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the label of "Diseases of the tropics."
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And there were a couple of classic statements
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of this older tradition.
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One was a work, an important work, by James Lind,
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an eighteenth-century physician, who wrote
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"An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates,"
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and this was built on the experience
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of Europeans in the West Indies.
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And then there was another work by James Johnson
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called "The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions,"
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Built on the experience of Europeans in India.
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What these works, and other ones of their kind,