David Jacob Aaron Chowry-Muthu

David Jacob Aaron Chowry Muthu was born in 1864 in India. He went to England to qualify in medicine and was, by the 1890s, got MD and MRCS.

Chowry-Muthu had established the Hill Grove sanatorium at Mendip Hills, Somerset, England in the 1910s.

In 1928, he established 12-bed sanatorium hospitals on 250 acres of land in Tambaram, Chennai, India. This was the first sanatorium hospital in India.

Following his wife's death in 1930, he requested the government to acquire the sanatorium and moved back to England.

Works
His notable medical books / journals include: