JOURNAL 



Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 



Volume XXXVII DECEMBER Nos. I and 2 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELISHA MITCHELL SCIENTIFIC 

 SOCIETY, FEBRUARY, 1921, TO MAY, 1921 



246th Meeting— February 8, 1921 



Dr. Edward J. Wood (Class of 1899), of Wilmington, N. Q.~Our 

 Debt in Medicine to the British. 



The speaker mentioned briefly a few of the outstanding contribu- 

 tions to the making of modern medicine by the British. The pioneer 

 worker was William Harvey who described the circulation of the 

 blood and must be accredited with the discovery. Special reference 

 was made to that little group of nineteenth century physicians in 

 London who, at Guy's Hospital, made such a remarkable contribu- 

 tion within a few years. There was Addison who first described Ad- 

 dison 's disease. Bright who first described Bright 's disease, Hodgkin 

 who first described Hodgkin 's disease and finally Sir Ashley Cooper, 

 a great surgeon and a pioneer in medical education. 



The real burden of the address was the contribution in parasitol- 

 ogy. The remarkable achievements of Sir Patrick Manson were 

 mentioned briefly, the genius of Louis W. Sambon applying his great 

 knowledge of medical zoology, the discovery of the mosquito in its 

 role in malaria transmission by Sir Ronald Ross, the work of Sir 

 David Bruse and others in determining the relation of the trypano- 

 some to sleeping sickness of Africa and the relation of the tse-tse fly 

 to its transmission. The work of Sir William Leishman in the dis- 

 covery (with division of honor to Donovan) of the protozoal cause of 

 dum-dum fever of India. 



The need of a medical zoological survey in North Carolina was 

 mentioned. It was hinted that schistosomiasis had been recently 

 found in the state and at least one case of kala-azar. The educational 

 need along these lines was also emphasized. 



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