Benin Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/benin/ Sun, 19 May 2024 13:20:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 “The forgotten man of Africa” https://bshm.org.uk/the-forgotten-man-of-africa/ https://bshm.org.uk/the-forgotten-man-of-africa/#comments Tue, 14 May 2024 08:26:54 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=18422 Standing on the deck of the exploring vessel Pleiad in July 1854, Edinburgh trained doctor William Balfour Baikie was about to lead an expedition into the interior of Africa to test the validity of a cure for malaria, writes Wendell McConnaha. Baikie had been seconded to the mission sponsored by the merchant Macgregor Laird and […]

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