1875 O’NEILL, John

On the presence of a Filaria in “craw-craw”.

In 1874, while examining skin snips from craw-craw patients in Ghana, during his service on the H. M. S. Decoy, the Irish surgeon O’Neill discovered the subcutaneous microfilaria. This was the earliest known visual id…

GMN 5344.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6790

1935 WILLIAMS, Cicely Delphine (1893 – 1992)

Kwashiorkor. A nutritional disease of children associated with a maize diet.

First accurate description. “Kwashiorkor” was the local name in Ghana for a nutritional disease of children, associated with a maize diet. The first modern account was probably that of L. Normet in Bull. Soc. Path. ex…

GMN 3759 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4609

1937 FIELD, Margaret Joyce

Religion and medicine of the Ga people.

GMN 10672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12865

1965 SCOTT, David (1916 – )

Epidemic disease in Ghana 1901-1960.

GMN 10680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12873