Annual report on the Medical Research Institute / 1909-.

  • Nigeria. Medical Research Institute.
Date:
[1921]
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Credit: Annual report on the Medical Research Institute / 1909-. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BLOOD DISEASES. Four hundred and forty-eight blood-smears were received for examination, 373 from Europeans and 75 from natives. In both, malarial splamodia were the most frequent parasites, and the subtertian was the commonest. Amongst the Europeans there were 92 cases of subtertian infection, the small ring forms being present in all except two, in which crescents were demonstrated. A quartan infection was found in four and a benign tertian in one. Embryos of Loa loa were noted in two cases, and of Acantbocheilonema perstans in one. Trypanosoma gambiense was observed in one case. 22 cases, 500 leucocytes being enumerated in each. Amongst the natives, a subtertian infection was observed in 15 individuals and a benign tertian in one. Pigmented mononuclear cells were noted in one case where no parasites could be found. Trypanosoma Gambiense was observed in one case. The embryos of Acanthocheilonema perstans were demonstrated in eight cases, and of Loa loa in three. In two of these cases, the embryos of both worms were joresent. A differential leucocyte count was made in 9 cases. The foregoing figures do not include the results obtained from the examination of the blood smears in Blackwater Fever. These have already been given in the foregoing section. VENEREAL DISEASE. Smears from 43 cases of urethral discharge were examined and gonococci were shown to be present in twenty-two. In seven specimens of vaginal discharge, these organisms were demonstrated in six. Gonococci were also found in a sample of bloody urine, which strongly suggested Schistosomiasis. Treponema pallidum was present in seven out of 2(5 smears from penile sore. The Wassermann Reaction was carried out with 42 specimens of serum, a positive result being obtained in 12 and a partial haemolysis in five. Three samples of serum from yaws were also examined, with a positive result in two. Post-mortem material received for histological examination, yielded three cases of syphilitic cirrhosis of the liver, one of the pancreas and one of the lung. TUBERCULOSIS. All the figures in this disease deal with cases in natives. Thirty- nine specimens of sputum were examined, tubercle bacilli, usually in large numbers, being present in sixteen. In post-mortem material, or in specimens removed at operation, a tubercular condition was demons¬ trated in 3 specimens of cervical glands, a testicle, a uterus, in a case of Meningitis, and, as already mentioned, in a case of ulceration of the intestine. Advanced tubercular disease was present in the lungs of two cases which came to post-mortem. EXAMINATION OF URINE. Twenty-eight samples of urine were received for report. Pus was present in 3, blood and pus in 3, blood in 3, sugar (estimated quantitative) in 2, albumen in 1, hyaline casts in 1, and scanty cells (a case of varix) in 1. The remaining 14 samples were negative. HISTOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS. Epitheliomas numbered five, two from the penis, one from the tongue, one from the lip, one in the keloid growth of a scar resulting from vaccination. There were three Carcinomas, one of the uterus, one of the vagina and one of the three from bone, two from the shoulder, one from the sole, and one from the eye. There was a malignant odontona from the lower jaw. Other tumours were four fibro-myomas (uterine), two simple adenomas, one from the breast and the other from the thyroid, a myxo-cliondro-adenoma, a dermoid cyst, and an angioma.
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