MANSON'S SCHISTOSOMIASIS: CLINICAL LECTURE AT ATLANTIC CITY SESSION

There are important reasons why physicians in all parts of North America should devote increasing attention to diseases of the tropics. First, many of those who in less tragic times would almost certainly never have seen service in tropical lands will sooner or later be confronted with such a contingency. Second, there can be little doubt that some of these diseases will be contracted by our soldiers and brought back with them as they return to the homeland on furlough or definitively. As regards schistosomiasis, the problem with home-coming troops will probably be one mainly of diagnosis for the physicians of this country who may be called on to take care of such cases. From the public health point of view, no difficulties should perhaps be expected, for of the known planorbids of the United States none have yet been proved, to my knowledge, capable of acting as intermediate host.