A description of investigations carried out in the equatorial province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on a hitherto undescribed disease of the eyes now known as "Sudan blindness" : together with an account of the manifestations of onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart.1893), notes on that parasite, and its relation to "Sudan blindness"
(1) An endemic disease causing blindness in the Bahr-el-Ghazal Province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is described. The disease has become epidemic within the last 5 to 10 years. (2) The disease is local and found along the banks of rocky streams, geographically its distribution being identical with t...
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University of Edinburgh
1936
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.642158 |