March 5th

Born this day in 1883, Louise Pearce M.D., physician and pathologist. Graduate from John Hopkins. Pearce and pathologist Doctor Wade Brown discovered the cure for trypanosomiasis(African Sleeping sickness) In 1919 published their findings. And in 1920, Dr. Pearce traveled the Belgium Congo to treat an outbreak. 70 patients received the treatments of tryparsamide and over the next several weeks Pearce witnessed the parasites completely eradicated. Many honors were awarded to Pearce for outstanding work. Dr.Pearce and Brown's research at the Rockefeller Institute continued on "the susceptibility or resistance to infection."
Also Pearce continued her syphilis research and "experimented with trypasamide's ability to reach the central nervous system." It is during this research they discovered a rabbit with a cancer tumor known at the Brown-Pearce tumor, studied in laboratories world-wide. This has lead to invaluable research identifying 40 different cancers and treatments for cancer.