500 species of Empire has not seen its full responsibility: mosquitoes; we had not the smallest idea in this matter, and has not adopted large which species was able to carry the dis concerted measures on the lines we stien- ease; and we did not know either the tifo worker have indicated. There should form or position of the malaria parasite be constilpted in London a malaria in the mosquito. In fact, all was absolute bureau for the whole Empire, directed by darkness, had to grope about as best the best expert available, where infor I could, merely on the chance of coming mation on the subject should be kept and up against something solid. Still, should be at the dispband of every Gov couraging facts in support of Manson's ernment Department, of every company induction were ascertained by ms at once and private person. Money has been pro- in 1896, and I was getting on well when mised me for this, but the promises have the Indian authorities interrupted my not been fulfilled and I cadnoë get the work for the first time. I continued a thing done Here is an opportunity for well as possible, though with wrong kinds a rich man to perform e really great ser of mosquito.At last, after two-and-vice for the Empire..

hall years toil, I tried two new kinds of mosquito in Sekunderabad; that is, I fed these mosquitoes on patients whose blood contained the parasites. Suddenly, on August 20th, 1887, I found the malaria parasites growing in one of the new kinds af mosquitoes, and knew that the key had been obtained.

This supremely lucky observation dis glosed the two unknown quantities; the | kind of mosquito concerned, and the form and position of the parasite within it. My discovery, as many people know, was commemorated in the concluding stanzas of my poem, "In Exile,' published by Mr. Murray in my book of verse called

Philosophies.

"I now expected to solve the whole problem in 's few weeks when, with their usual seal for science, the authorities interrupted me for the second time, by posting me off at & moment's notion to a place more than 1,000 miles distant, where there was no-malaria. And I had just reported my succes officially to them! What this means will be understood when it is remembered that malaria has been officially estimated to kill 1,300,000 per- GODE(ÖVETY YERṛām India alogė. To make some amends, however, next year, chiefly at Manson's solicitation, they put me on special duty for no less than six months, during which they told me to investigate not only the malaria problem, but also the equally difficult problem of kala-azar. The first had baffled humanity for 2,000 Jcars the second continues to baille ne to-day.

HOW MALARIA IS CARRIED

"But I was fortunate. By studying the malaria parasites of birda 1-was able to solve the general proposition, as re- garásinalams during that six months In July and August I found the redark able, and, indeed, wonderful, fact that the spores of the manzió pártélte in mosquitoes enter the salivary gläïïde" "Mi the insecta Desejolaudacecrate the poison which capses the irritation of the "mosquito's "bite, and the malaria para

te therfore enter or blood when the insect pyloria its little, surgical opera tion upon us. I infected a number of healthy birds in this way and this revealed. how malaria is carried; it is merely pass edifrom néo to za31; the Femy of the proper ist of mosquitoes. Not the parasite, but the entries parkaila, Ilves: in the marsh. Jullie

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