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He was born in Glasgow and attended Westminster School and Glasgow University and entered the Army Medical Service. He served in India, where he studied enteric fever and kala azar. He returned to England and was stationed at the Victoria Hospital in Netley in 1897. In 1900 he was made Assistant Professor of Pathology in the Army Medical School, and described a method of staining blood for malaria and other parasites -- a modification and simplification of the existing Romanowsky method using a compound of Methylene Blue and eosin, which became known as Leishman's stain .

In 1901, while examining pathologic specimens of a spleenThe spleen is a ductless, vertebrate gland that is not necessary for life but is closely associated with the circulatory system, where it functions in the destruction of old red blood cells and removal of other debris from the bloodstream, and also in hol from a patient who had died of kala azar he observed oval bodies and published his account of them in 19031903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasn't had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. Events January 1 Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India. Charles Donovan of the Indian Medical Serrvice independently found such bodies in other kala azar patients, and they are now known as Leishman-Donovan bodies , and recognized as the protozoaProtozoa are single- celled creatures with nuclei that show some characteristics usually associated with animals, most notably mobility and heterotrophy. They belong among the eukaryotes, and are often grouped in the kingdom Protista together with the plan which causes kala azar, Leishmania donovani. Synonyms for kala azar now include leishmaniasis.

Leishman also helped elucidate the life cycle of Spirochaeta duttoni, which causes African tick fever , and, with Almroth Wright , helped develop an effective anti- typhoid innoculation.

Leishman is buried in Highgate CemeteryHighgate Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in Highgate, London, England. The cemetery in its original form (the older, Western part) was opened in 1839, part of an initiative to provide seven large, modern cemeteries in a ring round the outside of Lon in LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri.