John Farrell Easmon | |
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 John Farrell Easmon (seated) and his brother Albert Whiggs Easmon | |
| Born | John Farrell Easmon 30 June 1856 Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Died | 9 June 1900 (aged 43) Cape Coast, Ghana |
| Nickname | Johnnie or Johnie |
| Occupation | Chief Medical Officer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British Subject, |
| Education | CMS Grammar School, University College London |
| Spouse | Annette Kathleen Smith Easmon |
| Children | Two |
| Relatives | Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon (son); Charles Odamtten Easmon (grandson) |
John Farrell Easmon, MRCS, LM, LKQCP, MD, CMO (30 June 1856 – 9 June 1900), was a prominent Sierra Leonean Creole medical doctor in the British Gold Coast who served as Chief Medical Officer during the 1890s.[1] Easmon was the only West African to be promoted to Chief Medical Officer and he served in this role with distinction during the last decade of the 19th century. Easmon was a botanist and a noted expert on the study and treatment of tropical diseases. In 1884, he wrote a pamphlet entitled The Nature and Treatment of Blackwater Fever, which noted for the first time the relationship between blackwater fever and malaria. Easmon coined the term "blackwater fever" in his pamphlet on the malarial disease.
- ^ W. F. Bynum; Helen Bynum, eds. (December 2006). "Easmon, John Farrell (b. Freetown, Sierra Leone, 30 June 1856; d.Cape Coast, Gold Coast, 9 June 1900- Medicine, Bacteriology" (PDF). Dictionary of Medical Biography [Five Volumes]. Greenwood Publishing Group. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2018.