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BREINL, Anton (1880 – 1944)

BREINL, Anton (1880 – 1944)

1880 – 1944

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown author Unknown author · Doctor Anton Breinl, first Director of Queensland Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville in 1910 [1] , John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, 1910 · Public domain

1905 CE

#5279

Report on trypanosomes, trypanosomiasis, and sleeping sickness, being an experimental investigation into their pathology and treatment.

Thomas and Breinl discovered that arsanilic acid, was more potent in the treatment of laboratory trypanosomiasis than arsenic in inorganic form. As a crystalline powder it was introduced medically as Atoxyl. Thomas an…