Cover image for
Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Metadata
Asset Name:
E001978 - Gibbs, Harry Leeke (1780 - 1858)
Title:
Gibbs, Harry Leeke (1780 - 1858)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E001978
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-02-08
Description:
Obituary for Gibbs, Harry Leeke (1780 - 1858), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Gibbs, Harry Leeke
Date of Birth:
1780
Date of Death:
27 September 1858
Place of Death:
Exeter, Devon, UK
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS June 3rd 1803

FRCS (by election) August 26th 1844

MD Aberdeen 1816

MD and Surgeon St Petersburgh 1820
Details:
Educated at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon in 1802 and 1803. He first practised in London and then went to Russia, where he rose to high honour, being successively Surgeon-in-Chief to the Russian Fleets and Hospitals in the Baltic, Councillor of State, Empire of Russia, Knight of the Order of St Vladimir, 1813, and Knight Commander of St Anne, 1820, and St Vladimir, 1829. During his residence in Russia he published various papers and observations on the cholera when it made its appearance in St Petersburgh during the summer of 1831. He also contributed reports of several surgical cases and operations to periodicals in London and Edinburgh. He died in retirement at his residence, 19 Southernhay Place, Exeter, on September 27th, 1858. Publications: "Account of a Case of Axillary Aneurism, in which the Operation of Tying the Subclavian Artery was Successfully Performed." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1823, xii, 531, communicated by Benjamin Brodie. "Case in which the External Iliac Artery was Tied under Peculiar Circumstances." - *Lond Med and Phys Jour*, 1827, lviii, 97. "Case of Tumour of the Radial or Spiral Nerve of the Right Arm." - *Edin Med and Surg Jour*, 1829, xxxii, 250. Other papers appeared in the foregoing journals and in the *Lond Med Gaz*.
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001900-E001999
Media Type:
Unknown