xlviii Annual Address. [February, 1912. 
which threatens to revolutionize and upset all our former ideas. 
I may safely assert that thirty years ago tropical pathology 
considered as a distinct and separate branch of medicine could 
scarcely be said to exist. Since then so many new countries 
en opened up in Africa and elsewhere which have called 
s mens 
quiet work has been done, though unfortunately much of it is 
not accessible to the general public as it is buried in official re- 
ports, and for this and other reasons has not as yet received 
_been done in India had been carried out elsewhere the 
medical world would have heard much more of it. The Medi- 
drawing attention to the enormous prevalence of tubercular 
diseases in Calcutta, and other places in India, and the resolu- 
vas unanimously adopted, pointing out the urgent 
need of Sanitaria in suitable localities for the successful treat- 
s 
and Punjab Governments. 
