HIST 3D Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Blackwater Fever, Plasmodium Malariae, Plasmodium Falciparum
Empire and Insect Vectors: Malaria
● Trade and Imperialism c 1850-1914
- Technological facilitators
- Social push
- Economic pull and investment
- The game of empire
- Disease encounters
● Malaria in history
- Plasmodium species and vectors
- Cycles in mosquito and victim
- Mosquito ecology
- Clinical course
- Antiquity and spread
- Confinement to tropics
● Malaria: Possible Causes
- Old- miasmas
- Laveran: the Plasmodium
- Grassi: mosquitos and malaria
● Ross and Synthesis
- Imperial background
- Anopheles student
- Studies and hints 1890s
- 1897: birds and humans
- Strategy: mosquito control
● Malaria and yellow fever
- Experience great change in medical understanding in the last two decades of the
nineteenth century (from about 1880-1905)
- Danger in the air and in insects human carried on their bodies
- Other ways of entrances of pathogens into the body
- Caused by agents that don’t look like bacteria (they aren’t bacteria); in the case
of yellow fever, it can’t be seen by the naked eye (it was sub-microscopic)
● Change in global interaction
- Greatest age of international trade, commerce, movement of peoples
- The expansion of Europe
- Technological facilitators:
- by the 1850s, steam had become ubiquitous as the means for driving
larger ships across the ocean (could move people and goods much
faster)
- Firearms and cannon
- → gunboats and battleships
- Social push: more discussion in Europe about the need for opportunities for the
energetic Englishmen, Frenchmen, Italians, etc→ going abroad to the colonies
Document Summary
Experience great change in medical understanding in the last two decades of the nineteenth century (from about 1880-1905) Danger in the air and in insects human carried on their bodies. Other ways of entrances of pathogens into the body. Caused by agents that don"t look like bacteria (they aren"t bacteria); in the case of yellow fever, it can"t be seen by the naked eye (it was sub-microscopic) Greatest age of international trade, commerce, movement of peoples. Technological facilitators: by the 1850s, steam had become ubiquitous as the means for driving larger ships across the ocean (could move people and goods much faster) Social push: more discussion in europe about the need for opportunities for the energetic englishmen, frenchmen, italians, etc going abroad to the colonies. White man"s burden/duty to go into the world. Appeal of raw materials and precious metals and gems.
