Leonard Parsons

Sir Leonard Gregory Parsons MRCS FRCP FRCOG FRS (25 November 1879 - 17 December 1950) was a British Paediatrician.

[1] Parsons studied at Mason College and the University of Birmingham from 1896 to 1903.

He graduated with a University of London external degree in medicine in 1903.

In 1932 he was the first to use synthetic Vitamin C to treat scurvy in children.

[5][6][7][8] Parsons was awarded the Royal College of Physicians’s Moxon Medal in 1942 and delivered their Harveian Oration in 1950.