The Filaria sanguinis hominis and certain new forms of parasitic disease in India, China, and warm countries / by Patrick Manson.

Date:
1883
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Credit: The Filaria sanguinis hominis and certain new forms of parasitic disease in India, China, and warm countries / by Patrick Manson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ask them to remember that I worked under many disadvantages. Besides the constant interruptions incident to private practice, I had to contend with disadvantages unknown to my more fortunate co- labourers at home. The absence of a good library, of competent assistants, of friendly advice and criti- cism, are serious obstacles to successful work; added to these, the depressing influence of a hot climate, and the prejudices of my native patients, had to he fought against. I trust, therefore, in criticising my work some allowance will be made for these circumstances. I take this opportunity to thank Sir Joseph Fayrer, F.R.S., and Dr. Spencer Cobbold, F.R.S., for many acts of kindness. To them I am much indebted for bringing my work before the profession in England, and by the stamp of their approval gaining for it a hearing. I have also to thank Dr. Stephen Mackenzie for the use of the beautiful micro-photographs of the filaria forming the frontispiece, and for his suc- cessful efforts in confirming the discovery of filarial periodicity. P. M. Amoy, China, June, 1883.