Pisani, Lionel John (1862 - 1926)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

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
Medical Obituaries

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
Ophthalmic surgeon

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

URL for File
375141

Media Type
Unknown