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THOMAS, Harold Wolferstan (1875 – 1931)

1875 – 1931

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1905 CE

#5279

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

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…