Acute meningo-encephalitis of uncertain origin in West African troops

∗ I am indebted to Dr. G. M. FINDLAY, C.B.E., lately Consulting Physician, West African Command, for permission to publish this paper, and for helpful advice in its preparation; to Major L. N. Grunbaum, R.A.M.C., for the clinical pathology, post mortem and histological examinations; and to Professor Dorothy Russell for help in the interpretation of such material as was available for microscopical examination ; also to Drs. R. D. Harding and G. Saunders for additional information on trypanosomiasis ; to medical officers of No. 68 General Hospital, and to others who have helped with advice or additional information, I have to thank Mr. J. Foreman, photographer at University College Hospital, for the micrographs.