Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 42, Issue 6 , Pages 581-596 , May 1949

Acute meningo-encephalitis of uncertain origin in West African troops

  • W.M Priest, M.D., M.R.C.P.

      Affiliations

    • Physician, Warneford General Hospital, Leamington, UK
    • late Officer-in-charge of a Medical Division, R.A.M.C. UK
    • 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.

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 42, Issue 6 , Pages 581-596 , May 1949

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