Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia - Couverture souple

Crichton-Harris, Ann

 
9789004175419: Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9004175415 ISBN 13 : 9789004175419
Editeur : Brill, 2009

Synopsis

In 1917, in Khartoum, Dr. J.B. Christopherson experimentally treated seventy bilharzia patients with injections of antimony tartrate, an early chemotherapy. His was the first successful treatment. Antimony had never been tried on bilharzia patients before, or so he believed. This biography examines the turbulent life of this medical pioneer, his fight for priority and his struggle for professional survival amid the politics of exclusion in General Wingate's Sudan.
His was a career full of paradoxes: acclaimed for intercepting a smallpox outbreak, building a hospital and satellite clinics, he battled accusations and removal as director of the Medical Department. From the Boer War, two decades in Sudan, his capture and release in Serbia to his time in France in WW1, controversy seldom left him.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ann Crichton-Harris, is an independent scholar with an interest in medical history and colonial history. She is the author of several books, the last: ^Seventeen Letters to Tatham: A WW1 Surgeon in East Africa'. Keneggy West Books, (Toronto. 2001).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004175415
ISBN 13 
9789004175419
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
448
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