1898/08/20 · 3 citations
Medicine · Environmental Science · #Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment #Mosquito-borne diseases and control #Climate Change and Health Impacts
paper · doi:10.1001/jama.1898.02450080054027
openalex publication_date 1898/08/20 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Dr. Patrick Manson, the author of this book, has had a special opportunity for observation of the tropical diseases, especially in China, where his various papers have been published from time to time in the medical reports of the<i>Imperial Chinese Customs Gazette</i>and have been of great value and peculiar interest. To Manson is due, more than to any other, the establishment of the fact that the mosquito is the intermediate host of the<i>filaria nocturna</i>. Few have had better opportunities for observation of the filarious diseases than Dr. Manson, and he has made very good use of them. A careful review is given, in the book, of the unclassified fevers of the tropics. Beriberi, leprosy and yaws receive full attention. Just now, when the eyes of many medical men are turned toward the tropics, this volume will prove very interesting and instructive.