This superbly illustrated work provides short accounts of the lives and scientific contributions of all of the major pioneers of Tropical Medicine. Largely biographical, the stories discussed enlighten a new generation of scientists to the advances made by their predecessors. Written by Gordon Cook, contributor to the hugely popular Manson's Tropical Diseases, this report discusses the pioneers themselves and offers a global accounting of their experiences at the onset of the discipline.

Excerpt from The Practice of Medicine in the Tropics, Vol. 1: By Many Authorities The primary Object of the Fellowship of Medicine 1 being to promote a closer relationship between the members of the medical profession throughout the English-speaking world, we have attempted to help this endeavour by producing a book which will serve the student as an intro duction to the leading teachers of tropical medicine throughout the British Empire, in the United States Of America, and in other countries where the English language is spoken. Our authors are such teachers as the graduate student should turn to for instruction and, as far as possible, each has written on the disease or subject that is particularly his or her own study. As a result we believe that we have compiled a book which will be an authoritative work and which will familiarize students with the names, work, and lines of thought of many of the leading tropical investigators. In this way we hope to induce medical men seeking post-graduate instruction to visit teaching centres throughout the English-speaking world where they will find instructors for whose writings they have already acquired respect. That tropical medicine Offers a particularly favourable field for the promotion of an entente such as we are endeavouring to bring about, can hardly be doubted, for the medical man concerned is admittedly progressive in his ideas, broad in outlook, and has acquired the habit of wandering far from his home. These attributes, we believe, will make the tropical practitioner ready to respond to the offers of friendship which are to be found by him wherever tropical medicine forms a bond of union. Our book has been planned to include articles on diseases which are. Not peculiar to warm countries, but which present aspects Of importance to practitioners in the tropics. We have also included chapters on nursing, diseases of women, and the production of anti-variolous vaccine, believing that these subjects will appeal to workers in the less civilized portions of the world. In no sense have we attempted to produce an encyclopaedia, and some of the information to be found in other books on tropical diseases has been omitted in order that the bulk of the work might be reduced. Our endeavour has been to meet the needs Of the average medical man in the tropics, and we have attempted to ensure that no information of practical value has been left out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was in essence naval medicine, taught almost exclusively in a system of provincial medical schools built by the navy in the port cities of Brest, Rochefort-sur-Mer, Toulon, and Bordeaux. Michael A. Osborne draws out this separate species of French medicine by examining the histories of these schools and other institutions in the regional and municipal contexts of port life. Each site was imbued with its own distinct sensibilities regarding diet, hygiene, ethnicity, and race, all of which shaped medical knowledge and practice in complex and heretofore unrecognized ways. Osborne argues that physicians formulated localized concepts of diseases according to specific climatic and meteorological conditions, and assessed, diagnosed, and treated patients according to their ethnic and cultural origins. He also demonstrates that regions, more so than a coherent nation, built the empire and specific medical concepts and practices. Thus, by considering tropical medicine’s distinctive history, Osborne brings to light a more comprehensive and nuanced view of French medicine, medical geography, and race theory, all the while acknowledging the navy’s crucial role in combating illness and investigating the racial dimensions of health.