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IN a little more than a quarter of a century the patient and often brilliant researches of numerous scientific workers have elucidated many difficult problems regarding the causes and dissemination of diseases so prevalent in the tropics. The parasites of malaria, sleeping sickness, relapsing fever, amœbic and bacillary dysentery, cholera, plague, and leprosy are now readily detected. It is perhaps of even greater importance that in many instances the life histories and transmission of these organisms to man have been clearly demonstrated. Such discoveries have placed in the hands of the hygienist methods of control against the spread of disease, which in time will convert huge tracts of valuable territory previously known by such names as ‘the white man's grave’ into veritable health resorts.
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By Lieut.-Col. Robert Knowles. Pp. xii + 887 + 15 plates. (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker and Co., 1928.) Rs. 25.
(2) Recent Advances in Tropical Medicine.
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THOMSON, J. Progress of Research in Tropical Medicine. Nature 123, 272–273 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123272a0
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