Word: mosquito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Ronald Ross, 75, discoverer of the malaria parasite in the Anopheles mosquito; in London. Composer, poet, playwright, novelist, mathematician, he was called a modern Elizabethan. He entered the Indian Medical Service at 24; began an unofficial search for the malaria-transmitting mosquito at 35. His interfering superiors finally gave him six months in which to investigate the 2,000-year-old problem of malaria and the still unsolved problem of kala azar. In 1899 he left the Medical Service; in 1902 he was given the Nobel Prize for Medicine, made a Companion of the Bath. Forgotten...
...Wilbur Augustus Sawyer of the Rockefeller Foundation offered a method of immunizing against yellow fever, tropical scourge. Dr. Bolivar Jones Lloyd of the U. S. Pubblic Health Service suggested that criminals be pardoned if they submitted to Dr. Sawyer's method and then to bites of the yellow fever mosquito. Thus the Sawyer principle of prevention would be proved indubitably. Dr. Lloyd offered himself as a testee, if he can get enough life insurance to protect his family "in case of any untoward result...
...first suspected that mosquitoes might be carriers, as in the case with malaria. Numerous microscopic examinations, however, revealed that either because its sting is administered more deeply in the flesh or because the saliva of the insect is inimical to the parasite, the mosquito is definitely not a carrier. That the Eusimulium fly was the true source of infection was proved conclusively by over 2000 microscopic examinations...
When War came, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt worked harder than ever to make a good name for himself. He bought up all the supplies he could lay his hands on, borrowed binoculars from the country (and had them returned), helped build the submarine chasing "mosquito fleet," sponsored the North Sea mine barrage over stiff official opposition...
...Cure. From a friend he heard about a decrepit little summer resort at Warm Springs, Ga. One young paralytic had braved its mosquito-plagued country hotel, bathed in its warm mineral waters and partially regained the use of his legs. Mr. Roosevelt went there first in 1924. After churning about in the pool, he found that his leg muscles felt a little stronger. Thereafter Warm Springs became his great hobby. He spent a large part of his personal fortune on developing the place into a sanatorium. Edsel Ford gave an enclosed pool, others contributed to make Warm Springs a permanent...