10 TROPICAL MEDICINE MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND 



the possil)le prevention and remedies of tropicjil 

 diseases, especially of such deadly forms of sickness 

 as the malarial and blackwater fevers prevalent on the 

 West African Coast," and that the inquirers should 

 be appointed by and take instructions from the Royal 

 Society. The Royal Society immediately appointed 

 a small committee as proposed, and dispatched, in 

 1898, an expedition to investigate malaria upon tlie 

 lines of INIajor Ross's discoveries. 



This committee has continued its Avork, and has 

 embraced the investigation of other tropical diseases 

 (see Appendix). The foundation of the Schools of 

 Tropical JMedicine, and the increased importance 

 attached to tropical research by the Royal Society, 

 soon began to react both at home and abroad. Under 

 the guidance of Sir David Bruce many investigations 

 were set on foot in the Army IMedical Department, 

 which have resulted in most fruitful work, especially 

 that of Sir Charles Leishman. Abroad, the question 

 of establishing tropical schools was soon taken up, and 

 tropical schools were established at Hamburg, Paris, 

 and Bordeaux. 



In the United States also, pari passu with this 

 development, increased attention was directed to tropical 

 medicine, and Washington has become the head centre 

 of tro2:)ical entomology and parasitology. 



Finally, India and the Colonies have realised the 

 necessity of doing something, and great progress has 

 been made in the way of establishing laboratories under 

 the direction of experts for the study of the diseases 

 peculiar to the particuhir colony. Quite recently a 



