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Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method" for making ethyl ester derivatives of chaulmoogra oil, which were used as a treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. [1]
Alice Ball was an African American chemist who developed the first successful treatment for those suffering from Hansen’s disease (leprosy).
On the east side of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s campus, a 25-foot tree with long, narrow leaves and velvety brown fruit pays tribute to Alice Augusta Ball, the first woman and first...
Alice Ball died at 24 on Dec. 31, 1916, in Seattle. She had taken a leave of absence from her teaching position because of an illness that an article in The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, a Honolulu newspaper, attributed to exposure to chlorine gas during a laboratory demonstration.
The Ball Method wasn’t a cure, but it was as close to one as anybody got by 1922. It was named for Alice Ball, a Black chemist who had developed her formula in 1915 when she was 23.
Alice Augusta Ball developed an injectable form of chaulmoogra oil, which was used for 20 years to treat Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy.
In 1915, a young black chemist named Alice Ball revolutionized the treatment for leprosy, a painful and stigmatized disease. Decades before the development of antibiotics, Ball devised a method for treating lepers that allowed them to live without being ostracized or isolated.