John Freeman Loutit

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Professor Pat Mollison: Yes. It has already been pointed out that one of the first labs in this country working on blood groups was the Galton Laboratory Serum Unit set up by R A Fisher with Rockefeller money in In 1937, by a lucky chance, Rob Race, a young pathologist destined to become a great figure in blood grouping, was appointed to help G L Taylor. They worked for the first few years only on ABO and MN, 9 which were (apart from P) the only blood group systems known at the time, although from the early 1940s they started on Rh and I will say a word about that in a moment. Meanwhile, in 1940, there were four London transfusion centres, 10 and the one I worked at, which was at Sutton, was extremely interested in blood groups. People working there did some very useful work on dangerous universal donors. 11 We had a very bright physician, John Loutit from Australia who, with others, carried out very interesting experimental work in human subjects. It would be quite impossible to do that now, of course; very little was done in the way of getting permission.