Leonard Colebrook and his family
| Autor: | M.T. Parker |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Microbiology (medical) Streptococcus pyogenes Secondary infection Cousin Wright Pulmonary tuberculosis Streptococcal Infections Humans Medicine Artificial pneumothorax Good works Infection Control Sulfonamides business.industry General Medicine History 20th Century United Kingdom humanities Dilemma Infectious Diseases Spanish Civil War Immunology Puerperal Infection Female Burns business Classics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hospital Infection. 28:81-90 |
| ISSN: | 0195-6701 |
| Popis: | Leonard Colebrook (1883-l 967) was a member of a family in which strong religious convictions had engendered a tradition of ‘good works’. During a long and distinguished career as a bacteriologist he never lost sight of his primary objective of alleviating suffering, and on a number of occasions he enlisted the support of his family in his humanitarian enterprises. He qualified in medicine in 1906 and next year joined Almroth Wright’s laboratory in the Inoculation Department at St Mary’s Hospital, London. In his apprentice years there, just after Shaw had published The Doctor’s Dilemma,’ he took part in various of Wright’s projects, mainly on vaccines and immunotherapy. He also made an interesting sideways foray into the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by artificial pneumothorax on patients at St Mary’s and in the private hospital of his cousin Dr Esther Colebrook. During the First World War Leonard Colebrook worked, under the direction of Wright, at St Mary’s and at various hospitals in France, on problems of military importance, including the bacteriology of gunshot wounds, but does not appear to have become concerned at that time with the hospital as a place of infection. Indeed, it was other members of Wright’s team2 who were to draw attention to the role of staphylococci and streptococci as causes of hospital-acquired secondary infection in war wounds. Later in the war years, Colebrook was to become interested in the treatment of extensive petrol burns in airmen, and with colleagues3 he made painstaking studies of the optimal techniques for performing skin autografts. |
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