This book is the first full-length biography of Samuel Taylor Darling, a remarkable scientist who was one of the world s leading experts in tropical diseases in the early 20th century. It details how, as a pathologist, Darling performed more than 4,000 autopsies among employees of the Panama Canal Company who died between 1905 and 1914 and such experience gave him a singular perspective on the anatomical pathology of tropical diseases. The book shows how the results of Darling s innovative work helped him to develop new concepts about diagnosis and treatment of malaria, amebic dysentery,...