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at the universities, no such great alterations in this 

 respect have been made as one might have expected 

 considering the number of new animal parasites that 

 have been discovered since 1888. It is rare, in any case, 

 for the medical student to get access to such systema- 

 tic courses in the science of the animal parasites of 

 man as are given by Stiles at John Hopkin's and Geor- 

 getown Universities as parts of his course on medical 

 zoology, or by Raph. Blanchard of Paris, where there 

 is a special chair of parasitology with its appurte- 

 nant laboratory. Still rarer is it for the medical stu- 

 dent to have the opportunity of going through parasi- 

 tological practica as Braun thought desirable. And all 

 this in spite of the fact that Animal Parasitology has, 

 of late, come more and more to the front. Only think 

 of all the Sporo/oa investigations that have been made 

 recently, more especially the malaria investigations, of 

 the researches into Texas fever, ngana, dysentery, fila- 

 riosis, etc. 



As so often before, special political views have here 

 directed the course of scientific investigations, giving 

 them a new impulse. Indeed, colonial policy has 

 afforded to numerous investigators an opportunity of 

 studying the endemic diseases of tropical climates, giving 

 to their researches the great practical importance which 

 resulted in the establishment of the Schools of Tro- 

 pical Medicine at Liverpool. London, Hamburg, Bor- 

 deaux and several other places. At such institutions the 

 study of animal parasites takes a prominent place 3 ); 

 medical work in the tropics requires, Manson rightly 

 says, something more than a smattering of helmintho- 

 logy. The parasitologists, on their side, have made use 

 of the enthusiasm for colonial policy to further their 

 aims. Thus Blanchard, in his periodical, takes this 



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