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Edward Palmer Poulton

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Poulton's attitude to medicine was largely determined by his knowledge of physiology, and it was in the domain of physiology that he achieved most. Under his influence Guy's became a centre first for research in diabetes and then for oxygen therapy; he himself devised an oxygen tent that was widely
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He showed how oxygen, when given in sufficient concentration, was of enormous value in many conditions in which it had never been employed. His oxygen tent came into use in the majority of large hospitals, and he arranged a service by which an apparatus could be sent with a skilled technician to a
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at Munich. At Guy's Hospital, Poulton was from 1912 to 1914 a demonstrator of physiology and a registrar, from 1914 to 1926 an assistant physician, and from 1926 to 1939 a full physician. He was elected FRCP in 1918. He delivered the
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footballer, who died in WWI. In 1911 in Oxford, Edward Palmer Poulton married Elfrida Maclean; they had three sons and two daughters.
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from the University of Oxford. In 1911–1912, supported by a Radcliffe travelling fellowship, he studied under
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hospital or private house anywhere in the country. This work must have saved countless lives ...
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in the University of Oxford, had a younger brother, Ronald, and three sisters.
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Munk's Roll, Volume IV, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians
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International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics
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British Physiologists 1885–1914: A Biographical Dictionary
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in 1909. Among his collaborators were John Scott Haldane,
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died in 1920, Poulton became the editor, assisted by
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Index

Oxford
Tunbridge Wells
FRCP
Dragon School
Rugby School
Balliol College, Oxford
John Scott Haldane
Guy's Hospital
BM BCh
DM
Friedrich von Müller
Goulstonian Lectures
Physiological Society
Joseph Barcroft
Ernest Laurence Kennaway
Marcus Seymour Pembrey
George Graham
creatinine
Frederick Taylor
C. Putnam Symonds
Harold Wordsworth Barber
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Hope Professor of Zoology
Ronald Poulton
rugby union
"Possible errors in the estimation of creatinine and creatine by Folin's method"
"The Significance of Alveolar Carbon Dioxide Determinations in the Treatment and Prognosis of Diabetes"
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