Meanwhile, scientists are working in the malaria-infested areas to discover Household Furniture, Clothing and Sundries the answer to the hotly-debated question as to whether quinine or atebrin is the more efficacious drug against the malady.
The chief worker in the field is Dr. J. S. Field. a 38-year-old Birmingham University graduate, now malaria research officer of the Malayan Institute for Medical Research, who is collaborating with the League of Nations Malaria Commission, Dr. Field administered regular doses of each drug to separate groups of Indian, Chinese and Malay cases. After twelve months working, he made a statement in which he declared: "Within the atebrin group, attacks of malaria ceased almost entirely within a fortnight of the commencement of treatment. Quinine took longer to control the malaria, but after a few months, there was little more malaria in the quinine than in the atebrin group."
Other research scientists report, after experiments with animals that there is little reason to think that atebrin is a more dangerous drug than quinine. But in man ¢ertain peculiar reactions have been observed. and. temporary insanity has been found to occur after the usual course for treatment in about 1 in-1,000 cases.
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