BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 
The Mosquito 
Anopheles. 
Plasmodium 
Malariae. 
Length of 
Days and 
Multiplication. 
Mode of 
Communica¬ 
tion. 
ed food, perfect cleanliness and neatness of per¬ 
son and surroundings and a cheerful atmosphere 
at all times. The nurse who pays strict attention 
to all of these requisites is a valuable and valued 
assistant to the physician fighting this disease. 
Malaria. Malaria is now classed as a disease 
of bacterial origin and is believed to be carried 
from the sick to the well by a species of mosquito 
—the anopheles. Those who live in low, damp 
localities or near “swampy” regions are more apt 
to be attacked. The germ to which the poison 
of malaria is said to be due is called plasmodium 
malariae. These germs get into the red cor¬ 
puscles of the blood, live upon them, and de¬ 
stroy them. We are taught that there are three 
varieties of the malaria germ, one of which lives 
in the human structure seventy-two hours, and 
the. other two forty-eight and twenty-four hours 
respectively. Their death, sad to say, does not 
mean the end of the mischief they accomplish, 
as when they cease to exist themselves they di¬ 
vide up into a number of tiny particles or seg¬ 
ments each of which means a new life or germ. 
These new germs attack other red corpuscles 
and live upon them until they, too, die, but in 
dying they form new parasites, as their parent 
germs did before them. Each fresh set of 
germs destroys a large number of the red 
corpuscles. 
Koch, and other scientists, who teach that the 
germ is carried by mosquitoes, believe they slake 
their thirst in infected pools in swamps and then 
alighting on healthy bodies they communicate to 
them the disease—producers by inoculation. 
Thev also teach that these mosquitoes carry the 
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