The Sleeping Sickness of Uganda
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34 cases by the same method and found the Trypanosoma in 20 cases, or 70 per cent. An examination of 12 cases of other diseases including three of Trypanosoma fever in the same way gave negative results. The matter was then taken up by" Lieutenant-Colonel David Bruce, F.n.c.s., R A M C and Dr. David N. Nabarro, who had been deputed by the Royal Society to investigate sleeping sickness, and arrived at Entebbe, Uganda, on the 16th of March of the present ?e'ar These gentlemen have submitted a proLess report which has been published by the Royal Society, in which are detailed facts
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دوره 38 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016