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Africa. The atoxyl was stopped for a fortnight with a vjc«- to 
testing his supposed cure by injection of his blood into animals. At 
the end of the fortnight trypanosomes were again found in the blood 
and the atoxyl resumed. I saw this patient lately (i6th Januarj-. 
igo8). He says he never felt better in his life; he looks quite well, 
and no indication of trypanosomiasis can be detected on careful 
examination. 
* ““ engineer, aged 35, arrived at Homa, Congo River, 
on June 23 nd, 1907. He was then in perfect health, and proceeded 
at once up country to a point about 150 miles above Stanley Pool, 
where he and his companions camped on the river bank from June 
28th till July 17th. Four days after his arrival there he began to 
ail with anorexia, depression, languor, drowsiness, and on 12th July 
took to bed with fever (i02»). On July 17th his temperature had 
reached 107 . Next day he was brought to Leopoldville (104°), and 
on the follomng day-.gth July Dr. Broden found trypanoson.es in 
his blood. He received a large dose (I understood 1-5 gramme) of 
atoxyl hypodermically on the 20th. This gave rise to violent 
gastralgia, but on the 21st temperature had become normal and has 
tno2-!°/°vT hrief rises (99S 
weeks L a, regularity every fortnight or three 
commenced d u of gramme of atoxyl were 
increases of *e ’drse to°Tr“‘ 
Liverpool about the middL 
LeopoldHUe' ev^; ZtVTl fr" 
examined him on his arrival “ 1;...°'^ 
standing intensive doses of atoxvl ‘"T ’ 
and I found them whenever ^xt "rf u 
alternate day- .between October 2,rT is, on every 
When I saw the naf.Vnt f November 8th. 
informed me that he had had^"^ October 23rd he 
once-during the initial fever^wh^^''"^''?' that only 
detected on the right side of the " slightly enlarged gland was 
patch of skin on the dorsum of 'adenitis. An inflamed 
20th of September, and which he^ T k 
Which he attributed to prickly heat, had 
