The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-03

tap the blood-stream of their victims.
There are perhaps 80 varieties of
Anopheles mosquitoes, and four or
five types of malaria are produced by
them. For instance, one type, or
variety, manifests itself daily in the
form of the ordinary chill, followed
by fever and profuse perspiration,
and then an apparently normal con
dition for "a hours, when it repeats
itself The next type or variety is an
every-other-day chill, similar to the
everyday chill with the exception of
is the third-day chill, similar to the
other three except as to time. A
fifth variety commonly known as es-
tivo-autumnal malarial fever, is ush-
cred in by a chill and a rise of tenn
perature and the usual characteristic
symptoms of a malarial attack, but
there is no intermission of tempera-
ture, as the temperature goes down
in the morning and up in the after
noon, and this may continue indef-
nitely depending entirely upon ire
condition of the patient, environment,
and the treatment instituted.
When the blood of human being
becomes the host or abiding place of
the germ, that individual is a source
of danger in any community where
the Anopheles mosquito is found, and
the habitat of this mosquito is almost
any place OH the face of the earth !
where man has been able to so.
A marked difference between the
producing yellow fever, and |
the one causing malaria, the know
ledge Of which is of great Importance
to those who treat the two diseases,
is that the disease is conveyed in
exactly the same way by the bite of
the mosquito, but the parasite produc
ing yellow fever only lives in the blood |
of the victim for three days after
the onset of the disease, while the
germ that produces malarial fever
might live indefinitely. For this OBJ
vious reason it has been much easier
to control yellow fever than it has
been to control malarial fever. Yellow
fever has been practically stamped
from the face of the earth, while in
one of the southern states for the
year 1915, according to the statistics
Of the state health department of that
state, there were 10000 cases of
The prevention of malaria is arrived
At by two procedures. One is to de-
;troy the mosquito which produces
the other is to destroy the
parasite already in the blood
If the human being. A very practical
method of curtailing the spread of
Malaria in the community would be
o have a microscopic test made of
he blood of all the people in that
community in the winter months, not
ater than the month of March. Those
whose blood was found to be contain
mated by the malarial parasite should
,e given quinine in doses of from
wo to six grains, according to the
lge of the individual, from two to
hree times week, for six weeks,
which would effectually destroy the
plasmodium in the blood of
IL who took this treatment.
Obviously, a procedure of this char
cter would free the neighborhood
rom the danger OF infection by hav-
ng destroyed the parasite IN the
lood of the human host before the
weather. became warm enough for the
mosquito to carry the malaria from 5
lace to place and make his round
rom victim tc victim. In the alb 9
ence of any one to make microscopic /
Examinations of the blood it would be '
etter, on the part of the community. S
it were assumed that they were all = :