The new Tropical Medicine

New era for Tropical Medicine and Health

It is an honor and pleasure to be able to extend greetings as the Editor-in-Chief of Tropical Medicine and Health (TMH), a journal with a 56-year history of highquality research and one of the most important publications in the field. When I was appointed to the position of Editor-in-Chief in 2014, I wrote in the editorial that “our greatest challenge is to continue to improve the journal in su...

New times: tropical medicine for the cities and beyond.

Tropical Medicine

tion of water, for which he apparently considers heat the only entirely satisfactory medium. He thinks dhoby's itch is actually transmitted from the washerman by means of the clothes, in spite of the fact that many authorities make light of this danger ; and has seen the incidence of the disease reduced greatly by reforms in washing. Turning to the body of the work, we find sprue regarded as of...

Tropical Medicine

for a ' shorter tropical medicine '?something between the concise tabulation of the cram book and the larger treatise?had been felt for a long time, and it was fitting that a book to supply this should be written by Sir John Megaw, for many years director and professor of tropical medicine of the leading school of tropical medicine in the East, and by Sir Leonard Rogers, who was mainly responsi...

Tropical Medicine