Leonard Rogers KCSI FRCP FRS (1868-1962) and the founding of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine

Notes and Records of the Royal Society

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-181

  Cook, G C ^a  

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Author keywords

Alfred McCabe Dallas; Calcutta Tropical School; Leonard Rogers; The Englishman, Calcutta

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745167930     PISSN: 00359149     EISSN: 17430178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2006.0146     Document Type: Article

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13. Alfred McCabe-Dallas studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, graduating (LSA Lond.) in 1900. He then served as an Assistant Medical Officer at the Boro' Asylum, Portsmouth. He was a Civil Surgeon to the South Africa Field Force from 1901 to 1902. McCabe-Dallas took the DTM diploma at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine before proceeding to Assam. See also Medical directory (J. & A. Churchill, London, 1920), p. 839.
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