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Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1903-1912. 17 pts.
London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1903 –1919.
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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| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
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| Entry Number | #5277 |
| Permanent Link | https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/8587 |
| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
| External URL | reports-of-the-sleeping-sickness-commission-of-the-royal-society-19031912-17-pts |
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Publication place: London