Report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...developed. Contained '014 per cent. HCN. The investigation of cyanogenesis in all the fodder plants used in the Sudan and in certain of the leguminosaj, is a piece of research a chemist might carry out with advantage. 49 General Routine Work The nature of this work may be classed under two main headings: I. Pathological; 2. Chemical. It bulked so largely that little time was afforded for original investigations, but then again some of it was really more or less research work; and in any case the mere fact that so much had to be done thus early in the laboratories' career, seems to show that they have filled a felt want. Under each of the above headings is placed a list of the examinations and analyses performed. 1. Pathological Nature No. (a) Morbid secretions and excretions.... 16 (6) Blood 20 (c) Bacteriological apart from (a).... ('i (d) Parasites apart from (a) and (b).. 5 (e) New growths.......... 4 (/) Other pathological conditions...... 3 It may be as well to indicate some of the forms of disease encountered and included under these figures, and also to deal briefly with the more common diseases found in the Sudan. The classification adopted by Wellman1 for the diseases of Angola is here introduced for the sake of convenience.2 The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is a huge territory inhabited by many divers races of men, and possessing several types of climate. One could no more scientifically compare the diseases found in the neighbourhood of Suakin with those prevalent in the Khartoum district than one could compare the latter with those occurring in the Bahr-El-Ghazal. On the Red Sea coast the climate is that of a littoral; it is the Northern Sudan climate modified by proximity to the sea. Round about Khartoum there exists, roughly...