LEIPER, Robert Thomson (1881 – 1969)
1881 – 1969
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1913 CE
#11249
Important discovery in tropical medicine: Metamorphosis of Filaria Loa.
Leiper discovered diurnal periodicity in Filaria Loa, as the worm embryos are found in the blood only during day, as an adaptation to the day-biting habits of their insect vector, a biting fly of the genus Chrysopa. T…
1915 CE
#5350.5
Observations on the spread of Asiatic schistosomiasis.
First paper in English giving a detailed account of the development of S. japonicum in the snail and its subsequent development in man. Atkinson, a surgeon in the Royal Navy, was a member of Scott’s Antarctic ex…
1915 CE–1916 CE
#5350.4
Reports of the results of the bilharzia mission in Egypt, 1915.
Leiper identified the snail responsible for the transmission of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium.
1929 CE
#2463