Some Tropical Medical Problems in Surgical Cases *Being a paper read at the Surgical Convention in Calcutta on 6th September, 1943.
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In the surgery of tropical medicine, two stages are passed through. The recently arrived surgeon in India tends to operate without consideration of such diseases as amcebiasis which mimic surgical conditions of European practice; also he tends to overlook, the effects of a hot climate. After initial mistakes, there is a tendency to diagnose tropical diseases when they are not present, and therefore to hesitate to operate on such surgical condition as acute appendicitisThe co-operation of physicians and surgeons is needed in all hospitals, not only for acute cases. A regular round by a physician of the surgical .wards is a good routine in the tropics. Unfortunately, there is not, as far as I know, a recent good book on the surgery of tropical diseases. '
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