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E002466 - Lammiman, Cleland ( - 1920)
Title:
Lammiman, Cleland ( - 1920)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E002466
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-06-14

2013-02-01
Description:
Obituary for Lammiman, Cleland ( - 1920), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Lammiman, Cleland
Date of Death:
1 June 1920
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS July 21st 1871

FRCS December 9th 1880

LRCP Lond 1872
Details:
Received his professional training at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was at one time House Physician at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. In the seventies he settled in practice at Tunbridge Wells, and was for a time Senior House Surgeon at the Infirmary as well as Medical Officer at the Dispensary and the Fever Hospital. These institutions later became the Tunbridge Wells General Hospital, the Tunbridge Wells Provident Dispensary, and the Tunbridge Wells Municipal Fever Hospital. He was in partnership with John Johnson, and practised at Cuhorden Grange, St John's Road, and then at Mount Ephraim. He was Hon Secretary to the Tunbridge Wells Medico-Chirurgical Society, and took an active part in the affairs of the Tunbridge Wells Division of the British Medical Association, being Chairman of the Division in 1903-1904 and Vice-Chairman in 1904-1905. After his retirement he lived at Elleray, Crescent Road, and was Consulting Surgeon to the Tunbridge Wells General Hospital, Consulting Surgeon to the Convalescent Home for Children, Frant, and Medical Referee to the British Home for Incurables. He died on June 1st, 1920. Lammiman was a man of ample private means and is remembered in Tunbridge Wells for his hospitality. It has been said that those who passed by his house in Crescent Road could always tell by the pervading scent of sherry in the air that a butt of that wine was in process of being bottled by him. Publications:- Lammiman contributed to the *Lancet* from 1875 onwards, and his publications include:- "Details of Operation of Colectomy." - *Lancet*, 1883, ii, 182. "Two Cases of Fracture of Patella Successfully Treated by Wiring." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1885, ii, 646; 1887, i, 777.
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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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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002400-E002499
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