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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON A CASE OF 
SLEEPING SICKNESS : COAGULATION 
TIME OF BLOOD, ALBUMOSES, 
CHOLINE, CEREBRAL SECTIONS 
BY 
VISHNU T. KORKE, M.R.C.P. (Edin.), D.T.M. (Liverpool), 
L.M. & S. (Bombay), 
JOHNSTON COLONIAL FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL 
{Received for publication 28 October , 1910) 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 
The observations recorded in this paper, though somewhat 
incomplete, are not without interest. They were made on a case of 
sleeping sickness in Professor Ross’s clinic at the Royal Southern 
Hospital, Liverpool. This work was done in conjunction with other 
researches on the same case.* 
Patient, W. A., male, age 26, was infected by the parasite of 
sleeping sickness in September, 1909, while he was in North East 
Rhodesia. Trypanosomes were observed in his peripheral blood in 
Africa on November 17, 1909. He died of lung and pleural 
complications (pneumonia and empyema) on June 29, 1910. The 
e xact period of disease may be approximately calculated to be 300 
days or thereabouts. The somnolent stage was not well pronounced. 
The parasite found in his blood showed a peculiar morphological 
feature in that some of the stout forms possessed a posterior nucleus, 
a nd has been named T. rhodesiense by Stephens and Fantham.t 
This parasite was of a marked virulence in the laboratory animals. 
Such in brief is the history and peculiarities of the case. 
*Ross and Thomson. Proc. Roy. Soc-, 82 B, pp. 411-415. 
tStephens and Fantham. Proc. Roy. Soc., 83 B, pp. 28-33 (1910). 
