Fourth report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. Volume A, Medical / Andrew Balfour.

  • Balfour, Andrew.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Fourth report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. Volume A, Medical / Andrew Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with the Scientific StaiF as it shouki be. Here is what we want, what we have in part obtained, and what I trust will yet be forthcoming :— Scientijic Staff: Director Bureaa of Mici'ohiol(X]ij: Bacteriologist Pathologist Veterinary Pathologist Protozoologist Helminthologist Division of Entomolo(j[j: Two Economic Entomologists, one especially concerned with medical entomology Division of Botany: Botanist Mycologist BioTcaw of Chciiiistrij: Research Chemist in Charge Economic Chemist Agricultural Chemist Pharmacological Chemist, whose work would include toxicology In time, no doubt, it would also be well to have an Assistant Director, a Hsematologist to carry out serum tests such as Wassermann's reaction, other complement fixation and precipitant tests for blood, and such new developments in this important diagnostic branch of medicine and surgery as may arise. An Anthropologist would also pay his way, especially if his main work was in the direction of sociology. These then, with the necessary assistants including an artist, with an adequate clerical staff, and more especially with a secretary who could also look after the library, would supply a force which might wage a most successful war with disease in man and animals and plants, which might make the most of such products as the Sudan yields and indicate how they might be improved, which might point out along what lines agriculture should develop, and aid those who will irrigate and till what is now a virgin soil. They will cost money but they will save money, and indirectly they will make money. Money, however, is after all not everything. The first Wealth is Health, ■wtaUh'^^* and given health all other things may be added imto us, even in a country like the is Health Sudan with its manifold drawbacks and disadvantages. When I asked Sir David Bruce what he thought should be our annual contingent he straightway replied ten thousand pounds. We are a very long way off ten thousand pounds, but one is not without hope for the future when one sees how everywhere Science leads the way. We have already grown from small beginnings to a respectable stature, are, I think, secure against extinction, and, so long as we proceed on practical lines which have a bearing on the development and progress of the country, should not fail to receive that support and consideration which the magnitude, scope and importance of the work that now falls to our share amply justifies. c