Leslie Alvin White, 1900-1975

Priscilla White (1900?1989)

Priscilla White studied the treatment of diabetes in mothers, pregnant women, and children during the twentieth century in the United States. White began working with children with Type 1 diabetes in 1924 at Elliott Proctor Joslin?s practice in Boston, Massachusetts. Type 1 diabetes is an incurable disease where the pancreas produces little to no insulin. Insulin is a hormone [2] that allows th...

Thomas Leslie Technological Sublime , 1945 to 1975 Just

Cyril Leslie Oakley. 20 June 1907-27 March 1975.

Robert Collis (1900-1975), early champion of paediatrics

Robert Collis, son of a solicitor and descendant of a prominent medical family, was born and spent his early years in Dublin. He received his secondary education and medical training in England, France and the USA, and played in Ireland’s national rugby team. Whilst working in King’s College Hospital in London he was inspired by Sir George Frederic Still to specialise in paediatrics and returne...

Preventive medicine in the United States 1900–1975. Trends and interpretations