Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
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:
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:
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
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Unknown