sleeping-sickness

The reasons given me for their decline in numbers were similar to those furnished elsewhere, namely, sleeping-sickness, general ill-health, insufficiency of food, and the methods employed to obtain labor from them by local officials and the exactions levied on them.

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The sleeping-sickness trypanosome was discovered in 1901 by Forde in a European ship's captain who had navigated the river Gambia for several years.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech 1967

«Plasmochin» and «Atebrin» for malaria and the preparation «Germanin» (Bayer 205) which has been successfully used in cases of tropical sleeping-sickness.

Physiology or Medicine 1939 - Presentation Speech 1965

In particular, experimental investigations with arsenical preparations and the successes achieved with these preparations in cases of spirochaetic and trypanosome infections (relapsing fever, syphilis, African sleeping-sickness) provided a powerful stimulus to further experiments in the field of chemotherapy.

Physiology or Medicine 1939 - Presentation Speech 1965

For the next week intense activity prevailed, the men being strenuously subjected to the acclimatising process, while the horses and mules had to be carefully watched lest the deadly sleeping-sickness should make its appearance at the commencement of the operations and thus place the troops under severe disadvantages.

Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

The sleeping-sickness has given rise to several hospitals, or lazarettes, conducted by the missionaries.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Another is fatal to man himself, being the cause of the "sleeping-sickness" which in many large districts has killed out the entire population.

II. Biological Analogies in History 1913

In 1901 the Franciscan Missionary sisters of Mary came to assist the Fathers of the Sacred Heart and settled at St. Gabriel, taking charge of a girls 'orphanage, a school, and a dispensary; since then they have given their services to the victims of sleeping-sickness in the quarantine station between the mission and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The very abundance of the rose-leaves induces a sort of sleeping-sickness.

Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913

For though (on alternate evenings) his house would be quite dark by half-past nine, it was not for twelve hours or more afterwards that he could be heard qui-hi-ing for his breakfast, and unless he was in some incipient stage of sleeping-sickness, such hours provided more than ample slumber for a growing child, and might be considered excessive for a middle-aged man.

Miss Mapp 1903