Arthur Cecil Alport

Arthur Cecil Alport (also Arthur Cecil Alport or Alport Arthur C.; born January 25, 1880 in Beaufort West, Karoo, Western Cape Province, † April 17, 1959 in London) was a South African doctor.

After studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh Alport in 1905 returned to South Africa in Johannesburg to practice, where he is also a small (but unproductive ) was a gold mine.

During the First World War Alport served with the Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ) in South West Africa, Macedonia and Salonika. He then worked as a specialist in tropical medicine at the Ministry of Welfare ( MPNI ) in London, in 1922 fourteen years as deputy director under Samuel Langmead in the newly established department of St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington.

On the advice of Sir Alexander Fleming in 1937 Alport followed a call to the King Fuad I, Hospital of the University of Cairo. There he fought against the then prevailing conditions, which were characterized by corruption and poor treatment to the poorer patients to. The grievances were the basis of his book " One Hour of Justice: The Black Book of the Egyptian Hospitals", which he had first published at his own expense, and ultimately led to the desired result - a reform of the Egyptian health care.

In 1947, he wondered who had been left in his opinion of his British colleagues in the lurch, his membership in the Royal College of Physicians down. Alport died at the age of 79 years at his former base in London.

After Alport Alport syndrome is named, an inherited disease with malformed collagen fibers.

Works

• Malaria and Its Treatment. - Experience with malaria in 1915
• One Hour of Justice: The Black Book of the Egyptian Hospitals - description of the ailing Egyptian health system

Obituaries

• British Medical Journal, London, 1959, 1: 1191st
• Lancet, London, 1959, I: 947

Source

• Http://www.whonamedit.com

• Tropical medicine
• Physician ( 20th century )
• South Africans
• Born in 1880
• Died in 1959
• Man