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E003390 - Shearman, Edward James (1798 - 1878)
Title:
Shearman, Edward James (1798 - 1878)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E003390
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-01-17
Description:
Obituary for Shearman, Edward James (1798 - 1878), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Shearman, Edward James
Date of Birth:
1798
Date of Death:
2 October 1878
Place of Death:
Rotherham
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS February 3rd 1843

FRCS (by election) October 14th 1869

MD Jena 1841

Ext LRCP Lond 1842

MRCP 1869

LSA 1820
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Educated at Edinburgh and St George's Hospital. He was for thirteen years Surgeon to the Rotherham Dispensary and then Physician to Rotherham Hospital, which he was instrumental in founding in 1872, and where he held office till his death, which took place at his residence, Moorgate, Rotherham, on October 2nd, 1878. His portrait, reported to be in the College Collection, has not been found. Publications: *An Essay on the Properties of Animal and Vegetable Life*, 1846. *Retrospective Medical Address on Diseases of the Chest*, read to the British Medical Association, 1848. "The Changes in the Urine effected by Disease, and the Tests to Distinguish them." -*Lancet*, 1845, i, 554. "Two Cases of Albuminuria in the Same House, caused by Drinking Water Con¬taminated with Lead, one ending in Fatal Apoplexy, the other in Universal Anasarca, from whose Skin Large Quantities of Urea were Collected whilst in the Hot-air Bath."- *Practitioner*, 1874, xii, 266, 401. "Series of Cases of Haematuria to such a Quantity as to produce Syncope, without Albumin, Constantly Alternating with Large Deposition of Uric Acid."- *Ibid*, 1875, xiv, 275. "Description of the Rotherham Hospital," 4to, Rotherham, 1877; reprinted from *Lancet*, 1875, i, 579. Numerous papers in *Lancet, Med Times and Gaz*, and other important journals.
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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/E003000-E003999/E003300-E003399
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