Future of tropical medicine

Future structure of clinical tropical medicine in the United Kingdom.

A century ago, and less, the practice of clinical tropical medicine was largely dominated by physicians and surgeons from the United Kingdom. Latterly, the position has changed dramatically.' The Empire and the Raj have faded into past history, most former colonial territories have gained independence, and most developing tropical countries now undertake the training of physicians and surgeons ...

United States Military Tropical Medicine: Extraordinary Legacy, Uncertain Future

1 Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United ...

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tion of water, for which he apparently considers heat the only entirely satisfactory medium. He thinks dhoby's itch is actually transmitted from the washerman by means of the clothes, in spite of the fact that many authorities make light of this danger ; and has seen the incidence of the disease reduced greatly by reforms in washing. Turning to the body of the work, we find sprue regarded as of...

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for a ' shorter tropical medicine '?something between the concise tabulation of the cram book and the larger treatise?had been felt for a long time, and it was fitting that a book to supply this should be written by Sir John Megaw, for many years director and professor of tropical medicine of the leading school of tropical medicine in the East, and by Sir Leonard Rogers, who was mainly responsi...

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