Sleeping Sickness in Uganda *Abstract of a lecture delivered before the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal on 9th March 1910. The lecture was fully illustrated by lantern slides.
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It is now connected with the coast town of Mombassa by a line of railway through British territory. The Uganda Protectorate lies round the Northern Lake. Until recent years Uganda was practically closed to trade, but with the opening up ('antral Africa it ceased to be so. In this connection Sir Ray Lankester writes + : " The Sleeping Sickness of tropical Africa furnishes an example of one of the inumerable directions in which man brings down disaster on his head by resisting the old rule of the selection of the fit and destruction"of the unfit, and is painfully forced to the conclusion that knowledge of Nature must be sought, and control of her processes eventually obtained." Sleeping Sickness has been known clinically on the West of Africa since 1803, when it was described by Winterbottom. In Uganda alone several hundred thousand persons have died of Sleeping Sickness recently. Clinical and Pathological Features of the Disease.? Examination of a temperature chart of a case of Sleeping Sickness shows that at first there is little or no fever, and this stage of the malady may last for long periods, but sooner or later fever becomes more marked and
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