Leonard Parsons

Sir Leonard Gregory Parsons MRCS FRCP FRCOG FRS (25 November 1879 - 17 December 1950) was a British Paediatrician.[1]

Mason College

Parsons studied at Mason College and the University of Birmingham from 1896 to 1903. He graduated with a University of London external degree in medicine in 1903.[2][3][4][5]

He was Professor of Paediatrics at Birmingham University and dean of University of Birmingham Medical School. In 1932 he was the first to use synthetic Vitamin C to treat scurvy in children.[6][7][8][9]

Parsons was awarded the Royal College of Physicians’s Moxon Medal in 1942 and delivered their Harveian Oration in 1950. He received a knighthood in 1946. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1948.[10]

References

  1. ↑ http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3464
  2. ↑ http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3464
  3. ↑ Dunn, PM (2002). "Sir Leonard Parsons of Birmingham (1879-1950) and antenatal paediatrics". Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. 86: F65–7. PMC 1721345Freely accessible. PMID 11815555.
  4. ↑ http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf
  5. ↑ http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3464
  6. ↑ Dunn, PM (2002). "Sir Leonard Parsons of Birmingham (1879-1950) and antenatal paediatrics". Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. 86: F65–7. PMC 1721345Freely accessible. PMID 11815555.
  7. ↑ http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf
  8. ↑ http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3464
  9. ↑ http://fn.bmjjournals.com/content/86/1/F65.full
  10. ↑ http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3464
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