出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：This study analyzes the situation of the rice fields in the Valencia province (Eastern Spain) during the centuries XVIII-XX. This area, together with the region of Campo Arañuelo (Western Spain), is one of the territories with highest malaria prevalence during the Spain's Modern History. Medical, demographic, social, economic and legal issues related with the problematic of the rice during this epoch are also discussed. Furthermore, this article provides information about the supposed transmission mechanisms of the disease, as well as the fight against it through chemotherapeutic and environmental sanitation techniques.
关键词：Historical epidemiology;Medicine history;Eighteenth, nineteenth and twenty centuries;Malaria;Rice;Mosquitoes;Anopheles;Valencia;Epidemiología histórica;Historia de la medicina;Siglos XVIII-XIX y XX;Malaria;Arroz;Mosquitos;Anopheles;Valencia
