of a

in

ordinary cause

tropical

knowledge LONDON LETTER. Boom

Tropical Medicine.

in

The boom in

tropical medicine

waxes

louder

are The Edinburgh and Aberdeen Universities of tropidiseases establishing lectureships cn the

The

cal climates.

promising lines, and being diligently organised.

started is

Liverpool School

on

has been

the London School The Staff of the

resigned DreadnoughtHospitalatGreenwich have the scurvy

and considering the in which they have been treated by Society, Committee of the Seamen's Hospital Meantime, the branch at this is not surprising. for the purthe Albert Docks is being enlarged of an increased number pose of accommodating the for material their

appointments,

manner

patients new

to

serve

school.

clinical

as

Funds

are

forthcoming

in suffi-

the cost of these enlargements, and it is anticipated that the amount originally estimated as necessary to launch the institution is in an efficient state will be realized. A banquet of the purpose to be held on the 10th of May for

ciency

to

defray

Secretary

inaugurating the school; the Colonial is to preside, and many distinguished

men?

of Lome, Lord Lister among them the Marquess the Lord Lord Rothschild, Lord Strathcona, Currie?have Mayor of London and Sir Donald thereconsented to attend. The function will, usual is as lore, be an impressive one, and will, an outon such occasions, be distinguished by to be hoped a pouring of eloquence, and it is Patrick Manson loosening of purse strings. Dr. success. has worked the scheme with energy and have A great number of tropical practitioners the in the medical

testified journals regarding the have benefit they gained from attending

its of the Albert Dock Hospital in has been school when the and state, and full working order, the quantity into put will it from derivable quality of the instruction enhanced. The Journal of Tropical be

practice embryo

greatly

Medicine has

eighth number, and is further strong vitality. It

reached

its

gives evidence of for the discussion of proposed to start a society With all these London. tropical diseases in malafacilities for gaining information regarding the peculiarities dies peculiar to the tropics, and

diseases in

of wonder

how

countries in

tropical climates, it is men who practised times past gained the

necessary to enable them to do

so.

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