Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Leper's Medicine Man. This kindly, grey-haired gentleman is Dr. E.R. Kellersberger, medical missionary. A head of the Bibanga Hospital in the Belgian Congo, shown with Mrs. Kellersberger. Determined to care for the lepers, he persuaded the American Presbyterian Congo Mission, the American Mission to Lepers and the Belgian Colonial government to help him establish in 1930 a leper camp three miles from the hospital.
Leper's Medicine Man. This kindly, grey-haired gentleman is Dr. E.R. Kellersberger, medical missionary. A head of the Bibanga Hospital in the Belgian Congo, shown with Mrs. Kellersberger. Determined to care for the lepers, he persuaded the American Presbyterian Congo Mission, the American Mission to Lepers and the Belgian Colonial government to help him establish in 1930 a leper camp three miles from the hospital.
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Leper's Medicine Man. This kindly, grey-haired gentleman is Dr. E.R. Kellersberger, medical missionary. A head of the Bibanga Hospital in the Belgian Congo, shown with Mrs. Kellersberger. Determined to care for the lepers, he persuaded the American Presbyterian Congo Mission, the American Mission to Lepers and the Belgian Colonial government to help him establish in 1930 a leper camp three miles from the hospital.

Associated Press · [ca. October 1939]

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