Article ID: CBB001422003

Neil Hamilton Fairley KBE FRCP FRS (1891--1966): An Outstanding Tropical Physician in the Twentieth Century (2014)

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British physicians led the way in tropical medicine research. Several years later scientific advances had slowed, and Fairley's numerous contributions were thus most welcome. Neil Hamilton Fairley was born of Scottish parents at Victoria, Australia. After qualification at Melbourne, he joined the Australian Army Medical Service (AAMS) and after several minor research projects, made valuable contributions to the understanding of tropical sprue at Bombay (now Mumbai), India. However, Fairley's major researches were carried out during World War II (1939--45). Together with J S K Boyd he demonstrated the great value of sulphaguanidine in bacillary dysentery. Working in northern Australia and the south-Pacific region, he both contributed to elucidation of the Plasmodium vivax life-cycle, and more importantly demonstrated the value of alternative anti-malarial compounds to quinine (which was not readily available). Back in London after the war, Fairley briefly occupied the Wellcome Chair of Tropical Medicine, strongly supported London's clinical tropical medicine, and was subsequently knighted in 1950.

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Authors & Contributors
Pieters, Toine
Hoogte, Arjo Roersch van der
Quail, Geoffrey
Arnold, David J.
Meral Avci
Monica A. Hoffman
Concepts
Malaria
Tropical medicine
Disease and diseases
Medicine
World War II
Quinine
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
India
Australia
Germany
Brazil
Lisbon (Portugal)
Institutions
Hamburg Tropical Institute
London Zoo
Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
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