Tropical Medicine

Abstract

TROPICAL pathology no doubt owes much of its fascination to the fact that new diseases, or the causes of old diseases, have only within the last decade been completely elucidated, and that every year, if not every month, fresh facts appear and fresh subjects of inquiry suggest themselves. Thus almost before the aetiology of sleeping sickness was fully elucidated, students of tropical pathology were given a fresh subject of inquiry from the discovery of the cause of the dreaded “tick fever” of Tete on the Zambesi, and of other parts of tropical Africa. When the interest in the Anophelinæ and Stegomyia fasciata had somewhat waned, the tropical pathologist had his attention diverted to tsetse-flies, and then again the hue and cry was in the direction of ticks, especially in Africa towards Ornithodorus moubata, the transmitter of the spirochæte of “tick fever.”

Lectures on Tropical Diseases, being the Lane Lectures for 1905 delivered at the Cooper Medical College, San Francisco.

By Sir Patrick Manson. Pp. viii + 230. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1905.) Price 7s. 6d. net.