English Medical Humanists: Thomas Linacre and John Caius

The courses of many epidemic diseases reflect the social and economic changes in any nation. They are so often closely influenced by such problems as migrant labour, improving communications, movement of population, and rapid urbanisation. Ghana is no exception; the pattern of disease in that country is closely bound up with the history of its development-as this book well shows. Dr. Scott's own unrivalled experience of rural health problems in Ghana lends particular weight to his interpretation of some of the findings and his deductions regarding future trends. It is to be hoped that the excellent pattern of this study will be copied by workers in other developing countries before so many of the early and manuscript records, of such historical and epidemiological value, cease to be available. M. P. HUTCHINSON