British medical journal . con-tinuing to attend the wounded afterhis thigh and leg had been Ranken, who graduated , in the University of Glasgowin 1905, entered the Roval AmyMedical Corps in 1909, and to thebrief account of his scientific workalready published we may add thefollowing particulars. In 1910 CaptainRanken was appointed by the Tropi-^1 Diseases Committee of the RoyalSociety to be an assistant to in certain researches he hadundertaken on the experimentaltreatment of trypanosomiasis. InNovember of that, year a paper onthis subject by Mr. Plimmer,
British medical journal . con-tinuing to attend the wounded afterhis thigh and leg had been Ranken, who graduated , in the University of Glasgowin 1905, entered the Roval AmyMedical Corps in 1909, and to thebrief account of his scientific workalready published we may add thefollowing particulars. In 1910 CaptainRanken was appointed by the Tropi-^1 Diseases Committee of the RoyalSociety to be an assistant to in certain researches he hadundertaken on the experimentaltreatment of trypanosomiasis. InNovember of that, year a paper onthis subject by Mr. Plimmer, Major,.,•• ^^^ ^^ Captain Ranken waspublished by the Royal Society (Pi-ocSo!/. Soc, vol. 83 B.). It was princi-pally concerned with the treatment „of trypanosomiasis by the iutravptinii« I-amain B, 8injection of precipitated meSTnt ^T^hn.^ ^°/. °?°. *° ^^P*-^ Rankeus .skill this£Uiimals **=^*^»< ^as made possible and safe in Haviiigconvinced himself of the possibilities of this method r TmEBinsB T,- lA. Captam Ranken accepted an appouitment in the SudanSleeping Sickness Commission and went out to the Yelcamp m the Lado enclave in the autumn of 1911 He ^ ™\°S**^^ ^^^^^ °f treatment ona large ^number of cases of sleeping sickness anddiscovered that the same treatment was effective alsofor yaws. The results of the wo7k he di^ thereduring the first year were publishedby the Royal Swiety (A PreliminaryReport on the Treatment of HmnanTrypanosomiasis and Yaws withMetallic Antimony, Proc. Eoij. Socvol. 86 B.) in February, 1913. Hecame back from his second year inthe Lado in the summer of this year,and unfortunately he had not com-pleted his second report when hewas required at the front, where heso bravely died. He was to havegone out to tho Lado again lostmonth, and he hoped, after three 3earsthere, that he would have been ableto have brought his work on thetreatment of trypanosomiasis to apractical conclusion. Duriucr Jeaveat home m 1913 he was not idle,but
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