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THE death of Captain S. R. Douglas, on January 20, after a short illness, will be deeply regretted by all who are interested in medical research. He was born in 1871 and educated at Haileybury College and St. Bartholomew's Hospital. After taking the double diploma M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1896, he joined the Indian Medical Service in 1898 as surgeon lieutenant. He served with the Plague Commission in 1899, and with the China Expedition in 1900-1, being promoted captain. He was invalided home at the end of 1901, but in spite of poor health, he soon took up work at St. Mary's Hospital with Sir Almroth Wright. In 1903, Wright and Douglas communicated to the Royal Society an important paper on the role of the body fluids in phagocytosis, a paper which did much to stimulate new work on vaccines and vaccine therapy. In both these lines of study Douglas played his part.
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L., P. Captain S. R. Douglas, F.R.S.. Nature 137, 215–216 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137215a0
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