| Show E IEVERS VERS MALARIA AND MOSQUITOES The Tue letters of Frederic J. J Haskin are generally t of UI statement as they are interesting But Buta a recent lecent letter he stated that that it it was Avas a British my surgeon who first worked out the relation of ofie I ie e e mosquito to malaria Possibly that i true c r. r t the thought was Avas not original with Avith him Rather r we re Ve understand the matter it was Avas a Cuban phy- phy Ian gian who vho first expressed the belief that the sting W 4 infected mosquito was Avas the cause of oi yellow I r r 1 1 He lie He rc re reasoned from the fact that a sharp 11 ia s 's stopped at once a yellow fever feer epi epi- ennd and he could think of nothing else that was fill dby by the frost except that all aU mosquitoes were etL tL tl by y it it and hence reasoned that there must td direct connection between the disappearance e insect and the fever n But t when Cuba was wasby it by our army and navy and Havana an and cities of Cuba wore were occupied by our out forces tIle fact was Avas reali ed that Havana had bad not j c from flom yellow fever for a cent century my and aud andt t jt often became a. a scourge a th the seriousness of 1 f 1 jf was at once realized A A. A commission Appointed J cd b by President Ic irile to go to Hato Hatry Ha- Ha try to ascertain th the c cause lse of the fe fever feA er was Avas yas headed by Dr I and d Ma Ma Wai- Wai fl was filthy In many nan in- in P. P e stables stables were ere a part of the Bouses CS C'S and lad been no 0 housecleaning for four fourscore score The rie swarmed by millions and tr were directed to tI them em Mosquitoes feasted asted on yellow fever fe patients were Silt I volunteers were e calle calles upon to submit of thebe infected insects Many lany rey rein re- re y All 11 in due time timo were seized b by the thc fever atal 1 di died d. d Among who ho died were one 1 h si ian and one a r d S every e person 1 n wi Ith h the e. e cli dis- dis i sj dt once otic isolated then a n mighty warfare of the filfli of city cb and id e ee every e y bit luS' luS water was as r drained or covered j h the that in three w weeks el s the free eo from the tho discus discus- Jj was turned to Panama t and soon IP h or 01 Chagres r river cI mosquito Was 1 j as was vas of a different species That of ILiJ ILi- ILi 4 J vo o bills and aud while hil c feasting upon a tie vif- t ut t it jt was as injecting in its poison into the Ul the other That of l' l Panama h had lud Jd a slit sin sillas it was as quite as malignant its as the Cuban was killed on th the isthmus and the r ii Before that the malaria malal a of the tc oil th the tho isthmus was vas was was' believed to be 10 the t the fever Volunteers VO slept in iii n the swamps swans In in Cuba Guba in iu th bc beds H i in iii which fever patients I not on uric one case cas of or fever follo followed ed These set all medical men in th the tropics to r VI Soon a report came that the the work perr perLi per- per I 1 Li lJ in IJ Yana and Panama I repeated Ie ae Janeiro with like beneficent c rc results and I fear fear foai of yellow of-yellow yellow r llo fever Panama and J. J l nama fever a Q ff The rhe discoveries many r HI cost of ot the thc war Avar with Avith Spain je inspiration caused by the discoveries erics at once British e sh surgeons in iii India to work ork and soon perm germ rm was Avas found and Ind a surgeon there out the method of vaccinating a against ty- ty jail nd possibly has fastened upon the l mos mos- as the cause of that thai m mysterious ster ous illness which sunder under the general name iane of malaria but we t think this has been iten demonstrated to o the of the medical profession lIow however ver O Ji that AVO we are not first class authority oJ on l question |
