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Europeans against the most menacing epidemics.
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That was tropical hygiene, then;
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something different from what was practiced
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at the same time in Europe,
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was one of the implications.
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Another implication was a new prestige and authority for physicians.
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Ross and Koch, for example,
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now became advisors to metropolitan governments,
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as did Manson.
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It meant also--another implication
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was perhaps what we might call selective historical amnesia.
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Many of the diseases identified as tropical