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Tropical Medicine (1860-1940) The year is 1860. A Brazilian woman, a slave on a sugar plantation, begins to sicken with what we now call Chagas's disease. Despite being given whatever succor was available for one of her status, she weakens, looses her mental acuity, and is eventually deformed to a point of paralysis.
Tropical medicine began to emerge in the 19th century, when physicians charged with the medical care of colonists and soldiers first encountered infectious diseases unknown in the temperate European climate.
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By the end of the 11th century, Western Europe still lagged behind other Mediterranean civilisations, such as that of the Byzantine Empire (formerly the eastern half of the Roman Empire) and the Islamic Empires of the Middle East and North Africa in many aspects. In 1095, Pope Urban II called on Western Christians to take up arms to aid the Byzanti...
It was the continued European exploration and early settlement from the 15th and 16th centuries that started physicians investigating those diseases that occur in countries with tropical or subtropical climates. When Hernando Cortes (1485-1547) and his army conquered Mexico in 1519, there were roughly about 25 million people living in the area. A h...
Although Europeans were responsible for introducing new diseases to countries where they had never been prevalent causing massive death and morbidity there is another side to the story, the effects of indigenous diseases on foreign invaders and traders. Stories of invading forces being overcome by mysterious diseases go back to biblical times and i...
Hospitals, clinics. Tropical medicine is an interdisciplinary branch of medicine that deals with health issues that occur uniquely, are more widespread, or are more difficult to control in tropical and subtropical regions. [1]
Overview. The sub-discipline of tropical medicine furnishes a clear example of the socially constructed character of medical knowledge. Tropical diseases first enter medical discourse as a unique conceptual field and topic for specialization at the end of the 19th century, and the heyday of tropical medicine–from the 1890s to the First World ...
Modern tropical medicine, a subfield of medicine that arose in the 1880s and early 1890s, was distinctive in part because even though it was dominated by physicians, the field also welcomed the participation of scientists whose specialties lay in zoology, helminthology, and entomology. Although a broader range of scientific specialties were ...
a history of tropical... a history of tropical medicine; leading articles a history of tropical medicine br med j 1939; 2 doi: ...
