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THE medical conference which was held in the West Indies during last summer was probably unique in the history of medical science in that it was organised by a purely commercial company. The delegates, amongst whom were many distinguished men, were the guests of the United Fruit Company, and it is a remarkable fact that a wealthy commercial undertaking, having its offices in New York, should have a Medical Department, and that its directors should accept the advice of the general manager of that Department to issue invitations to laboratory workers and clinicians belonging to many nations to attend, as the guests of the Company, a conference to be held in a colony of the British Empire situate in the West Indies.
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Health in the Tropics. Nature 115, 593–594 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115593a0
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