Month: February 2022
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“The Great Trial”
On this day ninety-nine years ago, Stopes v. Sutherland opened in the High Court in London. As Dr. Sutherland recalled in his 1934 memoir A Time To Keep: “The trial, which lasted for six days, commenced on 21st February 1923, before the Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Hewart, and a special jury. That morning…
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The Edinburgh System
Dr. Sutherland’s work refers to the “Edinburgh System” for the control and eradication of tuberculosis. This post answers the question: “What was the ‘Edinburgh System’?” Dr. (later Sir) Robert Philip was a pupil of Dr. Robert Koch, the German physician who proved that tuberculosis was caused by the bacillus tuberculosis. Philip realised that anti-tuberculosis dispensaries alone would…