Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Dr. Arthur Lewis Piper (31 December 1883 - 1983) was a medical missionary in the Belgian Congo, supported by the Detroit Epworth League. He worked for the Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the most remote mission station near Kapanga in the Belgian Congo. Dr. Piper helped the Lunda tribe battle malaria, sleeping sickness, and leprosy, among many other diseases.In 1925, he encouraged use of tryparsamide to cure sleeping sickness. The drug was developed by Walter Abraham Jacobs, Michael Heidelberger, Louise Pearce, and Wade Hampton Brown of the Rockefeller Foundation and tested in the Belgian Congo in 1920 by Louise Pearce. Dr. Piper also established the area’s first leper treatment center in 1932 and the first tuberculosis treatment center in 1939."@en }
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- Arthur_Lewis_Piper abstract "Dr. Arthur Lewis Piper (31 December 1883 - 1983) was a medical missionary in the Belgian Congo, supported by the Detroit Epworth League. He worked for the Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the most remote mission station near Kapanga in the Belgian Congo. Dr. Piper helped the Lunda tribe battle malaria, sleeping sickness, and leprosy, among many other diseases.In 1925, he encouraged use of tryparsamide to cure sleeping sickness. The drug was developed by Walter Abraham Jacobs, Michael Heidelberger, Louise Pearce, and Wade Hampton Brown of the Rockefeller Foundation and tested in the Belgian Congo in 1920 by Louise Pearce. Dr. Piper also established the area’s first leper treatment center in 1932 and the first tuberculosis treatment center in 1939.".