Leonard Rogers
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Sir Leonard Rogers FRS (1868–1962) was a founder member of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and its President from 1933 to 1935.
Rogers had a wide range of interests in tropical medicine, from from the study of kala-azar epidemics to sea snake venoms, but is best known for pioneering the treatment of cholera with hypertonic saline, which has saved a multitude of lives.
Rogers was one of the pioneers in setting up the School of Tropical Medicine in Calcutta, India.