MEMOIRS With A Full Account of The Great Malaria Problem And Its Solution. An Association copy from the Library of Queensland Pioneering Doctor Ernest Sandford Jackson.
London, Published by John Murray. 1923. First Edition. Royal 8vo, pp.x +547, index, with 12 black & white plates.The paper is poor so there is some toning and some spotting and marking. Original burgundy cloth rubbed on extremities and top and tail of spine,with a stain on the lower board.The book is tight and presentable.
On the upper paste down there is the bookplate for
Ernest Sandford Jackson and an early Angus & Robertson booksellers ticket. Very faintly near erased are two signatures of Sandford Jackson on free font endpaper and the top of the title page.
This is a very nice association copy. Item #196563
"In 1897-98, while a young surgeon in the Indian Medical Service (IMS), Ronald
Ross incriminated mosquitoes in malaria transmission, a remarkable piece of
research considering that he did not know what he was looking for in his mosquitoes
or even if they were the "right" insects.' His main guidance came from Patrick
Manson, who had hypothesised that mosquitoes might be the culprits. The research
in India was beset by bureaucratic bunglings within the IMS, and by Ross's want of
scientific training; both were offset by the prodigies of work that would also
characterise Ross's later undertakings. In apparent self-description, written years
after India, Ross said that "Medical discovery, like all discovery, requires two rather
rare qualities - an acute instinct for the right direction, and a burning perseverance
in following it up."2 Ross's mosquito-malaria work capped his eighteen-year career
in the IMS, and brought him the Nobel Prize in 1902."
'Doctor Ernest Sandford Jackson, medical practitioner born on the 18 July, 1860. Dr E. Jackson was appointed Medical Superintendent of the Brisbane Hospital in February, 1883 and was founder of the first training school for nurses in 1886 and the (Royal) Australasian College of Surgeons in Queensland. Dr. Jackson was a foundation member of the Queensland branch of the British Medical Association and the founding father of the medical school at the Queensland University, Brisbane. He died on 29 June, 1938 at St. Helen's Hospital (Information taken from Australian dictionary of biography,."
Price: $1,500.00