SLEEPING SICKNESS.
London, Dec 20. Professar Koch assisted by two English doctors is curing thousands of cases of sleeping sickness in the Victoria Nyanza district by means of a specific known as astoxyl, which exterminates the germs of the disease in the blood within six hours. The “sleeping sickness’’ has for years baffled all medical skill and carried off hundreds of thousands of natives. Some few months ago it was announced that it had been discovered that the disease was caused or communicated by the bite of a fly. Dr Koch has not been long in the infected territory, where he was to remain 18 months. He was helped'by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, which has already spent. £SO, 000 and lost one of its professors in its efforts to find a means of fighting this terrible plague. It was authoritatively stated in Liverpool recently that the German Colonial Department had allocated £60,000 towards the expenses of Dr Koch’s expedition.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3734, 22 December 1906, Page 3
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161SLEEPING SICKNESS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3734, 22 December 1906, Page 3
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