The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-08-13
MALARIA and ITS cure
BY DR.. w. A. EVANS.


The malaria situation was improving,
but the people would show good sense
IL they would exert themselves TO mn
prove it faster; that an effort IN TINS
direction was worth while because, on
the one hand, the disease is extremely
expensive, and on the other, efforts 70
control 1t succeed. h cOnvinceS US
that is will be easy to Danish entirely
malaria. An additional reason for this
belief Is the fact that the disease must
pass through a mosquito at Intervals.
A chain is only as strong as its weak
est link, and the bringing IN OF tls
mosquito interposes an element OF
weakness In our enemy's forces. A
mosquito can only get malaria from an
infected man. 1t may even bite an IN
fected maj and not happen to get a
dose OF malarial parasites in the stage
necessary to infect it. A man can only
get malaria from an infected mosquito
ready to infect man.
These are hard conditions, but 1t is
not difficult to prevent them from pc
ing met. The sickman, the
and the susceptible man make a three
linked chain, and it Is easier to break
a three-linked chain tina a two-llnl5ed
chain, Major Russell's opinion to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
On top Of all the other chance in our
favor, we nave the following: Mos
auitoes cannot stand cold; malaria Will
nv NStCItp III IloSiailoSo "ttSA So
temperature is below 60 degrees. Thus
we see that, even though the malarlal
parasite is much more tenacious of life
in the blood Of man than In a mosquito,
it tends in time to die out even there.
It must pass through the mosquito cy-
Gle before long. else 1t dies out.
Therefore, we have h following
possibilities: Complete cure by med
icine of those infected with malaria;
automatic self cure of the infected;
hat an infected person may not be
bitten by carrier mosquitoes at a time
when the parasite can infect the mos
quito; that the temperature may be
too low for propagation of the parasite
In the mosquito; that the infected mos
quito may die befor biting a suscep-
sible person. What chance has malaria
when it must run that gamut?
Malaria infected mosquitoes are short
kived. They cannot pass on malaria to
water, or to other mosquitoes, or to
anything but susceptible men. Accord
ang to the laws of chance, unless a dis
gmall likelihood that an anopheles will
bite an infected man, or that in its
short subsequent life it will bite a sus-
sseptible man.
It takes 10 days for the infected mos
quito to become infectious to man. Ac-
ccrding to Ross, not over one-third OF
the infected mosquitoes live 10 days af-
ter infection. The organism passes its
asexual stage in the blood Of man.
Ross says, that instantly the malarial
organisms get into the blood, the body
begins to produce substances which
annul the poison and kill off the para
site.
However. the parasites multiply rap
Idly until they get to be as numerous as
30 to 500 in each cubic millimeter OF
blood. Then the protective forces OF
the body slow up the division. which
however. proceeds slowly until there
are about 1000 to 10000 in each cubic
millimetsr. Then 1t practically stops.
Chill and fever come on when the
body contains about 15. 1000. 900 para
sites. After three to 10 %relapses. I'M
treated cases get well spontaneously;
three-fourthG Of the untreated cases