Clinicoimmunologic characteristic of tropical malaria in russians and aboriginals of guinean republic

The clinical course of tropical malaria in 265 Russians and in 672 aboriginals is compared. The course of tropical malaria in Russians was more serious than in aboriginals of Guinea and was characterized by great duration and height of fever, higher level of parasitemia and great frequency of complications. Anemia, neutropenia, relative lymphocytosis, high ESR and hemoglobinosis S were revealed in aboriginals of Guinea in contrast to Russians; the course of malaria was without temperature in some of aboriginals.

The Brazilian Gold Rush

“A’ meu Deos, como ouro mos, quereis castigar! Com ouro nos quereis castigar!” Frei Apolinário de Conceição, O.F.M., Primazia seráfica na regism da América (Lisboa, 1733), pp. 45-46. The news of the discovery of gold in Minas Gerais at the threshold of the eighteenth century spread like wildfire. Inebriated with the wealth which many thought would be perpetual, Brazil lived hours of rare exultation. “…those Mines,” wrote a former governor-general of Baía at the beginning of the eighteenth century, “are said to be so permanent that it will not be possible to exhaust them as long as the World lasts….” As early as 1697 the governor of Rio could write that the Caeté mines “extend in such a fashion along the foot of a mountain that miners are led to believe that [the extraction of] gold in that locality will be of great duration….” In the absence of more precise information, fantastic rumors became current. The new mining fields were of such dimensions, another contemporary affirmed, that they spread over the vast Brazilian hinterland. In 1709 the Overseas Council (Conselho Ultramarino) was willing to believe that the mines were the richest that had ever been discovered; the Council was certain that they would provoke the jealousy of foreign nations. After so many years of futile search Portugal had at length found another Potosí in the “most expansive heart of that world Emporium,” in that “resplendent diamond” of the finest quality which was Brazil.

The Brazilian Gold Rush

“A’ meu Deos, como ouro mos, quereis castigar! Com ouro nos quereis castigar!” Frei Apolinário de Conceição, O.F.M., Primazia seráfica na regism da América (Lisboa, 1733), pp. 45-46.The news of the discovery of gold in Minas Gerais at the threshold of the eighteenth century spread like wildfire. Inebriated with the wealth which many thought would be perpetual, Brazil lived hours of rare exultation. “…those Mines,” wrote a former governor-general of Baía at the beginning of the eighteenth century, “are said to be so permanent that it will not be possible to exhaust them as long as the World lasts….” As early as 1697 the governor of Rio could write that the Caeté mines “extend in such a fashion along the foot of a mountain that miners are led to believe that [the extraction of] gold in that locality will be of great duration….” In the absence of more precise information, fantastic rumors became current. The new mining fields were of such dimensions, another contemporary affirmed, that they spread over the vast Brazilian hinterland. In 1709 the Overseas Council (Conselho Ultramarino) was willing to believe that the mines were the richest that had ever been discovered; the Council was certain that they would provoke the jealousy of foreign nations. After so many years of futile search Portugal had at length found another Potosí in the “most expansive heart of that world Emporium,” in that “resplendent diamond” of the finest quality which was Brazil.

Libyan flowers

The present communication conforms precisely to the title of the publication which gives it hospitality. It is both a note —a sketch based on first-hand observation—and a record in that such a display is to be witnessed in Mareotis but few times in a century. The last of its sort dates back forty-one years according to the older desert inhabitants. I myself have been in touch with the district for ten years, and, during the last five, living in the midst of what I am attempting to describe. The pictures, which are typical, are from ground reached in fifteen minutes from my house. For density and sheer beauty of changing pattern and colour the spectacle exceeded any comparable experience, and especially for the great duration (Christmas to May) over which the successive phases were unfolded. Bluebells in a woodland, and a copse plastered with primroses, are notable spectacles, but provide nothing comparable to the prolonged chromatic symphony of Mariut. It is not suggested that the display is unique, though its like must be hard to find, nor is it that the contrast between the flowerless and flowering seasons leads to exaggeration, for our desert in the drought is drenched with colour; there could be no more sensitive surface for the display of atmospheric effects enriched as it is by close proximity to the sea.

The Parliament of the Republic of China

A study of the history of China would serve to reveal the fact that notwithstanding the great duration of Chinese political life there has been comparatively speaking little change in the political organization of the country. With the exception of the abolition of, to use a European expression, the “feudal system” which existed for several centuries before about 200 B. C., Chinese history presents no instance of any important change in political forms.The character of the political organization which existed both prior and subsequent to the abolition of this “feudal system” was absolute monarchy, what is sometimes called autocracy. In this respect China differed little if any from other Asiatic peoples, whose great contribution to the political development of the human race has been the conception of an all powerful king or monarch in whom all the functions of government were concentrated.