CURED BY A MOSQUITO.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18625, 3 May 1932, Page 9

CURED BY A MOSQUITO.

INSECT’S JOURNEY IN CAGE. MAN SAVED FROM DEATH. How a mosquito blip cured a man of a disease until recently regarded as fatal was described by the Mayor o( Bournemouth in an address lo Hie Hospital Saturday and Sunday Fund Committee, says a London paper. Referring lo the work of the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital, Ihe Mayor, Alderman Percy M. Bright, gave an example of Ihe wonderful cures effected, and mentioned the case of a man who was suffering from a terrible disease which, up to recently, had always ended in insanity and I death. A Jotter describing the symptoms of Ihe case, he said, was sent to Hie tropical diseases research laboratories in London. “Almost by return a woman doctor came down. She had witli her a tiny I parcel. Reside was a liny cage and 1 in Ihe cage was a very small mosquito of a rare species from .somewhere, in the middle of Africa. The mosquito was very hungry. H had been kept without food for a purpose. Cured and At Work. “ The rage was put on the man’s leg. the bottom of the cage was slid open, and the mosquito immediately settled on Ihe leg. II look two good bites In satisfy its hunger and went hack into Ihe cage. “ The cage was wrapped up and the lady took il hark lo London. The man to-day Is cured and is now worki**_*jO •

An authority on tropical diseases stated that the treatment had been known for five or six years. lie explained that malaria infection was conveyed by the mosquito’s bite. “ The high temperatures which accompany the fever have been found to have a very definite curative effect on general paralysis,” ho said. “We have not been able to discover why this should be, but the treatment does have very successful results and Hie cure is often practically complete.”