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 TIMELINE OF MALARIA: __About 400 BC __: Hippocrates, a Greek physician and called the `father of modern medicine’ could describe the symptoms of malaria and observed that the illness seemed to be related to time of year and how close you were to marshy areas.  __About 100 BC __ Romans find that draining marshes reduces the risk of the illness.  __About 1600 __ Peruvian Indians use the powdered bark of the Cinchona tree to treat the symptoms of malaria. It becomes known as Jesuit powder after they bring the medicine back to Europe. It was used to treat the disease which was then known as ‘Agues’.  __1879 __ Alphonse Levaran, working in Algeria believed that whatever was causing malaria would be found in the blood of sufferers. He began work examining fresh blood. It was known that small black particles called melanin were in the blood of sufferers but the actual cause of the illness wasn’t understood. In his work in Algeria and then the marshy areas of Southern Italy, Levaran found other particles in the blood of sufferers of `marsh fever’ and showed that they were the parasites that cause the illness and that the melanin particles were the results of the parasites attacking red blood cells.  IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND DISCOVERIES: __Ronald Ross: __<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> he caused mosquitoes that were hatched from larvae in the laboratory, to bite malarious patients, and endeavored to follow the parasite in the body of the mosquitoes. The results of the first two years' labor, although assiduous and scrupulous, gave little promise of success. But in August 1897, all at once he made vast progress towards his aim. While experimenting with another, less common species of mosquito, in the wall of its stomach he found bodies that very probably were an evolutionary stage of the human malaria parasite. __Hippocrates:__<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">a physician born in ancient Greece, today regarded as the "Father of Medicine", was the first to describe the manifestations of the disease, and relate them to the time of year and to where the patients lived. Before this, the supernatural was blamed. The association with stagnant waters (breeding grounds for the Anopheles mosquito) led the Romans to begin drainage programs, the first intervention against malaria. __Alphonse Laveran:__<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">he also found some entirely unknown bodies with certain characteristics which led him to suppose that parasites were involved. His initial investigations were carried out on fresh blood without using chemical reactions or any staining process. He was nonetheless successful, using this primitive method of examination, in distinguishing and describing most of the more important forms adopted by these new bodies, which varied so much in their appearance.