Author: Sir Andrew BalfourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Review of Some of the Recent Advances in Tropical Medicine, Hygiene and Tropical Veterinary Science
Author: Sir Andrew BalfourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum
Author: Wellcome Tropical Research LaboratoriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Journal of Hygiene
Author: George Henry Falkiner NuttallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Issues for 1906-17 include reports on plague investigation in India, 6th-10th reports; and Plague supplements, no. 1-5; and Parasitology v.1-5.
First, Second and Third Reports of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum
Author: Wellcome Tropical Research LaboratoriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tropical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Laboratory on the Nile
Author: Patrick F D'ArcyPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780789007285
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Explore the tropical medical research and findings of the British and Sudanese doctors and scientists in the 1900s! Laboratory on the Nile describes in detail the work of The Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories in Khartoum, Sudan, that was under the direction of Dr. Andrew Balfour in the aftermath of the reconquest of The Sudan after the Mahdia period. As a student of tropical medicine or a medical or pharmaceutical historian, you will discover how the floating laboratory helped to advance tropical medicine as it was towed along the reaches of both the Blue and White Niles to gain clinical cases, collect specimens, and learn about the lives and customs of the Arab and Negroid Sudanese. Based on the complete set of reports and reviews of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Laboratory on the Nile presents a summary of the military and political matters that brought the British and Dervish forces of the Mahdia into armed conflict. You will explore how the conqueror, Kitchener of Khartoum, led his people toward civilization with an educational movement that allowed industrial philanthropist Henry S. Wellcome to provide the means for medical research. Complete with multiple photos and drawings of the period (1899-1913), Laboratory on the Nile covers the research of what became a world-renowned center of excellence in tropical disease research. In Laboratory on the Nile, you will discover research that revealed brutal and superstitious practices such as female circumcision, mutilation, crude surgery, barbaric medical practices, the inhumane treatment of those thought to be possessed by devils, and the reliance on charms and mystic-religious practices. Within this historical work you will also explore: research on tropical diseases and the collection of plants, insects, blood samples, and photographs of diseased individuals research on the Nile river, and in agricultural developments, dealing with famines from failed harvests eradicating the mosquito and instilling sanitary conditions in Sudan to halt the spread of diseases and ailments such as dysentery, enteric fever, malaria, measles, and chicken-pox fascinating accounts of Dervish medicine that was a combination of savage quackery and charlatan tricks investigations into tropical medicine, hygiene, parasitology, and sanitation the efforts used to treat the Kal-azar disease which has a long and fatal history in Africa, Asia, and Latin America detailed accounts of early research expeditions that examined the people themselves, their customs, superstitions, and traditional medical practices Laboratory on the Nile is an in-depth look at the tropical medical research and studies that were conducted to benefit the people of The Sudan in fighting diseases. You will gain considerable insight into this fascinating and historical account of these world-renowned research efforts that have helped medicine become what it is today.
Monthly Bulletin
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author: Massachusetts Medical Journal
Author: Kala Azar Bulletin
Author: Great Britain. Tropical Diseases BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kala-azar
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Contains the list of accessions to the library, formerly (1894-1909) issued quarterly in its series of "Bulletins."