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

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:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Subjects:	Christopherson, John Brian, > 1868-1955. Christopherson, John Brian, > 1868-1955 Śarmā, Kṛṣṇalāla > Sūdana Christopherson, John Brian. 1900-1999 Geschichte 1900-1950 Physicians > Sudan > Biography. Schistosomiasis > Sudan > History > 20th century. Physicians. physicians. MEDICAL > Physicians. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical. Physicians Schistosomiasis Bilharziose Bekämpfung Sudan collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies.
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Table of Contents:

Worms and dead eggs in the long hot summer
Three generations of Christophersons : tanner to clergyman to physician
The Boer War experience : the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital-a palace in the desert
Sudan 1902-3 : smallpox delivers both fear and opportunity
1904 and the appointment blunder
The wellcome laboratory on the Nile and a relapsing fever dispute. A storm in a teacup? Some of what really happened is revealed only in 1923
Christopherson's difficult years : surviving disaster : 1908-1911
1912 marriage and the decision to remain in Sudan
With the Red Cross in Serbia, and Rudolph Slatin's role as 'fairy godfather'
France 1917. The commission on medical establishments
The 'Aha' moment and consequences
On the practice of medicine, Sudan 1902-1919
Life after Sudan-the varied life of a London consultant
Heavensgate, Gloucestershire
Looking back from the twenty-first century.

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

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