John George Adami

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John George Adami (born January 12, 1862 in Manchester , † August 29, 1926 in Liverpool ) was a British-Canadian pathologist .

Life

Adami, son of the eponymous John George Adami and Sarah Ann Ellis Leech, attended school in Manchester and Owens College, which later became the Victoria University of Manchester . In 1880 he began studying at Christ's College of Cambridge University on. In 1884 he studied with Émile Roux in Paris and Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain in Breslau . After his return to England he worked as a clinic with his uncle Daniel John Leech at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. In 1888, Adami became a pathology demonstrator in Cambridge with Charles Smart Roy and Michael Foster . In the same year he received a Master of Arts from the university, a Bachelor of Medicine in 1899 and a Medical Doctor degree in 1892. In addition to his research work in biology, pathology, bacteriology and physiology at Cambridge, he also worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

In 1892 J. George Adami became the holder of the Strathcona Professorship for Pathology and Bacteriology at McGill University in Montreal . He set up pathology laboratories at the university and devoted himself to public health care. From 1909 to 1912 he was President of the Canadian Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis . With the rank of colonel , he worked in the medical service in London during the First World War . In 1917 he gave the Croonian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians . For his services during the war he was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1919 . In the same year he was elected Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool . Adami was a Fellow of the Royal Society , the Royal Society of Edinburgh , the Royal College of Surgeons, and the Royal College of Physicians.

Adami wrote numerous, mainly pathological, writings, including three textbooks.

He was married to Mary Stuart Cantile for the first time, from this marriage had three children, of which a daughter and a son reached adulthood. His second marriage was to Marie Wilkinson.

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • John George Adami. 1862-1926. In: The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology. 30, 1927, pp. 151-167, doi : 10.1002 / path.1700300112 . (Obituary with bibliography)
  • George. B. Adams: John George Adami. An appreciation. In: Southern Medical Journal. 22, 2; February 1929, pp. 172-177.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ shaper RSE Fellows 1783-2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b George. B. Adams: John George Adami. An appreciation. In: Southern Medical Journal. 22, 2; February 1929, pp. 172-177.
personal data
SURNAME Adami, John George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1926
Place of death Liverpool