Geoffrey Barrow Dowling (9 August 1891-1 June1976), was a consultant dermatologist at St Thomas's Hospital and St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, who encouraged the study of histopathology and demonstrated the beneficial effects of large doses of
calciferol
Vitamin D is a group of Lipophilicity, fat-soluble secosteroids responsible for increasing intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium, and phosphate, and many other biological effects. In humans, the most important compounds in this group ar ...
in the treatment of
lupus vulgaris in 1945. In addition, he worked with
Walter Freudenthal
Walter Freudenthal (6 May 1893 – 27 March 1952) was a German-Jewish dermatologist who gave the earliest clear histopathological description of keratoma senile (actinic keratosis) in 1926 in Breslau. In 1933, he moved to London to escape the N ...
on
dermatomyositis and
scleroderma. He established The Dowling Club in the 1940s.
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1891 births
1976 deaths
British dermatologists
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