- Collection:
- Early Medical College of Georgia Women Graduates
- Title:
- Leila Daughtry Denmark, Class of 1928, Medical College of Georgia
- Creator:
- Daughtry-Denmark, Leila, 1898-2012
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hicks, Claire
Carlisle, Lynda Lee - Publisher:
- Historical Collections & Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Augusta University
- Date of Original:
- 10/10/1984
- Subject:
- Women medical students
Women physicians
Pediatrics
Egleston Hospital for Children
Whooping cough--Vaccination
Whooping cough - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484 - Medium:
- transcripts
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- This is a transcription of an audio-recorded interview of Dr. Leila Daughtry Denmark conducted by Lynda Lee Carlisle and Claire Hicks as an independent study project during their fourth year as medical students at MCG on October 10, 1984.
Dr. Denmark was the first intern at the newly opened Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children in 1928. After two years at Egleston, she served a 6-month internship at Philadelphia’s Children’s Hospital in 1930. After the birth of her daughter, Mary Alice, Dr. Denmark opened her own private pediatric practice in her home. In addition to her private practice, she worked at a clinic at Grady Hospital and a charity clinic at Central Presbyterian Church.
In 1932 during a deadly epidemic of whooping cough in her community, Dr. Denmark began to study the disease. She worked with Eli Lily and Emory University in developing the first pertussis vaccine. Her research was published in the Journal of American Medical Association and she received the Fischer Award in 1935 for “outstanding research in diagnosis, treatment, and immunization of whooping cough for her work on the vaccine.”
Dr. Denmark published two books: Every Child Should Have a Chance (1971) and Dr. Denmark Said It: Advice for Mother’s from America’s Most Experienced Pediatrician (2002). She was known as the world’s oldest practicing pediatrician due to the fact she continued to practice pediatrics until her eyesight was too weak at the age of 103 in 2001.
Dr. Denmark married John Eustace Denmark in 1928. He passed away in 1990. Dr. Denmark passed away at the age of 114 in 2012. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10675.2/623909
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Augusta University
- Additional Rights Information:
- Acknowledgement of the Historical Collections & Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Augusta University as a source is required.
- Original Collection:
- RG18.03: Audiotape collection held in the Historical Collections and Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library at Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Augusta University, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library
- Rights:
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