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escaped detection during a century of its existence known to Europeans, 

 was at last seen by Dr. Forde, in 1901. It was Dutton, however, who 

 first recognized that the little flagellate in the blood of Dr. Forde's 

 patient was a trypanosome, similar to those which cause disease in 

 lower animals. Dutton was the first to give full details regarding the 

 character of the organism, to describe the symptoms produced by it 

 and to give it the name it still holds. 



The Liverpool school has sent four expeditions to study sleeping 

 sickness. The experimental work which was carried on in England 

 was begun in 1903 with material brought back from the Gambia by 

 Dutton. At first the researches were conducted in Liverpool, but as 

 the work expanded and the material increased, it became necessary to 

 find a place in the country where the work could be more fittingly 

 carried on. Such a place was found at Crofton Lodge and Cottages 

 in Euncorn, a town sixteen miles from Liverpool. There, in a roomy 

 rambling old country house beside a sunken road, with two tall holly 

 trees guarding the entrance, might be found at one time research 

 workers from India, Russia, Austria, Canada and the United States, who 

 kept at their work from early morning until nearly midnight, and 

 occasionally all night. 



The most important experimental work of the laboratories in 

 Liverpool and in Runcorn has been the search for a cure for sleeping 

 sickness. These investigations were begun by Dr. Thomas, who was 

 the first to use and recommend atoxyl, the remedy which Koch used 

 later in Africa with so much temporary success. Although the little 

 animal disappears from the blood and the fever subsides after the use 



Thojipson-Yates Laboratories, University of Liverpool. 



