The locally-recruited men were less susceptible to tropical illnesses than were troops sent from Britain.

Others made their way to the coca-growing Chapare region, only to return plagued by the heat and tropical illness.

Most were malnourished and sick from tropical illnesses.

Luckily, at this elevation other tropical illnesses such as malaria and yellow fever are rare.

After demobilisation and a year of recovery from tropical illness, Pearsall went on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read history.

In short, he ex- pected me to have to fight a probable return of tropical illness.

By early April government soldiers were battling tropical illnesses brought on by heavy rains.

But due to some tropical illness from way back he began to get into fits of violence, of rage.

The facility was designed for the treatment of soldiers with central nervous system syphilis, psychiatric disorders, tropical illnesses, and dermatological diseases.

The poor trade results (some ebony and little more was obtained) hardly justified the difficulties of the settlers, who suffered from tropical illnesses and other problems.