Cattell, H: International Clinics, a Quarterly of Clinical I

Excerpt from International Clinics, a Quarterly of Clinical Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Original Articles, Vol. 3: On Treatment, Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Pædiatrics, Obstetrics, Gynæcology, Orthopædics, Pathology, Dermatology, Opthalmology, Otology, Rhinology, Laryngology, Hygiene, and Other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners

Captain, Medical Corps, U. S. Army; Assistant Professor of Bacteriology, Pathology, and Clinical Diagnosis, Army Medical School, W'ashington, D. C.

The discovery by Laveran of the parasites concerned in the etiology of the malarial fevers, and by Ross of the method of trans mission of these parasites from man to man by the mosquito, has placed the prophylaxis of malaria upon a firm scientific basis; while the introduction of cinchona and its alkaloid, quinine, has given us a specific in the treatment of these infections. In many countries these facts have been taken advantage of in extensive campaigns against malaria, and such campaigns have met with success in propor tion to the thoroughness with which measures based upon the facts have been put in operation.

While the prevention of malaria] fevers is of vital importance in many regions of our own country, especially in the States bordering Upon the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River, it must be admitted that we have accomplished but little in the prophylaxis of these fevers. Many localities in these States are practically unin habitable by reason of the severity of the malarial infection there present, while in others the inhabitants lead a wretched existence, made miserable by frequent and repeated attacks of malaria] fever. Within recent years much money and labor have been expended in an effort to eradicate the hook-worm from infected districts in the United States, but very little has been accomplished, or even under taken, in the eradication of malarial disease, of vastly greater im portance, in my opinion, than hook-worm infection.

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