{"title":"7","authors":"Eliezer Ben–Yehuda","doi":"10.4324/9780429037436-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429037436-8","url":null,"abstract":"Francis O’Grady, known affectionately to colleagues as ‘FOG’, was a much-respected and internationally recognized microbiologist. His knowledge, wisdom and expertise were widely sought by government, the Army, academic institutions, scientific journals and professional societies. It is in the field of antimicrobial chemotherapy that he is best remembered, particularly for his work with experimental and clinical infections, including new approaches to treatment, which he pursued for over three decades, from the late 1950s until his retirement in 1988. Born, raised and educated in London, he continued to be fascinated by the city throughout his life. Indeed, his knowledge of its history, parks, squares, museums, art galleries and rich architectural heritage made him an excellent companion when in the metropolis. Although there was no medical tradition in the O’Grady household, his fascination with things microbiological was stirred at an early age when he acquired a copy of Sternberg’s A Manual of Bacteriology from a local second-hand bookshop. Francis gained a scholarship to study medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1945, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science, First-class Honours, in 1946, before graduating in medicine, with an honours degree, in 1950. It is worthy of note that he edited The Middlesex Hospital Journal in 1948 during his time as a medical undergraduate. After qualifying to practise medicine, he did national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), which led to a lifelong association with the Army. He began his career in microbiology as a trainee in pathology at the Bland-Sutton Institute of Pathology. He subsequently became a Junior Specialist in Pathology for the RAMC before being appointed Pathologist at the Army Chest Centre, Hindhead, Surrey. This appointment sparked an interest in air-borne infections, notably tuberculosis. He was appointed Lecturer in Bacteriology at the Middlesex Hospital in 1956. Following the completion of a Master of Science in Pharmacology and a Doctor of Medicine in Pathology, he travelled to the USA to take up the post of Chief of the Air Hygiene Research Unit and an assistant professorship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Here he had a very successful collaboration with Tom Riley, with whom he published a joint monograph on experimental studies in the transmission of tuberculosis. Returning to the UK in 1961, he was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Middlesex, and within a year he was promoted to a readership at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. This promotion was the start of a highly productive period of research into many aspects of antimicrobial chemotherapy at a time when several new agents were under active development or in their early stages of clinical use. His long association with Professor L. P. Garrod dated from this time, as did his research collaboration with urological colleagues, notably Bill Cattell, with whom he studied many aspects of urinary infection, i","PeriodicalId":384171,"journal":{"name":"A Dream Come True","volume":"73 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1871-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114249955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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