Dichpali, Hyderabad: Dr Isabel Kerr vaccinating a child in the leprosy hospital. Photograph by G.M. Kerr, 1926.
- Kerr, George McGlashan, 1874-1950.
- Date:
- Ap[ri]l 1926
- Reference:
- 726380i
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The doctor is Isabel Kerr, the founder of the hospital in 1915, who from 1921 launched "a pioneering program of treatment for leprosy following the discovery of the effectiveness of injections of hyndocarpus [i.e. hydnocarpus] oil by Edwin Muir and Leonard Rogers" (website of Undiscovered Scotland, accessed 15 April 2010). There is an obituary of her (without portrait) in The lancet, 31 December 1932, pp. 1460-1461
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Ap[ri]l 1926.
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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 9.6 x 12 cm
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Lepers of Dichpali. The foreign field
References note
Rev. G.M. Kerr, 'Tackling a great social problem: the fight with leprosy', The foreign field (of the Wesleyan Methodist Church), April 1926, pp. 155-158 (reproduced p. 156 with legend "Dr Isabel Kerr giving an injection. By the Rev. G.M. Kerr")
William Schupbach, 'Portrait of a lady in Nizamabad: Isabel Kerr' https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210313023312/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2012/02/portrait-of-a-lady-in-nizamabad-isabel-kerr-wellcome-library-item-of-the-month/
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Wellcome Collection 726380i
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