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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Crichton-Harris, Ann.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xx, 428 p. :; ill.

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.