Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E005405 - Shaw, Ernest Henry (1867 - 1956)
Title:
Shaw, Ernest Henry (1867 - 1956)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005405
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-06-04
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Shaw, Ernest Henry (1867 - 1956), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Shaw, Ernest Henry
Date of Birth:
1867
Date of Death:
26 September 1956
Place of Death:
London
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 27 July 1905
FRCS by election 3 April 1952
LRCP 1905
MRCP 1910
Details:
Born in 1867 he was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was a junior scholar in 1901, and won the Walsham prize and the Lawrence scholarship and gold medal in 1905, the year of his qualification. He served as house surgeon at St Bartholomew's, and was subsequently casualty officer, registrar, and pathologist at the Metropolitan Hospital.
He settled in practice in North London and was pathologist to the Royal Northern Hospital, and the Hornsey, Southgate, and Wood Green hospitals. He died at Fortis Green, N10 on 26 September 1956 aged 89.
Publications:
The immediate microscopic diagnosis of tumours at the time of operation. *Lancet* 1910, 2, 939 and 1923, 1, 218.
Action of radium and x-rays on malignant growth. *Brit med J* 1912, 2, 373.
Carcinoma of the vermiform appendix. *Brit J Surg* 1925, 13, 130.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1956, 2, 950 without memoir
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/E005000-E005999/E005400-E005499
Media Type:
Unknown
