Philip D'Arcy Hart
b 1900, medical researcher, National Institute of Medical Research
Belsize Park, London, 29/11/94
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Belsize Park, London, 29/11/94 | |
Only rare individuals pursue a career in medical research throughout their lives, and D' Arcy Hart is one. He became a consultant physician at University College Hospital at the age of 34, but three years later was recruited by the Medical Research Council, being involved with much of its early research into dust diseases in coal miners and showing the efficacy of the new drug streptomycin in the treatment of tuberculosis. With Austin Bradford Hill he pioneered the controlled clinical trial as the gold standard for judging the results of all subsequent research. |