Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis.

During the past decade there has been an increasing awareness of the need for a different approach to the problem of bilharziasis.

In 1917, in Khartoum, Dr. J.B. Christopherson experimentally treated seventy bilharzia patients with injections of antimony tartrate, an early chemotherapy.

During the past decade there has been an increasing awareness of the need for a different approach to the problem of bilharziasis.