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due do the death of her grandfather
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She earned her batchelors degree in both pharmeseutical chemistry and pharmacy.
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Earned her masters in chemistry and became the first African American and the first woman to graduate from UH.
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searching for an effective treatment for leprosy
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developed a method to isolate ethyl esters of fatty acids in chaulmoogra oil, which made it injectible and leprosy treatable.
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cause of death is suspected but unknown
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the method developed by Ball was not recognized as a treatment until after her death, and remained the go-to treatment until 1940.