{"id":456,"date":"2014-04-17T11:58:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T11:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=456"},"modified":"2014-04-17T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:04:03","slug":"happy-easter-from-the-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2014\/04\/17\/happy-easter-from-the-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter from the Archives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/archives\/ross\/\">Major Ronald Ross<\/a> received this Easter greeting sent by Dr F Genovese in 1910 from the province of Caulonia, Calabria, Italy . <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-458\" alt=\"Ross_168001\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168001-300x188.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168001-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168001-1024x644.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168001.jpg 1104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The postcard shows a group waiting to receive quinine treatment for malaria. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168_01002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-459\" alt=\"Ross_168_01002\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168_01002-300x192.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168_01002-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168_01002-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168_01002.jpg 1114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A second postcard from Genovese to Ross, shows\u00a0 a bullock cart transporting Genovese and Professor Bartholemew Gosio (1863-1944)\u00a0 who were setting up ambulatory malaria centres to improve the care of people suffering from malaria in the poverty-stricken region of Calabria. Hospital care for malaria sufferers was ineffective in this period, and the ambulatories proved more successful. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168_02001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-460\" alt=\"Ross_168_02001\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168_02001-300x190.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168_02001-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168_02001-1024x651.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/04\/Ross_168_02001.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gosio, physician, microbiologist, biochemist and Director of the Laboratory of Public Health in Rome 1899, is also known for discovering that a cause of arsenic poisoning was\u00a0 due to the reaction of the metals in coloured wallpaper with high humidity.\u00a0 Some researchers have even ascribed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grand-illusions.com\/articles\/napoleons_wallpaper\/page03.shtml\">Napolean&#8217;s death in St Helena to this reason<\/a>, although this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/10\/science\/10napo.html?_r=0\">disputed. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the Archives, have a look at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/archives\/index.html\">web page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Ronald Ross received this Easter greeting sent by Dr F Genovese in 1910 from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Happy Easter from the Archives! 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