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Author Crichton-Harris, Ann.

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

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 428 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-414) and index.
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.
Summary 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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Subject Christopherson, John Brian, 1868-1955.
Christopherson, John Brian, 1868-1955.
Christopherson, John Brian, 1868-1955.
Christopherson, John Brian.
Physicians -- Sudan -- Biography.
Physicians.
Sudan.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Schistosomiasis -- Sudan -- History -- 20th century.
Schistosomiasis.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Physicians.
History, 20th Century.
Schistosomiasis -- drug therapy.
Schistosomiasis -- history.
England.
Sudan.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Geschichte 1900-1950
Genre/Form Biography.
Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Crichton-Harris, Ann. Poison in small measure. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004175419 (DLC) 2009014373 (OCoLC)318243451
ISBN 9789047428855 (electronic book)
9047428854 (electronic book)
9789004175419 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9004175415 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004175419.i-428
9786612602771