David Jacob Aaron Chowry-Muthu

David Jacob Aaron Chowry Muthu
Born	1864
Education	MD MRCS
Medical career
Sub-specialties	Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Research	Tuberculosis
Notable works	Establishment of Hill Grove sanatorium at Mendip Hills, Somerset Establishment of Sanatorium at Tambaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

David Jacob Aaron Chowry Muthu was born in 1864 in India. He went to England to qualify in medicine and had, by the 1890s, got MD and MRCS.

Chowry-Muthu established the Hill Grove sanatorium at Mendip Hills, Somerset, England in the 1910s. An innovative feature of his practice was the use of walks of increasing length to aid in the recovery of patients. ^[1]

In 1928, he established 12-bed sanatorium hospitals on 250 acres of land in Tambaram, Chennai, India. This was the first sanatorium hospital in India. ^[2]

Following his wife's death in 1930, he requested the government to acquire the sanatorium and moved back to England. ^[3]

Works

His notable medical books / journals include:

• Muthu, David C. (1922). Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Its Etiology and Treatment. London: Baillere, Tindall and Cox.
• Burton-Fanning, Frederick William; Moore, John William; Chowry-Muthu, D. J.; Kingscote, Ernest; Calwell, William; Walker, Jane Harriet; Colebrook, Esther Lillie; Sommerville, David (1900). "A Discussion On The Therapeutics Of Open Air". The British Medical Journal. 2 (2076): 1095–1097. JSTOR   20266004.
• Chowry-Muthu, D. J. (July 1, 1905). "The Sanatorium Treatment of Consumption: Is It Worth While?". Br Med J. 2 (2322): 46. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2322.46. S2CID   60516463 – via www.bmj.com.
• Muthu, D. J. Chowry (March 21, 1907). "The Sanatorium Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis-Is It a Success?". Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal (1883). 25 (95): 50–54. PMC   5046717 . PMID   28896882.

References

1. Hickman, C., ‘The Importance of “Open-Air” for Health: Environmental and Medical Intersections in Modern Britain’ in Konrad, T. (ed.), Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2023: Open Access), pp. 180–199. ^{[ ISBN missing ]}
2. "The story of a sanatorium". The Hindu. February 7, 2013 – via www.thehindu.com.
3. "The Tambaram Sanatorium - Madras Heritage and Carnatic Music". sriramv.com. February 5, 2013.

External links

• "Knowing more on Dr Muthu - Madras Heritage and Carnatic Music". sriramv.com. 19 February 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2024.