Physician and Friend James Macdonald Troup, limited edition

Physician and Friend James Macdonald Troup, limited edition

Edited by Freda Troup

With a Introduction by Field-Marshal The RT. Hon. J.C. Smuts

The University Press Glasgow 1947

First limited edition, to 400 copies this is number 192, hard cover, some spots (wear) on the front cover, some pages where never cut open, illustrated, 295 pages, good condition, Scarce book.

 Troup and Pijper first described tick bite fever in South Africa and this piece eloquently describes the relationship between these two colleagues from 1920 to 1945. Dr Troup was a formidable family doctor in Pretoria; Dr Adrianus Pijper, a pathologist who settled in Pretoria in 1920 and brought with him the first pathology laboratory Pretoria had ever known. Up till then all laboratory specimens had to be sent to a Johannesburg laboratory with the unavoidable delay and other disadvantages attached to a postal laboratory service.