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Francis G. (Francis Gilman) Blake
1887–1952
A leading American immunologist and physician, he helped shape modern academic medicine at Yale while advancing research on infectious disease. His career joined careful science with a reputation for humane, steady leadership.
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Epidemic Respiratory Disease The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measles
by Eugene L. (Eugene Lindsay) Opie, Francis G. (Francis Gilman) Blake, Thomas M. (Thomas Milton) Rivers, James C. (James Craig) Small
About the author
Born in Mansfield Valley, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1887, he moved to Massachusetts with his family after his father died in early childhood. He studied at Dartmouth, then earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1913 before building a long career in teaching, research, and hospital medicine.
He became one of Yale's most important medical figures, serving as professor and chairman of internal medicine, physician-in-chief at New Haven Hospital, and later dean of the Yale School of Medicine. He was especially known for work on infectious diseases and immunology, and he also served as president of the American Association of Immunologists in 1934–1935.
Remembered by colleagues as both a skilled scientist and a compassionate doctor, he helped link laboratory research with bedside care at a formative moment in twentieth-century medicine. He died on February 1, 1952.