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GLAND PUNCTURE IN FHE DIAGNOSIS 
OF ANIMAL I'RYPANOSOMIASIS 
BV 
R. EUSTACE MONTGOMERY. M.R.C.V.S.. 
AND 
ALLAN KINGHORN. M.B., 
<Re<txxed fur publication 15 Aprils 1909^ 
Acting on a suggestion made by Mott, Greig and Gray examined 
the juice obtained by puncture of the enlarged lymphatic glands of 
men suffering from trypanosomiasis in Uganda. Dutton and Todd 
in the Congo Free State also noted their connection with the disease, 
and instituted a system of census dependent upon their size. They 
found that 91% of natives having post-cervical glands measuring 
approximately 1*5 by 0'75 cm. showed trypanosomes on puncture. 
Enlargement of the superficial lymphatic glands in animals, 
though well recognised post-mortem, has not received 
attention a symptom of trypanosomiasis. Dutton, 
Kinghorn* quote Bcrtolloti as having noted it to be a constant eature 
in the infected stock at Kala; and enlargement of the presteina s m 
'veil known to camel owners in the Punjab, and by some at east is 
associated with Surra. In Rhodesia we found it to be common in a 
classes of animals sick and healthy, even young calves and severa 
varieties of antelope having almost without exception easily pa P 
glands. As a symptom, then, it is here of little value. 
During the time one of us (R- E- was in In la, a e\ 
observations were made as to the value of gland puncture in cam 
believed to be suffering from Surra, but not showing trypanoso 
the peripheral circulation. In one case a camel which di n 
peripheral organisms for sixty-three consecutive days revea e 
on three out of four punctures; and on another occasion ™ 
examining a herd, two additional cases were discovere. y 
"•ethod. 
* Annals of Tropioal Medicine and l’ara!‘itolog\ . 
igo7. Vol. «. P- ■*A5- 
