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Example sentences for "sleeping sickness"

  • I think it's sleeping sickness or something else slow and certain.

  • You've been so awfully sympathetic about my sleeping sickness, Mart, that I just can't bear to see you troubled like this.

  • The tragedy is that except in cases of sleeping sickness, the neurotic who needs more sleep than the healthy subject, generally gets much less.

  • In certain forms of the disturbance known as sleeping sickness, people merge into a sleep which continues for weeks, months or even years, and which sometimes culminates in death.

  • The few cases of sleeping sickness reported in recent medical literature show a decided neurotic trend in the subjects affected and reveal circumstances in the patient's life which would make a flight from reality highly desirable.

  • By the middle of 1902 the reported deaths from Trypanosomiasis, or "sleeping sickness," as it has come to be called, numbered over thirty thousand.

  • Two years later the leaders of the English expedition for the investigation of sleeping sickness in the Uganda district found in the blood of a whole series of patients similar little active creatures.

  • On passing it again two years later he could only count five hundred; the rest had died meanwhile of sleeping sickness.

  • Sidenote: Sleeping sickness] Sleeping sickness prevails more widely here than I suspected at first.

  • That the depopulation is due to sleeping sickness.

  • Here there is no sleeping sickness to account for the decrease, there have been no epidemics of late years; exposure, overwork, and shortage of proper food alone are responsible for it.

  • Sleeping sickness is one of the contributory causes, but all the evidence in this book will tend to show that the great wastage of the people has occurred where the Congo rule has pressed heavily upon them.

  • What we must do is to work for the moral regeneration of the natives, ameliorate their material situation, suppress the scourge of sleeping sickness, and build new railways.

  • Sleeping Sickness is not known, which immunity is attributed by the priests to the fact that the natives have plenty of fresh meat and eat little kwanga.

  • There are many cases of Sleeping Sickness in the hospital exhibiting various symptoms.

  • He is convinced the population has greatly decreased on the riverside of the Bangala District, and attributes it chiefly to Sleeping Sickness for he cannot say if emigration to the French Congo has been extensive or not.

  • The latter states that he has only seen two cases of sleeping sickness in several years' residence and that there is no syphilis, small-pox or tuberculosis in the neighbourhood.

  • Is it possible that this can be sleeping sickness?

  • I looked up Stillbury's little reference library for information on the subject of sleeping sickness, but learned no more than that it was "a rare and obscure disease of which very little was known at present.

  • Only those diseases which are transmitted by insects which have a strictly local habitat remain endemic, although the region of endemic prevalence may become greatly extended, as is seen in the distribution of sleeping sickness.

  • The sleeping sickness has many features of interest.

  • Sleeping sickness is caused from a bite of the tsetse fly.

  • Sleeping sickness is prevalent in some parts of Rhodesia, Central Africa and in other interior sections of the Dark Continent.

  • Sanders bent over him, touched his pulse lightly, felt gingerly for the swelling on the neck behind the ears for a sign of sleeping sickness.

  • First of all, he took up sleeping sickness, and put in three months' futile work, impressing nobody save a gentleman of whom more must be written in a further chapter.

  • I would not like to say that fasting could cure such a disease as sleeping sickness, to the germs of which our systems are not accustomed, and against which they may well be helpless.

  • In laboratories today men are working over the problem of constructing a combination of molecules which will destroy the germ of sleeping sickness, without at the same time injuring the blood.

  • But take us to some new environment to which we are not accustomed; take us to Panama in the old days of yellow fever, or take us to Africa, and let the tsetse fly bite us, and infect us with "sleeping sickness.

  • The adult flies do not bite man and, as far as known, the larvae do not play any role in the transmission of sleeping sickness or other diseases.

  • Fortunately for the elucidation of problems relating to the methods of transfer of sleeping sickness, Trypanosoma gambiense is pathogenic for many species of animals.

  • He used a monkey for his subject, infecting it with the microbe of sleeping sickness discovered by Colonel Bruce.


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