Third report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum / Andrew Balfour.

  • Balfour, Andrew
Date:
1908
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Credit: Third report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum / Andrew Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 15 Issue of Laboratory Repoi'ts—The Tliird iteport—Plan followed—Papers Contributed—Special Review—Sanitary Notes—Tlie Clieniical Work—Special Research on Gum Arabic—Entomo- logical Work—Anthro]>ological Work—Carnegie Research Fellows—Death of ]Jr. A. MacTier Pirrie—Compilation of his Re])ort—The Floating Lal)oratory—Marine Floating Laboratory : a Suggestion—Report of Travelling Path(jlogist and Protozoologist—The Bacteriological Work —Notes on Research Work—Special Pai)er on Parasitic Worms—Appointment of Pathologist and Assistant Bacteriologist—Changes in the Staff—The Museum—Lack of Space—The Outlook—Special Grants—Foreign Help—The Therapeutic Garden—Recent Advances in Tropical Medicine—The International Sleeping-Sickness Conference—Necessity of Progress —Acknowledgments — Note on Destructive Fire — Losses — Aid Rendered—Re-fitting— Acknowledgments. Trypanosomiasis in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. By the Director 27 Use of Arsonates as Theraiieutic Agents—Camel Trypanosomiasis—Cattle Trypanosomiasis of Kassala—Tryi>anosomiasis of Mules. H^mogregarine of the Jerboa. By the Director 35 Blood Counts—Experimeiital Work. H.EMOGREGARINE OF RhAMPHIOPHIS RuBROPUNCTATUS. By THE DIRECTOR 36 PlROPLASMOSLS IN THE AnGLO-EgYPTIAN SuDAN. By THE DIRECTOR 37 Canine—E(|uine—Bovine. Spiroch-ETOsis of Sudanese Fowls. Hy the Director 38 Historical—The Disease in Imported Fowls—The Endemic Disease—Symptoms -Morphology of the Spirochajte—The Leucocytes—The After Phase —Feeding Experiments—Cultural Experiments—Inoculation Experiments—Nature of the After Phase—Observations of Von Prowazek—Illustrative Cases—The Disease in Geese—Conclusion. Routine Work. By the Director 58 List of Examinations Performed. Miscellaneous Notes. By the Direotoh ' 59 Haltet ldid—Blood parasite of the coninion Kliartnum toad (Bicfu )ri/)t/(i)-is). Sanitary Notes, Khartoum. By the Director fiO Historical — Site ~ Population — jVleteorological Conditions — Moscpiito Work—Clothing— Housing and House Construction—Dwelling-Houses in the Tropics (McLean)—Conservancy —Sewage Collection and disposal—Waste Water Collection and Disposal—Refuse Collection and Disposal—Water Supply- Aerated Waters—Ice—Milk—Slaughter-house—Markets— Infectious Diseases—Disinfection—Vital Statistics—Infectious Diseases Statistics. Sleeping Sickness and the Bahr-El-Ghazal Province. (Extractx from Cdjitain Ifdirard Mimor's Bcjxirt to the Sudan HU'eping Sichness Comndssion A2}')il, 1908j ... ... 93 The T.setse Flies of the Bahr-El-Ghazal—The Existence or otherwise of Sleeping Sickness in the Bahr-El-Ghazal—The Probability or (:)therwise of Sleeping Sickness becoming prevalent in the l^ahr-El-Ghazal i^rovince—Pi'eveutive Measures. Additional Notes. J:!y i!. G. Archibald, dealing witil Sleeping Sickness in Uganda 98 Glossina pulpalis in Uganda—Clothing—Planting of Cleared Areas—Medicinal Treatment.
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