QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 493 



Questions and Suggestions 



1. Discuss the prevalence of malaria in the world. 



2. How did the disease receive its name ? 



3. Discuss the experiments of Major Ross. 



4. Discuss the cause and spread of malaria. 



5. Discuss the life history of the malarial parasite, including 

 both the asexual and sexual phases. 



6. What effect has malaria on the body ? 



7. How is malaria diagnosed ; how is it prevented ? 



8. Discuss the prevalence of yellow fever. 



9. Discuss the investigation conducted by Major Reed. 



10. What biological and sociological effects did the investigation of 

 yellow fever have on Havana ? 



11. Why is the building of the Panama Canal considered as great 

 a hygienic as an engineering feat? 



12. Discuss the contribution of Hideyo Noguchi to the eradication 

 of yellow fever. 



13. Discuss the cause and the method of spread of yellow fever. 



14. Discuss the prevention of yellow fever. 



15. Which of Koch's postulates was Noguchi unable to carry out 

 in his investigation of yellow fever ? 



16. Does the government give pensions or aid in any form to per- 

 sons (or their dependents) who have risked their lives in scientific 

 investigations? 



Supplementary Readings 



De Kruif, P., Microbe Hunters (Harcourt, Brace & Co.). 

 Greaves, J. E. & E. O., Elementarii Bacteriology (W. B. Saunders Co.). 

 Haggard, H. W., The Science of Health and Disease (Harper & Bros.). 

 Zinsser, Hans, A Textbook of Bacteriology (D. Appleton & Co.). 



