The Tropics on Our Doorstep *A paper given by invitation to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on 10th February, 1954.

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  • George R. McRobert
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tfisp0rt *nca, to spend some time bathing in delectable limpid freshwater pools, to ,:?f"K.elfon a sandy beach, to rest under shady trees, to enjoy green salads and many otuS at. a Picnic lunch and to return home the same night incubating, among lapsin? f6r ln^ections, the malarias, the dysenteries, typhoid and typhus fevers, reS^ePin C-Ver' bookworm disease, bilharzial infections of the bladder and bowel, the sole?sS1fkneSS' i?aiasis> onchocerciasis, subcutaneous maggots, and jigger fleas in Practiti ? ^eet?a truly formidable problem in diagnosis to confront a general V^allvner *n ^reat Britain where there is no insect-borne disease amongst humans, 'Hen of u protozoal infections, and with worm infestations practically confined to the The "c ahmentary canal. ejcPecteciraCt^0ner *n country is increasingly liable to meet with hitherto unlr'Pper ^P^blems in diagnosis, for apart from the theoretical much-afflicted tropical

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دوره 70  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1954