Leonard Rogers

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Sir Leonard Rogers
Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (1932)[1]
Manson Medal (1938)
Scientific career
FieldsTropical medicine

Sir Leonard Rogers

FRCS[3][4] (18 January 1868 – 16 September 1962) was a founder member of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and its President from 1933 to 1935.[1][5]

Biography

Rogers studied at Plymouth College and worked at St Mary’s Hospital. He qualified M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (1891) F.R.C.S. (1892) in London.[2]

Rogers had a wide range of interests in

Hansen's disease (leprosy).[2]

Rogers was one of the pioneers in setting up the

Calcutta, India.[6][7] In 1929, Rogers was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
.

He was president of the 1919 session of the Indian Science Congress.[2]

Vivisection

Rogers defended vivisection and criticized the arguments of the anti-vivisection movement. He authored a book, The Truth about Vivisection in 1937.[8]

He was honorary treasurer of the Research Defence Society. Rogers played a leading part in obtaining a ruling from the High Court sustained by the Appeal Court and House of Lords that anti-vivisection organizations can not be regarded as charities.[2]

Selected publications

  • Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Haemostatic and Other Drugs on the Intravascular Coagulability of the Blood, 1895.
  • On the Influence of Variations of the Ground-Water Level on the Prevalence of Malarial Fevers, 1895.
  • Report on the Epidemic of Malarial Fever in Assam, 1897.
  • Resolution on Dr Rogers' Report on Kala Azar, 1897.
  • Fevers in the Tropics, 1908.
  • Leprosy, Bristol: J. Wright, 1925, with
    Ernest Muir
    .

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35814. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^
    doi:10.1098/rsbm.1963.0014
    .
  3. ^ Rogers, Sir Leonard (1868–1962) - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online
  4. ^ Munks Roll Details for Leonard (Sir) Rogers, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians
  5. ^ Sir Leonard Rogers, Happy Toil: Fifty-Five Years of Tropical Medicine (London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1950).
  6. ISBN 9780521563192
    .
  7. ISBN 9788131728185
    .
  8. ^ "The Truth about Vivisection". Nature. 141: 578. 1938.
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