A famous French colonial doctor named Eugène Jamot, working just east of the upper Sangha River (in a portion of French Equatorial Africa then known as Oubangui-Chari) during 1917–1919, treated 5,347 trypanosomiasis cases using only six syringes. This sort of production-line delivery of injectable medicines didn’t allow time for boiling a syringe and needle between uses.
