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THE recent Conference on Tropical Problems at Kingston, Jamaica, has served to direct attention to the enormous interest which is taken at the present time in tropical medicine and allied sciences in the United States. This movement may be said to have started some thirty years ago when the States had to take control of the Philippine and Cuba Islands after the Spanish War; it became greater when it was decided to open the Panama Canal. The building of the canal was rendered possible by the genius of Gorgas, who applied in a practical way the discoveries of Ross and Manson. The scourges of yellow fever and malaria which had caused the complete failure of the French effort were successfully combated, and the canal was built.
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Tropical Medicine in the Southern United States. Nature 114, 806 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114806a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114806a0