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E003764 - Stewart, Henry Charles (1817 - 1903)
Title:
Stewart, Henry Charles (1817 - 1903)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E003764
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-03-21
Description:
Obituary for Stewart, Henry Charles (1817 - 1903), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Stewart, Henry Charles
Date of Birth:
1817
Date of Death:
24 December 1903
Place of Death:
London
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS July 9th 1841

FRCS May 10th 1860

LSA 1838

LRCP Edin 1859
Details:
Studied at University College, London, and practised at 1 St John's Wood Grove, Grove Road, about 1855; at 42 Grove Road; next at 22 North Bank, Regent's Park ; and finally at 21 Alma Square, Abbey Road, London, NW, where he died on December 24th, 1903. He was for many years Assistant Surgeon to the 1st Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, Medical Referee to the Waterloo Life Assurance Society and to the Prudential Society, also Medical Officer to St Cyprian's Home for Invalid and Incurable Females. He also served as a Vice-President and then as President of the Harveian Society, and read papers there on "Epidemic Diarrhea" in 1857, on "Traumatic Phlebitis of the Femoral Vein" in 1860, on "Diagnosis of Emboli in the Great Vessels of the Heart" in 1865, and other papers. He also described a lancet projected by a spring which he termed 'leech-bite lancet', viz, a triradiate-ended trocar protruded by a spring.
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003700-E003799
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