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TREATING MALARIA. FIGHTING THE GNAT..

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LORD READING.

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The appointment is in the hands

Berlin, December 16-A new It is not more than a few years

The Marquis of Reading, the ex- ngo says Dr. Gerhard Vonzmer, police regulation in Berlin is direck Viceroy of India, has been ap- that Germany, by the production ted against Culex Piplens, the com-pointed Captain of Deal Castle in of the "Germanin" remedy for mon gaat, at present asleep in its succession to Field-Marshal Vis- sleeping-sickness, proved what a winter quarters." Within a fow count Allenby, who has resigned. very great share in the public weeks' time every householder will health problems for the warmer be compelled to submit to the visit of Earl Beauchamp, who is Lord countries falls to her due, and of men armed with a specially con Warden of the Cinque Ports and that even after the loss of all her structed vacuum cleaner which whose official residence is at Wal- colonies; and now, once more Gor-has already been used with great

mer Castle, only about a mile: man science surprises the world success in cowsheds and horse-away. Lord Reading, was former- with a new discovery; the syn-boxes. These are fitted with in-ly associated politically with Lord thetic malaria-remedy "Plasma-sect powder guaranteed deadly to Beauchamp, who is leader of the quine", which promises further gats and mosquitoes of all des Liberal Party in the House of progress in the bringing about ofcriptions, as well as the common healthier conditions in tropical house-fly. One gramme of this and subtropical countries. Quin-powder is allowed to one cubic ine, the product from the cinchona metre of air, and for the period bark, the healing power of which of twenty minutes all cracks, against intermittent fever was accrevices, and windows must be cidentally discovered as early as tightly closed. 1628 by the Vicereine of Peru, was,

Lords.

Lord Allonby was 'only appoint- ed Inst year in succesion to Field- Marshal the Earl of Ypres, better known as Lord French, who died at the castle.

There are no

emoluments at.

taching to the office, but the castle. Į which stands on the front, is a charming residence, especially in the summer months. If has been modernised of recent years and Lord Ypres added a chapel during the short time he lived there.

Lord Reading said to a Daily Mail reporter that he should live at the castle as much, as possible during the summer.

The castle is one of five built by

All cellars and outhouses of Ber- as is universally know, considered tin will be visited by a squad com- until now 08 well-nigh the posed of street sweepers directed supreme remedy in the treatment by the city's trained disinfectors. of malaria. Since Ita isolation The compulsory fee of one mark from the cinchona drug a good the equivalent of n ahilling-will hundred years ago, it has captured be exacted from every ground land- the world as a remedy for fever: erd. and in face of the blessings whick that alkaloid unquestionably It is hoped by these means to brought with it, the defecte and minimise the attacks of the three drawbacks of the quinine treat-different specimens of anopheles ment of malaria foll more or less which secret themselves in rooms into the background. And if one at night time and have of·late bcen only considers a little one is taken growing more troublesome in their aback: for, if quinine really ro-attacks every year. These gnats presents such a superior romedy who inhabit woods and fields and in the struggle against malarin, bite out of doors are to be fought earl of the seafront. was a aban- then one cannot help being sury drying as miny pools as possi-doned owing to the encroachment prised that, in the 300 years that ble and pouring petroleum cinchona Bark has been in use and in the 100 years since the isolation of quinine, intermittent fever has not been able to be more effective in cellars by giving out compul ly checked in its occurrence and sory tickets for a specified dose of

At the London Guildhall the sprend. For, as a matter of fact, rat-poleon obtainable at the chem-Hamilton (Ontario) branch of the malaria is to-day just as it was ists and coming to check the Shaftesbury Society and Ragge 300 years ago by far, the com-aniount and the spot where laid School Union entertained, to a monest discase of all warm coun-down. tries; and in India-just to single

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Henry VIII. in 1539 as part of the defences of the coast. Sandown Castle, which stood at the other

pro protective layer on others. It of the sea, and was demolished has been the custom for years for about 60 years ago.

the police to fight the rats of Ber-

but one example --roughly 6 mil- lions human beings perish from bodies, which are responsible for Intermittent fever yearly!

the transmission of the disease: The explanation for this failure By this means the spread of the disease is effectively checked; and of quinine is easily giver. Pre- cisely in the most severe form of one does not require to point out

what that means as regards the i malaria, namely the much dread-realization of a public health task. ed tropical fever, quinine is not able to destroy those forms of the in contrast to the well known bit. Also, the fact that "Plasmoquine" malaria parasite which alone ure ter taste of quinine, is nearly

responsible for the transmission of

the disease. To understand this,steless, that habitual use docs we must keep in mind that two lesken its effectiveness, and further, that "Plasmoquine" can different forms of the little

be administered without hesita- microscopic malaria-parasite are met with in the blood of our sufferer, is well worth mentioning.

tion in the dreaded blackwater

One now asks whether, by the discovery of" "Plasmoquine",

fering from malaria: first of all, the asexual malaria plasmodium. also known as "schizonts," which by their swarming in masses into quinine, from the cinchonn bark the blood stream, give rise to the has, become superflour? Noth- regular recurrence of the attacksing would be more false than this of fever; and socondly, the sexual assumption. For the successful forms of the malaria parasite, the combating of tropical fever, a so-called "Gamelocytes", which, combination of quinine in small on account of their peculiar form doses with the new synthetic in tropical fever, are also desi malaria remedy, ta so-called cribed as "crescentic bodies.” "Plasmoquine Co." bas been The service rendered here by shown to be the most suitable quinine is therefore merely, from the above details, not method. How this medicine acta Lemporary one. It may well, be able to check the single attacks which in such small doses pro- difeult to understand. Quinine, of fever by its action on the duces no undesirable effects, des schizonts: but it does not get at troy sexual schizonts, of the the Foot of the evil. For, sooner malaria. parasite; "Plasmoquine" or later, the dreaded relapse sels

destroys the crescentic gametocy

in, and the sexual forms, the tes and so prevents relapses and quinine-resistant gametocytes, appear and are then conveyed to the further spread of the disease, other human beings by the bite of The extensive experiments the malaria mosquito the so- which the well-known researcher called anopheles-fly. And so the in tropical medicine and malaria, disease continues to be spread in Prof. Dr. Muhlens of Hamburg. spite of the most conscientious carried out with "Plasmoquine" in quinine treatment. Herein lies the malaria-infected Balkan the chief shortcoming of the States, have already shown that quinine therapy, against which, relapses pccur very much more the remaining drawbacks as the seldom with the "Plasmoquine" disagreeable bitter taste, the fre-treatment of malaria, than with quent super-sensitiveness of the the former exclusively quinine patient to quinine, and the aide- therapy. A several months effects, as ringing in the ears, study-tour which Prof. "Muhlens stomach complaints etc., the cas is at present undertaking in the sation, of response to the action of malaria-infected "countries of quinine swing to habitual usg Central and South America, will which occurs by no means, sel- throw further light on the effec- dom, and, the danger of the ad- tiveness as well as on the most ministration of quinine in the advantageous method of adminis- much dréad blackwater-fever, tration of the new synthetic.ma- all appear negligible in compari- larta remedy. son. Here, therefore the new

work had to begin, if one was to Although the time since the "dis- produce a remedy which would govery of "Plasmogulne" is com- surpass quinine. Difficult and paratively short, one thing can al- wearisome. were the laboratory re-ready, from experience to date, be searches, until at last the immense with confidence asserted; namely, expenditure of time, work and that German medical Science hay money, found its well-earned rein "Plasmoquine" brought, out a ward. The goal was reached: the new remedy which, acting as a on the trans- synthetic malaria remedy" "Plas. destructive agent

mission-fornis of the malaria moquine" anw the light of day.

parasite, seems to be qualified to Wherein does it differ from check effectively the outbreak and quinine? It is about 10 times spread of intermittent fever in more effective, in its action that tropical and sub-tropical countries. the latter (and accordingly more. It will be worthy to range along- Loxic) has a rapid, destructive side of "Germanin", and thereby effect on the malaria parasite in Parise as a new milestone in the human blood and in contrast to immense work of civilisation quinine kills off speedily, precisely, which has as its goal, the hygiene' the sexual forms, the crescent- of the warmer countries."

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