expressing the respiratory activity of tissues. The final dry weight of the tissue, removed at the end of the experiment, washed, and dried, has been most widely used, and this is the only term of reference mentioned in the book. The wet weight, the initial dry weight, the total nitrogen, and the nucleic acid phosphorus of the tissues have also been put forward from time to time as terms superi...

Three-day fever is given chapter, its synonyms being the Chitral Fever of MacCarrison, Sandfly or Phlebotomus Fever; a good summary f;! of the Seven-day Fever of Rogers is given, but no hint is given as to its possible relationship with dengue. The account of dengue is good. Captain Harnett's work on Eosinophilia is referred to, but the description given is necessarily brief and too condensed f...

lore, be an impressive one, and will, as is usual on such occasions, be distinguished by an outpouring of eloquence, and it is to be hoped a loosening of purse strings. Dr. Patrick Manson has worked the scheme with energy and success. A great number of tropical practitioners have testified in the medical journals regarding the benefit they have gained from attending the practice of the Albert D...

It has been suggested that the conquest of tropical diseases during the late XIX century represents one of modern medicines’ greatest triumphs (Brennen & Davey 1978). Much of the impetus for this achievement was spurred by the high prevalence of disease and epidemics that were at the time devastating new settlers, colonial servants or military occupiers within foreign colonial territories (Keis...

*Department of Microbiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand. **Division of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand. Received for publication: December 9, 2005. Reprint request: Visanu Thamlikitkul, M.D., Division o...

A 1962 photomicrograph of a mosquito taken in what was then a Tanganyikan mountain laboratory offers a prompt to consider the social salience and affective power of scientific images. Drawing inspiration from anthropological work on photographic practices, this article excavates the diverse geopolitical and domestic contexts of the image's production, consumption and circulation, so as to grasp...

1 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2 Vascular Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology, Bosch Institute, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and La Jolla Infectious Disease Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, 3 Leiden Malaria Research Group, Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Centre, L...

BACKGROUND Malaria is influenced by a web of individual and ecological factors, i.e. factors relating to people and relating to environment. For a long time analysing these factors concurrently has raised statistical problems. Multilevel modelling provides a new attractive solution, which is still uncommon in tropical medicine. METHODS Using an actual data set of 3864 individuals from 38 vill...

1. Students’ Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2. Immunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 3. Dept. of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran 4. Drug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 5. Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center,...