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Historical Bibliography Updated: January 13, 2020

Missionary travels and researches in South Africa.

Publication Details

London: John Murray, 1857 CE.

Livingstone gave an accurate account of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans and of the disease in cattle following its bite (see pp. 80-83; picture of the tsetse fly on p. 571). In his time the bite of the fly was thought to be (and perhaps was) harmless to man.

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Entry Number#5269
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/8570
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLmissionary-travels-and-researches-in-south-africa

Geographic Context

Publication place: London