Show Health I fl By Lulu Hunt Peters MD M.D. u R t io to tho Calories 1 MALARIA Mr S. S S e the chills and fe fevers fevers fevers fe- fe I vers of f malaria are quite characteristic characteristic character character- the disease Is diagnosed by an examination of the blood Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- Sometimes times several examinations have tObe tobe to tobe be made The malaria germs have distinct and characteristic forms for each type of malaria and ancl these are found In the blood lood You will n not t get malaria unless YOU jou are bitten bitten by by the mosquito that thatIs Is Infected by the malarial organism that that Is the anopheles mosquito ito The malarial organism Is Is not a germ vegetation but a protozoan one of the lowest forms of animal life ute It lias two cycles one In man mann and n one In ln the mosquitoes Some sections of or the country not favor the breeding of this anopheles m mosquito so th these se Sections sections sec sec- are free from malaria except as the cases come In from the malana malaria ma ma- lana laria se sections For Instance southern south south- ern era California does not have hav this but the central part does While It was Iwas was In the Los Angeles co county co nty hospital and anti doing laboratory work one ne of the other asked me to do a blood test teston teston teston on a patient who had Just been I brought In In a comatose I f I con condition The m man n looked as though he were dying and I II I thought the examination would be beI I I I. futile but of course I did it Im Im- im- im mediately I found In the in-the the microscopic micro micro- examination of his blood a avery avery avery I very great number of the ne most beautiful little crescents with rosettes rosettes ros ros- ettes eUes in their centers They were the festive autumnal malarial or organisms organisms organisms or- or the type that causes the most pernicious form of ot malaria On my report a solution a-solution of sterIle quinine was Immediately given In Intravenously Intravenously Intravenously In- In to the patient and he promptly recovered Had he fallen into the hands of ot any but scientific physicians he would undoubtedly have died He lIe had come from a a. a malarial section of the country Bad ventilation and bad air have nothing to do with malaria unless the malaria mosquitoes are present although the word malaria means bad air originating when It was thought that the disease was due to this agency A poor diet also has nothing to todo todo todo do with malarial Infection except of course coure that It might make one more susceptible to the disease if he became Infected The wrong diet diet- might precipitate attacks of malaria In Individuals who are already al at- read ready Infected No it Is not believed that malaria Is congenital Very young oung babies bables ma may have the disease but if it they do It Is because they have been bitten birten b by the malarial mosquito The public health measures or of prevention of malaria have to be directed against draining and treatIng treating treating treat- treat Ing the marshes and swamps that harbor the malaria mosquitoes It the mosquito can be eliminated from any locality the transmission n of ot malaria ceases and as the I innocent if cent mosquito gets his Infection from froni a malaria malara patient if it there were were no malaria patients patient's in the locality the mosquito would not be Infected QUININE Quinine Is used both as a preventive pre- pre and curative It Is u used ea extensively In the malaria districts Small daily dally doses have proved to prevent malaria Many of ot the Red RedCross Cross Crass workers In the Balkans contracted contracted contracted con con- the disease I didn't an and f 1 give credit to the small doses of Q 1 I took daily for I swear I was s stung ung as often as any anyone one In Tices Tice's Practice of Medicine It lIt lItis ItIs Is stated te that while the malaria malatia parasites will be bo killed off oft by the taking of quinine for omy ony a a. few da days s 's to two or three weeks the m majority majority ma ma- of patients patients' will n not t be cured unless the they take quinine systematically systematically systematically cally for a- a period of eight weeks You'll have to see yo your r physician an for treatment I T Tomorrow Tomorrow morrow Answers to Corre Corre- I i o |