COLEBROOK, Leonard (1883-1967): trials of sulpha drugs in puerperal fever

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 S85
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: COLEBROOK, Leonard (1883-1967): trials of sulpha drugs in puerperal fever
Date(s)	: 1936-1937
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 vol.
Name of creator(s)	: Colebrook | Leonard | 1883-1967 | bacteriologist

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1883; premedical studies at the London Hospital medical college, 1900; St Mary's Hospital, London, graduated, 1906; assistant in the inoculation department of St Mary's Hospital medical school, 1907; Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, worked on wound infections, first at St Mary's Hospital and later in Almroth Wright's laboratory at no. 13 general hospital in Boulogne, 1914-1918; member of the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council, 1919; St Mary's Hospital, 1922; honorary director of the research laboratories of Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, 1930-1939; Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps and bacteriological consultant to the British Expeditionary Force, France, 1939-1940; worked on the infection and treatment of burns, 1940; director of the Burns Investigation Unit of the Medical Research Council, first based at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and then at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, 1942-1948; honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1944; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1945; retired, 1948; honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1950; died, 1967.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Album of charts illustrating temperature and pulse of participants in the first trials of 'the sulpha drugs' (red prontosil and sulpanilamide) in puerperal fever (chiefly haemolytic streptococci), with accompanying notes and a brief introduction, 1936-1937. The album was created by Leonard Colebrook while working in the Research Laboratories and wards of the Isolation Block of Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

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Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Presented to the College by Leonard Colebrook.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jul 2008