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E004331 - Lambrinudi, Constantine (1889 - 1943)
Title:
Lambrinudi, Constantine (1889 - 1943)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
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RCS: E004331
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London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-07-31
Description:
Obituary for Lambrinudi, Constantine (1889 - 1943), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Lambrinudi, Constantine
Date of Birth:
19 November 1889
Place of Birth:
Lodnon
Date of Death:
21 April 1943
Place of Death:
Mayfield, Sussex
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Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 30 July 1914

FRCS 9 June 1921

BA Cambridge 1910

LRCP 1914
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Born in London on 19 November 1889, the fourth child and third son of Leonidas Lambrinudi, originally of Smyrna, a stockbroker, and his wife, *née* Sechiari. He was educated privately and at Christ's College, Cambridge, and entered Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1910. He interrupted his medical studies to serve in a Red Cross unit, as an unqualified doctor, during the Greco-Bulgar war of 1912-13; returned to England and qualified in 1914, but in 1915 joined the Venizelist army; later he became a medical officer in the British Royal Air Force. Returning to Guy's he served successively as assistant house surgeon to C H Fagge, out-patient officer, and house surgeon to Alfred Fripp. He was also demonstrator of physiology in the Medical School. He then served as surgical registrar at the Royal Free Hospital. His interest had now definitely turned to orthopaedics and in 1923 he became chief clinical assistant and orthopaedic registrar at Guy's, was appointed assistant orthopaedic surgeon in 1928, and in 1934 succeeded W H Trethowan as orthopaedic surgeon. He was also consulting orthopaedic surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital at Carshalton. Lambrinudi took an active part in professional societies; served as president of the section of orthopaedics at the Royal Society of Medicine 1941, was a Fellow of the Hunterian Society, and for many years a councillor of the British Orthopaedic Association. He married twice: (1) in 1922 Elizabeth van Maasdyk, by whom he had a daughter, and (2) in 1929, Aletta Reinders, who survived him with a son. He was never a strong man and had a severe illness in his early forties, but continued actively at work for ten years, though suffering from intermittent claudication and angina. He died in his sleep without premonition on 21 April 1943, aged 53, at The Oast Cottage, Mayfield, Sussex, and was buried at Tidebrook on Good Friday, 23 April 1943. A memorial service was held at Guy's Hospital Chapel on 28 April. He had practised at 78 Portland Place and latterly at 55 Wimpole Street. Lambrinudi was a physiologist at heart and interested in the correction of errors of function. He was also much concerned with post-operative treatment and the welfare of his patients; he attached much importance to this aspect of the work of hospital almoners and instituted the employment of visiting masseuses in connexion with hospital practice. He studied foot-strain in the army, and the "hygiene of the tramp to work". His political views and sympathies were, as he said, "fully on the left". He devised a new drop-foot operation; and an operation for elevated first metatarsal in combination with hallux rigidus, and treated claw-toes by arthrodesis. He also was the first to point out the connexion between short hamstrings and adolescent kyphosis. Lambrinudi was a man of great intellectual alertness, cultivation, and strength of character. He read good literature for his recreation, and was endowed with insight, humour, and kindliness. His ideas were too fluid to allow him to teach students well, but he was a first-rate trainer of orthopaedic surgeons. He went through a full operating list and held a large clinic on the last day of his life. Publications: New operation for drop-foot [arthrodesis of the subastragaloid]. *Brit J Surg* 1927-28, 15, 193. An operation for claw-toes. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1927-28, 21, 239. Use and abuse of toes. *Postgrad med J* 1932, 8, 459. Method of correcting equinus and calcaneus deformities at the subastragaloid joint. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1933, 26, 788. Adolescent and senile kyphosis, Opening discussion at the section of orthopaedica at the British Medical Association's annual meeting at Bournemouth. *Brit med J* 1934, 2, 270 and 800. Fractures near the angle joint. *Clin J* 1934, 63, 439. Deformities of the toes. *Clin J* 1935, 64, 57. Fractures of the spine. *Clin J* 1936, 65, 265-277. Plastic operation for congenital absence of thumb. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1938, 31, 181. Injuries to both semilunar cartilages of the knee-joint. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1939, 32, 635. Intramedullary Kirschner wires in treatment of fractures. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1940, 33, 153. The role of orthopaedics in medical education, presidential address to the section of orthopaedics, RSM 1941. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1942, 35, 211. Painful feet. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1942, 36, 47. The foot problem. *Chiropodist*, March 1943. Report of work in the orthopaedic department of Guy's Hospital, with T T Stamm. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1939, 89, 184. J H Mayer, Colles's fracture. *Brit J Surg* 1940, 27, 629, publishes Lambrinudi's views on the treatment of this condition. The mechanism of the spine in pregnancy, read before the British Orthopaedic Association, October 1934, posthumously published. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1943, 92, 50. W W Gilford, R H Bolton, and C Lambrinudi. The mechanism of the wrist joint with special reference to fractures of the scaphoid. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1943, 92, 52-59. "Although this paper was written after Lambrinudi's death, his name has been included as a co-author, in recognition of the fact that the outline of this problem and its solution was first suggested by him."
Sources:
*Lancet*, 1943, 1, 601, with portrait

*Brit med J* 1943, 1, 617, and p 650, eulogy by Sir Arthur Hurst, DM

*Guy's Hosp Gaz* 1943, 57, 116, personal eulogies

*Guy's Hosp Rep* 1943, 92, 45-49, with portrait, critique of his surgical work by T T Stamm, FRCS

Information given by Mrs Aletta Lambrinudi
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