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David Nunes Nabarro
Born27 February 1874
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

David Nunes Nabarro

sleeping sickness was caused by the blood parasite, Trypanosoma, and that it was transmitted by tsetse fly.[2]

Biography

Nabarro was born in London to business parents. He was

homeschooled till the age of 10. He entered Dame Alice Owen's School in Herdfordshire for secondary education and completed matriculation in 1890.[3] With Andrews Scholarship, he joined the University College Hospital, London,[4] from where he obtained a B.Sc. with honours in chemistry in 1893, at age 19.[1] He qualified an M.B. in 1898 and travelled to the Far East to study tropical diseases.[1] He briefly worked as house physisian and demonstrator at UCH.[4]

Nabarro earned an M.D with gold medal in 1899. The same year he joined the faculty of the

University College, London as an assistant professor of pathology. As he earned a Doctor of Public Health degree in 1901, he was inducted a member of the Royal College of Physicians,[3] and Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians. He immediately worked as the first pathologist at the Evelina London Children's Hospital.[1]

In 1905, Nabarro worked at West Riding Asylum at Wakefield. Before long he was appointed pathologist at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, where he worked till his retirement in 1939.[4]

Scientific contributions

During his studies at University College Hospital, he worked with Leonard Hill of University College, London on the principle of respiration in brain and muscle, the study of which was published in The Journal of Physiology in 1895.[5] While working at UCL, he published papers on the nature of abnormal hearts.[6][7] He investigated cases of infections with hog cholera,[8] dysentery in children,[9] In 1939, with his assistant Derrick Edward at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, he reported a case of accidental injection malaria in a child.[10]

Nabarro investigated cases of tuberculosis that were spread through contaminated butter in 1905.[4] One of his major research areas was on syphilis in children on which he wrote several papers,[11][12][13][14] and culminated in publication of a classic monograph titled Congenital Syphilis in 1954.[15]

Sleeping Sickness Commission

Main article: Sleeping Sickness Commission

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Trypanosoma gambiense.[16] By August 1903, Bruce and his team established that the disease was transmitted by the tsetse fly, Glossina palpalis.[17][18]

Awards and honours

Nabarro was elected member of The Physiological Society in 1897, and Fellow of the University College Hospital in 1900. He became Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1917.[4]

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