As we continue our exploration during World Health Worker Week, we focus today on famous figures in medical research of specific diseases. Alois Alzheimer, a German neuropathologist and psychiatrist, identified the first…
Tag: Leprosy
Black History Month – Alice August Ball
Alice Augusta Ball, in 1916, succeeded in discovering an effective treatment for Leprosy that had stumped medical science for thousands of years. She was a brilliant chemist and her work significantly…