From the Hygiene Institute of Wuerzburg University. (Dean: Professor M. Knorr)
Printed by: F. W. Gadow and Son, Hildburghausen.
(The pamphlet is in the library of the Erlangen University.)
MALARIA
Infection experiments with malaria take up much space in literature. The desire to acquire an exact knowledge of this disease, so important to various countries, makes this fact appear quite understandable. Therefore, numerous experiments on human beings were carried out even before the discovery of the plasmodium malariae and without knowledge of the transmission by anopheles. In the following enumeration, these experiments will be quoted chronologically, thus giving a picture of how the knowledge of the etiology, the infectiousness and the transmission of malaria, was discovered through infection experiments on human beings.
1. (LV 7) * * * SALISBURY (quoted from Mannaberg: Malaria Diseases, Vienna 1899. Nothnagel, Special Pathology and Therapy II 2.) * * * Experiment: * * * Two * * * men * * * after 12 and 14 days, fell ill with typical tertiana. The same experiment in a second case again turned out a positive result.
2. (LV 8) * * * DOCHMANN (Dochmann: The Doctrine of febris intermittens. St. Petersburg Medical Journal. No. 20, quoted from Virchow-Hirsch 1880) * * *. His experiments * * *. 1st experiment: He inoculated * * * a healthy 30-year-old man subcutaneously with * * * feverish chills.
2d experiment: * * * Inoculation of three men * * *