West Africa. Blackwater fever
- Reference:GB 250 9/L/3/4
- Dates of Creation:1904-1919
- Language of Material:English
Scope and Content
1-5: 1904-1909. Bi-palatinoids for the treatment of blackwater fever
1: 24 Sept 1904. Oppenheimer, Son and Co. Ltd. Advertising leaflet.
2: 24 Sept 1904. R. Koettlitz ? Manuscript.
3: 18 Sept 1905. Alan Hay Milne. Typescript.
4: 14 Sept 1905. Oppenheimer, Son and Co. Ltd. Typescript letter.
5: 30 Dec 1909. Oppenheimer, Son and Co. Ltd. Typescript letter.
6: Dec 1910. ‘A case of blackwater fever followed by a peculiar relapse without haemoglobinuria or detectable plasmodia’ by R. Ross, D. Thomson and G.C.E. Simpson, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Vol. 4, No. 1. Reprint, 2 copies.
7: 11 Nov 1911. ‘The mechanism of production of suppression of urine in blackwater fever’ by Warrington Yorke, British Medical Journal. Reprint.
8: 13 May 1911. ‘A clinical lecture on granular kidney and its surprises’ by Samuel West, British Medical Journal. Reprint.
9: n.d. Temperature chart by S. Ellery.
10: 1903. ‘A case of blackwater fever’ by Richard Harley. 7 pages, 16cm, manuscript.
11: 6 Oct 1903. ‘A case of blackwater fever’ by Richard Harley. 1 page, 26cm, manuscript.
12: 1 Jan 1904. Richard Harley. Manuscript letter, 6 sides.
13: 10 July 1914. J.W.W. Stephens to H.J. Read. Typescript letter.
14: 1912. Blackwater fever in the Tropical African Dependencies. Reports for 1912. Review by J.W.W. Stephens. 5 pages, 32cm, typescript.
15: 24 Oct 1914. Arthur G. Bagshawe to Alex Fiddian. Typescript letter.
16: 24 Oct 1914. Blackwater fever reports of 1913 by Arthur G. Bagshawe. 5 pages, 32cm, typescript.
17: 4 Nov 1914. Sir Ronald Ross to J.W.W. Stephens. Typescript letter.
18: 13 Nov 1914. Sir Ronald Ross to Alex Fiddian. Typescript letter.
19: 13 Nov 1914. Ibid.
20: 19 Nov 1914. Blackwater fever reports by Arthur G. Bagshawe. 4 pages, 32cm, typescript.
21: 1914. Blackwater fever in the Tropical African Dependencies. Reports for 1913. 66 pages, 32cm, letterpress, 2 copies.
22: 27 May 1915. ‘Memorandum on charts for use with Blackwater Fever Schedule’ by H.L. B(name indecipherable). 3 pages, 32cm, typescript with sample chart.
23-30: 1919. War Office – blackwater fever
23: 8 May 1919. Typescript note.
24: 22 Mar 1919. F.A. Holunden. Typescript letter.
25: 1 May 1919. F.A. Holunden. Typescript letter.
26: 7 Mar 1919. Manuscript note.
27: 4 Mar 1919. Typescript note.
28: 5 May 1919. Leonard Finlay. Typescript letter.
29: 16 Jan 1919. Samuel Samuel. Manuscript letter.
30: 15 Jan 1919. Sir Ronald Ross to Samuel Samuel. Typescript letter.
Administrative / Biographical History
Blackwater fever was one tropical disease that Ross was not particularly interested in. The items in this file have been arranged chronologically in one sequence with descriptive notes giving the format.
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