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{{For|the British mathematician|Leonard James Rogers}}
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| birth_date = 18 January 1868
| birth_place = Hartley House, [[Helston]], [[Cornwall]], England
| death_date = 16 September 1962
| death_place = [[Royal Cornwall Infirmary]], [[Truro]], Cornwall, England
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| nationality = English
| fields = [[Tropical medicine]]
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| known_for = Founding the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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| awards = [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (1914)<ref name="odnb"/><br>[[Fellow of the Royal Society]]<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Boyd | first1 = J. S. K. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1963.0014 | title = Leonard Rogers 1868-1962 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 9 | pages = 261–285 | year = 1963 | doi-access = free }}</ref><br>[[Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh]] (1929)<br>[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India]] (1932)<ref name="odnb"/><br>[[Manson Medal]] (1938)
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'''Sir Leonard Rogers''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCSI|CIE|FRS|FRCP|FRCS}}<ref>[http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E005320b.htm Rogers, Sir Leonard (1868–1962) - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online]</ref><ref>[http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3835 Munks Roll Details for Leonard (Sir) Rogers, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians]</ref> (18 January 1868 – 16 September 1962) was a founder member of the [[Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene]], and its President from 1933 to 1935.<ref name="odnb">{{Cite ODNB| title = Rogers, Sir Leonard (1868–1962)| doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/35814 | year = 2004 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref><ref>Sir Leonard Rogers, ''Happy Toil: Fifty-Five Years of Tropical Medicine'' (London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1950).</ref>

==Biography==
Rogers had a wide range of interests in [[tropical medicine]], from the study of [[kala-azar]] [[epidemic]]s to [[sea snake]] [[Venom (poison)|venom]]s, but is best known for pioneering the treatment of [[cholera]] with [[Tonicity#Hypertonic solution|hypertonic]] [[saline (medicine)|saline]], which has saved a multitude of lives. He also championed Indian [[chaulmoogra oil]] as a treatment for [[Hansen's disease]] (leprosy).

Rogers was one of the pioneers in setting up the [[Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine]] (CSTM) in [[Calcutta]], [[India]].<ref>{{cite book|last=David Arnold|title=Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India|date=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521563192|page=198|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bAxnPwOMd8C&q=calcutta+school+of+tropical+medicine&pg=PA198}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Uma Dasgupta|title=Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, C. 1784–1947|date=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=9788131728185|page=591|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lrx3wLz4itkC&q=calcutta+school+of+tropical+medicine&pg=PA591}}</ref> In 1929, Rogers was awarded the [[Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh]].

He was president of the 1919 session of the [[Indian Science Congress Association#Indian Science Congress|Indian Science Congress]].

==Works==
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* {{citation |last=Rogers |first=Leonard |display-authors=0 |title=Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Haemostatic and Other Drugs on the Intravascular Coagulability of the Blood |location= |publisher= |date=1895 |url=http://digital.nls.uk/75002614 }}.
* {{citation |last=Rogers |first=Leonard |display-authors=0 |title=On the Influence of Variations of the Ground-Water Level on the Prevalence of Malarial Fevers |location= |publisher= |date=1895 |url=http://digital.nls.uk/75003258 }}.
* {{citation |last=Rogers |first=Leonard |display-authors=0 |title=Report on the Epidemic of Malarial Fever in Assam |location= |publisher= |date=1897 |url=http://digital.nls.uk/75014243 }}.
* {{citation |last=Rogers |first=Leonard |display-authors=0 |title=Resolution on Dr Rogers' Report on Kala Azar |location= |publisher= |date=1897 |url=http://digital.nls.uk/74581332 }}.
* {{citation |last=Rogers |first=Leonard |display-authors=0 |title=Fevers in the Tropics |location= |publisher= |date=1908 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002085937 }}.
* {{citation |last1=Muir |first1=Ernest |last2=Rogers |first2=Leonard |display-authors=0 |title=Leprosy |location=Bristol |publisher=J. Wright |date=1925 }}, with [[Ernest Muir (leprologist)|Ernest Muir]].

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