Paediatrics in the Tropics

Paediatrics

THIS book discusses the management outside hospital of common paediatric problems encountered in the community. The topics selected are well written, informative and expertly illustrated. It helps fill a gap left by the much larger number of hospital based paediatric books and provides relevant information for general practitioners, community based paediatricians and medical students. Although ...

Age of Measles immunization in tropics

Vaccination in the Tropics

Fevers in the Tropics

Ihe value of Major Leonard Rogers' great book on Fevers in the Tropics has been quickly recognised find already a second edition lias appeared. This volume which so splendidly represents our knowledge of tropical fevers wiil long remain a monument of the untiring industry and patience of its author. It is dedicated to his brother officers in the Indian Medical Service, whose aid in the work of ...

Medicine in the Tropics

Fever in a child in the tropics fills a mother with fear; so often she has seen it the herald of death, or of fits, or of slow, lingering illness and handicap. She knows that fever replaces health and happiness in her child by fretfulness, misery, burning heat, and screaming (partly no doubt the result of throbbing headache). Her fear is justified. Mortality and morbidity from infection in chil...