The Hindu·4 min read·medium
Salvaging limbs and lives: A chemist to the rescue
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Ramya Kannan
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This article profiles Alice Augusta Ball, a pioneering African American chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosy in the early 20th century. Despite her early death, her research on chaulmoogra oil significantly advanced medical care for the disease.
Alice Augusta Ball lived a very short life. In 24 years, she had remarkable achievements, and was predictably forgotten for a while, until the world was shaken up to her brilliance. Her work on distilling chaulmoogra oil for use as effective treatment for leprosy brought hope to a number of patients globally.
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