On the dysenteries of India: with a chapter on secondary streptococcal infections and sprue.

Calcutta:: Thacker, Spink, 1928., 1928. Tall 8vo. xiv, 178 pp. 2 tables, 25 plates (2 folding). Original gray cloth. Ownership signature of Daniel Beltz, 1934. Very good copy. Robert Knowles was a British parasitologist, known for his discovery, with Biraj Mohan Das Gupta, of the Plasmodium species now known as Plasmodium knowlesi. He became a professor of protozoology at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine in 1928. Knowles was the director of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine from 1933 to 1935; in the directorship his predecessor was Hugh William Acton and his successor was Sir Ram Nath Chopra. / Acton, entered into the Indian Medical Service in 1907. In 1910 he was appointed director of the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli, a post he maintained until 1916. He then served in the military while station in Mesopotamia. He then served as chair of the tropical pathology and bacteriology at the newly founded School of Tropical Medicine at Calcutta. PROVENANCE: Dr. Daniel Beltz, attended the College of Medical Evangelists, now called the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and practiced in Los Angeles.