Note on the lymphatic glands in sleeping sickness.

Abstract

Abstract Captain Greig, in a letter dated March 17, 1904, writes that following a suggestion of Dr. Mott, they have examined the contents of lymphatic glands during life from fifteen sleeping-sickness patients. In all of them actively motile trypanosomes were very readily found in cover-glass preparations taken from the cervical glands. They also present in other glands such as the femoral, but were not nearly so numerous. They found the trypanosomes to be far more numerous in the glands than in the blood or cerebro-spinal fluid, and believe that the examination of fluid removed from lymphatic glands will prove to be a much more rapid and satisfactory method of diagnosing early cases of sleeping sickness than the examination of the blood.