William Boog Leishman

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Sir William Boog Leishman

Sir William Boog Leishman (born November 6, 1865 in Glasgow ; † June 2, 1926 ibid) was a Scottish military doctor, tropical doctor and pathologist .

Life

William Boog Leishman, son of the Scottish gynecologist William Leishman (1834-1894), attended the Westminster School in Glasgow and then studied at the University of Glasgow . After graduation, he entered the Army Medical Service. He was used in India and examined typhus and the leishmaniasis, which was later named after him . He returned to Great Britain in 1897 and was appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School in 1900.

He did research especially in the field of human parasites and developed the Leishman stain named after him for the detection of malaria pathogens and other parasites in the blood.

Simultaneously with Charles Donovan , he described Leishmania donovani in 1901 , the pathogen of leishmaniasis named after both, and published the results in 1903. Previously, in 1898, the Russian military doctor Peter Borowski had discovered the pathogen causing oriental bumps ("Leishmania tropicalis").

In recognition of his services he was on 22 July 1909. Knight Bachelor , on 3 June 1918, Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George , and on 1 January 1924 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath beaten.

Leishman was a member and longtime President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Leishman's name got a place in the history of parasitology through Ronald Ross , who called the pathogen Leishman identified " Leishmania ".

Fonts

  • On the possibility of the occurrence of trypanosomiasis in India. In: British Medical Journal . Volume 2, 1903, p. 1376.
  • Critical review of Kala-Azar and tropical score. In: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Volume 17, 1911, pp. 567-580, and Volume 18, 1912, pp. 125-137.

literature

  • Sir John Boyd: Sir William Leishman. In: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Volume 112, 1966, pp. 4-16.
  • Werner Köhler : Leishman, Sir William Boog. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 838.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang U. Eckart : William Leishman , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck Munich, medical dictionary. From antiquity to the present , 2nd edition 2001, 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York. Medical glossary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
  2. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Leishman, William Boog
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish tropical doctor and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1926
Place of death Glasgow