Show S S WHAT MALARIA IS I It is known that the medical board headed heade l by hy Dr Reed of Virginia appointed by our government nt to investigate the yell yellow w fever feyer in Cuba after our war with Spain traced it to the sting of a mosquito mosquito mos mos- I quito and rid the island of or Cuba from the scourge which had raged there with more or less violence for more than a century It was a boon to mankind mankind mankind man man- kind which is not half appreciated Statues to every member of that commission should be in the capitols of every nation of the earth After that another investigation was made and it was discovered that another mosquito was the agent through wh which ch the Chagres or or- Panama fever was communicated By this discovery it was possible possible possible pos pos- I sible to make the Isthmus of Darien comparatively comparative comparative- I ly healthy so that the work on the canal might be prosecuted But these discoveries did not account I for the diseases which followed the settlers from Lake Ontario to beyond the Mississippi l and kept people shaking with chills and fever and which often expanded into the malarial or 01 bilious fevers that for a century swept the Mississippi l and Missouri Missouri Mis lUis valleys Men said it was malaria but th the wisest could not explain what malaria is Now it has been discovered that malaria too comes from froman an animal and that its contagion is communicated by the sting of a mosquito A French army surgeon sur sut geon Dr Laveran found the enemy in the form of an ari organism which buries itself in the little red corpuscles of the blood lIe He further found that this ripened and burst every forty-eight forty hours scattering itself through the tissues and this accounted accounted accounted ac ac- ac- ac counted for the chills that come in chills and fever on alternate days Drs Dra Bignani Bignal i and Grossi caught some of the tainted mosquitoes and volunteers volunteers volun volun- teens permitted them to sting them and the theory was proven for more than tenths eight-tenths of them developed developed developed de de- de- de the disease The remedy is to destroy the mosquitoes Even as was done in Cuba by that other species of mosquito mosquito mos mos- quito that carried carded yellow fe fever er from man to man In this way the intangible malaria which so long baffled science can be eliminated d and the cause of ofa a dis disease ase stopped which has been a a scourge of the the thew w world from the most remote periods The discovery cry ery ry emphasises the time need of national as well as individual individual indi indi- vidual cleanliness The swamps must be drained the stagnant water either be drained or covered with oil And as fish destroy the deposited eggs keeping streams alive with fish is not only a great source of food supply but another guaranty of health to people along the banks |