Tropical Diseases
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This is a reprint of various lectures delivered by the Author on different occasions and of some papers contributed to the medical press. The Lettsomian Lectures on tropical dysentery and diarrhoea delivered in 1881 make up nearly one-half of the volume. The other subjects treated of are the Bael fruit, Liver Abscess, Malarial Splenic Cachexy, Beri-Beri, Bronchocele, Elephantiasis, Arabum, Filaria Sanguinis horainis, Sunstroke, Dengue, the health of European Children in India, the preservation of health in India and the rainfall of India. On each of these subjects the author records much valuable and interesting if not very original information. His own long and varied experience in India stands him in good stead in setting forth data derived elsewhere. The work is one of which every medical practitioner in the tropics should possess a copy. Some of the chapters are not quite up to date. Since the paper on Bronchocele was
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