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MANSON, Patrick.
The Filaria Sanguinis Hominis and Certain New Forms of Parasitic Disease in India, China, and Warm Countries.
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MANSON, Patrick.
The Filaria Sanguinis Hominis and Certain New Forms of Parasitic Disease in India, China, and Warm Countries.
Description:
pp. viii, (iv), 186, (ii) Advertisements. Frontispiece and 9 plates, 4 folding charts, 2 text woodcuts. Original cloth, a very good copy.
*GARRISON-MORTON #2455 - also GM #2266 Tropical Diseases, 1898 - 'Manson has been called the 'Father of modern tropical medicine'. He had a vast experience of disease in the Tropics and himself made many valuable contributions to the knowledge of this subject. He described tinea nigra and tinea imbricata, found filaria in elephantiasis and discovered Filaria hominis. In 1898 he founded the London School of Tropical Medicine........'.
H. K. Lewis. London.
Date Published: 1883.
Stock No. 62474
Price: £300.00