The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-23

n a
loss 1t costs it's victims in the aSgre-
gate many millions of dollars a year.
1t visits the high and the lowiy. the
young and the old. Infants have been
| born with malaria and centenariaus
have died with it. Holt recently re-
ported case in a child one and one
! half days old. Mosquitoes carry the in
lection. Bats have malaria and SO do
BIRDS and animals. Horses in India
die of 1t. Stanley reported that the
donkeys which carried burdens through
the center of Africa were susceptible.
lie also says that when negroes were
taken into q new district they olIits
readily acquired the disease. Yet the
new district was not more unhealthy
, than the one they had just left
sometimes the disease viii Turk at the
| loot OF hill and every person living
there will become i'll; then if those per
sons move up hill several hundred feet
| they become immune.
me disease spread up the Assam val
ley in India for twenty years. depopu-
lating Whole districts. The people
moved from village to village. carry
/ ing it with them in some cases ana
leaving it behind in others. Sometimes
family would move 100 yards and
leave the disease behind: again thew
would move far away from the infected
spot, but the rats and vermin would
follow in their wake. bringing the dis
ease. Large amounts of money have
been spent in India to fight this re-
markable malady.
While there can he no doubt that
malaria in its several forms is the re
suit of micrObe. it is yet evident that
there are conditions under which the
germ will not thrive. A dry. atmos-
phere is fatal to germs of all diseases.
and to the malaria germ particularly
Malaria affects those who break the
soil of low ground, who sleep on or
near the earth, who battle in or drink
stagnant water. Soldiers fatielIel bv
long marches who camp amid enervdt-
ing surroundings are extremely liable
to it. Yet the disease may not show
itself until some time after the march.
for the reason that troops traveln.,
in swampy districts usually are allotted
a daily proportion of quinine. which.
after all, may merely deaden the effects
of the germ for the time being This
probably was the reason so many sol
diers were i'll of malaria. at Montauk
Point. In Cuba the quinine held the
disease in check.
In fact, it may be said that where
marshy districts exist, so also viii ma
laria. 1t does not follow. however that
the marshes themselves are respon-
sible. They are simply an unsanitary
condition, country wherein the ma
laria germ may live and thrive
THEODORE WATERS.
The following suggestions on
How to Cure Malaria.
were written by Professor William F.
Stone of Cornell Medical College:
Treatment is composed in one word:
"Quinine''
Three points about the action Of
cuinine on the parasites are we'll estab-
liShed:
First, that under it's use the intra-
corpuscular varieties, that is those
germs which have got into the blood
cells, rapidly disappear from the blood
Secondly, that quinine administered
some hours before a paroXySm will not
interrupt the cycle of their develop
ment. but will usually destroy the
products of augmentation, and so check
the succeeding paroXysm.
Thirdly, that the creScentic and OvOid
bodies which develop in the pernfcious
variety of fever are very slightly af-
fected by the action of quinine.
Treatment For Malaria.
In the cold stage give plenty Of exter-
nal heat and hot drinks: in the hot
stage just the opposite. 1t very rarely
happens that the collapse of the cold
stage is at all dangerous, but for 4
debilitated person it may be necessary
to administer hot stimulants.
Specific treatment is the administra-
ton of quinine in doses sufficient to
destroy the parasites. The time of ad-
in simple intermittent
fevers makes very little difference. An
efficient dose will usually destroy the
products of augmentation. and prevent
the chill associated with their develop
ment
The amount of quinine required to
check a simple intermittent is very
small One grain three times day in
l simple tertian fever will prove effect
We. Give during the first two days of
treatment as much as twenty or thirty
grains of quinine in the tWcnty-fOur
hours, and then gradually lessen the
amount occurrences are extremely
common; and they are not ALWAYS re-
Infectious The old standard mixture Of
Iuinine and aromatic sulDhuric acid is
perhaps the most satisfactory. except
,or children. When quinine gwen in
solution does not check an intcrmittent
ever, one may know that he is noe
dealing with the kind due to the ma
aria parasite.
In the irregular malariaI fevers quiz
line is equally efficacious: and in the
'ases with remittent or sub-cnntinuoUs
ypes of fever the fever usually disap-
)ears within day or two.
In the perniciOus types. as soon as
recognized, the patient should be thor
'ughly brought under the full effect Of
luinine. 1t is often impossible to do
his by the mouth, owing to incessant
-Cmiting; so that the drug must be
hyperdermicaHy. IN many
# the severer forms of the fever the
life of the patient depends first on Il
prompt diagnosis, and next upon the
apidity with which he is put under the
influence ot the cuinine.