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PEOPLE in settled and civilized countries, such as Great Britain, are familiar with the beneficent results of the application of the methods of preventive medicine, but these methods are not easy to apply among primitive populations, and in the tropical parts of the Empire the effects of preventive methods are apt to be much less apparent than those brought about by curative medicine, making use of the products of chemo-therapeutical investigation, in the treatment of endemic plagues such as malaria, sleeping sickness, bilharzia, hookworm disease and kala-azar. It is fitting that the value of such work should be recognized, and the decision of His Majesty's Government to spend £30,000 per annum in promoting chemotherapeutical investigations is a welcome move in the right direction. Although work of this kind has not so far been undertaken in Great Britain on so large a scale as in some Continental countries, the amount done is by no means negligible, as was evident from the partial survey of recent work made in the course of a discussion on "The Influence of Structure on the Action of Parasiticidal Drugs"held under the auspices of the Chemical Society on Thursday December 2, in which both biologists and chemists took part.
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Progress in Chemotherapy. Nature 141, 62–63 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141062a0
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