Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E005589 - Drew, Hedley Vicars (1860 - 1947)
Title:
Drew, Hedley Vicars (1860 - 1947)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005589
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-06-26
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Drew, Hedley Vicars (1860 - 1947), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Drew, Hedley Vicars
Date of Birth:
1860
Date of Death:
1947
Place of Death:
Geraldine, New Zealand
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 19 July 1882
FRCS 12 June 1890
LRCP 1888
Details:
Educated at University College Hospital, he served as a clinical assistant at Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital. Most of his life was spent in practice at Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand, where he was resident surgeon in sole charge of the Timaru Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a Captain in the RAMC, returning afterwards to Timaru. Subsequently he was for some years in the 1920s and 1930s resident medical officer and magistrate in the Chatham Islands, South Pacific. He retired to Geraldine, New Zealand, where he died about 1947.
Publications:
Ovariotomy. *Austral med Gaz* 1887.
Hydatid of the kidney and of the lung, operation, recovery. *NZ med J* 1901. Continuous drainage in spinal meningitis. *Brit med J* 1917, 1, 223.
Intra-spinal pressure in acute diseases. *Brit med J* 1918, 2, 592.
Trephining: five consecutive cases, recovery from compound fracture. *NZ med J* 1926, 25, 14.
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/E005500-E005599
Media Type:
Unknown
