Briefings on tropical medicine were given a group of six United States doctors Thursday at the Louisiana State university medical school.
The doctors, all professors of parasitology or tropical medicine, are leaving Saturdays for Costa Rica and Puerto Rico where they will study under an $80,000 grant to the LSU school of medicine.
Dr. Henry E. .Meleney, research of medicine at LSU, said this is the second group to study under the grant from the China medical board, New York city.
Five of the doctors will study in the San Juan de Dios hospital in Costa Rica and one at the Uni-
versity of Puerto Rico school of tropical medicine.