When a young woman threatened with malaria proposes to go out into an Italian night, bare-shouldered, a mere man is left speechless.
I begin to appreciate Aunt Katherine's anxiety for Gerald--do you suppose there is any danger of malaria at Villa Vivalanti?
I'm afraid it's getting late, and Aunt Katherine would be scandalized if she found hermalaria patient waiting up for her.
Malaria is caused by plasmodia, which are protozoa, not bacteria, and it is carried from case to case by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles.
In visiting a case of pernicious malaria or one of yellow fever avoid the bites of mosquitoes by gloves and a piece of netting, and there is no danger whatever.
The larvae come to the surface of the water to get air, and they may be smothered with petroleum; but the only effective way to get rid of malaria and yellow fever is to drain or fill pools of water and marshes.
A bite from an anopheles mosquito does not cause malaria unless the particular mosquito has previously bitten a malaria patient.
Malaria and similar diseases are caused by plasmodia, which are protozoa and not bacteria.
Constant exhalations of malaria take place till the return of the cold weather.
Now it is the cold wind that operates, and possibly this is intensified by the malaria of the drying-up surface.
He must be away occasionally, to clear his system of its malaria physical and moral.
By living in protected houses and wearing gloves and veils at night all the staff escaped malaria except one or two attendants.
But probably the greater part of the enormous total of deaths set down to malaria is due to the malarial cachexia.
Sir Patrick Manson has suggested that the problem of stamping out malaria may be assisted by the discovery of some at present unknown factors.
Of 24 protected persons, all escaped but four, and these had to be out at night or otherwise neglected precautions; of 38 unprotected persons, all contracted malaria except two, who had apparently acquired immunity.
To apply these discoveries to the malaria of man was an obvious step.
The pathological changes in malaria are due to the deposition of melanin and the detritus of red corpuscles and haemoglobin, and to the congregation of parasites in certain sites (Ross).
Similarly, the subsidence of malaria during cold weather and its seasonal prevalence find an adequate explanation in the conditions governing insect life.
Then, turning his attention to the malaria of birds, he worked out the life-history of these cells within the body of the mosquito.
He is a good engineer and a good fellow, but he is so nearly dead with malaria that he can't do two hours' work in a week.
However, the farm-houses, up on higher ground, are out of the malaria belt.
Malaria plays ugly tricks with a man's heart now and then.
But they can't catch malaria until May, when the mosquitoes come.
I heard that he had malaria in India, and that perhaps accounts for it, but he shows signs of his mother's delicacy.
For one thing, it's curious that the malaria should attack him in a severe form after a lengthy absence from the tropical jungles where he caught it.
The lower parts lying toward the Indian Ocean and the Limpopo River are feverish, though drainage and cultivation may be expected to reduce the malaria and improve the conditions of health.
It spreads over a wide space of ground, with houses scattered here and there, and has become, since the draining of the marshy land on the banks of a streamlet which runs through it, free from malaria and quite healthy.
We are engaged in intensive malaria eradication projects in many parts of the world.
He gave some simple remedies to several victims of malaria which proved effective.
Mackay had just recovered from one of those violent attacks of malaria from which he suffered so often now, and he was still looking pale and weak.
The native doctors believed malaria to be caused by two devils in a patient, one causing the chills, the other the fever.
They not only did all they could for his own recovery when malaria attacked him, but they helped also to cure his patients.
Then there were quinine and other simple remedies for malaria handed round, for in a Formosan crowd there were often many shaking in the grip of this terrible disease.
With a coolie to carry provisions, their Bibles, their forceps, and some malaria medicine, they started off fully equipped.
For, once seized by malaria in Formosa, one seldom makes his escape.
But his sister was cured of malaria by the missionary's medicine, and soon both sister and mother became Christians, and finally the stone-thrower himself.
One of the main preoccupations in the wards was the differential diagnosis between atypical malaria and typhoid fever, for the malaria that one reads of in textbooks did not exist save exceptionally.
We had, for the men, quinine parades, when five grains were swallowed as a prophylactic against malaria every day.
In general, the typhoid cases were consistently heavy and depressed, while the malaria cases had spells of cheerfulness.
Or, perhaps, the deadly malaria was beginning its insidious poisoning.
His revered father, advanced in years, and weakened by overwork and business worries, succumbed to the malaria so prevalent in Seville during the hot months and passed away, after a brief illness.
There are perhaps 6 light cases of malaria weekly, 3 to 5 cases of bacillic dysentery every month, treated with serum; 1 case of more serious dysentery was sent away to the English Hospital in Alexandria.
In the wards for prisoners suffering from malaria the beds are enclosed by mosquito nets to prevent the anopheles mosquito infecting itself and then biting other patients or people of the neighbourhood.
The grass of the meadows where the malaria mosquito breeds was cut short and kept short within three hundred feet of dwellers,--as far as the mosquito can fly.
Accordingly, with the aid of six thousand men and five million dollars he set about to starve out the few infected and infectious kinds of mosquito,--the yellow-fever or house mosquito and the malaria or meadow mosquito.
Perhaps the most notable recent example of government germ extermination is the triumph over the yellow-fever and malaria mosquito in Panama.
According to physicians, malaria has become one of the most generally diffused products of the country.
Where malaria and fevers prevail, there is no safety for the crop, as the vine seems to be as susceptible to such influences as human beings.
Malaria you will hear glibly talked of; but whatmalaria means and consists of you will find few men ready to attempt to tell you, and these few by no means of a tale.
I do not suppose this does much harm, as the malaria is the main thing that wants curing; unless Dr.
It is impossible to over-rate the importance of such work as this to West Africa, for the man who will make West Africa pay will be the scientific man who gives us something more powerful against malaria than quinine.
The chief trouble was our old enemy, camp diarrhea, but there were also other types of diseases--malaria and the like.
While we were at Owl creek the medical authorities of the army put in operation a method for the prevention and cure of malaria that was highly popular with some of the boys.
That everlasting Arkansas malaria will be the death of me yet!
I'll take on another cartload of malaria if I have to lie out in these woods to-night.
I guess I shall never get that Arkansas malaria out of my system, though I've taken enough quinine to start a drug store.
For instance, it has been found that planting a row of trees between the house and a pool from which malaria might come has been of aid in warding off the disease.
Since we have learned that malaria is carried by mosquitoes, we are less interested in the amount of organic matter in the soil.
It will positively eliminate all malaria in the vicinity if the work is thoroughly done.
He had had no trace of malaria before, but a week after the mosquito's bite he came down with the disease.
These fleas harbor the plague bacilli in their stomachs and inject them into the bodies of those they bite, in the same way that the anopheles or stegomyia mosquito transmits malaria or yellow fever.
Malaria comes from the cellar, whenever the malarial mosquito can find there a breeding place.
The general impression that swampy land is favorable to the development of malaria is correct, but not because the damp air is itself pernicious.
In a number of cases a thick row of eucalyptus trees, so associated in the popular mind with this purpose that they are known as the malaria tree, have been planted as a tight hedge with apparently very useful results.
From time immemorial, malaria (or fever-and-ague) has been one of the great plagues of humanity.
If he had malaria it clung to him year after year, while he grew more reserved and silent, and saw less and less of the people.
Yet in 1915 we had only a dozen cases of malaria develop in men who had never been out of England, and were therefore, presumably, infected in France.
Malaria in France is also comparatively unknown, though we found the Anopheles mosquito which is responsible for transmitting the disease elsewhere.
Mosquitoes are responsible for transmitting malaria and yellow fever, though the latter never occurs in Europe.
Malaria is transmitted in this way by the anopheles mosquito; typhus fever by lice, and plague by the rat flea.
Here again, any cases of malaria developing were removed as rapidly as diagnosed, so that mosquitoes did not have much opportunity of becoming infected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "malaria" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
