Lectures on Tropical Diseases: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lectures on Tropical Diseases, credited to Patrick Manson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Lectures on Tropical Diseases by Patrick Manson. Read in English by Pamela Nagami This short volume consists of the ten lectures which Sir Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the Colonial Office, delivered in San Francisco in 1905. Valuable to this day are his clinical descriptions: the three foot Guinea worm, still treated by slowly winding it on a stick when its tail emerges from the patient's leg, filarial elephantiasis, malaria, sleeping sickness, the wasting sickness kala-azar, plus sound advice on how to diagnose puzzling tropical fevers. The book is also an inadvertent chronicle of British imperialism. - Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lectures on Tropical Diseases
• Author credits: Patrick Manson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 6:25:44

Catalogue topics

• worms
• malaria
• imperialism
• tropical medicine
• parasites
• infections
• sleeping sickness
• elephantiasis

Track guide

1. 01 - Principles Determining the Geographical Distribution of Tropical Diseases, Part 1 — 25:52
2. 02 - Principles Determining the Geographical Distribution of Tropical Diseases, Part 2 — 17:58
3. 03 - Dracontiasis: Endemic Hæmoptysis — 38:37
4. 04 - Bilharziosis: Filariasis, Part 1 — 19:00
5. 05 - Bilharziosis: Filariasis, Part 2 — 21:10
6. 06 - Malaria — 37:39
7. 07 - Trypanosomiasis and Sleeping Sickness — 40:10
8. 08 - Febrile Tropical Spleno-megaly (Kala-Azar) — 33:53
9. 09 - The Diagnosis of Tropical Fevers — 34:10
10. 10 - The Diagnosis of Tropical Fevers (continued) — 41:09
11. 11 - Treatment of Fevers and Fluxes — 35:39
12. 12 - Problems of Tropical Medicine — 40:27

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