The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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At 10 A.M. I visited the Tengu which had reached port yesterday. I found my trunks from Shanghai on board O.K. My roommate is now a Standard Oil youth from Chungking, Upper Yangtze Mr. Cruths invited me to lunch & in the evening he took dinner with Walters + I at the hotel. He also told us of the boiling which the Japs endure in their bath which raises their body temperature to 105° + kills by heat all such germs as gonorrhea + other some sorts of fevers. They habitually take boiling hot baths & can stand water much hotter than we can. He also told us that the way to cure Malaria was by doses of quinine every two hours until 60 grams were taken. I always drink the tablets down with hot water or the effect will not be beneficial. He is from Santa Barbara, Cal., in which place he went to school.