CONTEiNTS 



PART 1. 

 INTRODUCTORY, 



CHAPTER ' PAG F, 



I, HISTORY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE - - - - 3 



II. TROPICAL RACES -^g 



III. TROPICAL CLIMATOLOGY - - - - - - 62 



IV. TROPICAL FOODS - - - - - - 94 



V. TROPICAL DISEASES - - - - - -112 



VI. FITNESS FOR TROPICAL LIFE - - - - - 1 27 



PART II. 



THE CAUSATION OF DISEASE IN THE TROPICS. 



SECTION A: PHYSICAL CAUSES. 



VII. TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY - - - - - I37 



VIII. PRESSURE AND RADIATION - - - - - 1 42 



IX. TRAUMATISM j^y 



SECTION B: CHEMICAL CAUSES. 



X. POISONS 161 

 XI. ARROW POISONS ------- 180 



XII. POISONS USED IN FISHING, HUNTING, AND TRADE - - 187 



XIII. POISONOUS FOOD - - - - - "193 



XIV. VENOMOUS animals: protozoa to arthropoda - - 203 

 XV. venomous animals [continued] : pisces and amphibia - - 230 



XVI. y-ENOMOus AmuAi^s [con cluied) : reptilia and mammalia - 242 



SECTION C: PARASITES. 

 Division I : Animal Parasites. 

 Subdivision 1 : Protozoa. 



XVII. PLASMODROMATA AND SARCODINA - „ _ „ 285 



XVIII. MASTIGOPHORA AND PROTOMONADINA - - - ■ 330 

 XIX. TRYPANOSOMID^ _ _ - - - - 3^8 



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