Richard P. Strong

CHAPTER I INVESTIGATIONS PURSTJED AND CONCLUSIONS REACHED Introduction.-Importance of the establishment of the method of transmission of trench fever. Prevalenee of the disease. Organization and plan of the research. Co-operation between British and American authorities. The obtaining of volunteers...

INTRODUCTION The first expedition from the Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was undertaken for the purpose of investigating certain forms of tropical disease in South America, particularly verruga peruviana, as well as with the idea of collecting material to be used for the instruction of...