Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E002958 - Pisani, Lionel John (1862 - 1926)
Title:
Pisani, Lionel John (1862 - 1926)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E002958
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-10-10
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Pisani, Lionel John (1862 - 1926), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Pisani, Lionel John
Date of Birth:
1862
Date of Death:
22 June 1926
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS January 21st 1886
FRCS December 12th 1895
LSA 1886
Details:
Studied at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Llewellyn Scholar, Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy and Physiology, and Clinical Assistant in the Ophthalmological Department. Later he was Chief Clinical Assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital.
He joined the Indian Medical Service, and retired as Lieutenant-Colonel in 1912. He then practised at 49 Wimpole Street as an Ophthalmic Surgeon, and acted as Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital and Ophthalmic Consultant to the Metropolitan Asylums Board. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. He died on June 22nd, 1926.
Publications:-
Pisani wrote on Tropical Diseases, Relapsing Fever, and Guinea-worm, also on ophthalmological subjects, such as "Conditions which may account for the Greater Prevalence of Cataract in India." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1910, ii, 1312.
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/E002000-E002999/E002900-E002999
Media Type:
Unknown
