{"product_id":"the-primeval-forest-paperback","title":"The Primeval Forest - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man.\"--Albert Einstein, on Albert Schweitzer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn July of 1913, thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his position as a respected professor at the University of Strasbourg and celebrated authority on music and philosophy in order to go as a physician to French Equatorial Africa (present-day Gabon). \u003ci\u003eThe Primeval Forest\u003c\/i\u003e is Schweitzer's own fascinating story of these eventful years--a thrilling tale of his amazingly successful attempt to practice modern medicine and surgery in the face of wild elephant raids, marauding leopards, famine, an flood--a story rich in human interest and high drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchweitzer describes how he and his wife, a qualified nurse, worked to establish a hospital in the steaming jungle at Lambaréné. At first they treated patients in the open air, amid unbelievably primitive conditions--with few drugs, medicines, or adequate instruments. But they worked tirelessly, caring for as many as forty cases a day, battling the misery caused by sleeping sickness, leprosy, pestilence, and plague. And, as the years went on, they gradually built a more permanent hospital to alleviate the terrible suffering of the Congo people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67928306548959,"sku":"9780801859588","price":52.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/fcmW8p8sUD9780801859588.webp?v=1791265885","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-primeval-forest-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}