Treating malaria in the desert
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There was more malaria and hepatitis,
there was more of that than wounded of those two.
Interviewer: Really?
Interviewee: Yes. And some of them died of course
because some of the malaria was dreadful.
They had terrible chills, they were just wicked
with chills and their temperature
would go up to 104, 105.
And you had to take a drop of blood,
prick them for a drop of blood,
while that temperature was roaring,
put it between two glass slides and
put it under a microscope.
We had one microscope.
And you had to find the,
I don't know what we called that,
but it was a little like the germ only it wasn't,
it was what came from the mosquito that
bit them and they had, before you could
treat them. But as soon as you found it,
wrote it on their card, you whipped in with the
treatment for them, the medication.
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