The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-07
HoUsr rDASrs AND M4I1n1A.
The Disenss Traced 20 Pettea F~lnnts-E1ertst
sceua 70 suner IRON Malaria.

From the Medical Record.
Just after tho Christmas holidays DR.. TAYLOR
was called at sag Harbor to q woman go years
old, who had some paroxysms OF fever with gas
trio disturbance, and at her suggestion that ID
might DO malaria no examined the blood and
found the Ldpardn ptdsnodium. This was TO.
markable In view OF tho facts that tho ground
was covered deeply with snow. tho patient
had not been from homo. for four years, tho
we'll water could not have boon contaminated.
and all ponds were frozen. Soon q daughter lad
similar symptoms. There were some potted
plants In tho house, and he was unable to
make any definite impression upon the disease
until these had been removed. At the same sea-
which a trap door led into q cellar whose
walls were covered continuously with mould.
In still another house some weeks later, in the
SAME town, malaria with the ptdsnodiurn OF
tertiary fever developed In a child, and no
plants in tho room occupied by tho patient.
When these were removed he was able to
cure the disease. He then went to some florists
water supply. and inquired their history and
different localities that tho blood Of these peo.
pie contained the malarial. pidsmodium., These
quite well, complaining Of digestive trouble,
sSaid e stsF$iIsht 'sSsr" up te sS%%SS%iiS' BY IP Big
ence when in Charleston. He took procau.
lions about the,drinking water to avoid dldrfd
sdnpuiHis ho,ninis, and when he rode out he
took tho precaution to return early before the
mists rose from, the marshes. During this
time he kept well, but later, not having time to
ride until rather late in the evening, he con-
tracted pernicious Intermittent fever. He could
thcn find the malarial pLusniodium in his blood.
From 1879 to 1883 no resided In the mountains
of Colorado, and saw what no supposed had been
called mountain fever, but all the cases which
he oaw were tertian intermittent fever. A Ger
man writer had spoken Of u similar fever de-
velOping in the mountainous regions of Russia,
at the time OF the melting of the snow. This was
In harmony with what he had seen in Colorado.
But at Sag Harbor tho snow was not melting
and the region was not mountainous. There was
presence of tho malarial body In tho blood.
Those facts would seem to point to something
emanating from the plants, or rather from tho
earth itself, as.one Of the surest means OF infec-
ton. Yet the water theory should also be borne
In mind. Some observations relating to the water
system Of Sag Harbor during one period pointed
In this direction, but In the cases related above
the water was not obtained from that system.
DR.. r. c. Newton had little doubt that the
potted plants were the cause Of the malarial
Infection as mentioned In the paper. He could
Arm that view. He had a friend who was q
florist, and while. generally In. good health
he had to guard against taking Colds"
which he could cure by quinine.
DR.. 7. 8. Southworth had almost invariably
been able to find a history Of previous resi-
dence in tho country in cases Of malaria in
children in this city. II was pc sible malaria
might develop from plants In tho room by reason
soil of brought from New Jersey or Long Island.