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THE HISTORY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE 



in fact, cases of endemic malaria have already occurred, but we 

 doubt whether there is any real danger of an epidemic. Bilharziosis 

 has the opportunity to spread from Egypt to other countries. Are 

 sufficiently strong measures being taken to combat the spread of 

 these diseases and many others like them — e.g., amoebic dysentery ? 



Another point which the war has brought into prominent notice 

 is that so-called tropical diseases exist in abundance in Europe — 

 e.g., in the Balkans— and that agents like lice are as prone to spread 

 disease in the Temperate as in the Tropical Zone. 



Certainly the massed formations of medical knowledge at work 

 in the recent war at the study, treatment, and prevention of disease 

 will produce results which would have been but slowly evolved in 

 years of peace. 



It is not possible to close this history without acknowledging the 

 debt which tropical medicine owes to the officers of the Royal 

 Army Medical Corps, of the Royal Navy, the Indian Medical Service, 

 the Colonial Service, and to their training schools, as well as to the 

 officers of the Medical Services of the armies and navies of France, 

 Italy, and the United States of America. 



MODERN JOURNALS. 



The very excellent Tropical Diseases Bulletin enables the tropical practi- 

 tioner to keep himself abreast of the day as regards current events in tropical 

 medicine, while the Tropical Veterinary Bulletin permits him, if he so desires, 

 to obtain the same up-to-date information with regard to the diseases of 

 animals. Both these publications are issued by the Tropical Diseases Bureau, 

 the Imperial Institute, London, S.W. 7. 



If he desires more information with regard to bacteriological work, he may 

 find this and much more in the Bulletin de I'lnstitut Pasteur, which is issued 

 by that Institute in Paris. 



If he wishes more detail with regard to Japanese medical work, he will find 

 a review in English, written by the Research Staff of the Severance Union 

 Medical College, Seoul, Korea, published in The China Medical Journal. 

 The names of some of the Japanese medical journals are as follows: — 



Chugai Iji Shimpo, or Home and Foreign Medical News; Juzenkai Zas hi, 

 or Journal of the Perfection Medical Society Alumni of Kanazawa Medical 

 School; Nisshin Chiryo, or Modern Therapeutics; Taiwan Igakukai Zasshi, 

 or Journal of the Formosa Medical Society; Tokyo Iji Shinshi, or Tokyo 

 Medical News; Tokyo Igakukai Zasshi, or the Proceedings of the Medical 

 Society of Tokyo; also Acta ScholcB Medicinalis Universitatis Imperialis in 

 Kioto, Japanische Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie und Urologie, Kyoto Igakukai 

 Zasshi, Mitteilungen aus der Medizinischen Fakuidt der Kaiserlichen Uni- 

 versildt zu Tokyo, Sei-i-kwai [Medical Journal) of Tokio, Tokyoer Medizinische 

 Wochenschrift, Mitteilungen aus der Medizinischen Fachschule zu Keijo. 



If resumes of German literature are desired, they can be found in the 

 Archiv JUr Schijfs- und Tropenhygiene and in the Archiv fur Bakteriologie. 



Apart from these the following journals usually contain original papers 

 dealing with tropical medicine : — 



1. Annali di Medicina Navale e Coloniale (Rome). 



2. Annales d'Hygifine et de Medecine Coloniales (Paris). 



3. Annales de ITnstitut Pasteur (Paris). 



4. Annali d'lgiene (Turin). 



5. Anales del Instituto Medico Nacional (Mexico). 



6. Annales Paulistas de Medicina e Cirurgi (San Paulo). 



7. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (Liverpool). 



