Template:Use British English Template:Infobox scientist Sir Leonard Rogers Template:Post-nominals[1][2] (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.[3][4]
Biography
Rogers had a wide range of interests in tropical medicine, from the study of kala-azar epidemics to sea snake venoms, but is best known for pioneering the treatment of cholera with hypertonic 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.[5][6] 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.
Works
- Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Haemostatic and Other Drugs on the Intravascular Coagulability of the Blood(1895)..
- On the Influence of Variations of the Ground-Water Level on the Prevalence of Malarial Fevers(1895)..
- Report on the Epidemic of Malarial Fever in Assam(1897)..
- Resolution on Dr Rogers' Report on Kala Azar(1897)..
- Fevers in the Tropics(1908)..
- [{{{url}}} Leprosy]. J. Wright(1925)., with Ernest Muir.
References
- ↑ Rogers, Sir Leonard (1868–1962) - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online
- ↑ Munks Roll Details for Leonard (Sir) Rogers, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians
- ↑ Template:Cite ODNB
- ↑ Sir Leonard Rogers, Happy Toil: Fifty-Five Years of Tropical Medicine (London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1950).
- ↑ Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India{{#if:David Arnold|, David Arnold}. Cambridge University Press(2000). ISBN 9780521563192
- ↑ Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, C. 1784–1947{{#if:Uma Dasgupta|, Uma Dasgupta}. Pearson Education India(2011). ISBN 9788131728185