Moon Madness: Dr. Louise Aall, Sixty Years of Healing in Africa

by Alan Twigg

The biography of Dr. Louise Aall who studied medicine in Germany and Switzerland before choosing to work as an itinerant bush doctor, setting up a clinic in Mahenge in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).

She was the first western physician to identify and treat a variant of epilepsy, now recognized by the World Health Organization as " Nodding Syndrome." While working at her clinic in 1959, Dr. Aall was asked by the Red Cross to fly to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553805933
• ISBN13: 9781553805939
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"