Word: azar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern Elizabethan. He entered the Indian Medical Service at 24; began an unofficial search for the malaria-transmitting mosquito at 35. His interfering superiors finally gave him six months in which to investigate the 2,000-year-old problem of malaria and the still unsolved problem of kala azar. In 1899 he left the Medical Service; in 1902 he was given the Nobel Prize for Medicine, made a Companion of the Bath. Forgotten, he had lately become very poor, begun selling his archives...