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

by Alan Twigg

Norwegian by birth, Dr. Louise Aall studied medicine first in Germany and then Switzerland. She then chose to work as an itinerant bush doctor, setting up a clinic in Mahenge in Tanganyika (now Tanzania). There 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553805933
• ISBN13: 9781553805939
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"