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'A contribution to the study of malnutrition in Central Africa. A syndrome of malignant malnutrition', with EMK Muwazi, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, vol XXXIX, no 3, Dec 1945
Date: 1945Reference: PP/HCT/C/1/7Part of: Trowell, The Rev Dr Hubert Carey (Hugh)- Books
A report to the Medical Board of the Universities' Mission on the health of the European missionaries in the Likoma diocese : including an historical survey from the commencement of work in Nyasaland / by Robert Howard.
Howard, Robert.Date: 1904- Books
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Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White.
White, LuiseDate: 2008, ©2000- Books
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Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White.
White, LuiseDate: [2000], ©2000- Archives and manuscripts
Report by Brigadier E.W. Wade, DDMS, entitled "First Army Medical Lessons, North Africa, Nov 1942-May 1943", with a plan of typical layout of a 200 bed tented hospital
Date: May 1943Reference: RAMC/761/3/33Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].
Johnston, James, M.D., of Brown's Town, Jamaica.Date: 1893- Books
An account of the empire of Marocco, and the districts of Suse and Tafilelt; compiled from miscellaneous observations made during a long residence in, and various journies through, these countries. To which is added an account of shipwrecks on the Western Coast of Africa, and an interesting account of Timbuctoo, the great emporium of Central Africa ... / By James Grey Jackson, esq. Illustrated with correct maps and various engravings.
Jackson, James Grey.Date: 1814- Pictures
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Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone in central Africa, reading British newspapers. Process print after Pearson after J.B. Zwecker.
Zwecker, Johann Baptist, 1814-1876.Reference: 561230i- Books
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The last journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to his death : continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants Chuma and Susi / by Horace Waller ... In two volumes. - Vol. II. With portrait, maps, and illustrations.
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.Date: 1874- Books
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Narratives of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824 / by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the late Doctor Oudney : extending across the great desert to the tenth degree of northern latitute, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the capital of the Fellatah empire ; With an appendix.
Denham, Dixon, 1786-1828.Date: 1826- Archives and manuscripts
File entitled "Combined operations", containing a letter, 4 Nov 1943, from Colonel E.M. Cowell, surgeon, British North Africa Force, to Lieutenant General Sir Percy Tomlinson, re infectious diseases and air evacuation of casualties; and memoranda, April and Oct 1943, re combined operations
Date: 1943Reference: RAMC/761/3/35Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
Healing knowledge in Atlantic Africa : medical encounters, 1500-1850 / Kalle Kananoja, University of Oulu.
Kananoja, KalleDate: 2021- Books
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Nachituti's gift : economy, society, and environment in central Africa / David M. Gordon.
Gordon, David M., 1970-Date: [2006], ©2006- Digital Images
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Ornithogalum umbellatum L. Hyacinthaceae Star of Bethlehem, Grass lily. Distribution: Central Europe, SW Asia, NW Africa. All parts are poisonous, especially the bulbs. The toxin is a cardiac glycoside with effects similar to digoxin, vomiting, cardiac irregularities and death in humans and livestock. Only used for decoration by Native Americans (it is a non-native plant that has escaped into the wild from cultivation) and called Sleepydick (Moerman, 1998). One of its toxins is Convallotoxin, also present in Lily of the Valley, Convallaria majalis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
Central African Republic (Ubangi Shari): a woman with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Process print after a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, ca. 1933.
Hoffman, Malvina, 1885-1966.Date: [1933?]Reference: 645685i- Pictures
Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa, 1872. Coloured wood engraving by G. Durand after H.M. Stanley.
Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904.Reference: 545307i- Journals
The South African Health Society magazine.
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Loose papers found in minute book
Cooper McDougall & Robertson Limited: Cooper, McDougall & Robertson (NZ) Limited, 1933-?Date: 7 May 1958 - 6 Nov 1964Reference: WF/C/S/02/APart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Witchcraft and sorcery in East Africa / John Beattie [and others] ; edited by John Middleton and E.H. Winter ; foreword by E.E. Evans-Pritchard.
Date: [1978], ©1963- Archives and manuscripts
Parke, Thomas Heazle (1857-1893), medical officer with the 1887-1889 Emin Pasha relief expedition of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)
Date: 1890-1893Reference: MS.7330/39-43Part of: Explorers and Travellers in Africa- Books
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Antecedents to modern Rwanda : the Nyiginya Kingdom / Jan Vansina ; translated by the author.
Vansina, JanDate: [2004], ©2004- Pictures
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The hut where David Livingstone died, in central Africa. Etching.
Reference: 561445i- Ephemera
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You get as much out of urine as you put into it, Bili-Labstix : just add blood! Ames/BMI Blood Analyser.
Date: 1973- Pictures
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David Livingstone and his men stung by bees in central Africa. Lithograph.
Reference: 561394i- Books
African highway : the battle for health in central Africa / by Sir Malcolm Watson.
Watson, Malcolm, 1873-1955.Date: 1953