Abstract
A GOOD indication of the value of this book is the fact that five editions of it have appeared since 1930 and that two editions have been required since the third edition in 1939. Originally the book was written for the general practitioner in the tropics, rather than for the specialist with up-to-date laboratory facilities at his disposal. The aim of the authors was to provide a small and handy book which would give a broad survey of the field of tropical medicine and yet would deal adequately with the diagnosis and management of diseases commonly encountered in the tropics and subtropics, with such methods of microscopical study and laboratory diagnosis as the general practitioner could carry out by himself. Such a book could only be written satisfactorily by authors with wide experience of the practice of medicine in the tropics who also had the power of communicating their experience to others and the judgment necessary for the wise selection of the essentials.
Tropical Medicine
By Sir Leonard Rogers Sir John W. D. Megaw. (Churchill's Empire Series.) Fifth edition. Pp. x + 518. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1944.) 21s.
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LAPAGE, G. Tropical Medicine. Nature 155, 708–709 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155708a0
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