The work of New Zealand M.E. pioneer, the late Dr Peter Snow, was remembered in a simple ceremony at Tapanui, West Otago, South Island, on Saturday, August 8.
About 100 people who had all known Dr Snow during the 37 years that he worked as Tapanui’s only family doctor gathered at the inveiling of a memorial plaque.
Dr Snow, who later became president of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs, brought ‘Tapanui Flu’ – later re-diagosed as ME – to the attention of the medical world in 1984 when he wrote about an unusual outbreak of the disease in the sheep-farming area in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
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