Ronald ross: malariologist and polymath. A biography.

A Case of Identical Delirium in Repeated Attacks of BlackWater Fever at Long Intervals

By RONALD SENIOR-WHITE, Malariologist, Bengal Nag pur Railway. C. p> j-j^ Civil Engineer, first came to the r?pics in 1901. For the first two years of his lQnC'ence *n ^le ^ia<^ 110 malaria, but in "3, after a visit to Portuguese East Africa, he eveloped blackwater fever on his return to ?nannesburg. At that time his work on the Rand Mines consisted in the erection of barracks for Chinese labou...

Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, CIE (1860-1930): prophylactic vaccination against cholera and bubonic plague in British India.

Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine developed an anticholera vaccine at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, in 1892. From the results of field trials in India from 1893 to 1896, he has been credited as having carried out the first effective prophylactic vaccination for a bacterial disease in man. When the plague pandemic reached Bombay, Haffkine became bacteriologist to the Government of (British) India (1896...

Proceedings of a Conference Held at Birnagar (Bengal), the 24th February, 1929, to Discuss the Problem of Malaria Control at Birnagar

1. Sir Malcolm Watson, m.d., ix.d., President. 2. Dr. C. A. Bentley, c.i.E., m.b., d.p.h., d.t.m. & h., Director of Public Health, Bengal. 3. Major H. Suhrawardy, o.b.E., m.d., E.R.C.s.i., d.p.hv Chief Medical Officer, E. B. Railway. 4. Major H. Lockvvood Stevens, Organising Secretary, Ross Institute. 5. Captain B. S. Chalam, e.R.c.p., e.R.E.p.s., Malariologist, E. B. Railway. 6. Dr. S. N. Sur,...

Comparing software for interactive solution of systems of nonlinear algebraic equations

Four general purpose interactive numerical solution packages: MAPLE, MATLAB, MATHEMATICA and POLYMATH are compared with regard to their performance in solving systems of nonlinear algebraic equations typical to chemical engineering applications. Criteria for ease of learning, ease of use and user-friendliness of the packages are introduced. Benchmark problems are used to demonstrate that the se...

Some Observations of Practical Importance and Interest for the Malariologist