Sudan: a surgical operation. Photograph, 19--.

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1900-1999
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659877i
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Sudan: a surgical operation. Photograph, 19--. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Foreground: a man applying anaesthesia with a facemask. Left, a shelf of bottles on sheets of newspaper. Background, a young man with surgical instruments

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1900-1999

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1 photograph : photoprint ; image 14.8 x 20.7 cm

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London: Great-Britain defeats the mosquitoes. The remotest medical station in world. ... Text on typed sheet attached to verso: Exclusive feature set of the New York times. London: Great-Britain defeats the mosquitoes. The remotest medical station in world. The last ten years brought the gratest [sic] medical revolution for centuries in the Sudan which is comperatively perhaps more important than the discoveries and inventions of the greatest doctors of mankind. Ten years ago the Sudan was the center of horrible diseases threatening other continents because of the danger that the contagious dlseases would spread beyond her borders. Today she is the healthiest country in the world. This marvel of change was effected by a few men: the British doctors of the Sudan Medical Service. Their tremendous work started exactly ten years ago when the Egyptians left the Sudan and the Government became British. The first thing they did was the organisation of this medical service which immediately started a war against the mosquitoes and different germ [sic] hiding in the dirty houses of the natives, in the lakes and standing waters. In the remotest parts of the country they established medical stations which are run by native doctors or medical officers who were trained in the newly erected Lord Kitchener School of Medicine in Khartoum. Our ecxlusive [sic] pictures show the work in the most distant medical station of the S.M.S. in Gallabat, on the Abyssinian border, a place known as the unhealthiest among the unhealthy Sudanese villages, where malaria mosquitoes and Tse-tse flies rules [sic] for centuries. The theatre of operation in the Gallabat hospital. Though the equipment is primitive the conditions are proper.

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