Volume 3

A system of medicine / by many writers ; edited by Thomas Clifford Allbutt and Humphry Davy Rolleston.

Date:
1905
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    PlIEFACE This volume is entirely new in arrangement and lai'gely so in substance. Some articles have been revised and removed from tlieir position in the previous edition, mainly from the second volume, but the majority are new. By grouping all the Tropical Diseases and Animal Parasites together, this volume will, it is hoped, serve as a complete work on Tropical INIedicine, and tlius .justify this alteration in the scheme of the System of Medicine. As many of the more important of the tropical diseases belong to tlie infections, and originally appeared in A'olume II., it has seemed advisable to bring out tlie volume on Tropical Diseases at the same time as the new edition of Volume II., now Vol. II. Part I. After due con- sideration it has .seemed most convenient to include all the animal para.sites in this volume, and not to divide those of im])ortance in tropical climates only from the others. In order to jirovide an authoritative account of the animal ]>ara- sites and carriers of tropical diseases, a knowledge of which is of the greatest importance to those engaged in the study and practice of 'IVopical Medicine, special articles by Zoologists have been included. 'I’hese articles, or indeed condensed mono.graphs, deal with tlu; Protozoa (Prof Minchin), Mosquitoes (j\Ir. F. A’. Theobald), Blood- sucking and other Flies known or likely to be concerned in the spread of disease (Mr. E. E. Austen), and Ticks (Air. P. I. Pocock), and have been freely illustrated so as to assist in identification of the animals described. Tropical Aledicine is in its youth, and the advances incident to vigorous growth are .so continuous and imminent that almost before an article is printed its conclusions may require \’