{"id":6672,"date":"2009-11-03T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/?post_type=events&#038;p=6672"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:05:58","slug":"2009-nov-3-sir-john-crofton-pioneer-in-tb-cure-dies-at-97","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hans\/events\/2009-nov-3-sir-john-crofton-pioneer-in-tb-cure-dies-at-97\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Nov 3 &#8211; Sir John Crofton, Pioneer in TB Cure, Dies at 97"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John Crofton, the world famous expert on the treatment of tuberculosis has died (on 3 November 2009) in Edinburgh at the age of 97. &#8230; realise that tuberculosis would only be cured by the use of at least two drugs &#8230; also showed that the treatment was as efficacious when given to out-patients as when given to in-patients &#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weblink to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcpe.ac.uk\/publications\/obituaries\/2009\/crofton.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"event-category":[57],"event-disease":[],"class_list":["post-6672","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","event-category-social-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"event-disease","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-disease?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}