Leonard Colebrook

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birth_date = Birth date|1883|3|2
birth_place = Guildford, Surrey
death_date = Death date and age|1967|9|27|1883|3|2
death_place = Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire
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nationality = England
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field = medicine
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alma_mater = St Mary's Hospital, London
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known_for = Prontosil
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influences = Almroth Wright
influenced = Peter Medawar
prizes = Blair Bell medal in 1955
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PAGENAME FRS ( Birth date|1883|3|2 – Death date|1967|9|27) was an English physician who introduced the use of Prontosil in 1935 as a cure for puerperal fever.

References

*cite journal
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last=Dunn
first=P M
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year=2008
month=May
title=Dr Leonard Colebrook, FRS (1883-1967) and the chemotherapeutic conquest of puerperal infection
journal=Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed.
volume=93
issue=3
pages=F246-8
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pmid = 18426926
doi = 10.1136/adc.2006.104448
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*cite journal
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last=Turk
first=J L
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year=1994
month=Dec
title=Leonard Colebrook: the chemotherapy and control of streptococcal infections
journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
volume=87
issue=12
pages=727-8
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pmid = 7853294
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*cite journal
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last=Parker
first=M T
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year=1994
month=Oct
title=Leonard Colebrook and his family
journal=J. Hosp. Infect.
volume=28
issue=2
pages=81-90
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pmid = 7844352
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last=Lowbury
first=E J
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year=1983
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title=Leonard Colebrook (1883-1967)
journal=British medical journal (Clinical research ed.)
volume=287
issue=6409
pages=1981-3
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pmid = 6418291
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*cite journal
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last=Oakley
first=C L
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year=1971
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title=Leonard Colebrook, 1883-1967
journal=Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society (Great Britain)
volume=17
issue=
pages=91-138
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pmid = 11615432
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*cite journal
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last=Colebrook
first=V
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year=1971
month=Jan
title=Leonard Colebrook. Reminiscences on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Birmingham Burns Unit
journal=Injury
volume=2
issue=3
pages=182-4
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pmid = 4940789
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year=1968
month=Jan
title=Leonard Colebrook. F.R.S., D.Sc., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G
journal=The Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of the British Commonwealth
volume=75
issue=1
pages=105-6
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year=1967
month=Oct
title=Leonard Colebrook
journal=Lancet
volume=2
issue=7519
pages=783-4
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pmid = 4167269
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last=GILLIATT
first=W
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year=1955
month=Oct
title=Presentation of the Blair Bell medal to Dr. Leonard Colebrook
journal=The Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of the British Empire
volume=62
issue=5
pages=680-2
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pmid = 13263984
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ee also

* Prontosil

Persondata
NAME =Colebrook, Leonard
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = English physician who introduced the use of Prontosil in 1935 as a cure for puerperal fever
DATE OF BIRTH = 23 December 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH = Guildford, Surrey
DATE OF DEATH = Death date|1967|9|27
PLACE OF DEATH = Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire