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They helped define the very sound of the 60s, but like fellow icons On Good Friday of , the couple set sail, at their own expense, from Bordeaux to Africa. The maladies the Schweitzers treated were both horrific and deadly. They ranged from leprosy, dysentery, elephantiasis, sleeping sickness, malaria, yellow fever, to wounds incurred by encounters with wild animals and many common health problems to which the human body is subject.
The living conditions, too, were horrid with makeshift huts for shelter and medical care, hot, steamy tropical days, cold nights, and huge gusts of wind and rainfall. Schweitzer and his wife did the best they could. In their first nine months in Africa, they treated more than 2, patients.
In the years that followed, the hospital grew by leaps and bounds, not only in terms of bricks and mortar but also in its delivery of comprehensive and modern health care.
By the s, 3 unpaid physicians, 7 nurses and 13 volunteer aides staffed the Schweitzer Hospital. At the time of Dr. Schweitzer became especially famous for giving benefit concerts and lectures in Europe as a means of fundraising for his hospital back in Africa. In recent years, many have taken him to task for decidedly paternalistic and racist descriptions of his African patients that would offend many a 21st century observer.
You see, the Good Lord has protected the trees. He made the Africans too lazy to pick them bare. Such comments were, at the very least, a contradiction of his worldview of showing reverence for all human life in both deeds and words.
That said, Dr. Joy, Charles R. London, A. Black, New York, John Day, New York, Hawthorn Books, Mozley, E. New York, Macmillan, Schweitzer, Albert, Christianity and the Religions of the World. Das Christentum und die Weltreligionen. Bern, Paul Haupt, Translated by Joanna Powers. Kulturphilosophie I: Verfall und Wiederaufbau der Kultur. Translated by C. Kulturphilosophie II: Kultur und Ethik. Translated by John Naish.
Afrikanische Geschichten. Leipzig, Flix Meiner. Funds were scarce and equipment primitive, but native Africans thronged to the site, and in the decades that followed, many thousands were treated.
Instantly, "the phrase Reverence for Life struck me like a flash. An American named Larimer Mellon, a member of the wealthy Mellon family, was one of the many whose lives were affected by Schweitzer.
Inspired by Schweitzer's example, Mellon, then in his late 30s, returned to college, obtained his medical degree, and with his wife, Gwen, set up the Albert Schweitzer Hospital deep in a primitive rural area of Haiti. Many hundreds of lives were similarly changed by Schweitzer's charismatic witness.
On his death his medical associates and his daughter, Mrs. Rhena Eckert-Schweitzer, took over direction of the hospital with the aim of carrying out Schweitzer's wish that its facilities be drastically modernized. The best introduction to Schweitzer's thought and personality is through his own engagingly written autobiographical works: At the Edge of the Primeval Forest , Memoirs of Childhood and Youth , and Out of My Life and Thought Also valuable are Norman Cousins, Dr.
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