Note on the bodies recently described by Leishman and Donovan / by R. Ross.

  • Ronald Ross
Date:
1903
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Credit: Note on the bodies recently described by Leishman and Donovan / by R. Ross. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have to do with some quite novel organism. As it has already been found in eight cases of fever and cachexia, it promises to be a common and important one. The charts of two of Donovan’s cases sent by him to me certainly recall the chronic pyrexia with enlarged spleen so frequently observed in India, and are, indeed, not a little suggestive of kala-azar. REFERENCES. 1 Leishman, On the Possibility of the Occurrence of Trypanosomiasis in India, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, May 30th, 1893, p. r252. * Donovan, ibid., July rrth, 1903, p. 79. (From B.M.J., Nov, 28th, 1903.) FURTHER NOTES ON LEISHMAN’S BODIES. By Mason RONALD ROSS, F.R.S., F.R.C.S., C.B., Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool. { Horr that the interest which must always attach to the dis- covery of new parasites of man will suffice to excuse me for adding yet another paper on this subject to those already contributed by Leishman,' Donovan,” Laveran,’? and myself,‘ I have continued making a very close study of the three preparations so kindly lent to me by Donovan and referred to in my last paper, and now send, at the suggestion Fig. 1.—Leishmania donovani, Laveran ; 1, red corpuscle ; 2-6, free forms; 7-17, embedded forms; a, contour line; 6, macronucleus; c, micronucleus; @, matrix. of the editor, some pen and ink drawings, and some additional remarks. It will be understood that the deep red of the Romanowsky-stained chromatin of the bodies is represented by black in the drawings, and that Fig. 1 denotes a red cor- puscle introduced for comparison. Water-colour drawings by Donovan and by; myself will shortly appear in the Thompson Yates Reports.
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