Barker, Walter Goodyear (1818 - 1868)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E000758 - Barker, Walter Goodyear (1818 - 1868)

Title
Barker, Walter Goodyear (1818 - 1868)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E000758

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2009-11-11

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Barker, Walter Goodyear (1818 - 1868), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Barker, Walter Goodyear

Date of Birth
1818

Date of Death
24 March 1868

Place of Death
Worthing

Occupation
General surgeon

Titles/Qualifications
MRCS October 25th 1839
 
FRCS December 7th 1849
 
LSA 1839

Details
Educated at the London Hospital. Practised at Worthing, where he was Medical Officer to the Infirmary and did much to bring the place into repute as a health resort. He was a Fellow of the British Meteorological Society. He lived at 18 The Steyne, Worthing, and died there on March 24th, 1868. Publications: “On the Climate of Worthing and its Remedial Influence in Disease, especially of the Lungs.” – *Proc. Med.-Chir. Soc.*, 1860, iii, 251. He subsequently expanded this paper into: *On the Climate of Worthing: its Remedial Influence in Disease, Especially of the Lungs*, 12mo, London, 1860; 2nd ed., 1867. *On Diseases of the Respiratory Passages and Lungs, Sporadic and Epidemic. Their Causes, Pathology, Symptoms, and Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1866. “Comparative Temperature of Greenwich, Worthing, and South Devon,” 1858. “Meteorology of Worthing” contributed to the Meteorological Society. Contributions to the Quarterly Reports of the Registrar General from 1851-1865. Various Letters on the Climate and Sanitary Conditions of Worthing.

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/E000000-E000999/E000700-E000799

URL for File
372941

Media Type
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