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Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1903-1912. 17 pts.

Publication Details

London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1903 CE–1919 CE.

Bruce and D.N. Nabarro were sent to Africa by the Royal Society to study sleeping sickness, and in their report they showed that the tsetse fly was the vector of trypanosomiasis. They also found that Gambia fever and sleeping sickness were two stages of the same infection.

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Entry Number#5277
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/8587
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External URLreports-of-the-sleeping-sickness-commission-of-the-royal-society-19031912-17-pts

Geographic Context

Publication place: London