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officers of the R.A.M.C. and others, this problem had now been solved. A specific micro-organism, the Micrococcus melitensis, was discovered in 1887, and it was traced to the See also:

MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk of the Maltese goats. A See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission was sent out to Malta in 1904 to investigate the question, and after three years' See also:

WORK

work its conclusions were embodied in a See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report by Colonel Bruce in 1907. It was shown that the disappearance of the disease from Gibraltar had synchronized with the non-importation of goats from Malta; and preventive See also:

MEASURES

measures adopted in Malta in 1906, by banishing goats' milk from the military and See also:

NAVAL

naval See also:

DIETARY

dietary, put a stop to the occurrence of cases. In the treatment of Malta fever a vaccine has been used with considerable success. MALTE-BRUN, See also:

CONRAD (1755-1826), See also:

French geographer, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 12th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1755 at Thisted in See also:

Denmark, and died at See also:

Paris on the 14th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1826. His See also:

ORIGINAL

original name was Malte Conrad Bruun. While a student at See also:

COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen he made himself famous partly by his verses,but more by the violence of his See also:

POLITICAL

political pamphleteering; and at length, in 1800, the legal actions which the See also:

government authorities had from See also:

time to time instituted against him culminated in a See also:

SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence of banishment. The principles which he had advocated were those of the French Revolution, and after first seeking See also:

asylum in See also:

Sweden he found his way to Paris. There he looked forward to a political career; but, when See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon's See also:

PERSONAL

personal ambition began to unfold itself, Malte-Brun was bold enough to protest, and to turn elsewhere for employment and See also:

ADVANCEMENT

advancement. He was associated with Edme Mentelle (1930-1815) in the compilation:of the Geographic mathematique .

. . de toutes See also:

les parties du monde (Paris, 1803-1807, 16 vols.), and he became recognized as one of the best geographers of See also:

France. He is remembered, not only as the author of six volumes of the learned Precis de la geographie universe;'le (Paris,1810-1829), continued by other hands after his See also:

DEATH

death, but also as the originator of the Annales See also:

des voyages (18o8), and one of the founders of the See also:

GEOGRAPHICAL

Geographical Society of Paris. His second son, See also:

VICTOR ADOLPHE MALTE-BRUN (1816-1889), followed his See also:

FATHER

father's career of geographer, and was a voluminous author.

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