Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E002078 - Hacon, Edward Dennis (1819 - 1902)
Title:
Hacon, Edward Dennis (1819 - 1902)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E002078
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-03-22
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Hacon, Edward Dennis (1819 - 1902), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Hacon, Edward Dennis
Date of Birth:
1819
Date of Death:
1902
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS July 3rd 1840
FRCS August 16th 1849
LSA 1840
Details:
After being Resident Medical Officer at the Stoke Newington Dispensary, practised at 269 Mare Street, Hackney, in partnership with Francis Toulmin (qv) and Frederick Toulmin, MRCS, under the names of Toulmin Brothers, and Toulmin and Hacon. He was Surgeon to the 1st (King's Own) Light Infantry Regiment of the Tower Hamlets Militia; to the Refuge for the Destitute, Dalston; to the Elizabeth Fry Refuge, Hackney; and later to the Stoke Newington and Clapton Dispensary and to the Industrial School, Homerton; also to the Spurstowe Almshouses, Hackney, and Wood's Almshouses, Clapton. He continued to live in Mare Street until his death on November 21st, 1902. He presented to the Museum of the College the specimen No 2,715. It is described in the *Transactions of the Pathological Society* (xv, 113) as 40 in of bowel passed after an intussusception, The patient died of bronchitis sixteen years afterwards.
Sources:
D'Arcy Powers *Hunterian Lectures on Intussusception*, London, 1898, 23, 24
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/E002000-E002999/E002000-E002099
Media Type:
Unknown
