. A text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of medicine and physicians. Bacteriology; Pathogenic bacteria; Protozoa. Specific Organism 545 Specific Organism.—The discovery of the specific organisms jyas foreshadowed by Nepveu,* who recorded the existence of try- janosomes in the several patients coming from Algeria, by Barron,t and by In 1901 Forde received under his care at the hospital in Bathurst (Gambia), a European, the captain of a steamer on the River Gam- bia, who had navigated the river for six years, and who had suffered several attacks of f
. A text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of medicine and physicians. Bacteriology; Pathogenic bacteria; Protozoa. Specific Organism 545 Specific Organism.—The discovery of the specific organisms jyas foreshadowed by Nepveu,* who recorded the existence of try- janosomes in the several patients coming from Algeria, by Barron,t and by In 1901 Forde received under his care at the hospital in Bathurst (Gambia), a European, the captain of a steamer on the River Gam- bia, who had navigated the river for six years, and who had suffered several attacks of fever that were looked upon as malarial. The ex- amination of his blood revealed the presence not of malarial para- sites, but of small worm-like bodies, concerning the nature of which Forde was undecided. § Later, Button, in conjunction with Forde, examined this patient, whose condition had become more serious, and recognized that the worm-like bodies seen by Forde were try- panosomes. Of these parasites he has written an excellent descrip-. Fig. 210.—Trypanosoma gambiense (Todd). tion, calling them Trypanosoma gambiense. || The patient thus studied by Forde and Button died in England, January i, 1903. In 1903 Button and Todd** examined 1000 persons in Gambia and found similar trypanosomes in the bloods of 6 natives and i quadroon. In the same year Mansonff discovered 2 cases of trypanosomiasis in Europeans that had become infected upon the Congo. BrumptJt also observed T. gambiense at Bounba at the junction of the Ruby and the Congo, and Baker§§ observed 3 cases at Entebbe in Uganda. Buring aU this time no connection was suspected between these * "Memoirs, Soc. de Biol, de Paris," 1891, p. 49. t "Transactions of the Liverpool Medical Institute," Dec. 6, 1894. t "Janus," July to August, 1898, p. 41. § "Trypanosomes and Trypanosomiasis," Layeran and Mesnil, 1907. II See Forde, "Jour. Trop. Med.," Sept. i, 1902; Dutton, Ib
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