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“Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the eaves of the veranda. I did not allow the punka to be used because it blew about my dissected mosquitoes, which were partly examined without a cover-glass; and the result was that swarms of flies and of 'eye-flies' - minute little insects which try to get into one's ears and eyelids - tormented me at their pleasure”

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Ronald Ross
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Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor renowned for his contributions to the study of malaria. In 1881, he discovered the life cycle of the malaria parasite in mosquitoes, which laid the foundation for the prevention and treatment of the disease. more

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