The Seamen's Hospital Society: A progenitor of the tropical institutions

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 890, 1999, Pages 715-717

  Cook, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

History of medicine; Schools of Tropical Medicine; Seamen's Hospital Society

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SHORT SURVEY; SURGEON; TROPICAL DISEASE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032739605     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.75.890.715     Document Type: Short Survey

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