Volume 2
Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society.
- Royal Society (Great Britain). Sleeping Sickness Commission
- Date:
- 1903-19
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![IIEPORT ON SLEEPING SICKNESS EROM ITS CLINICAL ASPECTS. By GEOEGE C. LOW, M.A., M.B., CM. (Superintendent London Scliool of Tropical Medicine), AND ALDO CASTELLANI, M.D. (Florence), (Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology, Colombo Medical College). [Written June, 1903.—Received August 4, 1903.] The following data were collected in the months of July, August, and September, 1902, in the special hospital erected by the Govern- ment, in Entebbe, for the study of Sleeping Sickness. Synonyms. This disease is known by many different names :—By the natives of Africa in Uganda as IMongota (To nod). On the Congo as Yela Kwa Tula, jNIanungina, Lalangolo, N'tansi or N'tola; Nelavane (of the Wolofs), Dadane (of the Sereres), Toruahebue (of the Mendehs). By European observers it is known as Sleeping Sickness, Sleeping Dropsy, Negro Lethargy, African Lethargy, Die Schlafkrankheit der Neger, Malattia del Sonno, Doenca de Somno, Enfermedad del sueno, Maladie du sommeil, INIaladie des dormeurs. It might perhaps be more correctly termed African meningo-encephalitis, or shortlj^, African Meningitis. Ilisiory. The first to observe this disease was apparently Winterbottom, who wrote a short description of it in a paper entitled An account of Native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone in 1803. For many years after this little if anything seems to have been written on the subject till 1868, when Dumontier and Santelli both wrote independent papers on the disease. Another paper, by Guerin, appeared](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24750530_0002_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
