Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E005007 - Dobson, Jonathan (1907 - 1958)
Title:
Dobson, Jonathan (1907 - 1958)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005007
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-02-10
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Dobson, Jonathan (1907 - 1958), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Dobson, Jonathan
Date of Birth:
1907
Date of Death:
12 October 1958
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 14 May 1931
FRCS by election 9 April 1953
LRCP 1931
Details:
Born in 1907 he was educated at the University of Manchester. After serving as house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and senior resident at Bootle General Hospital, he travelled twice to the Far East as a ship's surgeon. He joined the Lancashire County Council tuberculosis service in 1934 at Wrightington Hospital, Apley Bridge near Wigan, was made deputy superintendent in 1936, and became surgeon superintendent in 1944. During the twenty-four years of his work at Wrightington, Dobson made valuable contributions to the surgery of tuberculosis and to orthopaedic surgery. He worked in close touch with the Liverpool School of Orthopaedic Surgery and gave regular training courses to their post-graduate students. Dobson died on 12 October 1958 aged 51.
Publications:
Arthrodesis in tuberculosis of the hip. *J Bone Jt Surg* 1948, 30 B, 95.
Prognosis in tuberculosis of the hip. *Ibid* 1951, 33 B, 149.
Tuberculosis of the spine. *Ibid* 1951, 33 B, 517.
Sources:
*J Bone Jt Surg* 1959, 41 B, 204, appreciations by HBA and BLM, with portrait
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/E005000-E005099
Media Type:
Unknown
