The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Christy, Cuthbert
Christy, Cuthbert, M.B., C.M. (Edin), F.R.G.S., F.S.A.; Assistant Lecturer, School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool; b. 1863; s. of Robert Christy, Chignal, Chelmsford; Educ,: Cliver’s Mount School, Scarborough; University of Edinburgh; Junior Mackenzie Bursary in anatomy, 1887; senior, 1888; Assistant Demonstrator in Pathology and Pathological Histology; graduated, 1892; travelled in the Argentine, Patagonia, and Paraguay; Island of San Domingo and West Indies; S.M.O. 2nd Batt. W. African Frontier Force in Northern Nigeria, 1898-1900 (medal and clasp); Special Medical Officer for plague, Bombay Presidency: assistant to Dr. Haffkine in Bombay Plague Laboratory at Parel; acting Civil Surgeon, Ahmednagar, 1900, and Satara, 1901; subsequently travelled through the Punjab. Cashmere, Baluchistan, and Sind; Member of first Sleeping-Sickness Commission sent to Uganda, 1902; the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Expedition to the Congo, 1903; sent out at the instigation of King Leopold; travelled in East Africa and Uganda. 1905-9. Publications: The Birds of San Domingo; Mosquitoes and Malaria; The Epidemiology and Etiology of Sleeping Sickness in Equatorial East Africa; Trypanosomiasis and its Relation to Congo Sleeping Sickness; Trypanosomiasis in Europeans; The Cerebrospinal Fluid in Trypanosomiasis; The Distribution of Filaria perstans in Uganda; papers on medical subjects and some on sport and travel. Recreations: shooting, fishing, ornithology, and general field natural history. Clubs: Royal Societies, Royal Aero; University, Liverpool; Entebbe, Uganda.