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Although chaulmoogra in ointment form had for a long time relieved some patients’ discomfort, Ball’s work resulted in the first injectable treatment. Other medicines for the disease came along years later, but long after her tragic death in 1916 at the age of 24, her discovery still provided the first hope. It remained the most effective treatment until the 1940s.

Far Ahead of Her Time
Alice BallSadly, Ball did not receive credit for her scientific contribution for many years. She died before she could publish her findings, and another chemist continued her research and published it as his own. Then in 1922, a U.S. public health officer in Hawai‘i named Dr. Harry Hollmann published an article explaining how he had approached the young chemistry instructor to apply her expertise to extracting the essence of the chaulmoogra tree. Referring to her process as “Ball’s Method,” Hollmann’s effort to give Ball her due attribution “rescued Alice Augusta Ball from the charnel houses of history, and gave her the credit she deserved for the remarkable work she accomplished,” writes Paul Wermager in a chapter he contributed to They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawai‘i.

Wermager says the article became a critical piece