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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

FLETCHER, William ( – 1938)

– 1938

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1925 CE

#5394

Tropical typhus in the Federated Malay States, with a compilation on epidemic typhus.

FLETCHER, William ( – 1938) LESSLAR, J. E.

Bull. Inst. med. Res., F. M. S., No. 2. Drew attention to scrub typhus in Malaya.

1926 CE

#5395

The Weil-Felix reaction in sporadic tropical typhus.

FLETCHER, William ( – 1938) LESSLAR, J. E.

Bull. Inst. Med. Res., F. M. S., 1926, No. 1. Demonstration that scrub-typhus patients developed agglutinins against the OX-K strain of B. proteus but not the OX-19 strain.

1932 CE

#5159.2

Melioidosis.

STANTON, Sir Ambrose Thomas (1875 – 1938) FLETCHER, William ( – 1938)

Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, F.M.S., No. 21. Stanton gave melioidosis its present name and, with Fletcher, wrote the authoritative work on the subject.