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Edward Collett Hort

Fellow

Edward Collett Hort was born in Hertfordshire in 1868, the son of the Revd F A J Hort, Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He qualified at Guy's Hospital in 1896 and gained the Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1905. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1909. His research in bacteriology and serology at King's College and the Lister Institute led to his appointment as Honorary Physician and Director of the Bacteriological Staff at Addington Park War Hospital. His publications include 'Use and Abuse of Tuberculin' (1911), 'Micro-organisms and Their Relation to Fever' (1912), and 'Normal and Immune Serum Therapy' (1914). He died in Cannes in 1922.