Albert Cook 1870-1951: Uganda pioneer.

The Church Missionary Society and modern medicine in Uganda. The life of Sir Albert Cook, K. C. M. G., 1870-1951

modern scientific ideas as the truly great intellectual achievements they are, and perhaps rightly fears their debasement in the new dark churches of irrationalism, and their belittlement by those without the generosity or intellect to comprehend them. He is however, I believe, in the end, wrong. We should be able to see scientific ideas as produced and sustained by bodies ofmen and serving soc...

Doctor Albert Cook and the early days of the church missionary society's medical mission to Uganda.

ON 1 October 1896, there disembarked at Mombasa a party of twelve Church Missionary Society missionaries bound for Uganda. One of the nine men was Dr. A. R. Cook and one of the three women a Miss K. Timpson, a qualified nurse who had trained at Guy's Hospital. They planned to march to Uganda via the northern route, through British territory, and their caravan leader was the veteran Dr. Baxter o...

Dr. Albert Gerber, a European pioneer in the craniomandibular field.

Albert Eckstein: a pioneer in pediatrics in Turkey.

A historical perspective is presented on Ord. Prof. Albert Eckstein, who was a pioneer of modern pediatrics in TUrkey. 2005 marks the 55th anniversary of Prof. Albert Eckstein's death and 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Pediatric Clinics of Ankara University, where he served as the founding director for five years.

High prevalence and morbidity of Schistosoma mansoni along the Albert Nile in Uganda.

An epidemiological cross sectional study of Schistosoma mansoni was conducted in two hyper endemic fishing villages of Rhino Camp and Obongi both in West Nile district in northern Uganda in 1991 and 1992. People with various water contacts were registered. A small group of civil servants and clergies with less water contact in the river Nile were studied for control of infection and morbidity. ...