Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . 5. Fig. 1.—Map showing Position of Uganda. 1904.] en Sleeping Sickness in Uganda, 511 sleeping sickness has been endemic for an unknown time. It seems,then, quite probable that some of these natives, brought in with theremains of Emin Pashas expedition, may have brought the diseaseinto Busoga, and that from this focus it slowly spread to the neigh-bouring population. Be that as it may, the disease broke out inthis part of the country some time between 1896, acc
Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . 5. Fig. 1.—Map showing Position of Uganda. 1904.] en Sleeping Sickness in Uganda, 511 sleeping sickness has been endemic for an unknown time. It seems,then, quite probable that some of these natives, brought in with theremains of Emin Pashas expedition, may have brought the diseaseinto Busoga, and that from this focus it slowly spread to the neigh-bouring population. Be that as it may, the disease broke out inthis part of the country some time between 1896, according toDr. Hodges, and 1901, when the disease was definitely diagnosed, andin a short time reduced a populous and richly cultivated country to adepopulated wilderness. Now, having discussed the introduction of sleeping sickness intoUganda, let me for a few minutes draw your attention to the diseaseitself. Sleeping sickness is a curious disease, and is essentially adisturbance of the functions of the brain. A slow chronic inflam-matory process takes place in the brain substance, which after a timegives rise to the peculiar sympt
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