Practical Malariology

Malaria control by commodities without practical malariology

Malaria remains a serious clinical and public health problem, the object of an ongoing technological and humanitarian struggle to abate the very substantial harm done. The manner by which humanity approached malaria control changed abruptly and profoundly after 1945 with the advent of the insecticide DDT. Malariologists in the first half of the twentieth century conceived precise modifications ...

Essential Malariology

this volume. As part four indicates, in the mental health field concensus about these concepts is further complicated by such basic questions as "are mind and body fundamentally different"? Theoretical approaches, such as the medical, psychological, behavioral, and societal models, determine what information is gathered from a patient and what judgments are made regarding his or her mental stat...

Health Bulletin, No. 18. Malaria Bureau, No. 9. A Practical Entomological Course for Students of Malariology

[The past revisited: the Institute of Malariology and the Institute of Rural Endemics].

Conference presented by the chemical engineer Dr. Ernest Paulini on his professional history in the field of malariology and public health, focusing especially on the Institute of Malariology; held at the Centro de Pesquitas René Rachou on 6 December 2002, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

John Macculloch, M.D., F.R.S. (1773-1835) (The precursor of the discipline of malariology).

FOR CENTURES "marsh fever" or "ague" was common in some areas of England, particularly in the Thames estuary, south-east Kent, the Fen country of Cambridgeshire, parts of Somerset and Lancashire.' Originally the word "ague" meant any acute fever but gradually it became restricted to the symptoms of plasmodial infection, as we know it.' The Italian common term "mal'aria" was introduced into this...