Author: Balfour, Andrew, Sir [1873-1931]
Title: Third Report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum
Description: London, Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1908. orig. cloth. 28x20cm, 478,(35) pp. Weighs 1850 grams.. 35pp photoplates.. Light cover soil. A small stain to cover. Good. ¶ Contains 26 papers. Includes: Trypanosomiasis in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; Hæmogregarine of the Jerboa; Hæmogregarine of Rhamphiophus rubropunxctatus;Piroplasmosis in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; Spirochætosis of Sudanese Fowls; Sanitary Notes, Khartoum; Sleeping Sickness & the Bahr-El-Ghazal Province; Kala-Azar in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; Observations on kala. Azar in Kassala Province; On Some Interesting Reptiles Collected by Dr. C. M. Kenyon; The Poisonous Snakes of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; An Account of Some Helminths Contained in Dr. C.M. Kenyon's Collection; New Mosquitos from the Sudan; The Healing Art as Practices by Dervishes; The Native Methods of Treatment of Diseases in Kassala & Neighbourhood; Medical Practices & Superstitions amongst the People of Kordofan [runs pp 281-324];Report upon the Physical Characters of Nilotic Negroid Tribes; Notes on Ethnographical Specimens Collected by Dr. A. MacTier Pirrie; Notes on the Chemistry of Sudan Gums.

Keywords: African Colonial History, Colonial Sudan, Tropical Diseases, Central Africa, History of Medicine, Sudanese Ethnology, Ethnography, Anthropology, Public Health, Medical Geography