The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-16
MOSQUE TOES
THE CAUSE
MaIariaI Parasite Now
| Known.
Or. PFLUGER'S STATEMENT
Distinguished Scientist Here Tells oil
the Savant Koch's Re-
searches.
~ ALARIAL FEVER can be pre-

ease of the tropics and the remedy
therefor have been discovered
1t has been proven beyond a doubt
that malaria does not exist in the soil
but is carried from one person to an
other by a certain species of mosquito
termed the Anopheles.
So says the celebrated DIR. Koch of
Berlin to the world, through Dr. Alex
ander Pfuger. his friend and COM
panion in the recent Investigations
which the famous bacteriologist has
been making for several months of this
year at Stephansort, German New
Guinea.
For the first time the real facts of the
great discovery are given to the world
in the Advertiser.
DR.. Alexander Pfuger is German
savant. scientist, authority on geolo-
gical research, lecturer on geology and
physics at Bonn University, Germany,
and is now in Honolulu, having just
come from New Guinea by way of Aus
tralia. He babe Prof. Koch goodby as
the latter was leaving for the Carolines
where he will continue his investiga-
lions relative to the cause of malaria.
The distinguished lecturer is staying
at the Hawaiian Hotel. and will remain
in Hawaii several weeks to make re-
searches at the volcanoes of Kilauea
and Haleakala. He will then continue
on his journey through the United
States and thence to Bonn where he
win make known in person the impor-
tant discovery which Prof. Koch has
just proven genuine by practical and
fhonrofino1
most careful microscopical and analy-
teal studies of malaria inoculated
blood taken from the natives of the
New Guinea settlements.
DR.. PFLUGER's STATEMENT.
DR.. Pfuger gives the above state
ments as positive facts and in the fol-
lowing interview gives the details of
one of the most interesting scientific
Investigations known in this flag end
of century full of wonderful re-
searches.
Prof. Koch was sent by the German
Government on his present journey
which has lasted about three years to
Investigate malarial fever in all parts
of the world, and especially at Stephan
sort, where it is stated by Prof. Koch
that malaria exists in the worst form.
He first travelled through the malarial
districts of Italy, South Africa, the
Dutch Indies and latterly in New
Guinea where his most important re-
searches were made.
n WHAT MALARIA IS.
DR.. Pfiuger states that DIR. Koch's
investigations have proven the follow
In oil ,.;a ;x, ~,
a little parasite, not a bacillus, living
in the blood of person. This parasite
is carried from man to man by mos
quitoes, but only of a certain species
called the Anopheles.
These mosquitoes bite generally in the
night time so that the danger of con-
tracing malaria is only during the
night hours, and especially when one Is
, sleeping. DR.. Koch lays great stress or
the advisability of providing only the
best mosquito nets for beds which will
be proof against the entrance of ever
the smallest of the species above nam.
ed.
HOW MALARIA ENTERS THE SYS.
TEN.
The cause of a malarial system, say:
/
parasite of malaria lives in the body O.
a mosquito exactly as it does in man
1t has also been found in the body O.
the flying fox. BY this mosquito, lader
with the parasite, it is carried from on,
person affected by malaria and inocu
lated into another who is still in {
physical state of healthfulness.
Thus" says DR.. Pfuger, when
man is bitten who has malaria in hi
| blood, the parasite is carried by tn
mosquito to another human being ant
deposited in the others blood. In elev
en- or twelve days the parasite breed
and having done so dies a natura
death. This parasite makes the person
sickly and his ailment is described a
malarial fever
DOES NOT COME FROM SOIL.
Very often it is said malariaI feye
comes out of the earth from place
where water is stagant. That is al
opinion held by some who have studied
the causes of malaria. Stagnant waite
and sodden earth, however, have onI,
this much to do with malaria. Their
the mosquito breeds its larvae, which
In turn, of course become mosquitoes
Larvae of mosquitoes can only iiv
where there is water. Where there 1
not an abundance of water there ar
no mosquitoes to carry the parasite O
malaria. 1t is proven that malaria /
not contagious or carried about excep
where there is water which can brea,
mosquitoes and the species especiall
known as the Anopheles.
DIR. KoCHs REMEDY.
For years quinine has been prescribe
as a preventive for malaria but it Is no
given In a proper manner and the hes
way to use 1t has not been known unit
DR.. Koch finished his Investigations. For
merly too much or too little was giyer
DR.. Koch has proved the efficacy of hi
method of using quinine, first by pract
cal experiments, and second by theoret
cal reasonings.
I'm any country affected by malaria d.
Koch says that quinine must be take
ievery eighth and ninth day-one gram fo
a dose. This quinine must be taken in Sc
luton. Because 1t does not dissolve i
water. drops of hydrochloric acid mus
be put In the water and then the quinn
ldissolves at once. Taken in this form tn
medicine Is bitter and unsatisfactory
1.-THE patients taste, but is radically effect
i've. whereas the sugar-coated quinn
tablets often do not do their work bl