Quinine, mosquitoes and empire: reassembling malaria in British India, 1890–1910

Quinine, mosquitoes and empire: reassembling malaria in British India, 1890–1910

The drug quinine figured as an object of enforced consumption in British India between the late 1890s and the 1910s, when the corresponding diagnostic category malaria itself was redefined as a mosquito-borne fever disease. This article details an overlapping milieu in which quinine, mosquitoes and malaria emerged as intrinsic components of shared and symbiotic histories. It combines insights f...

Malaria and Empire Decay

We have read with very great interest this little book published bj7 Mr. W. H. S. Jones, with added chapters by Major R. Ross, F.R.S., C.B., and Dr. C. G. Ellett * The chief author, Mr. Jones, is a classical scholar of distinction, and his views are, therefore, entitled to respect. We may agree with much of what Major Ross says in the introductory chapter that widespread disease is an important...

The British Empire Exhibition

Quinine and Malaria

To the Editor o) "The inuiah ivibdjoal Gazette." Sir,?Lieut. H. Stott has. in t\vo letters published in your paper, brought up the subject of /-(lay fever " and the value of quinine injection as contrasted with its oral administration in Malaria. , . ? . This induces.roe to forward to you a few records which may b? of interest to him and other leadeis of the Gazette. The first are samples of a ...

Intramuscular Quinine in Malaria

Sir,?I have seen the correspondence on this subject in two or more numbers of the Gazette, and perhaps I may be permitted to record my experience in it. Some years ago I was in charge of a hospital in a malarious district, and, if my memory serves me right, I had occasion to treat about 740 cases microscopically proved to be malaria in 2 years and 10 months' time. I administered over 3,000 intr...