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NEf GERMAN DRUG
CONQUERS MALARIA
Discoverers Say Synthetic
Product Is Far Superior
i to Quinine.
Hr «, »en''e Sen ire.
DUESPELDORF. Germany, Sep
tember 3n. —Malaria, the most obsti
nate of the tropical diseases m its re
sistance to the advance of modern
medicine, is to have its hold broken
a t last by a synthetic drug resembling
quinine. but much more powerful,
produced in the laboratories of the
Xllberfelder Farbenfabriken. The dis
< overy created a sensation when it
was announced at the meeting of the
Association of German Natural Sci
entists and Physicians in session here,
and it was declared that it has a sig
jiiflcance comparable to that of Bayer
205, the remedy for African sleeping
sickness, which converts vast areas
hitherto plague-stricken into potential
homes for men.
Quinine, for centuries the only
known specitlo for malaria and still
i he standard remedy, does not wholly
conquer the disease, especially some
tropical forms of it. It is quickly
fatal to certain of the malarial para
sites. hut other strains of the microbes
resist it. The new remedy, which has
been christened “Plasmoehin.” wipes
\ them all out impartially. It is thus |
regarded as a complete cure. In con- j
trast to the merely partial effective j
ness of the extract of natural cin- j
<bona bark.
Hope to Kill Off Germs.
