| Description | Letter from Robert Laws, 39, Merchiston Crescent, Edinburgh, to Dr. Wilson, regarding news of Wilson's work and of the Burnett family, difficulty of treating illness in friends, comments on a difficult labour attended by Dr. Wilson and Dr. Elmslie, uses of tartar emetic, fashionable now, once the treatment for pneumonia, trypanosomiasis and yaws, possibly now for bilharzia, iron for anaemia, further notes on yaws, difficulties in finding medical officers and teachers for the mission field, mention of blood counting pipette, and of the microscope, progress in research into the spirochete infection of a particular tick. |