Leonard Rogers
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| Leonard Rogers | |
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 Sir Leonard Rogers | |
| Born | 1868 |
| Died | 1962 |
| Fields | Tropical medicine |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
For the British mathematician, see Leonard James Rogers.
Sir Leonard Rogers FRS[1] (1868–1962) was a founder member of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and its President from 1933 to 1935. [2][3]
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.
Rogers was one of the pioneers in setting up the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine in India.
He was president of the 1919 session of the Indian Science Congress.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Boyd, J. S. K. (1963). "Leonard Rogers 1868-1962". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 9: 261. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1963.0014.
- ↑ "Rogers, Sir Leonard (1868–1962)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35814.
- ↑ Sir Leonard Rogers, Happy Toil: Fifty-Five Years of Tropical Medicine (London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1950).
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