Sinton, Lieut-Col (Hon. Brig.) John Alexander, (2 Dec. 1884–25 March 1956), DTM Liverpool; JP, DL, Co. Tyrone; Indian Medical Service, retired; lately Hon. Consultant Malariologist, War Office; Hon. Fellow Ulster Medical Society; Arnott Memorial Medallist, Irish Medical Schools’ and Graduates Assoc., 1917; Chalmers Memorial Medallist, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1928; Bisset-Hawkins Medallist, RCP, London, 1944; Robert Campbell Memorial Orator and Medallist, Ulster Medical Soc., 1946; Mary Kingsley Medallist, Liverpool Sch. of Trop. Med., 1949; a Pro-Chancellor Queen’s Univ., Belfast; late Director, Malaria Survey of India; late Manson Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
London School ◽  
Mary Kingsley ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
Irish Medical

Henry Edward Shortt, 15 April 1887 — 9 November 1987

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 713-751 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Indian Medical

The Indian Medical Service (I.M.S.) provided, since its formation in 1680 until its demise in 1947, 42 Fellows of the Royal Society (McDonald 1950), including two centenarians: the late Sir Rickard Christophers and Colonel H. E. Shortt, subject of the present memoir. It was only nine years ago that Shortt and I produced a memoir of Christophers, our much admired friend. Members of the I.M.S. have contributed extensively to the solution of problem s in tropical medicine, amongst whom are numbered in the last 100 years the following Fellows: Sir Ronald Ross, Brigadier John Sinton, V.C., Colonel S. P. James, Sir Leonard Rogers, Colonel D. J. Cunningham and Colonel A. W. Alcock.

Transnationalism in Missionary Medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Margo S. Gewurtz
Keyword(s):  
Formative Period ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Sand Fly ◽  
London School ◽  
The North ◽  
Kala Azar ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
Medical Missionaries ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Missionary Medicine

Kala-azar is a parasitic disease that was endemic in India, parts of Africa and China. During the first half of the twentieth century, developing means of treatment and identification of the host and transmission vectors for this deadly disease would be the subject of transnational research and controversy. In the formative period for this research, two Canadian Medical missionaries, Drs. Jean Dow and Ernest Struthers, pioneered work on Kala-azar in the North Henan Mission. The great international prestige of the London School of Tropical Medicine and the Indian Medical Service would stand against recognition of the clinical discoveries of missionary doctors in remote North Henan. It was only after Struthers forged personal relations with Dr. Lionel. E. Napier and his colleagues at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine that there was a meeting of minds to promote the hypothesis that the sand fly was the transmission vector.

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