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Description
Ms. Carter describes treating soldiers from Sicily who had contracted malaria. She describes the symptoms of the disease, and the difficulty of diagnosing the strain of the disease with only one microscope to analyze blood samples.
Transcription
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.