Malaria : a neglected factor in the history of Greece and Rome / by W.H.S. Jones ; with an introduction by Sir R. Ross ; a concluding chapter by G.G. Ellett.

  • Jones, W. H. S. (William Henry Samuel), 1876-1963.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: Malaria : a neglected factor in the history of Greece and Rome / by W.H.S. Jones ; with an introduction by Sir R. Ross ; a concluding chapter by G.G. Ellett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Accordingly, Celsus gives much instruction as to the proper times of administering food and drink to the patient, and enters into a detailed account of the cures for semi-tertians, (which are treated early, possibly because of their great malignity), for feverish symptoms, chill preceding fever, shivering in fever, quotidians, tertians, quartans, two quartans, and quotidians following on quartans. Apart from the elaborate treatment, which is much fuller than that given to any other disease, there is but little that is worthy of notice for the present inquiry. The care taken in administering food and drink, and the recommendations that the patient should have exercise, if possible, when free from fever, are indications of the extreme weakness which accompanies or follows malaria. The quartan, however serious its after-effects may be, was apparently regarded as a petty ailment. See especially hi. xv. “nam quartana neminem iugulat.” This gives some point to Juvenal’s sneer at “the old man with a quartan.” There is a reference to the exist- ence of fever (probably malaria) in Egypt and Asia1 (i.e. the Roman province), while the fact that Heraclides of Tarentum is twice2 mentioned seems to show he paid particular attention to malaria. If so, Taren- tum and its neighbourhood may have been as 1 III. iv. 2 III. vi. and xv.