
Colonial Africa / Late 19th - Early 20th Century
Koch's Arsenic Cure Blinded Thousands and Spread the Disease
A Prussian military doctor made a mistake in 1860s Africa so catastrophic it took sixty years and tens of millions of deaths to fully correct—and nobody remembers his name.
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Download on the App StoreEast AfricaColonial Medicine20th CenturyGerman EmpireEpidemicsMedical HistoryUgandaRobert KochPublic Health
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