Hospital Experience/Medical Theses in South Africa
As part of his 3-5 year hospital experience required for his medical degree, Dr. Desai worked at the Welsh Military Hospital in Springfontein, South Africa. He was one of eight medical students who accompanied Professor Thomas Jones from Owens College, Manchester. (Report by the CBRCC, 1902; British Medical Journal, p 250)
In 1900, Desai completed his medical thesis "Antivenene as an efficacious remedy against the venom of poisonous snakes M.D. Thesis" in Cape Colony, Queenstown, South Africa.
Anne Digby from Britain wrote an article in 2005 in which Desai is mentioned. Details of the article are provided below:
βTo the South African born should also be added the occasional immigrant medic such as the West Indian, A. C. Jackson, or the Indian doctor, Umedram Laibhai Desai, and black doctors were also present in neighbouring territories, such as Basutoland, where Drs Sebeta and Motebang practised.β
E. B. van Heyningen has also written an article on Desai.
β"Two black immigrant doctors completed the tally. Umedram Lalbhai Desai was an Indian with the triple diploma from Edinburgh and Glasgow but, although he retained his name on the Cape register, he appears never to have lived in the colony." AGENTS OF EMPIRE: THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN THE CAPE COLONY, 1880-1910 by E. B. van HEYNINGEN * Medical History, 1989, 33: 450-471.
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