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THE history of tropical medicine, or what might be called its recent twentieth century renaissance, will go down to posterity as one of the most, remarkable chapters in medicine. In a book entitled “Mosquito or Man? The Conquest of the Tropical World,”1 Sir Rubert Boyce endeavours, in his own words, to epitomise this wonderful movement, a movement initiated in England by the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, and by Sir Patrick Manson, a physician who had practised in the East, and had returned home imbued with the idea that the diseases of the tropics stood, so to speak, by themselves, and thus required special teaching in the medical schools of this country. The idea gained ground; two tropical schools, one in London, one in Liverpool, were founded, as Sir Rubert describes in his first chapter, and from that day onwards things have never looked back. Discovery after discovery have poured from these schools until now we stand on the threshold of a new world, a tropics as healthy as a temperate clime.
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“Mosquito or Man? The Conquest of the Tropical World”. By Sir Rubert Boyce, F.R.S. Pp. xvi+267. (London: John Murray, 1909.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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The Prophylaxis of Tropical Diseases . Nature 82, 158–160 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082158b0
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