Memoirs of a Peripatetic Physician

The author describes his early years andsubsequent career in the medical profession. He served many years in ‘third world’ universities, and latterly in thedecaying National Health Service.  Allwent well until he encountered an ill-equipped ‘Director’ of London’s TropicalDiseases Hospital, when he took up writing. At the time of publication he is now aged ninety-three.

ProfessorG C Cook FRCP, now in his nineties, has spent numerous years in “third world”countries, mostly in the wake of the British Empire. He has become aware that avast amount of research – including that in medicine and nutrition  – remains to be done there. He has also hadgreat experience of the now declining Tropical Medicine specialty.