TY  - JOUR
T1  - TRopical diseases—america's opportunities and obligations
AU  - McELROY JB
Y1  - 1909/07/31
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.92550050001001
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 335
EP  - 339
VL  - LIII
IS  - 5
N2  - The race for empire from its beginning has suffered more from disease and pestilence than from the implements of war. This fact has furnished many examples of stimulation to medical research. None is more striking than that given to the study of the diseases of warm climates as a result of the struggle of the nations for the possession of the tropics.The close of the nineteenth century found the work of the colonizing powers practically at an end, in that nearly all of the available territory of the earth had been entered on and occupied. With these acquisitions, however, the mother countries realized that their work had but begun. To bring these great tracts of earth under the dominion of civilization, to develop their abundant resources, to give peace and prosperity to their fertile soils, they wisely realized that another foe had to be conquered—realized
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.92550050001001
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550050001001
ER  -