RT Journal
T1 THe principles and practice of tropical medicine
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1947
FD May 24
VO 134
IS 4
SP 405
OP 405
DO 10.1001/jama.1947.02880210083029
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1947.02880210083029
AB This textbook is an unusually complete and useful work covering the important tropical diseases. Its value is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a well selected bibliography at the end of each chapter. The author, for many years director and professor of tropical medicine of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, has drawn extensively on his own wide clinical and research experience and that of his colleagues. Certain aspects of the presentation therefore are naturally reflections of the Indian scene. These, however, enhance the interest and value of the volume. This is particularly true of the discussions of cholera, kala azar, malaria, plague and the still unsolved problem of the identities of the "tick typhus" fevers of India.The first fifty-one pages are devoted to the general problems of health presented by tropical residence and include the elements of climatology, hygiene and adaptation. Thereafter the succeeding chapters are a series