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Excerpt from Fevers in the Tropics: Their Clinical and Microscopical Differentiation Including the Milroy Lectures on Kala-Azar Advance in our knowledge of tropical diseases is so rapid at tho present time that frequent editions of any work dealing with them are essential if the information is to be kept up to date. Unfortunately the official duties of the author in a distant tropical country have made the work of revision very difficult. Under the circumstances it has seemed best to write an addendum containing an account of the most important progress made during the last two years with regard to fevers in the tropics. The main additions relate to sleeping sickness - on which a vast amount of research work by various European nations has recently been done - plague, blackwater fever, epidemic dropsy and unclassified fevers. Further experience has been recorded on the prevention of liver abscess by the cure of the early stage of the disease, and advantage has been taken of this opportunity to add an important section on amoebic abscess of the liver based on a large number of cases, including recent advances in its treatment. The author is greatly indebted to the Bulletin of the Sleeping Sickness Bureau for information on that subject and to Captain Greig, I. M. S., for reading the proofs of that section, also to Mr. J. Keogh Murphy, F. K. C. S., for again very kindly revising the proofs. He also desires to rectify an omission in the preface of the first edition, by acknowledging his great indebtedness to Sir William Gowers, to whose advocacy of shorthand he owes the slight knowledge of the subject, without which the material on which this work is based could not possibly have been accumulated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.