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...convenient way of infecting syphilitics with malaria begins with an operation on a mosquito, reported Dr. Bruce Mayne. U. S. Public Health entomologist in Washington last week. (Malarial fever raises the syphilis victim's temperature and remits, sometimes cures, the paresis caused by advanced syphilis of the brain -TIME, Feb. 20.) Heretofore it has been necessary to induce malarial mosquitoes to bite paretics. Live mosquitoes are difficult to handle, often die in transit, sometimes escape with consequent danger to the community. Dr. Mayne. who learned all about mosquitoes in England. India. the Philippines and the U. S., found that...
...Government set the minnow against the mosquitoes. It was the silver-brown "mosquito fish" or gambusia, found only in North & South Carolina ponds. The male is less than an inch long. The female is twice his size and gives birth to live fish. Surface-feeders, they gladly gobble all the mosquito "wigglers" they can hold. Italy bought 200,000 of them every year from U. S. fish dealers and dumped them into the Istrian ponds. They gobbled their weight in "wigglers." Fortnight ago the Italo-German Institute of Marine Biology announced that the gambusia had gobbled malaria clean...
...Doctors at Dallas chose Dec. 3 as the "memorial day for Pan-American medicine." Dec. 3 is the birthday of the late Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban, who indicted the mosquito which Dr. Walter Reed later proved transmitted yellow fever...
Jamestown, first Virginia settlement, was like a mosquito bite that is scratched and scratched until it becomes a permanent feature. First & foremost a gambling venture, it naturally attracted gamblers rather than serious colonists. In the medley of ex-pirates, Spanish spies, gold-seekers and riff-raff that came to Virginia hoping to find it a way-station to Eldorado, Soldier of Fortune John Smith was one of the biggest troublemakers. A farmer's son who had won his spurs fighting against the Turks, he was hot-tempered, stocky, boastful and brave. When Chief Powhatan's warriors captured...
Bolivia v. Paraguay. In the sweltering, swampy, mosquito-infested Gran Chaco between Brazil and Paraguay a total of 1.250 soldiers of those nations have died in the recent war (TIME. Aug. 15), according to Bolivian official estimates last week...