Warrington Yorke 1883-1943

1944 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 523-545 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
First Order ◽  
Black Water ◽  
The University ◽  
The Tropics

Warrington Yorke, who died on 24 April 1943, at the age of sixty, had been connected with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for thirty-six years, and at the time of his death was one of the most outstanding figures in this field of medicine. During the years following his first appointment in 1907, he took an active part in the work and development of the School, and created for himself a reputation as a teacher and research worker of the first order. His influence was world-wide, and was never greater than at the time of his untimely death, which deprived tropical medicine of one of its most resolute and distinguished leaders. Born at Lancaster on 11 April 1883, Warrington Yorke was the eldest of four brothers and two sisters. His father was a Wesleyan minister—the Rev. Henry Lefroy Yorke, M.A., B.D. He received his early education at University School, Southport, where he was a pupil for ten years. Following this he spent three years at Epworth College, Rhyl. In 1900 he entered the University of Liverpool as a medical student, and there had a distinguished career, being awarded the Senior Lyon Jones Scholarship and the Derby Exhibition in Clinical Medicine. He obtained the degrees of M.B., Ch.B. in 1905 at the age of twenty-two, and was for six months house physician to Sir James Barr at the Royal Infirmary. Following this he was house surgeon at the same institution. In 1906 he was elected to the Holt Fellowship in Physiology, and studied under Sir Charles Sherrington, at whose suggestion he joined in 1907, the year in which he obtained the degree of M.D., the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, then in the ninth year of its history, and commenced his study of tropical diseases and parasitology which was to occupy his attention for the rest of his life. The enthusiasm with which he threw himself into the career he had chosen was well illustrated by his immediate acceptance of the invitation to accompany Wakelin Barratt to Nyasaland to study black-water fever. This was the nineteenth expedition of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to the tropics for the purpose of investigating tropical diseases.

On Being a Medical Student in the 1930s

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
R. H. Girdwood
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
University Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Male House

From a Minute Book which has survived the years, an account is given of matters discussed by the Clinical Medicine Board of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the 1930s. This Board consisted of the senior physicians in the hospital and the records give an indication of the excessively large number of students who were all having their clinical experience in the wards of the one hospital. In addition to the University students there were others studying for the Triple Qualification of the Royal Colleges. The pressure of this teaching on staff and patients was considerable. It was decided to transfer some of the tuition to Craigleith Hospital which became the Western General. In 1939 the male house doctors were awaiting their call-up. The administrators had to consider arrangements for the continuation of teaching if bombing took place. In March 1941 the Polish Medical School was organised in Edinburgh

scholarly journals Glasgow encounters with tropical diseases

Parasitology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 144 (12) ◽  
pp. 1561-1566
Author(s):  
FRANCIS E. G. COX
Keyword(s):  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Sleeping Sickness ◽  
Parasitic Diseases ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
African Sleeping Sickness ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Tropics

SUMMARYThe period 1875–1925 was remarkable in the history of parasitology mainly for the elucidation of the life cycles of parasites causing important parasitic diseases and the incrimination of vectors in their transmission. These discoveries were made by a small number of scientists working in the tropics a number of whom were Scots. Sir Patrick Manson, the discoverer of the mosquito transmission of filarial worms, was instrumental in directly or indirectly encouraging other Scots including Douglas Argyll-Robertson, David Blacklock, David Bruce, David Cunningham, Robert Leiper, William Leishman, George Low, Muriel Robertson and Ronald Ross, who all made significant discoveries across a wide spectrum of tropical diseases. Among these, William Leishman, Robert Leiper and Muriel Robertson were all graduates of the University of Glasgow and their achievements in the fields of leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, dracunculiasis and African sleeping sickness, together with subsequent developments in these fields, are the subjects of the ten papers in this Special Issue of Parasitology.

Léon Charles Albert Calmette, 1863-1933

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-325 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Black Water ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insect Transmission ◽  
The University

Albert Calmette was born at Nice on July 12, 1863. His father was secretary to the prefecture. The Calmettes were of Breton origin. After passing his baccalauréat ès lettres at Rennes and his baccalauréat es sciences at Paris, Calmette entered the Naval Medical School at Brest in 1881. At this time the part played by microbes in infectious diseases had been demonstrated by Pasteur and Lister and was exciting wide interest. Koch had just discovered the bacillus of tuberculosis. The young Calmette was fascinated by these discoveries and the possibilities they indicated of understanding and ultimately controlling diseases. He became an enthusiastic Pastorian and devoted himself to his microscope. Whilst a cadet at the naval school he took part in the China Campaign of 1883-4. At Hong Kong he met Patrick Manson, who explained to him his observations on the life-history of the filaria parasite and showed him the proof he had obtained that the parasite was conveyed from person to person by a mosquito. This, the first evidence of the insect transmission of a disease made a great impression on Calmette and he chose the subject of filariasis for the thesis he presented for his doctor’s degree three years later. In 1885, Calmette returned to France to complete his medical studies. He graduated in July, 1886, at the University of Paris. Shortly afterwards, he went to the French Congo. During his two years of service as a naval surgeon on the coast of West Africa he studied tropical diseases and published descriptive articles on sleeping sickness and black-water fever in the Archives de Medicine Navale. In 1888, he was sent to the French Islands of St. Pierre-et-Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland,, where he had medical charge of six thousand sailors and fishermen. It was at St. Pierre that he made his first contribution to bacteriology. The local industry was the capture and salting of cod for export to< France. For some mysterious reason, the salted cod frequently developed red spots known in the trade as maladie rouge.

scholarly journals Features of molluscum contagiosum in the north-east of Scotland and in Fijian village settlements

1967 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Postlethwaite ◽  
J. A. Watt ◽  
T. G. Hawley ◽  
I. Simpson ◽  
Helen Adam
Keyword(s):  
Molluscum Contagiosum ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
Research Station ◽  
Research Fellowship ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
A Site ◽  
Special Circumstances ◽  
The University

Between 1964 and 1966 comparative studies were carried out in Aberdeen, Scotland, and in village settlements in Fiji on the clinico-epidemiological features of molluscum contagiosum. In Aberdeen there was a positive correlation between this disease and attendance of patients at public swimming baths. The preponderance of male patients in Aberdeen was attributed to their more frequent indulgence in swimming. Household spread of the condition was rare in Aberdeen but common in Fiji. Lesions frequently occurred unilaterally or were situated on opposing skin surfaces. They were mainly central in distribution in Aberdeen, the axilla being a site of predilection. In Fijians, peripheral lesions were fairly common though palms and soles were not affected. Peak age incidence in Aberdeen was 10–12 years, contrasting with a peak at 2–3 years in Fiji. Opportunity for contagious exposure appeared to be the main factor determining transmission of molluscum contagiosum between hosts, this opportunity occurring frequently and early in life in Fiji but only under special circumstances and later in childhood in Aberdeen. However, the age distributions in the two populations suggested the possible operation of immunological as well as environmental factors in determining the overall pattern of disease in the community.We should like to express our thanks to the following people whose support and co-operation made this joint study possible: Dr K. J. Gilchrist, Principal of the Fiji School of Medicine; Prof J. A. R. Miles, Department of Microbiology, University of Otago; Dr C. H. Gurd, Director of Medical Services, Fiji; and Prof. A. Macdonald, Department of Bacteriology, University of Aberdeen. We are indebted to Dr T. E. Anderson and Dr R. A. Main of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for referring patients, to Mr W. Hodgkiss of the Torry Research Station, Aberdeen for carrying out the electron microscopy and to Dr Peter Bennett, Nuffield Foundation Scholar in Tropical Medicine from Aberdeen in 1962, who brought to the attention of the Aberdeen workers the prevalence of molluscum contagiosum in Fiji. Part of the work was supported by a grant to R. Postlethwaite from the British Empire Cancer Campaign for Research. Mr (now Dr) Ian Simpson and Miss Helen Adam were supported by Nuffield Foundation Scholarships in Tropical Medicine, and Dr J. A. Watt by a Garden Research Fellowship from the University of Aberdeen.

British Medical Bulletin, Vol.20, No.1, Research in Diseases of the Tropics. London: The British Council, Medical Department, 1972, 102 pp., $6.50

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-164
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Weller
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
London School ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
Medical Department ◽  
British Council ◽  
Dominant Theme ◽  
The World ◽  
The Tropics

It is appropriate to call this collection of excellent reviews of current research on tropical diseases to the attention of pediatricians. The majority of the children of the world live in poorly sanitated tropical and subtropical regions. More often than not such children are developmentally scarred by the repetitive synergistic insults of malnutrition and infectious disease and are doomed to an abbreviated life of misery. In this collection of 16 essays, edited by Dr. C. E. Gordon Smith, Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the magnitude of the unsolved problems surfaces as the dominant theme.

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