Alphonse Laveran Physician
Alphonse Laveran Physician
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907
Physician. “protozoa cause diseases.” Malarial parasite discovery received with skepticism. Sleeping sickness. Trypanosomes in different animals, countries. 1914-1918 concern: troops’ health.
“After vain attempt to detect parasite in air, water, soil; cultivate in varied media, I became convinced: microbe was already present outside human body as parasite, probably of mosquitoes.”
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History of Malaria
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