The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-23
ABOUT MALARIAL FEVER.
DIRECTIONS BY PROF. STONE OF
CORNELL ON chow TO CURE
MALARIA"

4 The Curious story of the Adventures
of the Malaria MicrObe-A Battle
between "a Malaria Germ and Two
Large PhagOcytes or White Blood
CorpuscIeS How Mosquitoes
Transmit Malaria Germs-Odd Ex-
periments of DIR. Ronald Ross of
the Indian Medical service-A Chill
Means That Millions of New Germs
Are Being BOrn-African Explorer
stanley Tells How His Mules Were
Affected by the Disease-Why Qui-
nine Is Used to Cure Malaria and
How 1t Acts.
New York April 2l.-If there were no
MOSQUITOES in the world, probably there
would he no malaria. This is because ma
larta is caused by a microbe which is car
ried about from person to person by the
4 nosouito. In other words, malaria is a
blood disease, in that mosquitoes suck
nm the microbes from the blood of one
nerson and then fly off and inoculate 9TH
or nersons with those germs. Meantime,
the mosquitoes have malaria. Flies trans
Fl nit the germs of typhoid fever, feas dis
seminate anthrax, and mosquitoes are
h the purveyors of the filaria, which cause
. eIephantiasis and of the plasmodium which
B causes malaria.
Fl This transmission of the microbe of ma
Fl laria has been proved by the experiments
n of Dr. Ronald Ross of the Indian medical
Fl staff He worked in the laboratory of
n Col D. D. Cunningham in Calcutta. He
N fed some mosquitoes on patients afflicted
n with malaria and then allowed these same
Fl insects to puncture the bodies of captive
4 birds. The incubation was quite COM
a plete.
"a During his investigation DIR. Ross saw
a one of the most remarkable battles that
"a has ever occurred. This was a fight be-
"a tween a malaria microbe and three pha-
4 gocytes The phagocytes are really white
blood corpuscles. They have been called
n the policemen of the blood and their bust
ness in life is to devour all the impuri-
a ties. foreign substances. and disease germs
81 of the blood. In this instance, however,
q the malaria microbe succeeded in worsting
"a the three phagocytes.
"a Until DR.. Ross investigations we had
no certain knowledge of the cycle of the
malaria germ. How 1t travelled from host
/ to host was but little understood. Chills
and fever, or fever and ague, were terms
81 expressive of peculiar climatic affection.
M Laveran, after years of continued argu-
4 ment succeeded in showing that it was a
germ disease, but the complete history of
M that germ; of which there are several va
q rieties, has not been known until to-day.
Fl The Adventures of MicrObe.
The malaria germ propagates its species
Fl by segmentation. Periodically every day,
E according to the type of the disease, the
81 full-grown germ subdivides and each di
vision becomes a full-hedged microbe with
power to reproduce itself All the germs
Ri -plasmodia, as they are caLed-sub-divide
throughout the human body within some
Il minutes of one another. 1t Is this that
causes the periodical chill in malaria pa
tents In fact, when you see malaria
patient undergoing his daily chill you may
know that millions of young malaria
germs are just breaking away from the
parent stem.
The young germ, however, is in danger
OF being devoured by phagocytes in the
blood. In fact, a great many are thus
devoured When malaria is well advanced
the number of germs is so much greater
IMAM the number of pf1agocytes that quite
enough are spared to do damage. The
germ at this period is only shapeless
4 # 't0 VI matter carried dl0nS IN the D4OOu
8and containing within its minute mass
sun more minute quantity of pigment-llke
specks which dance about violently in the
little animal
1t mas instinct enough to protect itself
rom further depredations of phagocytes.
II Ieeds on the contents of red blood cor
PuscIes, and as it devours the haemoglo-
mh contained in the corpuscle it crawls
!uslae the Skin of the latter. the better
70 keep clear of the phagocytes. These
,i'Ne scavengers of the blood actually
nave been seen under the microscope to
oe Iooled' by this trick of the malaria
germ The germ does not eat the 'skin''
., me red corpuscle. Therefore, when the
i,Hagocyte comes up to malaria germ
inside the red blood corpuscle it may feel
al over, but it generally passes by,
-l!sied as to its genuineness. So the
pas hodum, secure in its retreat, goes on
eauhg the inside of its little house and
sIowIhg Justify against the time Of its re-
&production
Alter time it becomes crescent SHAPED,
anu h then II it is examined under glass.
e remains of the red blood cell Skin"
an pe seen stretching across the hollow
,ge Oh the crescent. AS the germ grows
the crescent shape gradually
n@nseS to circular. Before the day is
nan gone, the circular germ divides into
ma cation can be seen under the micro.
me germ actually does not divide
~ later. After another period of time
TWO segments sub-divide or change
SO on. s"'i - e'sH' ''''''
W men the segmentation at last is COM
(. -, some wonderful process of teleg-
80 or perhaps the recognition of the
90 an itsef of the end Of the then stage
81 81 -.a existence gives what might be call
# -. on ihtro-human signal and the uni
II -, IL breaking away of the young germs
axes place.
NM, "e process Is repeated again and again,
,bo 'ne sufferer dies or the growth OF
rnoa sertns is checked by medical or other
Il per,..s' But In describing the life of the
NJ H,tti, we have assumed that Il existed
Il IN me human body. How did II get
Il p5-t Undoubtedly air and water trans-
n di,ioa ,ne malaria germ under certain con-
4 d.s'1s, que there Is a far more potent
ti'lH'llug. agent-the mosquito.
4 f.r ore stating why. however let me re-
A - y" another phase of the life Of the mos