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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1953Vol. XXIV, No. 3

Guinea Dairymen!

p. 36 · Read in the full issue

Forward, The New

PROFESSOR B. G. Maegraith, ofl the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has reported to the British Association for the Ad vancement of Science that milk is a cure for malaria. He said thatt extensive tests with rats and: monkeys showed that, immediately they were put on a milk diet, the diesease disappeared, and that the same effect would probably be observed with humans.

The London despatch did not sax why the professor had experimented with rats instead of humans. It max have been that the type of malaria sufferer available to him had been brought up on a more stimulating beverage than milk, and was re-; luctant to change his habits. For others, the cure seems cheap, harm-, less and worth trying—if there? milk available!