Leila Denmark

Leila Alice Daughtry - Denmark ( born 1 February 1898 in Portal, Georgia, † April 1, 2012 in Athens, Georgia ) was an American physician who was almost 75 years as a pediatrician.

Life

Denmark was the eldest of twelve children Ellerbee Daughtry Daughtry and his wife Alice Cornelia, nee Hendricks, was born. The family was wealthy, her father was the mayor of her home town and owned a large farm, grew up on the Leila.

After she had her BA done on the Tift College in Forsyth in 1922, she took a teaching and taught for two years in Acworth. This work, however she could not satisfy sufficient. Since her boyfriend John Eustace Denmark, a banker, whom she knew since his early childhood and later married, was sent on behalf of the U.S. State Department to Java, she enrolled at the Medical College in Augusta one. Less than 53 students, she was the only woman, and when she received her Ph.D. in 1928, she was only the third woman who had purchased at that college doctorate.

On June 11, 1928 just three days later, she married her long-time friend. Together, the two went to Atlanta, where she first worked in the Grady Hospital, three months later but moved to the newly opened Egleston Hospital for Children. There, Denmark became the first Medizinalassistentin. Her daughter, Mary Alice, who was the only child of the couple, came in 1930 to the world. A year later, Denmark opened his own practice in the Virginia Highlands neighborhood.

Your medical research dealt with whooping cough and in 1932 was inspired by the outbreak of a devastating epidemic of 75 cases. They injected the blood serum, which they had won by an adult sufferers, their own daughter, who had also infected the pathogen, and thus helped her to recovery. The results sent them to Eli Lilly and Company, were able to develop a vaccine against Bordetella pertussis. For her achievements in this field, she received the 1935 Fisher Award, her research documents were, inter alia, American Journal of Diseases of Children - "Studies in Whooping Cough: Diagnosis and Immunization " (1936) and " Whooping Cough Vaccine " (1942 ) - and published 1932-1938 twice in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Denmark went in 1945 to Sandy Springs and practiced there for forty years as a children's physician until they 87 - year retired to an old farm house in Alpharetta. She sat near their home in a new practice and examined until 2002 daily about 15 to 25 patients; only then she had to stop due to a visual impairment. Her husband had died in 1990 at the age of 91 years.

Them for their dedication and professionalism Denmark has won several awards, including in 1953 as Atlanta's " Woman of the Year " in 1998 with the " Health - Care Heroes Award" and in 2000 with an honorary doctorate in science from Emory University. She was also long in an honorary capacity of the 30s in 56 years for a charitable children's clinic of the Presbyterian Church. Denmark was also one of the first medical professionals, relative position against smoking near children and pregnant women from publicly alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and drugs dissuaded, so as not to cause harm to the unborn child. In 1971 she published the book " Every Child Should Have A Chance " on the market, which it laid out its principles of good parenting. It experienced until today numerous reprints.

Leila Denmark died at the age of 114 years and 60 days.