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An estimated 200 million people and countless domestic animals in the tropics and sub-tropics suffer from schistosomiasis (bilharzia), and perhaps 400 million others are at risk. The video uses...
In 1901 an outbreak of sleeping sickness in Uganda rapidly assumed epidemic proportions. The Royal Society in London, alerted in 1902, sent a small Commission to Entebbe to investigate the cause of the...
In 1901, Dr M. Forde, a medical officer working in the Gambia, found parasites previously unknown to him in the blood of one of his patients. He consulted Dr Everett Dutton, a parasitologist visiting Gambia...
At the beginning of the century, a rapid number of discoveries revealed the cause of a tropical disease known as sleeping sickness. Depicts the imagined reminiscences of Sir Patrick Manson, the founder of...
The foetus ‘in utero’ is biologically sterile, yet almost from the moment of birth the organism begins to develop a highly complex intestinal bacterial flora essential for the maintenance of independent...
Demonstrates both the older dissection technique (carried out in 1953 by P G Shute and R S Bray) and the modern enzyme-linked-immunosorbent techniques (ELIZA) for the detection of malaria sporozoites and...
One method of reducing the menace of trypanosomiasis to man and animals in Africa is to control the tsetse fly vector. The spraying of insecticide from aircraft or by teams on the ground is effective but...
In 1894 David Bruce, an officer in the Army Medical Service, was sent to Zululand to investigate the outbreak of a mysterious wasting disease which was ravaging the herds of cattle. He showed that the...
Several of the 22 species of testse found in central Africa carry the trypanosome parasites that cause African sleeping sickness in man and ngana in cattle and other domestic animals. The video presents the...
The library at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine contains many rare and beautiful books, some of them very fragile. The video shows a selection of colour illustrations from one of them,...
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