Malaria Collection

Peruvian bark tree plantations in the Neilgherry Hills, India..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
Peruvian bark tree plantations in the Neilgherry Hills, India: Sir William Denison, Governor of Madras, planting the first tree in a new plantation, 1862. 'Mr

William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General, U.S.A. 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
William C. Gorgas, Surgeon General, U.S. Army, 1914. Head of the Panama Canal Zone Sanitation Commission, his work on limiting the transmission of yellow fever

Malaria poster in small hotel, Puerto Rico... San Juan, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Malaria poster in small hotel, Puerto Rico... San Juan

Cinchona. The Caribbean Jesuits Bark, 1801. Creator: Unknown
Cinchona. The Caribbean Jesuits Bark, 1801. Cinchona, source of the anti-malarial remedy quinine, from Encyclopaedia Londinensis, published by John Wilkes c1796-1828

Malaria, 1848-1849. Artist: Hebert, Ernest (1817-1908)
Malaria, 1848-1849. Found in the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris

Philippine Islands, early 19th century, (c1930s). Artist: Richard Thomas Underwood
Philippine Islands. Piles raise these houses near Manila out of the stagnant water which is a breeding-ground for mosquitoes, early 19th century, (c1930s). From Geographical Magazine, Volume 5

William Gorgas, (1854-1920), 1920s
Dr William Gorgas, born in Mobila in 1854 and was head of health service in Cuba during the government of Wood. The measures taken against mosquitoes gave a remarkable outcome; in seven months

Alphonse Laveran, French physician, 1917. In 1880 Laveran (1845-1922) made the discovery that malaria were caused by protozoa

Typical enlarged spleen of a Malaria patient, c1890. Malaria is caused a parasitic protozoa transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito

Cinchona (Jesuits or Peruvian Bark) 1795. A source of quinine, it was used as a febrifuge, particularly in the treatment of malaria. From A Key to Physic, by Ebenezer Sibly, (London, 1795)

Europeans in a smallpox quarantine camp at El Tor, North Africa, 1884. Passengers from the SS Mira at a camp on the Arabian Coast

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