A REPORT ON RESEARCHES 
ON SPRUE IN CEYLON 
1912—1914 
By 
P. H. BAHR 
M.A., M.D., D.T.M. and H. (Cantab.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. 
London School of Tropical Medicine 
Horton-Smith prizeman, Cambridge, 1914 
Large Royal 8vo. pp. x + 156. With 8 plates and a map. 
Price 7 s 6d net 
The frequent occurrence during recent years of sprue amongst the planting 
community of Ceylon, together with the lack of trustworthy information on the 
subject, made it advisable, from an economic, as well as from a humanitarian 
point of view, that the subject should be investigated in the light of modem 
research. At the request of the government of Ceylon, therefore, the London 
School of Tropical Medicine appointed Dr Bahr to undertake such an investigation 
and in these pages he has recorded the results of his efforts to unravel the etiology 
of one of the least understood, but nevertheless one of the most insidious diseases 
known to Tropical Medicine. 
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, FETTER LANE, LONDON 
C. F. CLAY, Manager 
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