Excerpt from Modern Treatment, Vol. 2 of 2: The Management of Disease With Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Remedies, in Contributions by American and Foreign Authorities BY malarial infections we understand a group of specific fevers due to the invasion of the red blood corpuscles of man by closely related animal parasites belonging to the protozoa. Clinically, these infections are characterized by periodicity in the temperature curve, by their yielding to quinine, and by the fact that they are all transmitted by mosquitoes belonging to the anophelinae. In the treatment of these infections, medicine possesses one of its few true specifics; but although this is so, there is perhaps no drug so much misused as quinine, the specific for these fevers. In order that this drug may be properly used it is necessary that the clinician have a true conception of what malarial infections really are, and of how the drug influences the parasites concerned in the production of these most com mon and important febrile diseases. It will thus be necessary to consider briefly the parasites which cause the various forms of malarial infection and the effect upon these organisms of the specific, quinine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.