FOR HUMANITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 173, 23 July 1936, Page 18

FOR HUMANITY.

SACRIFICE IN RESEARCH.

RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH.

LONDON, June 8.

Dramatic stories of men who voluntarily contract deadly diseases in the cause of science were told by Sir Malcolm Watson, director of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, at a London conference.

At no time in the history of research, he declared, had there been a lack of volunteers when men were required to risk or sacrifice their own lives and health for the benefit of their fellow creatures.

"World Benefits." "When," he added, "two young American . soldiers, knowing full well the danger and suffering of an attack of yellow fever, allowed themselves to be bitten* by infected mosquitoes, one of them said: 'We are doing this solely in the interests of humanity and the cause of science.'"

In another experiment, conducted by Patrick Manson, mosquitoes which had fed on patients suffering from malaria in Rome were sent to London.

Ten days later they were allowed to bite two volunteers who had not been exposed to malaria previously. One volunteer was Manson's son, Dr. Thorburn Manson, the other Mr. Warren, of the London School of Tropical Medicine. After the usual incubation period both volunteers went down with malaria, and parasites of that disease were found in beir blood. The mosquitoes fed in Korne had given these two people in London the Roman malaria. So one discovery leads to another," benefits." Said ' " and the whole world