Atw simeons biography
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About the Author
Dr. A.T.W. Simeons was a British doctor who spent most of his life abroad helping combat disease and obesity. He studied medicine in Germany and Switzerland, graduating with highest honors, then beginning his practice in Germany. Later, after advanced studies in tropical diseases, he worked first in Africa, and then in India for eighteen years. During this time, Dr. Simeons was a pioneer in the treatment of malaria, receiving honors for his achievements and discoveries, including the Red Cross Order of Merit. He also made important contributions to combating bubonic plague and was an innovator in leprosy control. It was also in India that Dr. Simeons first observed the effects of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) on obesity and realized its importance. Dr. Simeons later settled in Rome, where he practiced medicine at the Salavator Mundi International Hospital, and continued his studies on the effects of HCG in combating obesity. He published several articles about his research in various journals before completing this manuscript, which contains his revolutionar
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An outlier in public health history in India: A.T.W. Simeons's scheme for rural medical relief, Kolhapur, 1943-47
Albert Theodore William Simeons, Md (1900–70)
Simeons [Figure - 1] was born in London in 1900 of German parents. He returned to the country of his ancestors as a teenager spending the later years of the First World War in the German army—albeit as a non-combatant. The autobiographical details as provided by Simeons to the British authorities in India are to be found in the ‘Simeons Papers’ archived at the British Library, London.[1] He obtained his medical degree with highest honours from the University of Heidelberg. His hospital experience in Switzerland seeded his life-long interest in endocrinology and nutrition. He specialized in Tropical Medicine at the renowned Bernard Nocht Institute at Hamburg in the course of which he spent two years studying malaria in Africa.
Figure 1: A.T.W. Simeons, MD (1900–70). Source: Dust jacket of the American edition of Simeons novel The Mask of a Lion, published by Alfred K. Knopf,
Albert T. W. SimeonsDr. Albert Theodore William Simeons (1900 in London – 1970 in Rome) was the leading proponent of a weight-loss protocol based on injections of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). In 1954, he published a book called "Pounds and Inches",[1] and a paper in the Lancet on his theories.[2] Scientific consensus does not support Simeons's claims, finding no weight loss attributable to the use of hCG.[3][4] Publications
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