This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...which led Man son to suggest that Malaria was conveyed by mosquitoes or that led Ross to prove that mosquitoes are the carriers. Our readers may refer for information on this subject to Manson's book on Tropical Diseases, to Ross' West African Report, to Celli's book oh Malaria, to Christy's book on Mosquitoes and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...which led Man son to suggest that Malaria was conveyed by mosquitoes or that led Ross to prove that mosquitoes are the carriers. Our readers may refer for information on this subject to Manson's book on Tropical Diseases, to Ross' West African Report, to Celli's book oh Malaria, to Christy's book on Mosquitoes and Malaria, to Giles's book on Mosquitoes and to the numerous articles which have appeared in medical and nonmedical Journals during the past year for information on this subject. Some experiments have been made in Nagpur in older to show whether the views which have been advanced by some of the writers mentioned above are correct, and a short account of some of these experiments may be of interest. The mosquito, which has got the credit of carrying the Malaria fever germ, is called anopheles, ahd after finding the anopbeles we began to enquire what time of the year the anopheles is found and whether the time of its presence tallies with the time when the malarial fevers are prevalent. A year has now elapsed since we began to collect anopheles, and a record has been kept of the number caught daily in a given area. The place selected was the Jail Hospital, and the following table shows the numbers collected 'in each month between October 1900 and October 1901. In the months of February to July there was hardly an anopheles to be found. They began to appear in large numbers about the middle of August, and at the end of August the malarial fevers began to prevail. The next question is--what time are malarial fevers most prevalent--and here it will be interesting to compare the seasonal prevalence of malarial fevers with that of other countries. Celli gives the figuresshowing the number of admissions for malarial fevers into the hospitals of Rome for thi...
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