Research Catalog

Title

Medical report of the Hamilton Rice seventh expedition to the Amazon, in conjunction with the Department of tropical medicine of Harvard university, 1924-1925 / Members of the medical expedition: Richard P. Strong ... George C. Shattuck ... Joseph C. Bequaert ... Ralph E. Wheeler ...

Author

Strong, Richard P. (Richard Pearson), 1872-1948.

Publication

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1926.

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Additional Authors

• Bequaert, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles), 1886-1982.
• Harvard Medical School. Department of Tropical Medicine.
• Rice Expedition to the Amazon (1924-1925) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82166411
• Shattuck, George Cheever, 1879-1972.
• Wheeler, Ralph Emerson.

Description

xvi, 313 pages, LXX plate (part color including map) : illustrations; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions from the Harvard institute for tropical biology and medicine, no. IV

Uniform Title

Contributions from the Harvard Institute for Tropical Biology and Medicine ; no. 4.

Subjects

• Tropical Medicine
• Geography
• Insecta
• Brazil
• Zoology
• Medical geography > Brazil
• Tropical medicine
• Insect pests

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 301-303.

Contents

The Amazon forest.--The spirochaetal infections.--Chronic inflammatory and ulcerative processes of the skin.--Leishmaniasis.--Leprosy.--Malaria.--Splenomegaly.--Trypanosomiasis.--Blastomycosis.--Other parasitic infections of animals.--Pathological conditions produced by arthropoda.--Medical and economic entomology: General remarks. Arachnoidea. Insecta.--Observations on the Branco, the Uraricuera and the Parima rivers.--A new mammallian cestode from Brazil.--A dipterous parasite of a snail from Brazil, with an account of the arthropod enemies of mollusks.--Land and fresh-water mollusks obtained during the expedition.

LCCN

26015540

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries