Every day, doctors worldwide prescribe methotrexate, doxycycline, and folic acid. Few know the name of the man who made them possible. Even fewer know that Harvard refused him tenure—and an American bowling alley refused him entry because of the color of his skin.
The Oath in a Village
In 1913, in the town of Bhimavaram, India, an 18-year-old boy watched his father and two brothers die from a wasting disease called tropical sprue. He decided then that he would spend his life fighting illness.
That boy was Yellapragada Subbarow.
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