Robert Allan Phillips

Robert Allan Phillips MD, research scientist during WW II, developed battlefield methods to evaluate hemoglobin levels using specific gravity saving many lives. This method is presently used in blood donor clinics to determine whether a person is healthy enough to donate blood. Continuing in the Navy his research turned to cholera. He evaluated the course of the disease and developed the protocol used today which has saved millions of lives. His research lead the Lasker Foundation to award him a prize in 1967. In his retirement, he collaborated with the University of Washington and the Chinese Government doing research in kidney failure again using hydration as a solution in remote areas of China where dialysis was not available.

Sources

• http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/1967clinical.htm
• Savarino SJ (September 2002). "A legacy in 20th-century medicine: Robert Allan Phillips and the taming of cholera". Clinical Infectious Diseases 35 (6): 713–20. doi:10.1086/342195. PMID 12203169. 
• Bhattacharya SK (1994). "History of development of oral rehydration therapy". Indian Journal of Public Health 38 (2): 39–43. PMID 7530695. 
• da Cunha Ferreira RM, Cash RA (1990). "History of the development of oral rehydration therapy". Clinical Therapeutics 12 Suppl A: 2–11; discussion 11–3. PMID 2187608. 

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