Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran quotes

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French scientist and physician renowned for his work in parasitology. His discovery of the malaria parasite fundamentally changed the understanding of infectious diseases. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking contributions to medical science. Here are 3 of his quotes:

In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran