the period 1927–1928, Eugène Jamot’s team in Cameroon performed 207,089 injections of tryparsamide, plus about 1 million injections of something called atoxyl, another arsenical drug for treating trypanosomiasis. During just the year 1937, throughout French Equatorial Africa, the army of doctors and nurses and semipro jabbers delivered 588,086 injections aimed at trypanosomiasis, not to mention countless more for other diseases. Pepin’s arithmetic totaled up 3.9 million injections just against trypanosomiasis, of which 74 percent were intravenous (right into a vein, not just a muscle), the
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