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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

THOMAS, Harold Wolferstan (1875 – 1931)

1875 – 1931

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1905

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Report on trypanosomes, trypanosomiasis, and sleeping sickness, being an experimental investigation into their pathology and treatment.

THOMAS, Harold Wolferstan (1875 – 1931)
BREINL, Anton (1880 – 1944)
BREINL, Anton (1880 – 1944)

Thomas and Breinl discovered that arsanilic acid, was more potent in the treatment of laboratory trypanosomiasis than arsenic in inorganic form. As a crystalline powder it was introduced medically as Atoxyl. Thomas an…