The story which tells of the search for the cause of malaria forms one dauntless and self-sacrificing men of learning, but also of the unceasing cast of the dice of success. A brief retrospect will serve to confirm these statements.
It is no exaggeration to say that la has played its part in the shaping of world history. It has tion among peoples, and of the foundation of new colonies; it has carried of in their prime men famous both in Science and in Art; and it has proved a ripe theme for fiction and legend.
Time was when the beneficial effect of cinchona bark on this disease was accounted a miracle. An early nar-j rative, upon which authorities of the rank have set a value which it is difficult to overrate, is that of Daniel Drake, an American physician of the last century, who wrote a vast and learned treatise on the malaria then highly prevalent in the Mississippi Valley. In it, however, is to be found this noteworthy remark: "Malaria is rife everywhere, but quinine disappoints our expectations."
Not long after, in 1817, Sappington, another American physician, having started practice in Missouri, began the manufacture of "anti-fever pills" he also published a monumental work entitled "Theory and Therapy of Fever."
Blazing the Trail The next contribution was made by the then youthful science of bacterbiology. A Frenchman named Laveran advanced the theory that the cause of malaria was a living organism invisible to the human eye; this he violently. Personally a more splendid future ahead of you, was able to prove by blood-examina-it is the most detestable in. Provided you are prepared to go tions of soldiers suffering from the fever. That was in 1880. Two years later the young American, Albert Freeman Africanus King, afürmed te that this, the most prevalent disease in the whole world, was disseminated I|by mosquitoes. Finally, after another
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