“Amateurs are fond of advising that all practical measures should be postponed pending carrying out detailed researches upon the habits of anophelines, the parasite rate of localities, the effect of minor works, and so on. In my opinion, this is a fundamental mistake. It implies the sacrifice of life and health on a large scale while researches which may have little real value and which may be continued indefinitely are being attempted… In practical life we observe that the best practical discoveries are obtained during the execution of practical work and that long academic discussions are apt to lead to nothing but academic profit. Action and investigation together do more than either of these alone.” ActionSuccessPurposeDiseaseAchievementDiscoveryPublic HealthNobel PrizeMalariaDisease ControlMalaria EradicationEradicationMosquito EradicationVector ControlHuman ValueMalaria Research Book:Researches on malaria Source: Researches on malaria
“This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting? Thy victory, O Grave? Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.” KnowsMenLittlesGodHandsSecretMillionsTearsVictoryDiscoveryBreathsSeekingFollowingDeedsSeedsGravesCommandThis DayLittle ThingsCunningWondrousParasitesMosquitoesMalariaToiling Author:Ronald Ross
“Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained very few individuals, I succeeded in finding in two of them certain remarkable and suspicious cells containing pigment identical in appearance to that of the parasite of malaria. As these cells appear to me to be very worthy of attention ... I think it would be advisable to place on record a brief description both of the cells and of the mosquitos.” ThinkingTwoWould BeScienceCertainIndividualAttentionRecordsFindingsDiscoverySpeciesAppearanceWorthyCellsBrownDescriptionRemarkableGreySuspiciousIdenticalContainingParasitesMalariaAdvisablePigment Author:Ronald Ross
“I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.” KindScienceFailureFindingsPatientFedsParasitesMosquitoesMalaria Author:Ronald Ross
