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Colebrook, Leonard, FRS, FRCOG, FRCS (1883-1967), bacteriologist

Publications on prevention and treatment of infection

Publications by Leonard Colebrook

`New principles in therapeutic inoculation', with AE Wright and EJ Storer, The Lancet, Feb 24, Mar 3, Mar 10 1923

`The treatment of human puerperal infections, and of experimental infections in mice, with prontosil. A preliminary report to the Therapeutic Trials Committee of the Medical Research Council', with Meave Kenny, The Lancet, Jun 6 1936

`The mode of action of p-aminobenzenesulphonamide and prontosil in haemolytic streptococcal infections', with GAH Buttle and RAQ O'Meara, The Lancet, Dec 5 1936

`Treatment with prontosil of puerperal infections due to haemolytic streptococci', with Meave Kenny, The Lancet, Dec 5 1936

`Prophylactic treatment in obstetrics by means of prontosil and sulphanilamide', The Lancet, Jul 31 1937

`Treatment of 106 cases of puerperal fever by sulphanilamide', with AW Purdie, The Lancet, Nov 27 1937

`The Robert Campbell Memorial Oration' on streptococcal infection in war wounds, delivered at the Whitla Medical Institute, Belfast, Nov 1937, supplement to The Ulster Medical Journal, Jan 1 1938

`On the part played by the erythrogenic (Dick) toxin of the haemolytic streptococcus in puerperal infection', with Meave Kenny, The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, vol XLIV, no 1, 1937

`Streptococcal infections in mice treated by chemotherapy and serum', with WR Maxted, The Lancet, Jan 6 1940

`Chemotherapy in relation to war wounds', British Medical Journal, Mar 16 1940

`Varying sensitivity of haemolytic streptococci to the sulphonamides', with AE Francis, The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, vol LIII, no 1, 1941

`The control of infection in obstetrics', The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire, vol LIII, no 2, Apr 1946

'The story of puerperal fever 1800 - 1950', British Medical Journal, Feb 4 1956

`The growth and death of wound bacteria in serum, exudate and slough', with EJL Lowbury and L Hurst, Journal of Hygiene, 58, 1960

`Gerhard Domagk 1895 - 1964', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, vol 10, Nov 1964

'The prevention of puerperal sepsis', The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire, vol 43, no 4, 1936

'The prevention of puerperal sepsis', The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire, vol 43, no 4, 1936

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