The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-19

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| yers I'm draughty houses and exposed |
tsites seem to show that the mosquito the
DRY hardly accounts for everything j ne |
lauthor's statement that malarial attacks |
ia-e more common, more severe, and r1ore |
I dangerous in young children than in
Adults is hardly borne out by facts. Chil- |
idren are certainly more susceptible, out
few practitioners here will recall many |
deaths from malarial fever in children.
Another statement that a malarial pa
tent is dangerous to his neighbors, since
he may spread disease (p. LID IL bitten py
the proper mosquito should be true in
' theory but is not confirmed by expert
lence. The writer, for instance has never
known malaria spread through the wards
of a hospital in this manner. nor have
INQUIRIES amongst other eastern practi-
toners elected such facts. The assertion
made in the old edition on the authority
Of Grassi and Faletti that the crescent
body is a distinct and independent species
OF parasite is now disproved by Ross OBJ
servations, which show that the destiny
of these bodies are 1.-The formation of the
hagellated body and certain spheres be-
longing TO the special type of plasmodial
in which the crescent occurs" 1t may be
remarked that crescents occur only in the
more generally interesting portion of the
beck.
Our author notes that i'm India many
cases returned as Ardent Fever are
really malarial, fact which can be
readily demonstrated by the microscope;
hence the necessity of every practitioner
III the east being able to examine blood
and intelligently deduce his diagnosis
therefrom-most important, too, for the
lpstient, as the treatment of the two forms
of fever differ materially. He also points
out that aphasia affection of the
brain, occurring in malarial attacks, is
due to parasites in the vessels of the
brain, a fact already noted by Thin, who
showed some beautiful specimens in the
brain of patient from South Africa.
statement is made that Haemo- globi-
nuric fever, so common in Africa, occurs
in South China. The writer in long
lperience has never met such a case, except
in those returned from Africa and In
fected there.
An interesting fact is noted that, con-
ltrary to what might be expected, rapid
anaemia is out of proportion to the num-
: Der of plasmodia found In the blood and
an explanation is given that 1t is probably
owing to the lowered haemo- globnuric
value of the blood corpuscles. The writer
can support this view, having lost a
: young patient living in a not markedly
malarious district, whose death was due
to extremely rapid blood deterioration,
:, though the blood did not contain by any
means numerous plasmodia.
On p. 81. an ingenious explanation of the
:. production of haemo- slobinaemia, is CIV
!. len, viz, that on the breaking up of the
fever a digestive agent. which it had pre-
: Iviously used In absorbing individual blood
= lcorpuscles, is set free and then runs riot
: amongst and attacks healthy corpuscles
: isetting free haemo- globin. thus producing
l. one of the most dangerous sequelae OF
e malaria eit
On page f02 the author shows that ouI
e bodies contain a defensive agent whicf
:. kills malaria, !. e., phagocytes, which be.
:, ing let loose eat up the plasmodia. Oul
u If.1.f at.n -
> les just as we would bees. That which
~ promotes their well-being is warmth
- rest, good food, the comforts of hospi
~ - tai and the removal of the patient from
the district or place where the opposin,
pc battalions are recruited; tonic influences
=, l. e., good air and cheerful society he'll
- the phagocyte, depressing influences, a
w wetting, n surfeit, over-fatigue, anxiety
grief. favor the development of plasn1o
dia. Our author in giving recommends
" tons to the new arrival states that on
), of the greatest causes of breaks-down Il
- the East is that he (the new arrivaD Evil
- Persist in dietetic habits appropriate t
nv his native land" which seems to be
~, thrust at overeating, but a little furthe
on he consoles by stating. 1.-THE well
~ fed stand the climate best; even moderat
= excess Is better than underfeeding;
:, which may be the reason that BIRTHS
"a workman will do twice as much work a
W. a native. Many persons think that be
. cause they have not fever they cannc
- suffer from malaria. The author o. 10
-, shows up this fallacy and points out ho1
- the plasmodia may go through its reguls
~, &C urse of rhythmical development witt
out fever. The writer had under his oh
"a servation for months a patient who show
~ ed all the symptoms of malarial poisoning
" but in whom most careful THERMOMETERS
a. observation taken thrice daily never show
"a ed the least rise of temperature, yet who's
~, blood, even on arrival in England wa
ne sw arming with plasmodia.
81 Drainage and cultivation are OF
To- strongest supports against the assaults
ar malaria BY their means enormous di:
10 ltricts formerly useless and pestilential al
,at rendered healthy and productive, and DIR
10 stephens and Christopher in the very la
an est pamphlet on the malarial diseases
;, Africa point out the necessity of surfat
On drainage and the radical cure of pool
&C. puddles and swamps the most effecti,
rtv means of stamping out malaria. TIL
rtv furnishes strong argument in the fav,
an of the Jubilee Road by means of whic
he the Department of Public Works propos
zee TO abolish the malarial swamp at Abe
,oy deem.
nc Other safeguards which the auth
o. points out are that houses should not
sss too exposed. that grass should be pr
nts served, or IL disturbed replaced, that e.
,cb posed soil should be covered with rar
ia med clay or cement. that lit is unwise
or have flower beds, vegetable gardens. ct
IA near bedroom windows, or to allow wat
,ch from bathrooms or cook houses to fio
he over the ground in the vicinity of t
int house. or to keep water unchanged in tu
inc or water-butts for mosquitoes to bre
AT in" The authors we have just quot
on have proved that the neglect of the
the things and the filthy condition of the n
les tive lhuts are the cause of the severe for
ain lof fever found in Free Town West Goa
nee lof South Africa).
ted The soil. moreover, should not be d
hat turbed in the sickly season, nor shou
ng- lworkmen employed thereon be allowed
cen sleep near their works, a hint viii
all might be taken by our military author
the ties. who lost many soldiers employed
ties making the new batteries between $780,
the Bad water should also be avoided Thou
,me there is no proof that malaria can be ca
YER. ried by this means, natives believe it ca
ted. and impure water is the paradise of an
the pheles, so the ignorant native may
Civ right Sunfiowers, chrysanthemums a
ons the eucalyptus globulus are supposed
In he useful because the mosquitoes obj.
axe to their smell; in fact. in the prophyia,
of malaria the mosquito turns up evel
DRY where, like King Charles's head. The a
alb thor dOgmatiSeS on page l13. that If Y