Chauncey D. Leake

Chauncey Depew Leake
Born	September 5, 1896(1896-09-05)
Died	January 11, 1978(1978-01-11) (aged 81)
Fields	Pharmacology

Chauncey Depew Leake (September 5, 1896 - January 11, 1978) was an American pharmacologist, medical historian and ethicist. Leake received a bachelor’s degree with majors in biology, chemistry, and philosophy from Princeton University.^[1]

Leake discovered the anaesthetic divinyl ether and provided a translation of De motu cordis after being treated by the ophthalmologist Carl Koller.

References

^ Chauncey D. Leake (1976). "How I Am". Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 16: 1–16. doi:10.1146/annurev.pa.16.040176.000245. http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.pa.16.040176.000245.

External links

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/ead/leake.html
The old Egyptian medical papyri Logan Clendening lecture on the history and philosophy of medicine, University of Kansas, 1952. Full-text PDF.

"Victory Over Pain-A History of Anaesthesia" by Victor Robinson

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Name	Leake, Chauncey Depew
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Date of birth	September 5, 1896
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Date of death	January 11, 1978
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