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Excerpt from The Practical Study of Malaria and Other Blood Parasites In the authors' experience many medical men in the tropics are only deterred from undertaking researches in tropical diseases by the impossibility of obtaining the necessary knowledge of methods apart from personal instruction in some laboratory. Numerous works on technique exist, they are, however, more adapted for work in a laboratory than for the conditions under which the average practitioner in the tropics must be prepared to conduct his researches. As a result of an experience of several years, during our work on the Royal Society's Commission on Malaria, of the difficulties that Indian and Colonial medical officers experience in making the first start in what must often be work of the greatest interest to themselves and the utmost value to science, we have deemed it wise to give instead of full and elaborate technique, as usually given, only that which we have found the best, the simplest, and the most generally useful. In reality, the necessary methods required to undertake research of the highest value in Malaria are very simple, yet most of these cannot be found in books, and they are with considerable difficulty learnt except by the personal direction of those who are familiar with the small details which go to make success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.