Second review of some of the advances in tropical medicine, hygiene and veterinary science, being a supplement to the fourth report of the Wellcome Tropical Reseach Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum : by Andrew Balfour and R.G. Archibald.

  • Balfour, Andrew.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Second review of some of the advances in tropical medicine, hygiene and veterinary science, being a supplement to the fourth report of the Wellcome Tropical Reseach Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum : by Andrew Balfour and R.G. Archibald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFATOEY NOTE AGOOD many letters have been received testifying to the usefuhiess of our First Review Supplement, and expressing the hope that a Second might be forthcoming. After some hesitation it was decided to accede to these requests and, at the same time, shghtly to widen the scope of the Second Review so that it might deal in a more general manner with Tropical Medicine as a whole and not merely, or mainly, with those diseases represented in the Anglo- Egyptian Sudan. In this way it was felt that it would appeal to a wider public and become a better book of reference. Happily, for such a work is a heavy undertaking, it should not again be necessary to produce a similar compilation in Khartoum. The Medical Officer, taking a leaf out of our book, now issues a monthly review supplement, which meets a long-felt want, and which gives an excellent resume of current literature on bacteriology and protozoology. The type of papers reviewed closely resembles those with which we have dealt, and now our Second Review will bridge the gap between our first publication and the first number of the above-mentioned supplement which appeared in January, 1911. Indeed it does more, for it will be found that it includes papers appearing up to the end of June, 1911. Thus an effort has been made to bring it well up to date. The existence of the admirable Bulletins of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau has rendered unnecessary any very exhaustive treatment of the subjects of sleeping sickness, trypanosomiasis and tsetse flies, but a certain number of papers under each receive short consideration. The fact that the Bureau is about to take the subject of Leishmaniasis under its wing constitutes another reason why this class of review work may now be abandoned at Khartoum. The labour has been somewhat Ughtened by the presence of additional authors. Captain W. B. Fry, R.A.M.C., of the Laboratories' Staff, has rendered some assistance, and Captain W. R. O'Farrell, R.A.M.C., very kindly employed a large part of his spare time in carefully writing several of the sections. The presence of initials in the table of contents indicates who is responsible for each subject. A glance at Ruge's annual catalogue ' of papers deahng with subjects relating to Tropical Medicine will show how incomplete this Review really is, but it is quite impossible to handle all the vast number of articles which appear and to deal with them adequately in a volume of convenient size and weight. It is hoped that the most important in Enghsh and French have received due attention, and also a majority of the more authoritative which have appeared in German. Italian, Portuguese and Spanish sources have not been altogether neglected. One hopes that this Review will receive at least as favourable a reception as its predecessor, and one would take this opportunity of thanking aU those who have kindly sent in reprints of their papers. When considered suitable, these have, so far as possible, been accorded notice. Thanks are due to Dr. Bagshawe, Director of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau, Dr. Martin, Director of the Lister Institute, Sir John McFadyean, Principal of the Royal Veterinary College, Major S. Lyle Cummins, R.A.M.C., and Mr. Spencer Honeyman, the Librarian of the British Medical Association, for kindly granting facihties in connection with reference work in London. Sir Ronald Ross and Sir Lauder Brunton have been good enough to answer queries regarding incomplete references. ^ Tropenkrankheiten in Sender-Abdruck aus Virchow's Jahresbericht der gesamten Medizin