Giuseppe Bastianelli
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Giuseppe Bastianelli was an Italian physician and zoologist who worked on malaria and was the personal physician of Pope Benedict XV.
Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia
G. Bastianelli. Photograph. Wellcome V0027738
Original copy of book on the Institute of Malariology
History of malaria
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The history of malaria extends from its prehistoric origin as a zoonotic disease in the primates of Africa through to the 21st century. A widespread and potentially lethal human infectious disease, at
Second World War poster "Keep out malaria mosquitoes repair your torn screens". U.S. Public Health Service, 1941–45
The mosquito and the fly in this Baltic amber necklace are between 40 and 60 million years old.
Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier. circa 1820.
The notebook in which Ronald Ross first described pigmented malaria parasites in stomach tissues of an Anopheles mosquito, 20 and 21 August 1897