John Farrell Easmon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Farrell Easmon

Sierra Leonean Creole doctor

Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1856

Place of Birth: Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone

Date of Death: 09-Jun-1900

Profession: physician

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

John Farrell Easmon, MRCS, LM, LKQCP, MD, CMO (30 June 1856 – 9 June 1900), was a prominent Sierra Leonean Creole doctor in the British Gold Coast who served as Chief Medical Officer during the 1890s.
Easmon was the only West African to be promoted to Chief Medical Officer and served in this role with distinction during the last decade of the 19th century.
Easmon was botanist and a noted expert on the study and treatment of tropical diseases.
In 1884, Dr.
Easmon 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.