The In to
"
Practitioner
lauding
me
that it
the school
"
and its
injudicious
was
Netley.
on
work,
it
seem
and in bad taste
the
part of the Editor of the Practitioner (October number, p. 366) to associate his praise with disparagement of the Netley School (the on
forerunner of all similar schools
at home and
and to detract from the value of the clinical material available there for instruction
abroad), in
tropical
disease.
Unfortunately
the Presi-
dent of the
Tropical Section at the Portsmouth of the British Medical Association inMeeting stituted a comparison between the amount of this material available for the use of Netley, London and Liverpool Schools, which was resented
as
being
intended
(which
I
am
certain
was
not the case) to belittle the two latter. Mr. Morris, as a counterblast, argues that the quality
of the material available in London is vastly superior to that available in Netley. Tropical
diseases are, in London, to be seen and studied " in their acute stages as they will be met with when they have to be dealt with in their native haunts;" whereas at
Netley
"
floating pathological hulks," exhibiting the constitutional decay consequent on previous tropical disease, are the only available illustrations of instruction. The cases which themselves in London the Hospital have present not
in the docks but in on the same footing and stand tropical seaports, as respects chronicity with those originating in
assuredly originated
tropical stations, maritime and inland, whence soldiers are invalided, and in both instances they represent the pathological products of conditions which can only be studied in loco. More than " half of the Netley " wrecks recover under treat-
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
456
ment?climatic, hygienic, and medicinal?and are restored to efficiency and returned to duty; and, even as
able of
regards the most advanced and in tractthem, they furnish evidences of the
operation be
seen
in
of factors which cannot in this country operation or in incipiency; and they
present opportunities
of
studying deteriorating
influences encountered abroad, and describing how these arise and operate and may be avoided 1
or
counteracted.
O
[Dec.
1899.
"
Practitioner
lauding
me
that it
the school
"
and its
injudicious
was
Netley.
on
work,
it
seem
and in bad taste
the
part of the Editor of the Practitioner (October number, p. 366) to associate his praise with disparagement of the Netley School (the on
forerunner of all similar schools
at home and
and to detract from the value of the clinical material available there for instruction
abroad), in
tropical
disease.
Unfortunately
the Presi-
dent of the
Tropical Section at the Portsmouth of the British Medical Association inMeeting stituted a comparison between the amount of this material available for the use of Netley, London and Liverpool Schools, which was resented
as
being
intended
(which
I
am
certain
was
not the case) to belittle the two latter. Mr. Morris, as a counterblast, argues that the quality
of the material available in London is vastly superior to that available in Netley. Tropical
diseases are, in London, to be seen and studied " in their acute stages as they will be met with when they have to be dealt with in their native haunts;" whereas at
Netley
"
floating pathological hulks," exhibiting the constitutional decay consequent on previous tropical disease, are the only available illustrations of instruction. The cases which themselves in London the Hospital have present not
in the docks but in on the same footing and stand tropical seaports, as respects chronicity with those originating in
assuredly originated
tropical stations, maritime and inland, whence soldiers are invalided, and in both instances they represent the pathological products of conditions which can only be studied in loco. More than " half of the Netley " wrecks recover under treat-
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
456
ment?climatic, hygienic, and medicinal?and are restored to efficiency and returned to duty; and, even as
able of
regards the most advanced and in tractthem, they furnish evidences of the
operation be
seen
in
of factors which cannot in this country operation or in incipiency; and they
present opportunities
of
studying deteriorating
influences encountered abroad, and describing how these arise and operate and may be avoided 1
or
counteracted.
O
[Dec.
1899.
