Poison in small measure
Subtitle: Dr. Christopherson and the cure for bilharzia
By: by Ann Crichton-Harris.
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004175419
Subjects: Christopherson, John Brian, -- 1868-1955; Christopherson, John Brian, -- 1868-1955; Physicians -- Sudan -- Biography; Schistosomiasis -- Sudan -- History -- 20th century; Physicians -- England -- Biography; Physicians -- Sudan -- Biography; History, 20th Century -- England; History, 20th Century -- Sudan; Schistosomiasis -- drug therapy -- England; Schistosomiasis -- drug therapy -- Sudan; Schistosomiasis -- history -- England; Schistosomiasis -- history -- Sudan
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Worms and dead eggs in the long hot summer; title: Three generations of Christophersons : tanner to clergyman to physician; title: The Boer War experience : the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital-a palace in the desert; title: Sudan 1902-3 : smallpox delivers both fear and opportunity; title: 1904 and the appointment blunder; title: 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; title: Christopherson's difficult years : surviving disaster : 1908-1911; title: 1912 marriage and the decision to remain in Sudan; title: With the Red Cross in Serbia, and Rudolph Slatin's role as 'fairy godfather'; title: France 1917. The commission on medical establishments; title: The 'Aha' moment and consequences; title: On the practice of medicine, Sudan 1902-1919; title: Life after Sudan-the varied life of a London consultant; title: Heavensgate, Gloucestershire; title: Looking back from the twenty-first century.