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

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...

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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill eBook titles 2009
Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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