SLEEPING-SICKNESS

disease characterized in its early stages by fever and Ae eos bah Hon ne tne bres; ng gait, and: by profound lethargy and wasting. occurs It in tropical Africa, and is due to | a minute, worm-like parasite, Try-| panosoma gambiense, found in the blood | and cerebro-spinal fluid of affected persons, and transmitted to man by the tsetse fly. The condition is treated with some succe by injections of the arsenical compound atoxyl (or soamin, which is said to be a purer form of the same compoun ’ d), best given in comb in a The tion with “Rocke anoth feller er drug, Toe, such as mercu uc valuable researches in the causes and cure of sleeping sickne . A mild form, to be distinguished from the African sleeping sickne , was prevalent Peers ts of the United States in