Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission. No. I.

  • Royal Society (Great Britain). Sleeping Sickness Commission
Date:
1903
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Credit: Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission. No. I. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    20 Pi'0()vcss Jicport OH Slccpinfj Sickness m Jjpnndu. ]U:umrhs.—T\\Q chief point of interest in this case is the increase in nnmber of the trypanosomes about May 21, and the rise of temperature at the same time. It cannot be said that this animal shows any symptoms of sleeping sickness up to the present time. Experiment 95.—Monkey. Black-faced variety. (Plate 4, fig. 8.) May 13, 1903. Blood examined, there was no malaria or trypano- soma. _ r 1 • May 14. Injected 1 c.c. of cerebro-spinal fluid from a case of sleeping sickness into the vertebral canal of this monkey. Mav 22. Trypanosoma absent. Malaria absent. „ 29. „ )) ” ” Experiment 9G.—Monkey. Black-faced vaiietj-. May 14, 1903. Blood examined. No malaria, no trypanosoma. Injected 1 c.c. of cerebro-spinal fluid from a case of sleeping sickness into the vertebral canal of this monkey.