Alice Ball
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first heard Apr 2025
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American chemist who developed the Ball Method for leprosy treatment
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentDanielleWatch Her Cook · The Woman Who Found the Cure for the Untreatable · 31:52 · Apr 2025
…Though her life was tragically cut short at just 24, Alice's story lives on as a testament to brilliance, resilience, and the power of perseverance. Her groundbreaking scientific achievement, the Ball Method, not only revolutionized the treatment of leprosy, but also quietly changed the limitations society placed on women and people of color in her time.…
DanielleWatch Her Cook · The Woman Who Found the Cure for the Untreatable · 24:39 · Apr 2025
…And by 1918, it was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that 78 people with leprosy at the Kalihi Hospital who received the treatment were free of lesions and were discharged. And between 1919 to 1923, no new patients were exiled to the settlements on the Malakai Peninsula. Alice's technique was successfully used until an antibiotic…
DanielleWatch Her Cook · The Woman Who Found the Cure for the Untreatable · 16:02 · Apr 2025
…Back to Alice and her incredible accomplishment of becoming the first African-American woman to receive a master's degree at the College of Hawaii.…
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