Overlooked No More: Alice Ball, Chemist Who Created a Treatment for Leprosy
By Delthia Ricks On New Year’s Day in 1922, a scientific paper in an obscure medical journal described a drug that would help revolutionize the treatment of leprosy in Hawaii and beyond. It would also give belated credit to the drug’s developer. The report, by Harry Hollmann, extolled the therapeutic potential of chaulmoogra oil, originally a […]