‘A near-run thing’: The foundation and early years of 1 Malaria Research Laboratory, forerunner of the Australian Army Malaria Institute, 1963–1969 (Part 4 of ‘Pioneers of Australian military malariology’)

摘要

In his field headquarters after the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, the victorious field marshal, Arthur Wellesley (1769–1852), the 1st Duke of Wellington, was heard to remark that his victory had been ‘a near-run thing’.[ii] What the Duke probably meant by this expression was that the outcome of the battle had never been certain until near the end. His decisive victory could easily have become a spectacular defeat.