Cicely Pearl Blair
Cicely Pearl Blair FRCP | |
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Born | , West Yorkshire | 20 May 1926
Died | 14 February 2005 London | (aged 78)
Spouse |
Henry Blair (m. 1954–1984) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Dermatology |
Cicely Pearl Blair
Early life
Blair was born Cicely Pearl Hopton on 20 May 1926 in
Dermatology
Blair left general practice in 1969 to focus on the study of dermatology. Over the next few years, she worked in a number of roles including a spell as a research assistant at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Whilst at St Bartholomew's, she focussed on acne research, discovering that the pigment in blackhead comedones is melanin and therefore that patients with albinism did not suffer from blackheads.[1]
In 1974, she became a consultant at
Retirement
Blair's husband, Henry, died in 1984 and as the couple had not had any children, she was free to focus on her own interests when she retired.
Works
- Baker, Harvey; Blair, Cicely P. (6 June 1968). "Cell replacement in the Human Stratum Corneum in old age". British Journal of Dermatology. 80 (6): 367–372. .
- Blair, Cicely (7 July 1968). "Morphology and thickness of the human stratum corneum". British Journal of Dermatology. 80 (7): 430–436. .
- Blair, Cicely (8 August 1968). "The thickness of the stratum coeneum in acne vulgaris". British Journal of Dermatology. 80 (8): 516–519. .
- Lewis, C.A.; Blair, Cicely (6 June 1970). "The Pigment of Comedones". British Journal of Dermatology. 82 (6): 572–583. .
- Blair, Cicely (3 September 1970). "Angiokeratoma of the Vulva". British Journal of Dermatology. 83 (3): 408–411. .
- Blair, Cicely (2 February 1976). "The action of a urea—lactic acid ointment in ichthyosis". British Journal of Dermatology. 94 (2): 145–153. .
- Blair, Cicely P. (2 June 1979). "The browntail moth, its caterpillar and their rash". Clinical and Experimental Dermatology. 4 (2): 215–222. .
- Blair, Cicely (2 April 1982). "The dermatological hazards of bowling Contact dermatitis to resin in a bowisgrip". Contact Dermatitis. 8 (2): 138–139. .