Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia Book

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xv

List of Illustrations xvii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Worms and Dead Eggs in the Long Hot Summer 31

Chapter 2 Three Generations of Christophersons: Tanner to Clergyman to Physician 49

Chapter 3 The Boer War Experience: The Imperial Yeomanry Hospital-A Palace in the Desert 67

Chapter 4 Sudan 1902-3: Smallpox Delivers Both Fear and Opportunity 97

Chapter 5 1904 and the Appointment Blunder 119

Chapter 6 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 141

Chapter 7 Christopherson's Difficult Years: Surviving Disaster; 1908-1911 171

Chapter 8 1912 Marriage and the Decision to Remain in Sudan 203

Chapter 9 With the Red Cross in Serbia, and Rudolph Slatin's Role as 'Fairy Godfather' 215

Chapter 10 France 1917. The Commission on Medical Establishments 239

Chapter 11 The 'Aha' Moment and Consequences 269

Chapter 12 On the Practice of Medicine, Sudan 1902-1919 301

Chapter 13 Life after Sudan-The Varied Life of a London Consultant 323

Chapter 14 Heavensgate, Gloucestershire 349

Chapter 15 Looking Back from the Twenty-First Century 365

Appendix A An Analysis of J.B. Christopherson's Dosing Method 391

Appendix B Published Papers and Letters J.B. Christopherson 397

Appendix C Chronology 404

Select Bibliography 409

Index 415