Leonard Rogers’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Doctor, parasitologist
A.K.A. Sir Leonard Rogers
Was Military physician 
From United Kingdom 
Type Healthcare 
Military 
Gender male
Birth 18 January 1868
Death 16 September 1962, Royal Cornwall Infirmary, United Kingdom
(aged 94 years)
Star sign Capricorn
Education
Plymouth College
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society  
Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire  
Manson Medal 1938

Sir Leonard Rogers KCSI CIE FRS FRCP FRCS (18 January 1868 – 16 September 1962) was a founder member of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and its President from 1933 to 1935.

Biography

Rogers had a wide range of interests in tropical medicine, from the study of kala-azar epidemics to sea snake venoms, but is best known for pioneering the treatment of cholera with hypertonic saline, which has saved a multitude of lives.

Rogers was one of the pioneers in setting up the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine in India. In 1929, Rogers was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh.

He was president of the 1919 session of the Indian Science Congress.

Works

Digitised versions from National Library of Scotland.

Experimental investigation of the effects of haemostatic and other drugs on the intravascular coagulability of the blood (1895).
3 – On the influence of variations of the ground-water level on the prevalence of malarial fevers (1895).
Report of an investigation of the epidemic of malarial fever in Assam, or, kala-azar (1897).
Resolution on Dr Rogers’ report on Kala azar (1897).

Digitised version from HathiTrust Digital Library:

Fevers in the tropics (1908)
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