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constantly in order that he might not take malaria. 

 The other one said that he went about into all sorts 

 of malarial places, but he never took quinine until 

 he had been attacked by the disease, and then he 

 took some quinine and that cured him at once. That 

 the first doctor avoided malaria I quite believe, that 

 the second one got cured of it I also believe, but it 

 is difficult to say what part the quinine played either 

 in the prevention or the cure. I met another English- 

 man, a fine, strong man, who had caught malaria 

 and was attended by the best medical man he could 

 get, and he told me that he understood that he should 

 never be quite well until he had been home to England 

 and had a long holiday in that climate. A friend 

 of mine who gave very great attention to medical 

 questions and managed to keep himself in first-class 

 health until he was over eighty years of age, and who 

 spent thirty years in India, a great part of the time 

 in charge of a considerable number of troops, told 

 me that he considered " quinine was one of the greatest 

 curses from which the world suffered." However it 

 may be with quinine, there is no doubt that if suffi 

 cient care is taken malaria can be greatly reduced, 

 and probably it can be abolished from India if we 

 only take the trouble and are willing to incur the 

 expense. 



What a magnificent country India would be if 

 only this malaria was abolished, and I am quite 

 certain of this, that if instructions were given to 

 the engineers in the employ of the British Govern- 

 ment in India to abolish malaria, and they were 



