Philip Montagu D'Arcy Hart (1900–2006)

Hart P D'A , edited, & annotated by E M Tansey. Chronic pulmonary disease in South Wales coal mines: an eye-witness account of the MRC surveys (1937–1942). Social History of Medicine 1998; 11: 459–68

Ness A. , Reynolds L.A. , Tansey E.M. Population based research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit. Vol 13 in Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine. London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL, 2002: 1–150. Available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/PDFS/Publications/Witness/wit13.pdf

Watts G. Why a 1940s medical committee should not be forgotten. BMJ 2001; 323: 360

Medical Research Council. Clinical trial of patulin in the common cold. Lancet 1944; 2: 373–5

Clarke M. The 1944 patulin trial of the British Medical Research Council: an example of how concerted common purpose can get reliable answers to important questions very quickly. The James Lind Library (www.jameslindlibrary.org), 2004

Chalmers I. , Clarke M. The 1944 patulin trial: the first properly controlled multicentre trial conducted under the aegis of the British Medical Research Council. Int J Epidemiol 2004; 32: 1–8

Medical Research Council. Streptomycin treatment of tuberculous meningitis. Lancet 1948; 1: 582–96

Yoshioka A. Streptomycin in post war Britain: a cultural history of a miracle drug. In: van Heteren G.M. , Gijswijt-Hofstra M. , Tansey E.M. (eds). Biographies of Remedies: Drugs, Medicines and Contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American Healing Cultures. Amsterdam: Rodopi BV, 2002: 203–27

See also: Dr Philip D'Arcy Hart in conversation with Dr Kenneth Citron, 18 October 2001, in Oxford Brookes Video History Collection, MSVA 205. Details available at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/bms/medical/