This article shows how much certain German language newspapers were a vehicule for reporting to the lay public on 'combating' tropical diseases. Through the press, immigrants and their descendents in Brazil were informed not only about the diseases which afflicted German colonists in Africa, but also about measures concerning sanitation, prophylaxis and experiments with tropical medicine, etc. ...

1 Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University and Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 2 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 3 Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, 4 Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva,...

Teun Bousema,1 Benno Kreuels,2 and Roly Gosling3,4 1Department of Immunity and Infection, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; 2Section for Tropical Medicine, 1st Medical Department, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 3Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Uni...

1 Global Health Sciences, Malaria Elimination Initiative, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Ministry of Health, National Malaria Control Centre, Lusaka, Zambia, 4 Liverpool School of Trop...

1 Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2 Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 4 Hoffmann-La Roche, Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America, 5 Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, Biopolis Wa...

nature but some dealing with more particular topics in the history of German medicine and science during the period 1871 to 1914. Amongst them Seidler writes on the political status of the doctor, Goerke on the panel doctor, Winau on the doctor and disease in poetry, Querner on Roux, Murken on Bad Nauheim, Jusatz on tropical medicine, Eichberg on body culture, and Rosner on the reception ofWest...

This article deals with the historical antecedents of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) School of Tropical Medicine (STM) under the auspices of Columbia University. It presents a general view of the social, institutional and conceptual factors that were correlated with the establishment of the STM. The authors start by examining the historical continuities and discontinuities present during t...

The transition from miasma to germ theory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century has been widely documented in narratives about the discovery of microbes, the evidence of contamination, or the procedures for sterilizations. This was a radical change in the history of understanding disease, treating and preventing it, and that shift marked a new era in medicine. However, it is import...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir?I shall be very glad if you kindly publish the following in your esteemed journal:? The students who attend the 6 months' course in the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and pass the examination, obtain the Diploma in Tropical Medicine, and they can style themselves D.T.M. (Bengal). But those who attend the 3 months' course and pass the short co...