1919. ] The Sixth Indian Science Congress. Ixxxix 
The serious disadvantage which so many of the members 
of the bacteriological—or as it should be called medical re- 
opened, when team work so essential to the solution of the 
larger medical problems will be possible. In addition, all the 
staff and the patients to have the immense advantages in the 
diagnosis and vaccine and other lines of treatment which a 
they can be rapidly diagnosed and efficiently treated, and 
without this aid even the most experienced physicians too often 
cannot do full justice to their patients. Until recently the 
professors of pathology in our medical colleges have been also 
physicians, and naturally spent most of their time in clinical 
work and general practice. and with rare exceptions, such as 
McConnell of Calcutta, added not little to our knowledge of the 
pathology of tropical diseases. It was only in 1899 that the 
on the pay it carries and continue my investigations, but for 
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the accident that I married late in life; surely not a very 
necessary for their researches may sometimes be a difficult 
problem, although as a rule clinicians are quite willing to give 
to a long series of superintendents and resident surgeons of 
the Calcutta European General Hospital for opportunities, 
without which the material for my book on fevers in the 
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searches, however, more complete control of clinical cases is 
required, and this urgent need led me with the invaluable help 
of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. This will allow of 
the cases of any special disease under investigation to be placed 
at the disposal of a particular research worker to the necessary 
