What did sir ronald ross discovered electricity
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Blog by Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie
In the sweltering heat of British India, a doctor was working late one evening in his laboratory. His scalpel glinted with the sweat from his brow as he dissected his th mosquito, gently separating the flesh of the thorax from the abdomen. He was tired, a little feverish, and about to give up and go to bed when he saw them. Tiny speckled dots—plasmodium parasites—peppering the cells beneath the lens of his microscope. This was his eureka moment.
December marks years since Britain won its very first Nobel Prize. It was given to Scottish pathologist Ronald Ross for proving that mosquitoes transmit malaria.
Ross had made a groundbreaking discovery—today vector control (targeting the mosquitoes that transmit the malaria parasite) is still the cornerstone of the World Health Organisation’s anti-malaria strategy.
As a member of the Indian Medical Service and later professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Ross gained fame as an autho
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Never before seen letters reveal the story of the scientist who laid the foundations of a cure for malaria more than a century ago
When British doctor Sir Ronald Ross discovered the crucial link between mosquitos and malaria at the end of the 19 century, he understandably thought it marked the beginning of the end of the deadly disease – rampant then not only in colonial India and Africa, but also in southern European countries such as Greece and Italy.
More than a century after Ross’s momentous break through, malaria continues to kill hundreds of thousands of people every year- a neglected disease for much of the 20 century.
But, the laborious scientific hunt and subsequent elation felt by Dr Ross, who discovered that malaria parasites were transmitted by mosquitos on 20 August , dubbed Mosquito Day by Ross himself, are revealed for the first time in previously unseen archived letters and documents.
Ross, who was the first Briton to be awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine, di
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This section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original struktur and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. Robert E Sinden reviews Ronald Ross’s pivotal work on the malaria parasite and comments on the potential for malaria vector research and control.
ON SOME PECULIAR PIGMENTED CELLS FOUND IN TWO MOSQUITOS FED ON MALARIAL BLOOD.
By Surgeon-Major RONALD ROSS, I.M.S., (with note by Surgeon-Major SMYTH, M.D, I.M.S.)
For the last two years inom have been endeavouring to cultivate the parasite of malaria in the mygga. The method adopted has been to feed mosquitos, bred in bottles from the larva, on patients having crescents in the blood, and then to examine their tissues for parasites similar to the haemamoeba in man. The study fryst vatten a difficult one, as there fryst vatten no a priori indication of what the derived parasite will be like precisely, nor in what particular species of insekt the expe