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
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
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