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Observations on the disease lethargus: with cases and pathology.

Lond. med. Gaz., 26, 970-76. 1840.

Clarke left a detailed account of African trypanosomiasis; he saw cases of the disease while serving as a colonial surgeon at Sierra Leone, and named it “narcoleptic dropsy”.

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Africa & Middle East
Plagues & Epidemics

Subjects

COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Africa INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Triatomine Bug-Borne Diseases › Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis)

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