Sir John Crofton
(1912-2009), Physician and Professor of respiratory diseases and tuberculosisSitter in 1 portrait
Coming from the Brompton Hospital, where after war service in the Royal Army Medical Corps he had specialised in tuberculosis, John Crofton became a highly regarded professor of respiratory diseases and later dean of the medical faculty and president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. As well as fighting tuberculosis he has fought cigarette smoking nationally and internationally.
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