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E000407 - Bloxham, Robert ( - 1858)
Title:
Bloxham, Robert ( - 1858)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000407
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2007-10-18
Description:
Obituary for Bloxham, Robert ( - 1858), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Bloxham, Robert
Date of Death:
1858
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Titles/Qualifications:
Member of the Corporation of Surgeons January 16th 1794

FRCS December 11th 1843, one of the original 300 Fellows
Details:
Practised at Newport, Isle of Wight. He is described as ‘retired’ in 1858, and he probably died in that year. He was associated in his practice with his son, Robert William Bloxham (qv). He reduced the dislocation of the shoulder sustained by Sir Benjamin Brodie (qv), which many years later was followed by the new growth of which he died. The story is told by Sir William White Cooper (qv), who says: “About 1834 whilst staying in an hotel in the Isle of Wight I saw a carriage drive up, from which was lifted out a gentleman covered with mud and evidently in some pain, who was no other than B Brodie. He had been thrown from a pony and was suffering from dislocation of the shoulder. Mr Bloxham, a well-known practitioner of that day and place, came in and together we reduced the dislocation. Sir Benjamin said that he used to think lightly of dislocation of the shoulder, but he never should do so again.” Bloxham’s name occurs in an old notebook in which Brodie has preserved short notices of cases in his private practice which struck him as interesting. In March, 1844, Bloxham consulted Sir Benjamin in consequence of having temporarily lost the power of moving the muscles of one side of his face from having been close to a cannon when it was fired. The accident was exceptional, but it seems not to have entailed any permanent consequence.
Sources:
*Lancet*, 1862, ii, 456

Timothy Holmes’s *Life of Sir Benjamin Brodie* in the Masters of Medicine Series, London, 1897, 197, 198, note
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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