Sir Ronald Ross's Epoch-Making Discovery: Research Institute Wanted io Supplement Schools of Tropical Medicine We have received the following earnest appeal on behalf of the Ross Clinique signed by 61 influential persons, including Sir Charles Sherrington, G. B. B., (Lresident of the Royal Society), Sir Humphrey Dary Kolleston, %.0.p., (President of the Royal College of Physicians), Mr. H. H, Asquith, the Duchess of Portland, Baron Leverhulme, Marquis of Lansdvienc, Sir Anthony Bowlby, (President of the Royal College of Surgeons), Mons. PP. ik.
Rona (Director of the Pasteur Institute, Paris), Sir James Cautlie, KB.
Mr. William H. Welch (Director, School of Hyyicne, Baltimore, U.
S.A), Mons. J. Bordet (Director, Pasteur Institute, Brussels) and Sir H. Rider Haggard, We particularly request that all readers desiring io contribute toward this laudable object should forward the contributions direct to the Hon. Preasurer, Lord Willoughby de Broke, at the Ross Clinique for Tropical Diseases, 56 Queen Anne Street, London, W 1, or to the manager of the Westminister Bank, Stratford Place, Oxford Street, W., as we cannot undertake to collect money for this purpose.
The twenty-fifth anniversary 6f Sir Ronald Ross's epoch-making discovery of the transmission of malaria to human beings through the bite of the anopheline mos-quite will shortly occur. This diseove has revolutionized medical science and living conditions throughout the Tropics. It has led to many parts of the world whose climates were formerly reputed to by fate! to Europens and even indigenous races being disarmed of a large measur of their dangers and being rendered perfectly habitable, provided that reasonable precautions to avoid the assaults of mosquitoes are taken.® In the case of the Panama Canal—an engineering work of worldwide importance—the application of the knowledge acquired through Sir Ronald Ross's patient and t ug labours enabled General Gorgas so completely stump out malaria and yellow fever throughout an extensive area, that the imported labour forces, the enormous death-rate among which had frustrated all previous efforts, were able to carry out their work amid normal health conditions and to bring"it to a triumphant conclusion, Here the elimination of the risk of the malarial infection was complete: but in many other parts of the Tropics, where local circumstances preclude the establishment of an equally rigid control, the danger has been reduced during the past quarter of a century in a remarkable degree; and: it is not possible to exaggerate the value of the services which Ross has thus rendered to mankind, the number of the human lives that he has been instrumental in saving, the amount of suffering which he has spared to thousands. Moreover, the materia] benefits which he has conferred alike upon the inhabitants of the temperate and the torrid zones hardly admit of exaggeration, for he has helped to render comparatively. safe lands which were formerly regarded as deadly,.and thereby has stimulate ed their development and the production of the raw materials which they yield, upon which Europe and America are increasingly dependent.
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