Leonard Erskine Hill

Leonard Erskine Hill

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name= Leonard Erskine Hill
birth_date= Birth date|1858|01|28
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death_date= Death date|1952|03|30
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nationality=British
alma_mater=Haileybury College, University College, London
fields=Medicine, Physiology
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footnotes=From: "The life of Sir Leonard Erskine Hill FRS (1866-1952)."cite journal |author=Hill AB, Hill B |title=The life of Sir Leonard Erskine Hill FRS (1866-1952) |journal=Proc. R. Soc. Med. |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=307–16 |year=1968 |month=March |pmid=4868973 |pmc=1902312 |doi= |url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=4868973 |accessdate=2008-07-12]

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill (28 January 1858 - 30 March 1952) was a British physiologist.cite journal |last=Acott |first=C. |title=JS Haldane, JBS Haldane, L Hill, and A Siebe: A brief resume of their lives. |journal=South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society journal |volume=29 |issue=3 |date=1999 |issn=0813-1988 |oclc=16986801 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6016 |accessdate=2008-07-12 ] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900. His son was the epidemiologist and statistician Austin Bradford Hill.

Education

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill attended Haileybury College. He later received his MB from University College, London in 1890. In 1931, he received an honorary LLD from University of Aberdeen.

Medicine

Hill's work on blood pressure lead him to believe "the arterial pressure can be taken in man as rapidly, simply, and accurately as the temperature can be taken with the clinical thermometer". This work developed into the Hill's sign.cite journal |author=Hill L, Barnard H, Sequeira JH |title=The Effect of Venous Pressure on the Pulse |journal=J. Physiol. (Lond.) |volume=21 |issue=2-3 |pages=147–59 |year=1897 |month=March |pmid=16992380 |pmc=1512990 |doi= |url=http://www.jphysiol.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=16992380 |accessdate=2008-07-12]

Diving medicine

Hill performed research into decompression sickness, oxygen toxicity, and effects of carbon dioxide in diving.cite book |author=Hill, L |publisher=London E. Arnold |year=1912 |title=Caisson sickness, and the physiology of work in compressed air ]

Hill advocated linear or uniform decompression profiles. This type of decompression is used today by saturation divers. His work was financed by Augustus Siebe and the Siebe Gorman Company.

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External links

* [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=RefNo='EC/1900/05'&dsqDb=Catalog Royal Society election certificate]


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