Koch's Arsenic Cure Blinded Thousands and Spread the Disease
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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East AfricaColonial Medicine20th CenturyGerman EmpireEpidemicsMedical HistoryUgandaRobert KochPublic Health

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