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Theodor Bilharz

Physician; found the adult blood fluke at the Kasr el-Aini Hospital, Cairo probable

Dates: No dates given in the film's sources
Chapters: I. The River

What the film says

Found the cause of the bloody urine common along the Nile, a blood fluke, in Cairo in 1851.

Watch 2:41 in the film I. The River

On the timeline

1851: Theodor Bilharz finds the adult blood fluke at an autopsy at the Kasr el-Aini Hospital, Cairo. probable timeline
1852: Bilharz publishes the fluke under the name Distomum haematobium. probable timeline

Sources

Sources

Wikipedia: Schistosoma haematobium Secondary