TY - JOUR
KW - Elephantiasis, Filarial
KW - Female
KW - Hernia
KW - Herniorrhaphy
KW - History, 20th Century
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Malaria
KW - Male
KW - Obstetric Labor Complications
KW - Pregnancy
KW - Sierra Leone
KW - Smallpox
KW - Tropical Medicine
KW - Yaws
AU - Macgregor J D
AB - <p>So much attention is focused on the current HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa that there is a tendency to overlook the grievous burden of disease from which the peoples of that Continent have suffered for centuries. This paper, based on letters sent in 1953/54 by a young doctor in Sierra Leone to his parents in Scotland, together with extracts from Makeni Hospital records of the same period, provides a factual account of front-line medicine in West Africa half a century ago.</p>
BT - Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15822252?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2004 Dec
IS - 2
J2 - Vesalius
LA - eng
N2 - <p>So much attention is focused on the current HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa that there is a tendency to overlook the grievous burden of disease from which the peoples of that Continent have suffered for centuries. This paper, based on letters sent in 1953/54 by a young doctor in Sierra Leone to his parents in Scotland, together with extracts from Makeni Hospital records of the same period, provides a factual account of front-line medicine in West Africa half a century ago.</p>
PY - 2004
SP - 67
EP - 73
T2 - Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae
TI - Disease in Africa: a medical perspective from the 1950s.
VL - 10
SN - 1373-4857
ER -