History of human parasitology

FEG Cox - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
Humans are hosts to nearly 300 species of parasitic worms and over 70 species of protozoa,
some derived from our primate ancestors and some acquired from the animals we have …

[图书][B] Medicine and empire: 1600-1960

P Chakrabarti - 2013 - books.google.com
The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and
Empire provides an introduction to this shared history–spanning three centuries and …

[图书][B] Race, place, and medicine: the idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazil

JG Peard - 2000 - books.google.com
Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian
physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of …

Tropical climate and moral hygiene: the anatomy of a Victorian debate

DN Livingstone - The British Journal for the History of Science, 1999 - cambridge.org
On Wednesday 27 April 1898, Dr Luigi [Louis] Westenra Sambon (1865–1931) addressed
the Royal Geographical Society in London on a topic of much interest to the Victorian public …

Elephantiasis: a disease of development in north east Ghana

JM Hunter - Social science & medicine, 1992 - Elsevier
A reconnaissance survey for the presence of lymphatic filariasis is made in 41 chiefdoms of
north east Ghana. Four disease levels are identified culminating in hyperendemic disease …

Tropical medicine in nineteenth-century India

M Harrison - The British Journal for the History of Science, 1992 - cambridge.org
It is customary to regard 'tropical medicine'as a product of the late nineteenth century,'its
instrument the microscope, its epistemology the germ theory of disease'. The accepted …

History of human parasitic diseases

FEG Cox - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2004 - id.theclinics.com
Strictly speaking, any infectious agent can be described as a parasite but the term is usually
restricted to the protozoa and helminth worms. These are highly evolved and opportunistic …

[图书][B] Big sister, little sister, red sister: Three women at the heart of twentieth-century China

J Chang - 2020 - books.google.com
They were the most famous women in China. As the country battled through a hundred
years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from …

[图书][B] Plague, SARS and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong

AE Starling - 2006 - books.google.com
" The volume covers Hong Kong's medical development in the period from 1841 to early
2005, including the history of hospitals and medical education, and the role of the …

Presidential address: a history of malaria and its ironies.

DP Earle - Transactions of the American Clinical and …, 1979 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DAVID P. EARLE Lancet reported the discovery in 1881, 10 adding that Laveran had
confirmed his observation in 180 of 192 malarial patients. Osler admitted later1'that nothing …