Leonard Colebrook, 1883-1967

Leonard Colebrook, 1883-1967.

Leonard Colebrook (1883?1967)

Leonard Colebrook was a physician who researched bacteria and infections in England during the twentieth century. In 1936, Colebrook deployed the antibiotic Prontosil to treat puerperal fever, a disorder that results from bacterial infections in the uterine tracts of women after childbirth or abortions. Colebrook also advanced care for burn patients by advocating for the creation of burn units ...

Leonard Colebrook?s Use of Sulfonamides as a Treatment for Puerperal Fever (1935?1937)

Between 1935 and 1937, Leonard Colebrook showed that sulfonamides, a class of antibacterial drugs, worked as an effective treatment for puerperal fever. Puerperal fever is a bacterial infection that can occur in the uterus [2] of women after giving birth. At the time of Colebrook?s study, puerperal fever remained a common disease due to both the lack of hygienic practices in hospitals and a tre...

Maurice Davidson 1883-1967--progress in respiratory medicine since his time.

This issue of the Postgraduate Medical Journal is dedicated to the memory of Maurice Davidson, the centenary of whose birth occurred on August 30th 1983, in recognition of his contributions both to the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine and to this, its Journal. I have been asked to contribute a memoir of him and a retrospect on respiratory medicine in his time. Maurice Davidson was the son of...

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Mobile robot networks emerged in the past few years as a promising distributed computing model. Existing work in the literature typically ensures the correctness of mobile robot protocols via ad hoc handwritten proofs, which are both cumbersome and error-prone. This paper surveys state-of-the-art results about applying formal methods approaches (namely, model-checking, program synthesis, and pr...