David Jacob Aaron Chowry-Muthu
Indian doctor and hospital founder (born 1864)
About David Jacob Aaron Chowry-Muthu
David Jacob Aaron Chowry Muthu was born in 1864 in India. He went to England to qualify in medicine and had, by the 1890s, got MD and MRCS.
Chowry-Muthu established the Hill Grove sanatorium at Mendip Hills, Somerset, England in the 1910s. An innovative feature of his practice was the use of walks of increasing length to aid in the recovery of patients.
In 1928, he established 12-bed sanatorium hospitals on 250 acres of land in Tambaram, Chennai, India. This was the first sanatorium hospital in India.
Following his wife's death in 1930, he requested the government to acquire the sanatorium and moved back to England.
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