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A pioneer in this field named Jacobus Bontius was the first to describe beriberi and the first Westerner to record the term orangutan. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this medical field founded by Patrick Manson. A London school named for hygiene and this field acknowledges its role in “ensuring white men could survive while running the colonies.”
ANSWER: tropical medicine [accept tropical diseases; accept the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]
[10m] After discovering malaria transmission via mosquitos, Ronald Ross chaired a tropical medicine institute in this city. By the end of the 1700s, this British city was the largest port in Europe’s slave trade.
ANSWER: Liverpool [accept the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine]
[10e] German-Dutch physician Franz Junghuhn cultivated quinine-yielding cinchona plantations on this island, where the Dutch East India Company established its capital of Batavia, now modern-day Jakarta.
ANSWER: Java
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