Manual of Tropical Medicine
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At the present day the student of tropical medicine is at no loss for text-books on the subject, rather the danger will soon he that there are too manj\ I he volume at present before us by Dr. Castellani and Dr. Chalmers, of the Ceylon Medical School, is a monument of industry and care. It is a bulky volume of some 1,242 pages, and absolutely cram full of interesting matter from first page to last. Our first feeling on reading this volume was one of thankfulness that we had passed our medical student days and could not be examined in the mass of material which constitutes this book. Dr. Castellani's name is well-known, not only for his work on sleeping sickness, but for much good work done since the opening of the clinique for tropical diseases in Colombo; and his colleague is Dr. Albert J. Chalmers, the lectuier in pathology and animal parasitology in the Ceylon Medical College. Ihe first 84 pages are introductory and give veiy interesting accounts of the history of to pi cm 1 medicine, of tropical climatology, the effects of tropical climates on man and the incidence of disease in the tropics. That on c imate including winds, rain, barometric pressuie, lumidity, etc., is excellent and gives much information not easily obtainable elsewhere.
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