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Sir David Bruce, KCB,FRS,FRCP (1855-1931) and Mary, Lady Bruce,OBE (d.1931)

Sleeping Sickness

Correspondence between DB and the scientists in Uganda, including reports and photographs

Lists of correspondence, divided by subject

From C A Wiggins re work at Nairobi, Kenya

From Greig, including re controversy between Greig and Philip H Ross, bacteriologist in Entebbe, over credit for discovery of <i>filaria demarquayi,</i> 43 letters

Translation of correspondence between Greig and Major Dr Ahlbory, Mwanza, German East Africa [Tanzania], refuting Manson's claim that trypanosomes were prevalent at the south end of Lake Victoria, but no ss cases had occurred

Tables of results of tests on prisoners in Usoga

From F W Mott to DB re tests on blood of ss patients

2 reports of George Wilson, Acting Commissioner at Entebbe, to the Foreign Office

To DB from Dr RW Moffatt appealing for transfer of funding from research to preventive measures

Translations of correspondence between EDW Greig and Professor Dr P Ehrlich of Frankfurt re aniline dyes in treatment of trypanosomiasis, 3 letters, with covering letter from DB to RW Moffat

From EDW Greig to Professor Ehrlich asking for signed statement re cause and transmission of ss

To DB from EA Minchin, EDW Greig and ACH Gray, and from DB to J Will and to Baird and Tatlock, Ltd, re progress of experiments, equipment required and plans to relocate the ss laboratory

Reports and letter from RW Moffatt re 2 cases of ss in Europeans, with letter to EDW Greig from ACH Gray re fears among the British community in Entebbe

Between DB and ACH Gray re observation of prisoners, attempts to breed tsetse flies, etc, 4 letters and equipment order

5 photographs of patients in the early stages of the disease

Between DB and J Will re horse-sickness and progress of research in Nairobi, 2 letters

Ms notes on experiments

Note by ADP Hodges, Medical Officer at Gondokoro, re varieties of tsetse fly

Between DB and ACH Gray, including re attempts to find trypanosomes in birds, 8 letters

To DB from Lieutenant Forbes Tulloch and from EDW Greig

Reports by ACH Gray on experimental rats

Between DB and ACH Gray, 7 letters

To DB from RW Moffatt and ACH Gray re Lieutenant Tulloch's trypanosomiasis, and from DB to Drs Koch and Ehrlich, apppealing for drugs, 4 letters

To DB from EA Minchin re report to the Royal Society

To DB from J Will and from Dr JL Todd of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine re ideas for ss eradication or control, 3 letters

From DB re publication of ss reports

To DB from ADP Hodges re location of ss laboratories outside Entebbe and unsuitability of those in charge of the ss campaign in Uganda, 2 letters

Between DB and Captain EDW Greig, including re conflict between members of staff, attitudes of Sir Patrick Manson, W M Haffkine and others, and work of Christy, Wyndham and Koch, 17 letters

Between DB and Captain EDW Greig, including re conflict between members of staff, attitudes of Sir Patrick Manson, W M Haffkine and others, and work of Christy, Wyndham and Koch, 17 letters

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