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excreta might easily carry tubercle
bacilli on their feet into houses,
where they may be inhaled with
dust, and produce the disease.
Malaria is an old relict that mas
been handed down from generation
to generation, dealing death blows
to all nations within its reach for
centuries. It's record reaches back
to Hippocrates, who lived four hun
bred years before Christ It is The
great enemy of the explorer, the mis-
sionary, the planter, the soldier, the
administrator, the villager and the
poor. Very malarious places cannot
be prosperous. Those who live there
are too sickly for hard work, and
such localities often end by being de-
serted by all save a few miserable
inhabitants. It has profoundly mod
fled the worlds history by tending
to render the whole of the tropics
comparatively unsuitable for the full
development of civilization. 1t Is
essentially political disease-which
affects the welfare of whole coun-
tries.
Ronald Ross says that In the pre-
historic times. Greece was certainly
peopled by fair-haired Arryan ;n-
vaders from the North. These were
the people who developed the arts,
sciences and philosophers that We
are further developing today--the
people who made the Grecian civili-
cation at the time of the Perides.
Greece was a great country. with
beautiful. fertile villages and cities
and vigorous population. well
retained in arms. Neither these poo
pie nor their ancestors had ever suf-
'fered from malaria. Following their
CONQUEST In Persia and Egypt their
solder. came homo suffering With
The prisoners aga Aslaves
which they brought back had the
disease. Malaria, once introduced,
was more severe and fatal :. to the
lArryan stock (Which had NO inr
herited immunity than to the de-
scendants OF the Persians and Egyp-
tians. In this way the darker, weak
or people Of modern Greece replaced
the fairer, stronger civilization. Nc
world deserts. no savage races, no
geographic difficulties have proved
so inimical to civilization as this
disease. It has withheld an entirs
continent from humanity-the i'm
mense and fertile tracks of Africa;
what we call the Dark, Continent
should be called the Malarial Cont
nent. The specific causes of this
disease is the inalariai plssmodiuio,
q minute animal parasite less than
1-25o0 of an inch In diameter, which |
was discovered by Tavern, a French !
army surgeon, in the year 1880. Up
1853, and later. King, Laveran, Koch
and Manson suggested that NICE
quitoes carried malaria. In 1895
Ross began his work In regard to the
mosquito and its relation to malaria,
and in. 1899 completed this work in
regard to the development of the
parasites. The parasite is introduced
int fhn hIAn1 hx- thA "a -
anopeles mosquito. after which it en-
ters the red blood cell where ii
grows. In forty to sixty-five hours
the spores form, in forty-eight to
seventy-two hours respectively, de-
on the form OF the parasite,
Lertian or quartan, the red blood
,ells rupture. and the spores are
freed; soon they enter new red blood
cells, and this spore formation con
Linues. Certain parasites do now
grow with their development in the
circulation. II taken into the stom-
lch OF most mosquitoes. they are az
sested, but in the anopeles conjuea-
Con and fertilization takes place. The
result is an elongated form which
makes fits way through the walls of
the stomach on the outside Of which
L forms a nodule. In this nodulel
'urther division and development
axes place; finally the noduie
bursts. and many thousand minute
organisms are turned loose
INTO the body cavity OF the mos
quito. These ara gathered to sether
u the large ysepolated cells OF the
'aiivsry glands Of the mosquito. tol
DO passed out with the secretlohl
when the mosquito bites a humsu