Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . er set of experiments was therefore made to show that thetsetse flies caught on the lake shore were already infective, fromhaving fed on the natives living along the shore. Cages fullof the freshly caught flies were straightway placed on healthymonkeys, and after some days the examination of these monkeysshowed that they had become infected with sleeping sickness. This then concludes the story of sleeping sickness in have seen that probably this disea
Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . er set of experiments was therefore made to show that thetsetse flies caught on the lake shore were already infective, fromhaving fed on the natives living along the shore. Cages fullof the freshly caught flies were straightway placed on healthymonkeys, and after some days the examination of these monkeysshowed that they had become infected with sleeping sickness. This then concludes the story of sleeping sickness in have seen that probably this disease was introduced from theCongo on account of the greater movement of natives under themarch of civilisation and the Pax Britannica. We have seen thatthe disease is caused by the entrance into the blood of a protozoalparasite, and that the infection is carried from the sick to the healthyby a species of tsetse fly. We have seen that the distribution of thisfly corresponds with the distribution of the disease. Where there isno fly there is no sleeping sickness. In other words, we are dealingwith a human tsetse fly disease. []. \
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