Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E003521 - Wickham, William John (1798 - 1864)
Title:
Wickham, William John (1798 - 1864)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E003521
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-02-06
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Wickham, William John (1798 - 1864), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Wickham, William John
Date of Birth:
1798
Date of Death:
19 January 1864
Place of Death:
Winchester
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS August 2nd 1816
FRCS December 11th 1843, one of the original 300 Fellows
LSA 1816
Details:
The son of a well-known Winchester surgeon; studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals under Cline and Astley Cooper. He then followed his father in practice at Winchester, and from 1827 was Surgeon to the Winchester County Hospital, having as colleagues Henry Giles Lyford (qv) and Charles Mayo (qv). He was a skilful surgeon and published cases - "Distal Ligature of the Subclavian and Carotid for Innominate Aneurysm" (*Med-Chir Trans*, 1840, xxiii, 405); "Hydatids of the Tibia with Removal of Four Inches of the Anterior Part of the Bone"; "Case of Intestinal Calculus".
He was an active secretary of the British Medical Association Branch and was one of the best-known provincial surgeons of his time. He died at Winchester on January 19th, 1864, and a tablet to his memory was placed in Winchester Cathedral.
Publications:-
*A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Joints*, 8vo, Winchester, 1833.
*Retrospect of the Progress of Surgical Literature* (with W Newnham and T Salter), 8vo, London, 1839.
Sources:
*Lancet*, 1864, i, 173. *Brit Med Jour*, 1864, i, 162
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/E003500-E003599
Media Type:
Unknown
