THE SLEEPING SICKNESS.
Up to the present time physicians have sought in vain to explain the curious and generally fatal West African disease known bb "the sleeping aiokneaß." The victim gradually gives way to somnolence, the general health at first remaining fair, and the only abnormal symptom being a dropping of the eyelidß while awake and a tendency to Bleep at unusual hours. This tendency, increases till finally the Bleep is constant, life seeming to have given way to o sort of insensitive fungus development. Finally food can no longer be takon, and in the end death results, fiom exhaußtion and starvation. It has been suggested that the disease is & form of blood-poisoning arising from ingestion of a funguß growing on grain, but this lacks proof. The cause of the complaint, in fact, may be said to be yet wrapped .in myßtery. _________________
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5056, 15 September 1894, Page 3
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142THE SLEEPING SICKNESS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5056, 15 September 1894, Page 3
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