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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    Most other diseases, however distressing to individuals, brace a people by weeding out the unfit; malaria plays no such useful part in the economy of nature. It seizes all, fit and unfit alike, gradually lessening the general vitality until, in some cases, it has exter- minated the people among whom it has become endemic. Very important evidence is cited in the additional notes on pp. 60 and 76. I hope that some readers will be encouraged to search for fresh evidence, and to publish their con- clusions. That hope is the only justification for publishing the present inquiry. W. H. S. JONES. Perse School, Cambridge.