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WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)

WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)

1765 – 1859

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1803 CE

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An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone; to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them. 2 vols.

WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)

In his travels in Africa, Winterbottom, physician to the Colony of Sierra Leone (now Republic of Sierra Leone) on the west coast of Africa, saw sleeping sickness, which he described in vol. 2, pp. 29-31, as a species …