Rhodesian trypanosomiasis (terminal stage)/ beri-beri of paraplegic type [and related conditions].

Date:
[c.1930]
  • Film

About this work

Description

A series of short case-studies of patients exhibiting well-marked physical signs diagnostic of a number of important tropical diseases, made under the direction of Sir Philip Manson-Bahr at the Albert Docks Hospital at various times in the early 1930s and subsequently copied onto a single 16mm reel. Conditions illustrated include:- - Terminal stages of Rhodesian Trypanosomiasis in a middle-aged European man (1933); "Beri-Beri of Paraplegic Type in a Chinaman ..."Disseminated Sclerosis of ... Spastic Type [in an elderly European man]"; "Myopathic Muscular Atrophy [Erb's Juvenile Type]"; "Encephalitis Lethargica of ... Hemiplegic Type".

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [c.1930]

Physical description

1 film reel (22 min.) : silent, black and white

Copyright note

Not known.

Notes

Donated to the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine via Dr A. J. Duggan some time after 1965 and held by the Iconographics Collection until circa 1990.

Creator/production credits

Sir Philip Manson-Bahr and the Albert Docks Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

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