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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some ten years ago, Colonel Henry Edward Shortt, a British expert on tropical diseases, set out to find an answer. Last week he thought he had it: during the ten-day incubation, the parasite lurks in the liver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hiding Place | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...believer in hunches, Dr. Shortt tackled the puzzle with conventional research methods. In a laboratory near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, he shut a rhesus monkey into a cage with 500 malaria-carrying mosquitoes (previous experiments had used 20 to 100). Just to make sure that the monkey would hatch a really bad case, he killed the mosquitoes, made a solution out of them, and injected it into the monkey's muscles and chest. No other monkey had ever been so swamped with malaria. After seven days Dr. Shortt performed a careful autopsy. Said he: "I went over every conceivable piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hiding Place | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...given malaria anyway for treatment of general paralysis. The patient and his wife agreed that doctors could take out a small piece of his liver by a minor operation, seven days after he had been bitten by infected mosquitoes. At 5 o'clock one morning Dr. Shortt got the sliver of liver, rushed to his laboratory and worked until 11 that night. Sure enough, he found the incubating malaria parasites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hiding Place | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Next step is to find a drug that will kill the parasites in the liver before they have time to erupt into the bloodstream. Dr. Shortt, 61, is willing to leave that detail to the chemists; he has an idea about African sleeping sickness that he wants to get right to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hiding Place | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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