David Semple

David Semple
David Semple
Born 6 April 1856(1856-04-06)
Northern Ireland
Died 7 January 1937(1937-01-07) (aged 80)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Army Medical Corps
Years of service 1883-
Rank Lieutenant-Colonel
Other work Bacteriologist

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir David Semple MD (1856 – 1937) was a British Army officer who founded the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The institute later came to be known as the Central Research Institute (CRI).

In 1911 he developed a nerve-tissue based rabies vaccine from the brains of sheep first made rabid and then killed. The `Semple' vaccine however is known to have side-effects such as paralysis with high risk of other diseases, being just a crude form of churned brain-tissue. It needs administration around the stomach in a series of very painful injections administered over a period of seven to 14 days, a course that many do not complete. Moreover, it is not reliable and the World Health Organization (WHO) has been advocating its total disuse since 1993. (WHO literature )

He was given a knighthood in 1911,[1] and is buried in Hanwell Cemetery.

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