Contributions from the Harvard Institute for Tropical Biology and Medicine, No 4 Medical Report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to the Amazon, in conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924–1925 Animal Parasites and Human Disease

Abstract

(1) THIS attractive volume, printed and illustrated with the expensive excellence that is found so frequently in American publications, is a prelude to adventure in a scientific sense rather than a record of completed researches. While this is true up to a point of the actual work accomplished, the summing up of the knowledge concerning all the matters touched upon is vividly and skilfully done, so that the reader is presented with the state of knowledge in connexion with the matter in hand in relation to the particular experience and contribution made by the members of the expedition. This is well shown by the very interesting account of yellow fever. Scarcely any cases occurred during the period spent by the expedition in Brazil; the preventive measures, and probably also a spontaneous remission, have resulted in the almost total disappearance of the disease. The writer, however, summarises the studies carried out on the last epidemic at Bahia in 1923, and concludes that the evidence incriminating Leptospira icteroides was strengthened and the identity of the yellow fever occurring in Palmeira and Bahia with that which is found in Mexico, Peru, and Colombia was established.

Contributions from the Harvard Institute for Tropical Biology and Medicine, No. 4. Medical Report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to the Amazon, in conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924–1925.

Members of the Medical Expedition: Prof. Richard P. Strong, Prof. Joseph C. Bequaert, Prof. George C. Shattuck, Ralph E. Wheeler. Pp. xvi + 313 + 70 plates. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1926.) 20s. net.

Animal Parasites and Human Disease.

By Dr. Asa C. Chandler. Third edition, revised. Pp. xiii + 573. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1926.) 22s. 6d. net.