Herbert Durham

Herbert Edward Durham (30 March 1866 – 25 October 1945) was a British physician and distinguished scientist.

Early life Herbert Edward Durham was born 30 March 1866, the son of Arthur E. Durham, Senior Surgeon to Guy's Hospital. In 1907, he married Maud Lowry, daughter of Captain William Moyse Harmer of the 81st Regiment.

Education Durham was educated at University College School, London; University College, London from 1883 to 1884; King's College, Cambridge from 1884; and Guy's Hospital, London.

From 1896 to 1898 he was a working Member of the Tsetse Fly Disease Committee of the Royal Society. In 1881 the Cuban epidemiologist Dr Carlos Finlay was the first to theorise that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes, but this remained unproven in the wider scientific community. While en route to Brazil they visited the U.S. Naval Hospital in Washington where they met U. S. Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg who is considered the first U.S. bacteriologist, and then proceeded to Havana where they met Dr Finlay and his co-workers on 25 July 1900, and also the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, led by Dr Walter Reed, which subsequently confirmed Dr Finlay's theory. In his subsequent report Durham deduced that they had both been infected through mosquito bites. and was a Medallist in 1927.

Publications On Nagana, or Tsetse Fly Disease Kanthack, A. A.; H. E. Durham and W. F. H. Blandford, 1898 Report of the Yellow Fever Expedition to Parà of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine . H. E. Durham, Longmans, Green & Co, 1902 Recherche et dosage des métaux lourds dans le cidre, Dr H.E. Durham, 1937

Durham wrote numerous papers on various medical, pathological, and hygienic subjects including: An Address on the Present Knowledge of Outbreaks due to Meat Poisoning: Delivered before the Medical Society of Oldham on November 22nd, 1898. Durham H. E., Br Med J. 1898 Dec 17;2(1981):1797-801. On Persistence of the Thyreoglossal Duct, with Remarks on Median Cervical Fistulæ and Cysts due to Embryonic Remnants. Durham H. E., Med Chir Trans. 1894;77:199-228.1. On the Clinical Bearing of some Experiments on Peritoneal Infections. Durham H. E., Med Chir Trans. 1897;80:191-204. A Simple Method for Demonstrating the Production of Gas by Bacteria. Durham H. E., Br Med J. 1898 May 28;1(1952):1387. Some Theoretical Considerations Upon the Nature of Agglutinins, Together with Further Observations upon Bacillus Typhi Abdominalis, Bacillus Enteritidis, Bacillus Coli Communis, Bacillus Lactis Aerogenes, and some other Bacilli of Allied Character. Durham H. E., J Exp Med. 1901 Jan 15;5(4):353-88. The Campaign Against Ague. Durham H. E., Br Med J. 1901 Mar 2;1(2096):512-3. Notes on Beri-beri in the Malay Peninsula and on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Durham H. E., J Hyg (Lond). 1903 Jul;3(3):380-1, and 1904 Jan;4(1):112-55. Some Notes on the Urine in Beri-Beri. Durham H. E., Br Med J. 1904 Feb 27;1(2252):480-2. On subcutaneous injections of adrenalin. Elliott TR, Durham H. E., J. Physiol. 1906 Oct 29;34(6): Notes on the Preservation of Fruit. Durham H. E., Br Med J. 1918 Jun 22;1(2999):708. Studies on Cider and Perry: No. I. Sulphite Preservatives. Durham H. E., J Hyg (Lond). 1909 Apr;9(1):17-32. The Prevalence of Thyroid Enlargement in and about Hereford. Durham H. E., J Hyg (Lond). 1921 Mar;19(4):394-401.