IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB001422003

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

Cook, G. C. (Author)

Journal of Medical Biography
Volume: 22, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 215-220

DOI: 10.1177/0967772013479534

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Doctor-patient relationships Tropical medicine World War II Disease and diseases Malaria Quinine 20th century 20th century Great Britain Australia India Boyd, John Smith Knox

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.

...More

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001422003/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Costa, Rui Manuel Pinto; Vieira, Ismael Cerqueira; (2014)
O lugar da medicina tropical nas dissertações da escola médica portuense, 1875--1923 (/isis/citation/CBB001420726/)

Thesis Monica A. Hoffman; (2016)
Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Maps: Practices and Articulations of Malaria Control in British India and WWII (/isis/citation/CBB957044377/)

Article Miller, Franklin G.; (2015)
The Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Experiments: A Case Study in Retrospective Ethical Assessment (/isis/citation/CBB001552678/)

Article Slater, Leo B.; (2004)
Malaria Chemotherapy and the “Kaleidoscopic” Organisation of Biomedical Research during World War II (/isis/citation/CBB000470836/)

Thesis Khan, Shalini H. N.; (2011)
Infectious Entanglements: Literary and Medical Representations of Disease in the Post/Colonial Caribbean (/isis/citation/CBB001567303/)

Book Rohan Deb Roy; (2017)
Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (/isis/citation/CBB894891343/)

Book Tim Carter; (2014)
Merchant Seamen's Health, 1860-1960: Medicine, Technology, Shipowners and the State in Britain (/isis/citation/CBB510390199/)

Article Meral Avci; Christian Henrich-Franke; (2022)
Kartellierte internationale Märkte und innovative Produkte: Die Farbenfabriken Bayer und ihre synthetischen Malariawirkstoffe (1924 bis 1937) [Cartelized international markets and innovative products. The Bayer dyestuffs factories and their synthetic antimalarial drugs (1924 to 1937)] (/isis/citation/CBB999168271/)

Article Hoogte, Arjo Roersch van der; Pieters, Toine; (2014)
Science in the Service of Colonial Agro-Industrialism: The Case of Cinchona Cultivation in the Dutch and British East Indies, 1852--1900 (/isis/citation/CBB001421062/)

Article Silva, André Felipe Cândido da; Benchimol, Jaime Larry; (2014)
Malaria and Quinine Resistance: A Medical and Scientific Issue between Brazil and Germany (1907--19) (/isis/citation/CBB001320605/)

Article Lawrence, Natalie; (2012)
The Prime Minister and the Platypus: A Paradox Goes to War (/isis/citation/CBB001221612/)

Book Michael W Charney; (2019)
Imperial military transportation in British Asia : Burma 1941-1942 (/isis/citation/CBB606140747/)

Book Hoffenberg, Peter H.; (2001)
Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War (/isis/citation/CBB000102081/)

Book Condrau, Flurin; Worboys, Michael; (2010)
Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives On the History of an Infectious Disease (/isis/citation/CBB001031574/)

Article Paulini, Ernest; (2004)
O passado revisitado: o Instituto de Malariologia e o Instituto de Endemias Rurais (INERu) (/isis/citation/CBB000640145/)

Article Wulf, Stefan; Schmiedebach, Heinz-Peter; (2014)
Wahnsinn und Malaria -- Schnittpunkte und Grenzverwischungen zwischen Psychiatrie und Tropen medizin in Hamburg (1900--1925)* (/isis/citation/CBB001451885/)

Article Arjo Roersch Van Der Hoogte; Toine Pieters; (2016)
Quinine, Malaria, and the Cinchona Bureau: Marketing Practices and Knowledge Circulation in a Dutch Transoceanic Cinchona–Quinine Enterprise (1920s–30s) (/isis/citation/CBB417572795/)

Article Lisboa, Karen Macknow; (2013)
Insalubridade, doenças e imigração: visões alemãs sobre o Brasil (/isis/citation/CBB001420635/)

Book Masterson, Karen; (2011)
The Malaria Project: The Secret Battle That Changed the Course of WWII (/isis/citation/CBB001033490/)

Thesis Kiran Sambhaji Kumbhar; (2022)
Healing and Harming: The "Noble Profession" of Medicine in Post-Independence India, 1947-2015 (/isis/citation/CBB683556461/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}