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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1913)
CHRONIC MALARIA AND IIS CAUSES Malarial Parasites Often Remain in the Body When Patient Is Apparently Cured. 1— Atlanta, Ga. —There are persons In Georgia walking around with malaria, who do not know they have it. They have had all the symptoms of malaria one or more times, and when the symp toms are eliminated they think them selves cured. They attribute the re curring attacks to a fresh infection, whereas the cause is really within themselves. This is known as chronic malaria, in which the patient retains within his body dormant elements of the dis ease; when these become active, as they may do at any time, all the symp toms of the disease again appear, and the patient has an acute attack. The causes of, and the methods of treating, chronic malaria are now well understood. The discovery of the ma larial parasite has resulted in the clearing up of practically everything that was formerly obscure in connec tion with malaria. Not only did this discovery bring knowledge of the means of transmission of the disease, but further investigation has clearly shown how chronic malaria is produc ed and why it is that quinine falls to relieve it. A few days after a man becomes inoculated with malaria, through the bite of an infected anopheles mosquito, two varieties of parasites are found in the blood. One of these is the ordi nary chill-producing parasite, which is effectually killed by quinine; the oth er is the sexual form of the parasite and is in no way affected by that drug. May Carry Them for Years. These sexual forms of the parasite, male and female, circulate in the blood for months and, possibly, years, simply waiting for the anopheles mosquito to suck them out; then, within the body of the mosquito, the union is formed between the male and female para sites, and the production of the many young chill-causing malarial parasites follows; then these young parasites are injected into the blood of a man, when the mosquito bites, and an acute attack of malaria follows. The anopheles mosquito which is the sole conveyor of the malarial par asite, has been described in a former article. Resting with its body almost at right angles to the surface to which it attaches itself, it is easily distin guishable from the common form of mosquito, whose bent body, in rest, is almost parallel to the surface on which it alights. When it bites it injects the chill-producing parasite into the blood. Each of these para sites attacks a red blood corpuscle and soon divides into from seven to twenty-five chill-producing parasites, and each of these, in turn, attacks an other red blood cell. This process goes on until, within a comparatively short time, a sufficient number of parasites has been produced to cause the symp toms of malaria. How It Becomes Chronic. After a person has had malaria for a short while, there are millions of these sexual parasites in the blood. The chill-producing parasites may have all been killed by quinine, and the patient may feel restored in health. But it has been shown that occasional ly a female sexual parasite remaining in the blood, will, for some inexplica ble reason, suddenly breed or give off the chill-producing parasites, and these latter then begin to multiply rapidly. In a week or so they will cause the malarial chills just as though the pa tient had been inoculated by a mos quito. The foregoing explains the well known fact that patients with chronic malaria have from time to time, re currences of the disease after having been apparently cured by quinine. It also shows how and why a patient ap parently cured, yet harboring the sex ual forms of the parasite, is just as dangerous in causing the spread of the disease as is one suffering from an acute attack. Cure of Chronic Malaria. It follows from the foregoing, says the Georgia State Board of Health, that the first step necessary is to kill the chill-producing parasite with qui nine, and then begin the administra tion of arsenic in as large doses as possible, for it has been found that this drug kills the sexual form of the parasite, though it is usually neces sary to administer it for several months before the object is attained. While giving the arsenic the patient should have a full dose of quinine ev ery few days, as otherwise some of the female sexual forms might sporu late and give rise to some of the chill producing forms which are not affect ed to any extent by arsenic. Arsenic, as is well known, Is a poi sonous drug; and it is likewise dan gerous for persons unfamiliar with quinine to administer that drug. It is essential, therefore, that in the proper treatment of malaria, a com petent physician be called, and that the patient follow explicitly his direc tions until he is pronounced cured. The State Board of Health is pre pared to make examinations of blood for malarial parasites free of cost, and will gladly make such tests and report the results to any one desiring them. Specimens should be address ed to Dr. H. F. Harris, Secretary' State Board of Health, State Capitol, At lanta, Ga. If there is any doubt about it, the safest method is to have your physi cian send a specimen of your blood to she State Board. 1 Fools Keep In The Background. Senator Bacon is no fire-eater. He is a Senator From Georgia and a very capable statesman. Also, he is chairman of the for | eign relations committee of the i body of which he is a member. He says that the “President is face to face with the gravest emergency that has confronted i s since I have been a member .of the Senate. It is much grav -ler than that which faced us in the Cuban situation.” There fore, he advises to keep cool and let cool heads define the policy to be pursued by a government that | is less than 150 years old and has never been whipped. It has whipped some of the oldest and strongest governments in Europe. We all remember what happened to Spain in the Cuban situation. Let statesmen talk nowand fools keep in the background. Fools may get a chance to show their bravery later on.—Houston (Tex.) Post, Visions of Roast Beef. It seems almost incredible, hut the fact is vouched for at Wash ington, that a representative of the Government is soon to take ship for South America for the purpose of encouraging sonsign mencs of beef to the United States. The administration cher ishes the belief that with meats free of tax at our custom houses it will be possible occasionally to buy in this market an Argentine roast or steak. To facilitate the traffic, the federal official named will explain conditions here and do what he can in other ways to open up a new and paying com merce. If in all our history there ever was such a reversal of form as this, the books make no mention of it. Heretofore the whole en ergy of government has been exerted for markets of the trusts. Now we send a man at public ex pense thousands of miles to stir up competition for a trust. A year ago this would have been flat treason. In Mark Hanna’s time there would have been a cry of murder from coast to coast. Today it excites nothing hut ex pectant smiles upon the counte nance of millions who eat or who would like to eat. —World. Mentions Senator Bacon F'or Secretary of State. The prediction has been made that Col. Wm. J. Bryan will not serve out his term as secretary of state and that he will be suc ceeded by Senator A. O. Bacon. The New York Sun has strongly indorsed the Georgia senator and everyone recognizes him as one of the best equipped men in the country for the delicate and im portant duties of the office. — Griffin News. It Will Be Righted. The Legislators who adjourned last night and are returning to day to the bosoms of their re spective families, must feel that they were overshadowed by the Frank trial, so far as newspaper attention is concerned in the present capital city. “Jim Con ley,” “Lemmie Quinn” and “Newsie” got more space and pictures than the House or Sen ate leaders. It is awful, hut all will be, righted when the capital is mov ed to Macon. —Macon Telegraph, j Cotton Crop Late. Americus, Ga., Aug. 15—Twen ty bales of new cotton were marketed in Americus today, making a total of thirty-five bales received already. Cotton is beginning to open rapidly and the fields will soon be white with the staple. While the crop will be late this season, Americus warehouses will probably receive ■ 1,000 hales during August, which is about half the usual receipts prior to September. • THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1913. .“Maryland My Maryland” . 1 Os the events of the Civil War with which Baltimore is identi fied, the best known by long I odds is that it was the scene of the first bloodshed in that conflict, . when the Sixth Massachusetts , Regiment, on its way to the de fense of Washington, was at tacked in the streets. News of ’ the encounter inspired Randall, in distant Louisiana, to write the II State song, "Maryland, My •! Maryland.” i We are reminded of that dis ! ti’acted period in the life of the 1 1 city by the death of Gen. Edward F. Jones, who commanded the Sixth Massachusetts during the 1 ordeal of its march from Presi dent street station to Camden 1 station. His conduct subsequent -1 ly during the war gave him no special distinction as a military man: and he is recalled by the people of Baltimore rather be cause of his quest in later years for the body of the war’s first victim, a member of his regi ment, than for his connection with the events of April 19, 1861. When the Spanish war came on, Baltimore evened the sco e by feting the Sixth Massachu setts of that period on its way to the front. Mayor Brown, Mar shal Kane and all the other prom inent figures in the former and tragic reception of the regiment are long since dead, and for some years only Gen. Jones survived. But “Maryland, My Maryland,” remains as a permanent inspira tion. —Baltimore News. Breaking The News. There is a certain stableman in Brighton, says an English pa -1 per, who has a tender heart, and who understands the art of break ing bad news gently. For ex ample: A gentleman living in Wales, who was spending a month at Brighton, accompanied his wife and daughter to London fora few day’s visit. The daughter, after buying whatever else she wanted, de cided that she must have a bull dog. The entire family went to help her select the dog, hut as they could not agree, at all the gentleman bought three. He had the three dogs sent to Brighton, then changed his plans 1 about going back there, and took his family home to Wales. A few days later he received the following letter from the stable man at Brighton: “Dear Sir. Your three bull dogs came all right last night on the same train. I locked them up together in a loose box. “Yours truly, J. J. “P. S. —We have only one loose box. “P. P. S. —You will have to buy some more dogs.” Adel Gets First Bale Os Sea Island Cotton. Adel has the distinction of re ceiving the first bale of Sea Is land cotton marketed in the Southern States this year. It was ginned here Thursday morning and was shipped by ex press to Savannah by J. E. & W. B. Wilkes. The bale is thirteen days earlier than the first one marketed here last year, and speaks well for the hustling ability of the young farmer who brought it in. The bale weighed 450 pounds, and was grown by Mr. J. S. | Jones of the Adel District. Adel j News. A Distressing Situation. i A question of anatomy that needed an immediate answer came up during Willie’s morning ablutions, says the Family Herald of Montreal. “Ma! *Ma!” he sobbed. “Do my ears belong to my neck or my , face?” “Why, what is the matter?” was the temporizing reply. “Well, you told Mary to wash my face, and she’s washing my ears, too!” 1 Just Half Price ! | I 1 More than half of | my stock cut ex= j | actly Half Price \ 1 FOR CASH j I Began Aug. 4th. I jW. H. McQueen j MT. VERNON, GA. | Now Equipment For Seaboard. The Seaboard Air Line has placed in service on all through trains the handsomest diners ev er built. The ears are inductive to cool traveling as well as to safety. Paddle fans really cool the passengers without buzzing. The tile floor is cool, sanitary and does not contain odors as car pets do. The sunken electric lights give sufficient light with out being glaring, and the venti lation of these modern cars re moves the sting of summer. The service is ala carte, offering the best the marked affords. In addition to this, they have also put in service new steel coaches, elaborately finished which makes them the pioneers in solid steel trains operating in the South, For full information relative Seaboard schedules, etc. write, C. W. Small, Div. Pass. Agent, ad. Savannah. A. 1,. Lanier, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON, <JA. Will Practice in all the Courts of the State. llamp Burch Attorney at Law Ml: It A E, GA Practices in all the Courts. W. B. 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