History of Medicine and Tropical Disease: Ronald Ross Studies on Malaria, 1928 First Edition

Ronald Ross

First Edition

Ross, Ronald. Studies on Malaria. 1928. Brings together the work of the physician whose identification of mosquito transmission transformed malaria research, making the volume a significant source for the history of tropical medicine, parasitology, and public health administration. Written by a central figure in the development of modern malaria control, the book supports research into infectious disease science, the growth of epidemiological method, and the medical frameworks used in British imperial settings. The material documents malaria research and disease-control systems through scientific analysis, clinical observation, and prevention strategy, revealing how anti-malaria knowledge was organized in practice and offering primary-source evidence for the study of medicine and colonial health policy.

Ross, Ronald. Studies on Malaria. London: John Murray, 1928. First edition. The volume consolidates Ross’s investigations into malaria transmission, parasite behavior, clinical patterns, mathematical approaches to infection, and methods of prevention. Its contents trace the development of knowledge that followed his 1897 demonstration of mosquito-borne transmission, while also preserving his account of the scientific labor, administrative resistance, and institutional disputes that shaped acceptance of that discovery. As a late career synthesis, the book is both a technical contribution to malariology and a record of how disease research was translated into policy, especially in regions where malaria control became entangled with imperial governance in India and Africa.

Single volume. Page count not recorded. Illustrations not noted. Original blue cloth binding with black spine titling. Size not recorded. Light foxing to inner pages, with scattered age spotting throughout; moderate toning to paper; corners slightly bumped; minor shelfwear and spotting to spine; binding tight; boards clean. Overall very good. Substantial first edition by one of the most consequential figures in modern medicine, valued both for its scientific content and for its direct testimony to the development of malaria control as a medical and administrative system.

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