Poison in small measure : Dr. Christopherson and the cure for bilharzia / by Ann Crichton-Harris.

Poison in small measure : Dr. Christopherson and the cure for bilharzia /

In Khartoum in 1917, Dr. Christopherson injected seventy bilharzia patients with antimony tartrate and cured them. This biography examines the life of this medical pioneer, his fight for priority and professional survival against the politics of exclusion in colonial Africa.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crichton-Harris, Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Subjects:
Christopherson, John Brian, > 1868-1955.
Physicians > Sudan > Biography.
Schistosomiasis > Sudan > History > 20th century.
Physicians.
Physicians
History, 20th Century
Schistosomiasis > drug therapy
Schistosomiasis > history
physicians.
England
Sudan
Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies.
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