Alan Clemetson

**Charles Alan Blake Clemetson** FRCOG, FRCSC, FACOG (31 Oktoba 1923 - 30 Agusta 2006) likita ne, masanin kimiyya kuma mai bincike wanda ya buga fiye da 48 takardun likita da littafi guda uku, *Vitamin C*. A lokacin asibitinsa da aikin koyarwa, ya ƙware a likitan mata da mata. Bayan ya yi ritaya a 1991 ya ba da lokacinsa don bincike da buga takardu kan cutar Barlow (scurvy a jarirai), yana tunanin hakan ya zama sanadin girgizar jariri.

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haifi Clemetson a Canterbury, Ingila, yana halartar makarantar share fagen Kotun Wootton, Wootton, Kent (1930 – 1935) da Makarantar King, Canterbury (1935 – 1942). Bayan karatun farko a Kwalejin Magdalen, Jami'ar Oxford, ya kammala horar da shi a Radcliffe Infirmary, ya kammala karatunsa a Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Jami'ar Oxford a 1948 tare da Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (BM, B.Ch).

Ya auri Helen Cowan Forster, ma'aikaciyar lafiyar jiki, a ranar 29 ga Maris 1947. Sun haifi 'ya'ya hudu. 

Bayan kammala karatunsa, ya zama jami'in likitanci na Royal Air Force na tsawon shekaru biyu, sannan ya koma Jami'ar Oxford a 1950 don yin digiri na biyu. A cikin 1950, a matsayin mataimaki na bincike a cikin Obstetrics, ya fara bibiyar bincike kan toxaemia na preeclamptic kuma ya fara buga takaddun likita a 1953. A cikin 1952, an ba shi suna a Nichols Research Fellow na Royal Society of Medicine. Daga 1952 zuwa 1956, ya yi aiki a asibitoci daban-daban a Ingila a matsayin Likitan gidan na ko dai obstetrics ko gynecology kuma, a cikin 1956, ya zama malami a fannin ilimin mata da mata a Jami'ar London.

Clemetson ya yi hijira zuwa Saskatoon, Kanada (1958-1961), ya zama mataimakin farfesa a fannin ilimin mata da mata a Jami'ar Saskatoon. A wannan lokacin, ya fara sha'awar bitamin C yayin da yake tafiya zuwa Rankin Inlet, Nunavut akan Hudson Bay. Klemetson ya burge Clemetson da kyakkyawan ƙarfin jikin Inuit na gida kuma ya ɗauka cewa hakan ya kasance saboda ɗanyen kifi a cikin abincinsu.

Bayan haka, a cikin 1961, ya koma California kuma ya ɗauki matsayi a matsayin mataimakin farfesa a fannin ilimin mata da mata a Jami'ar California, Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta San Francisco, kuma malami a Sashen Kula da Lafiyar Mata da Yara a Jami'ar California, Berkeley. 

A cikin 1967, ya ɗauki matsayin koyarwa (1967-1972) a matsayin mataimakin farfesa a fannin ilimin mata da mata tare da Jami'ar Jihar New York, Brooklyn . Ya kuma zama Darakta na Ma'aikatar Lafiya ta Mata da Gynecology (1967-1981) a Asibitin Methodist na Brooklyn, New York. Bugu da kari (1972 – 1981), ya yi aiki a matsayin farfesa a Sashen Kula da Cututtuka da Gynecology a Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Downstate na Jami’ar Jihar New York, Brooklyn, New York.

Clemetson ya koma New Orleans, Louisiana a 1981, kuma ya zama farfesa a fannin ilimin likitancin mata a Jami'ar Tulane ta Makarantar Magungunan Magunguna, da kuma Daraktan Kula da Ciwon Jiki da Gynecology a Huey P. Long Medical Center, Pineville, Louisiana . Ya kuma zama mai ba da shawara a Gynecology don Sashen tiyata, Asibitin Gudanar da Tsohon Sojoji, Pineville, Louisiana.

Bayan ya yi ritaya a cikin 1991 a matsayin Farfesa Emeritus, Makarantar Magunguna ta Jami'ar Tulane, Clemetson ya sadaukar da sauran shekarunsa don rubutawa da buga takardun likita game da ciwon jariri mai girgiza .

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