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Table XVII. — Cases experimentally infected with malaria by A. rossi, 



compared by days. 



CASE 727." 



Days 

 after in- 

 fection. 



Parasites. 



Maximum 

 temperature. 



Symptoms. 



Spleen. 



Quinine. 



| 



1-13 



14 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 23 



Negative (daily exam- 

 ination). 

 Few at 11a. m. *> 



°F. 

 Normal 



100.8<-'._ 



101.8 



103.6 



None 



Normal 



Grains. 

 Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 

 40 

 45 

 40 

 30 



Slight 



do ._ - 



Marked 



do 





do 



Dullness increased ... 



Marked increased 



Only 1 found 



103.2 



99.2 



Severe 



do 





1(?) 



Normal 



Slight 











do 









do 

































CASE 



408.<1 







1-18 



14 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 



20 

 21 

 22 

 23 



Negative (daily exam- 

 ination). 

 Negative.. 



Normal 



do 







Nil. 



Nil. ! 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 



Nil. 

 30 

 40 

 30 



do 



do 



do— 



do 



do... 



do 



Few 



do 



do 



do 



do . 



do . 



do 



100.2 



do 



Not palpable 



101.8 



do . 



Palpable -. 



101.6 



do 



Two and a half fin- 



gersbreadth. 

 do 



Increased 



103.2 



—do .. 



Further increased 



Negative 



99 



Slight 



Nil 





Normal 



do 



. .do 



....do 



do . 















» Case 727. Blood examined daily eighteen days after disappearance of parasites, negative. 

 Quinine treatment was continued at least ten days. 



b For numbers, 6ee Table XVIII. 



c Began to rise from 4 to 8 o'clock in the afternoon ; 100.8° was the midnight temperature. 



d Case 408. Blood examined daily twelve days after disappearance of parasites, negative. 

 Spleen April 15 (= twenty-fifth day) slightly reduced; April 20, 3 fingersbreadth ; April 25, 

 1.5 fingersbreadth ; April 27, palpable below ribs ; April 29, palpable, deep respiration only ; 

 May 2, not palpable. Quinine treatment was continued eighteen days. 



Some details as to the number of parasites found on different 

 days are given in Tables XVIII and XIX. In case 727 an at- 

 tempt was made to estimate roughly the number of parasites 

 appearing in the peripheral blood on different days. A large 

 number of erythrocytes were counted, or rather their number 

 estimated, in a thin preparation stained by Hasting's stain. The 

 estimate was made by means of a disk inserted into the eyepiece 



