The Malaria Story

A brief story of English malaria.

In the course of my work I have of late treated many persons suffering from recurrences of malaria contracted abroad, and some of these or their friends have had the curiosity to ask whether there is any likelihood of the disease becoming established once more in England where, in parts, mosquitoes capable of carrying malaria still abound. Doubtless the same thought has occurred to many others....

Bright's Disease, Malaria, and Machine Politics: The Story of the Illness of President Chester A. Arthur

In July of 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot in the back at the Sixth Street Train Station in Washington, D.C. Garfield died after an extended illness and Chester A. Arthur assumed the presidency on September 20, 1881. He served the remaining three and a half years but was ill for most of his term. Arthur died of the complications of Bright's disease less than two years after leaving o...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

A Story to Be Shared: the Successful Fight against Malaria in Vietnam

A case history of a success story is presented. It chronicles the evolution of the Malaria Program in Vietnam in the post-liberation war era. A questionnaire provided by the Roll Back Malaria team in Geneva was used to document relevant technical background information on the Program in a standardized manner and is presented as an annex. Otherwise, the case history gives a lightly readable acco...

the archetype of mother: a never-ending story retold by poe

investigation the archetype of mother can help the reader to understand poes works, especially his fiction, better, if not fully. motivated by internal and external drives to get into the universe in its manifold form poe was impelled to art and, from various modes of art, to symbolism. how much was poe successful to produce works of art has been a matter of dispute among critics. however, ther...