| RefNo | LC/1941/17 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | MacLean, Hugh |
| Date | 21 December 1937 |
| Description | Certificate of Candidate for Election to the Fellowship
Suspended 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941
Lapsed 1941
Date stamp on reverse |
| Citation | MacLean, Hugh (London). M.D., D.Sc., Physiologist and Physician. Distinguished for work on phospholopins; regulation of gastric acidity; trench nephritis and kidney - function generally. Was first to obtain pure lecithin and show that lipins hitherto described were mixtures of lecithin and cephalin with a nitrogenous impurity. Showed secretion of NaC1 by stomach occurred parallel to pepsin but that HC1 was regulated by acidity of gastric contents. Introduced alkali-treatment of gastric ulcer in Britain; this now employed and much surgical intervention avoided. In course of investigation into trench - nephritis, devised new test for renal efficiency which has advanced prognosis and treatment of nephritic diseases. List of 23 scientific papers and 4 books appended. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge: Proposer - Charles J Martin; Seconder - F Gowland Hopkins; J A MacWilliam; Joseph A Arkwright; Arthur Harden; J C G Ledingham; Robert Robison; J B Leathes; H S Raper; J B Orr; E P Cathcart |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |