John William Henry Eyre

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J.W.H. Eyre in the Mediterranean Fever Commission

Prof John William Henry Eyre

ophthalmologist
, specialising in the bacteriology of the eye.

Life

He was born in

Cambridge University.[1]

In 1899 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Robert Howden, Sir Thomas Oliver, Angus MacGillivray, and Sir German Sims Woodhead[2]

In 1899 he moved to

Ernest Hart Memorial Research Scholarship. In 1906 he spent the summer in Malta having been co-opted onto the Royal Society Commission on Mediterranean Fever.[3] He was Vice-President of the Royal Microscopical Society
.

From 1920 to 1934 he was Professor of Bacteriology at the University of London (attached to Guy's Hospital). He retired in 1934 and died on 17 February 1944.

Publications

  • The Elements of Bacteriological Technique (1902) several later editions
  • Serums, Vaccines and Toxines in Treatment and Diagnoses (1910)

References

  1. ^ The Journal of Pathology, July 1944
  2. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  3. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1
    . Retrieved 28 January 2019.
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