Memoirs : with a full account of the great malaria problem and its solution / by Ronald Ross.
- Ronald Ross
- Date:
- 1923
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Memoirs : with a full account of the great malaria problem and its solution / by Ronald Ross. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![easy to work out illuminating examples. A fuller analysis is given in the second edition [91], and 1 solved the general difference-equation still later [105] (Science Progress, vol. xiii, page 288, October 1918). All this time the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine had been doing good work. In 1902 Mr. William Johnston (page 468) had given the University a new block of laboratories in commemoration of the death of his daughter, Professor Hubert Boyce’s wife, who had died shortly after the birth of her child ; and one of the laboratories was given to the School. In 1904 the University inaugurated a Diploma in Tropical Medicine ; and in 1905-6 we began to publish the Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology in continuation of our Memoirs, of which twenty-one had already appeared. In addition to the teaching of students the School sent many of the best workers on expeditions to Africa and elsewhere, who certainly rendered invaluable but ill-requited service to the Empire. All this belongs to the history of the School and cannot be detailed here. As I could not have a seat on the School Committee, I was not responsible for all its doings and in fact did not approve of some of them—especially of a later tendency to obtain reclame by over-hasty methods. I must say this because many people thought that I was the director of the institution—which ! was not—and blamed me accordingly. Sir Alfred Jones and the business men of Liverpool who subscribed to and managed the School did not always understand the niceties of professional etiquette in such matters ; and I remember one of them once saying to Milne and me, “ You are not advertising enough. Go on ! go on ! Fool the public / ” I really believe that some of them thought we were purveyors of quack medicines. I fear that Boyce was never quite the same man after the death of his wife, and became possessed of a restless spirit which drove him to deal with matters regarding which he had little experi¬ ence. Thus he rushed off for a few days to Ismailia in 1904, and to West Africa in 1905 ; and then wrote an inaccurate report regarding the latter, which merely confirmed the local authorities in their attitude of indifference to anti-malaria work (Memoirs XII and XIV of the Liverpool School). The climax was reached early in August IfiO&jyhen, an epidemic of yellow fever having broken out at New Orleans, Jones telegraphed personally to the mayor offering the city the services of his two experts on yellow fever, Professors Ross and Boyce— neither of us having ever seen a case of that disease ! This telegram appeared immediately in most British papers. The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29825738_0542.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
