Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E003354 - Verdon, Henry Walter (1851 - 1924)
Title:
Verdon, Henry Walter (1851 - 1924)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E003354
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-01-09
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Verdon, Henry Walter (1851 - 1924), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Verdon, Henry Walter
Date of Birth:
1851
Date of Death:
25 February 1924
Place of Death:
London
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS July 23rd 1873
FRCS December 14th 1876
LSA 1873
Barrister-at-Law Middle Temple
Details:
Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, in Paris and Brussels. At St Thomas's Hospital he was House Surgeon and Medical Registrar, and then acted as Demonstrator of Anatomy at Westminster Hospital. He also qualified as a barrister. He practised at 410 Brixton Road, and afterwards at 58 Streatham Hill, London, SW, where he directed his attention especially to the subject of angina pectoris, attacks of which, he sought to show, were induced by flatulent distension of the stomach, and for its relief he recommended passing a stomach tube by which the flatus might escape.
He died at Oakfields, 58 Streatham Hill, on February 25th, 1924.
Publications:-
Verdon published a number of papers on the subject of angina pectoris in the *Lancet*, *Brit Med Jour*, and *Heart*.
Sources:
*Med Press and Circ*, 1924, I, 249
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/E003000-E003999/E003300-E003399
Media Type:
Unknown
