Timeline
Lifetime:
1853 -
1918
Passed: ≈
106 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Fleming Mant Sandwith
Books by Fleming Mant Sandwith
Sleeping Sickness
History
Non-Fiction
Travel
Science
Health & Wellness
Imperialism
Africa
Colonialism
Medical history
Public health
East Africa
Parasite
Stanley
Sleeping sickness
African Trypanosomiasis
Tsetse Fly
Tropical Disease
Epidemiology
Livingstone
Emin Pasha
This short monograph, written in 1912, recounts the devastating impact of sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) in East Africa during the colonial era. Dr. Sandwith, an eyewitness to the epidemic, details the historical context, from the early...