Some Problems in Tropical Epidemiology. Inaugural Address of Session 1900-1901
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profession like that of medicine, and still more in such a Society as this, it is not meet that the purview be too circumscribed?too provincial. The mental horizon of the true scientific spirit is determined neither by size, distance, nor social conditions. To the scientific mind the infinitely minute bacterium is just as important as the gigantic elephant, a thing thousands of miles away as important as one close at hand, a bird or a beast as a man, a naked savage as a European potentate. And so should it be as regards disease. From a scientific standpoint, the ailments of the native, it may be of the European in some distant
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