Ernest Muir (doctor)

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Ernest Muir

Hansen's disease
(leprosy).

Life

Ernest Muir was born in

medical missionary for the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Association in Tiberias. Tiberias was then part of the Ottoman Acre Sanjak,[1] and later part of Israel.[2]

Muir returned to Scotland to complete the clinical aspects of his

British-controlled India in 1908, where he worked on tropical diseases, completing his degree with a thesis on visceral leishmaniasis ("kala-azar") in 1910.[1] He completed the requirements for joining the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons while on leave in Scotland in 1914.[1]

Man with Hansen's disease (leprosy), India

In 1920,

chaulmoogra tree[6][7] and counterirritants[8] to treat Hansen's disease.[7] He wrote numerous papers and books on its prevalence, study, and treatment.[3] He worked closely with Isabel Kerr,[9] who set up "the outstanding centre in South India for the treatment of leprosy" at Dichpali.[10] He trained colonial doctors including Robert Greenhill Cochrane, who went to India in 1924.[11]

Muir was closely involved with the

LEPRA) after its founding in 1924, serving as its secretary.[3]
He began travelling to speak on Hansen's disease in 1925, visiting
Japan, Canada, and the United States.[1]

Muir served as professor of tropical diseases at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine (CSTM) from 1933–1935.[12] Muir finally left India in 1936

Western Reserve universities.[8] In 1938, he served as secretary at the congress of the International Leprosy Association in Cairo.[13]

In 1939,

Caribbean.[12]
In 1948 Muir served as secretary of the ILA congress in Havana.[12]

Muir died on 1 November 1974[1] at his home in London.

Awards and honors

Muir received an honorary

LL.D. from Hong Kong University[12] in 1925.[14]

Muir received a Kaisar-i-Hind medal[12] for Public Service in India as of 3 June 1921[15] and a bar to the medal at the 1932 Birthday Honors.[16]

He was named a

companion of the Order of the Indian Empire at the 1937 Coronation Honors.[17]

Muir was named a

companion of the Order of St Michael and St George at the 1948 New Year Honors.[12][18]

See also

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Browne (1974), p. 457.
  2. ^ "Tiberias summary". Britannica. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d SMHF (2022).
  4. PMID 8089304
    . Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  5. ^ Parascandola (2003), p. 48.
  6. ^ Macpherson (2021).
  7. ^
    S2CID 37879698
    . With regard to the special drugs used, we have found, after much testing of various vaccines and other remedies which have been recommended, that chaulmoogra and hydnocarpus oils and their derivatives stand in the first place. (Muir, p. 998)
  8. ^ a b Time (1936).
  9. ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8
    . Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  10. PMID 20777274
    .
  11. ^ Greenwood (2008), p. 196.
  12. ^ a b c d e f Browne (1974), p. 458.
  13. ^ a b Randall (2018), p. 48.
  14. ^ "Ernest MUIR – Biography – The Honorary Graduates – HKU Honorary Graduates". Hong Kong University. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  15. ^ "CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD" (PDF). SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE. 4 June 1921. p. 4535. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  16. S2CID 219998895
    . Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  17. ^ "CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD" (PDF). SUPPLEMENT to THE LONDON GAZETTE. 11 May 1937. pp. 3082–3083. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  18. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.4540.66
    . Retrieved 26 June 2022.

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