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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Alfred Charles Coles MRCP FRSE (1866–26 September 1944) was an English physician, microbiologist and academic author. He was described as "a master of the microscope".[1] He made major advancements in the understanding of Hodgkin’s disease and in the blood parasites of both animals and man.[2]

Life

He was born in Bournemouth the son of Alfred Case Coles a pharmacist. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MD in 1893.[3] He received a DSc in Public Health in 1903.[4] He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 1907. He worked as a physician at the Royal National Sanatorium from 1914 and as a Consultant at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Bournemouth.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1903. His proposers included Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, Alexander Crum Brown, Charles Hunter Stewart and James Buchanan Young.[5] Being beyond conscription age in the First World War he served as a volunteer in a military hospital at Mont Dore in France. This appears to have been independent of any regiment as the only Alfred C. Coles on record in the army does not co-relate to his function as a doctor.[6]

On retiral he continued in his studies plus was a keen ornithologist. He died at his home in Bournemouth on 26 September 1944.

Publications

  • The Blood, How to Examine and Diagnose Its Diseases (1898) republished 1905
  • Clinical Diagnosis Bacteriology including Serum Diagnosis and Cytodiagnosis (1904)
  • Critical Microscopy: How to get the most out of the Microscope (1921)

Family

In 1924 he married Frances Edith Bagshaw.

References

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  1. British Medical Journal: 14 October 1944, p.515
  2. British Medical Journal: 11 November 1944, p.646
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  6. National Archives: war record cards: Coles, Alfred C.