Tropical medicine: an illustrated history of the pioneers

摘要

This book is an extensively illustrated work giving brief biographies of the many colourful characters in the field of tropical medicine. It also outlines the development of the study of diseases found in warm climates, their causes and treatments. In most cases the pioneers are those who discovered the causes of diseases grouped under the heading of ‘tropical medicine’ and worked on their prevention rather than their cure. However there are comparatively few diseases that depend on temperature for their development; falciparum malaria and yellow fever are two but others that are now considered tropical, including cholera, leprosy, vivax malaria and plague, have in the past been endemic in Great Britain and in theory could become so again.