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.