Cunningham, John, 1882-1968 (Lieutenant Colonel | physician and bacteriologist in the Indian Medical Service)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1882 - 1968
Biography
Cunningham was educated at Loretto School, Epsom College, Trinity College, Dublin and Edinburgh University, and entered the Indian medical service in 1905. He worked in various laboratories, saw service on the Indian North-west Frontier during the First World War and became Director of the King Institute, Madras, 1919-1926, and of the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, 1926-1929. He was also Organising Secretary of the Seventh Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine held at Calcutta in 1927. Returning to Scotland, Cunningham became the first Medical Superintendent of the Astley Ainslie Institution, Edinburgh, 1929-1948.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Papers and correspondence of John Cunningham
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-30
Scope and Contents
The papers include full documentation (case histories, experimental notes and data) of Cunningham's medical researches in India, and in particular of his prolonged and exhaustive work on the bacteriology and immunology of relapsing fever, and the major programme on the treatment of rabies which he instituted on his appointment as Director of the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, (where over 8,000 cases a year were treated). There are also records of the work on vaccine lymph carried out at the...
Dates:
1905-1968