1 | | Early pioneers of medicine in the tropics | | 1 |
2 | | Origins of the formal discipline: background factors | | 33 |
3 | | Patrick Manson (1844-1922): father of the newly-formed speciality, filariasis research, and founder of the London School of Tropical Medicine | | 51 |
4 | | Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922): discovery of the causative agent of malaria in 1880 | | 67 |
5 | | Ronald Ross (1857-1932): the role of the Italian malariologists, and scientific verification of mosquito transmission of malaria | | 81 |
6 | | Carlos Finlay (1833-1915): yellow fever research in southern America | | 103 |
7 | | James Cantlie (1851 -1926): tropical surgeon, university administrator, and founder of the (Royal) Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | | 115 |
8 | | George Carmichael Low (1872-1952): an underrated pioneer, and contributor to the (Royal) Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | | 127 |
9 | | David Bruce (1855-193 I): Malta fever, nagana, and East African trypanosomiasis | | 145 |
10 | | The schistosomiasis saga: Theodor Bilharz (1825-62), Robert Leiper (1881 -1 969), and the Japanese investigators | | 157 |
11 | | Joseph Everett Dutton (1874-1905): West African trypanosomiasis and relapsing fever | | 167 |
12 | | The causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis (kal-azar): William Leishman (1865-1926) and Charles Donovan (1863-1951) | | 177 |
13 | | Leonard Rogers (1868-1962): the diseases of Bengal, and the founding of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine | | 183 |
14 | | Aldo Castellani (1877-1971): research in the tropics, and founding of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases PG 197 | | |
15 | | Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891-1966): medicine in the tropics, and the future of clinical tropical medicine | | 211 |
16 | | Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943), and other contributes in solving the plague problem | | 219 |
17 | | Andrew Balfour (1873-1931): pioneer of preventive medicine in the tropics and first Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | | 225 |
18 | | Some less well-documented pioneers | | 233 |
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