Another Malaria Cure?
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Dr. L. T. COGGESHALL, dean of the division of biological sciences at the University of Chicago and a well-known auth ority on malaria, is reported to have claimed that primaquine, a drug derived from coal tar, has been proved as a cure as well as a pre ventative for malaria. It is taken by mouth once a week for a period of ten weeks.
A well-known medical authority
says that primaquine, also known as pentaquine, is one of the very new drugs being tried out in the USA and Great Britain, and so far very little about them has appeared in medical journals.
The works committee of the Lautoka (Fiji) town council recom
mended late June that a loan of £15,000 to £20,000 be raised for the erection of new council chambers and offices. The committee con sidered that an alternative site might be investigated, other than the park opposite the Lautoka Hotel. Use of that site would de prive the town of an attractive park.