L. Everard Napier (9 October 1888,
Preston, Lancashire
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– 15 December 1957,
Silchester
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Silchester is most notable for the archaeological site and Roman town of ...
,
Hampshire
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) was a British tropical physician and professor of tropical medicine, known for his 1946 textbook ''Principles and Practice of Tropical Medicine'' and his 1923 book, coauthored by Ernest Muir, ''Kala Azar: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners''.
Napier graduated from
St John's School, Leatherhead
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St John's was founded in 1851 to educate the sons of ...
and then studied medicine at
St Bartholomew's Hospital
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History
Early history
Barts was founded in 1123 by ...
, qualifying M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1914. From 1915 to 1918 he served in the
R.A.M.C. He served in the Mediterranean and in Egypt, in hospital ships and troop transports, and then in Mesopotamia, where he succeeded Hugh W. Acton as pathologist. During WWI Napier also served in Bombay, where he succeeded
Robert Knowles as pathologist,
and then returned to England in 1919. Acton and Knowles became professors at the newly formed School of Tropical of Medicine at
Calcutta
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and persuaded Knowles to join the staff as a pathologist and special research worker in
kala-azar
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar (Hindi: kālā āzār, "black sickness") or "black fever", is the most severe form of leishmaniasis and, without proper diagnosis and treatment, is associated with high fatality. Leishmaniasi ...
.
Ernest Struthers and Napier advanced the hypothesis that the sand-fly transmitted kala-azar.
He remained at Calcutta's School of Tropical Medicine for 22 years,
[ becoming in 1935 a professor of tropical medicine (as successor to Ernest Muir) and later the School's director. In 1943 Napier left India.][
For the ''Indian Medical Gazette'' he served as assistant editor for five years and editor for ten years.][ In 1943 he went to New York City's ]Columbia University
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as a visiting professor and while there completed his 1946 textbook ''Principles and Practice of Tropical Medicine''. After his return to England in 1946,[
]
Awards and honours
*1940 — Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians[
*1942 — Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire
]
See also
* Plasmodium knowlesi#History of discovery
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Napier, Lionel Everard
1888 births
1957 deaths
People educated at St John's School, Leatherhead
Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital
20th-century British medical doctors
British tropical physicians
British parasitologists
Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians