Report of six months' work of the expedition to Bagdad on the subject of oriental sore / by C.M. Wenyon.

  • Charles Morley Wenyon
Date:
1911
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Credit: Report of six months' work of the expedition to Bagdad on the subject of oriental sore / by C.M. Wenyon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from the JourNnAL or Troricat MEDICINE AND Hyairng, April 1, 1911. REPORT OF SIX MONTHS’ WORK OF THE EXPEDITION TO BAGDAD ON THE SUB- JECT OF ORIENTAL SORHE.* By ©. M. Wenvon, M.B., B.Sc. Protozoologist to the London School of Tropical Medicine. Baapap was reached in the second week in March 1910, and work was commenced as soon as suitable accommodation had been secured. There has been no lack of material, as it was soon found that the Oriental sore of Bagdad, known locally as the date boil, was a disease from which practically all inhabi- tants suffered at some period of their life. The vast majority of those infected, however, are very young children of from 1 to 3 years, and some time elapsed before a case suitable for the conduction of experi- mental -work was found. The investigations so far conducted may best be described under the following headings :-— (1) The characters and course of the disease in man. (2) The examination of lower animals for signs of the disease and inoculation of these from man. (3) Study of the various biting flies, ticks, &c., found in Bagdad. (4) Experiments with the biting flies fed on date ~ boil cases and dissection of flies. (5) Examination of the date boil parasite as it occurs in the sore. (6) Culture experiments with the date boil parasite. ' From the Report of the Advisory Comnuittee for the Tropical Disease Research Fund for 1910, with some verbal emendations by the Author.
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