Mengo medical mission, Uganda: (left) two African scientists working in a laboratory; (right) a Ugandan medicine man and an African man pouring out medicine. Gouache painting, 1927.

Lady Katherine Cook giving out Beef tea to patients in the Men's Ward, (New) Mengo Hospital, Uganda.

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Lady Katherine Cook giving out Beef tea to patients in the Men's Ward, (New) Mengo Hospital, Uganda.

Mengo medical mission, Uganda: (left) two African scientists working in a laboratory; (right) a Ugandan medicine man and an African man pouring out medicine. Gouache painting, 1927.