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were now subjected to new and unfamiliar stresses
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that made them peculiarly vulnerable in these climates to disease.
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But the issue was simply--in the era, should we say,
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of diseases of the tropics--
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was simply one of degree, rather than kind.
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The diseases of the tropics were simply intense variants
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of familiar disease processes.
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And there was an educational corollary to that,
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which was that physicians who had studied general medicine,
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in European medical schools,
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were fully equipped to treat the entire spectrum
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of human diseases wherever they occurred.