Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for BilharziaBRILL, 2009 - 428 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One Worms and Dead Eggs in the Long Hot Summer | 31 |
Tanner to Clergyman to Physician | 49 |
The Imperial Yeomanry HospitalA Palace in the Desert | 67 |
Smallpox Delivers Both Fear and Opportunity | 97 |
Chapter Five 1904 and the Appointment Blunder | 119 |
Chapter Six The Wellcome Laboratory on the Nile and a Relapsing Fever Dispute A Storm in a Teacup? Some of What Really Happened is Revealed ... | 141 |
Surviving Disaster 19081911 | 171 |
Chapter Eleven The Aha Moment and Consequences | 269 |
Chapter Twelve On the Practice of Medicine Sudan 19021919 | 301 |
Chapter Thirteen Life aft er SudanThe Varied Life of a London Consultant | 323 |
Chapter Fourteen Heavensgate Gloucestershire | 349 |
Chapter Fift een Looking Back from the TwentyFirst Century | 365 |
Appendix A An Analysis of JB Christophersons Dosing Method | 391 |
Appendix B Published Papers and Letters by JB Christopherson | 397 |
Appendix C Chronology | 404 |
Chapter Eight 1912 Marriage and the Decision to Remain in Sudan | 203 |
Chapter Nine With the Red Cross in Serbia and Rudolph Slatins Role as Fairy Godfather | 215 |
Chapter Ten France 1917 The Commission on Medical Establishments | 239 |
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administration Africa Andrew Balfour Anglo-Egyptian Sudan antimony antimony tartrate Army Barts Berry bilharzia bilharziasis Boer Brian British Christo Christopherson wrote colleagues colonial Crispin cure Deelfontein Director doctor dose drug Durham University early Egypt Egyptian England February Gordon College Henry Wellcome Hygiene Ibid Imperial Yeomanry intravenous injections J.B. Christopherson Journal June kala-azar Khartoum Khartoum Civil Hospital Laboratory Lancet later leishmaniasis letter lived London major malaria Manson-Bahr McDonagh Michou military Morhig Neave Newlove Nile noted nurses Omdurman paper parasite Pasha patients perhaps Peter Ormerod Phipps Photo physicians published relapsing fever Report Rogers Royal Society schistosomiasis School Secretary sent Serbia Sirdar Slatin Sloggett smallpox spirochaete story success Sudan Archive Sudan Medical Department Sudan Medical Service Sudanese surgeon tartar emetic tion topherson treatment Tropical Diseases Tropical Medicine vaccination Vrnjacka Banja Wellcome Lab Wingate writing Zaki