#GopalKrishnaGokhale

“By any honest arithmetic, Upendranath Brahmachari saved more Indian lives than almost any Indian of his century — and almost no Indian can name him. This chapter exists to end that, one reader at a time.”

“In a barely equipped hospital side-room, he built an antimony compound gentle enough not to kill the patient and deadly enough to kill the parasite — urea stibamine — and with it turned a disease that emptied whole valleys into a curable illness.”