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you'd see that the Europeans were advised to take to the hills
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during the dangerous summer months,
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leaving dangerous natives behind.
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But we shouldn't forget that tropical medicine,
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at the turn of the century,
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was also where the scientific action and excitement
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in medical science were taking place.
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Beyond the germ theory of disease,
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tropical medicine embodied the various latest developments,
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and above all the new science of parasitology.
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And it attracted some of the leading figures, indeed,
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in the development of microbiology to enter this new discipline.