Harry F. Dowling

Harry Filmore Dowling (born November 11, 1904 in Washington, DC , † December 19, 2000 in East St. Louis , Illinois ) was an American medic .

Life

Family and education

Born in Washington, Harry Filmore Dowling, son of William Alexander Dowling and Mae Krause Dowling, turned to studying medicine at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster in the US state of Pennsylvania after completing compulsory schooling , and in 1927 he earned the degree of Bachelor of Science . He continued his studies at the George Washington University continued, in 1931 he was appointed MD PhD .

Harry Filmore Dowling married Edith Laine on June 27, 1931. This marriage resulted in the sons Harry Filmore junior, William Laine and John Nelson. He died in December 2000 at the age of 96.

Professional background

Harry Filmore Dowling was employed as an assistant doctor at Baltimore City Hospitals after graduating , in 1932 he took a position as a medical assistant at Johns Hopkins University , and in 1933 a one-year Infectious Diseases Fellowship led him to Harvard University . Dowling then returned to George Washington University, where he was employed as a Clinical Instructor in Medicine, and in 1940 he was appointed Clinical Professor of Medicine. In addition, Dowling headed a private practice for internal medicine, infectious diseases and allergies and, since 1940, the medical department of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital. In 1950 he accepted a professorship in preventive medicine and head of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Medicine in Chicago . In the following year Dowling was appointed professor of medicine, head of the Department of Medicine and chief physician of the University of Illinois Research and Education Hospitals, in 1969 he retired .

Dowling, who received the Alumni Achievement Award from George Washington University in 1950, became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation , the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Public Health Association, the Phi Beta Kappa, and the Sigma Xi elected. In 1975 he received the Alexander Fleming Award .

Harry F. Dowling's research interests focused in particular on the fight against infectious diseases , including the study of sera, sulfonamides and antibiotics .

Publications (selection)

• together with Lewis Kaigler Sweet, Harold L. Hirsh: The acute bacterial diseases, their diagnosis and treatment. WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1948
• Antibiotic therapy. in: Disease-a-month, Mar., Year Book Publishers, Chicago, Ill., 1956
• Tetracyclines. in: Antibiotics monographs, 3rd, Medical Encyclopedia, Inc., New York, 1956
• with Tom Jones: That the patient may know; an atlas for use by the physician in explaining to the patient. WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1959
• Medicines for man; the development, regulation, and use of prescription drugs. in: Borzoi book, 1st ed., Knopf, New York, 1970
• Comparisons and contrasts between the early arsphenamine and early antibiotic periods. In: Bulletin of the Historiy of Medicine. Volume 47, 1973, pp. 236-249.
• Fighting infection: conquests of the twentieth century. in: Commonwealth Fund book, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1977
• City hospitals: the undercare of the underprivileged. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1982

literature

• Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 28 (1954-1955). Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1955, p. 725.
• Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 33 (1964-1965). Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 543.
• Marvin Turck: Harry F. Dowling, MD, 1904-2000. in: The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 185, Issue 8, Memorial Institute of Infectious Diseases, Chicago, Ill., 2001, pp. 1003-1004.