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Book Review: Anæsthesia for Neurological Surgery

He opens with a consideration of zoonoses of whichmost parasitic diseases inman are examples; he considers malaria as a zoonosis and then outlines some of the changing patterns of disease in their relationship to the public health, life of parasites, parasitological establishments and great parasitologists. These are all subjects on which Professor Garnham is able to recount the story as one who has himself played a large part in its development, so that much of the account gains in vividness by being autobiographical. Moreover, in that during their lifetime he met many great parasitologists of the past he is able to tell their story with the piquancy that comes from personal exchanges and from following their activities. Nowhere is this more fascinating than in the account of Grassi's work on malaria. He discovered in 1898 'the kind of mosquito which transmits the human malaria parasite'. His work, done with beautiful detail, was described in a monograph dedicated to Patrick Manson. The 'friendly relations between Manson and Grassi may have been responsible for the rupture between Manson and Ross', one of the misfortunes which marred a glorious period in the history of tropical medicine. As a factual account, as an autobiography, biography and history with great relevance to current concepts and their development, this book is a 'must' for those concerned with tropical medicine and parasitology.