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First Title value, for Searching Juler, Frank Anderson (1880 - 1880)

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Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 22 August 1880 the only son of Henry Edward Juler FRCS, senior ophthalmic surgeon to St Mary's Hospital, and Amy Anderson his wife, he was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part 1 in 1901. He entered St Mary's Hospital medical school with a University scholarship, and in due course was elected to the staff, becoming ultimately consulting ophthalmic surgeon. He received his special training at Moorfields, and afterwards became surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. He was also ophthalmic surgeon to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital for Children, Shadwell, the London Lock Hospital, the Hospital of St Luke for the Clergy, St John's School, Leatherhead, and the Royal Society of Musicians. During the first world war he served under Sir William Lister at Étaples in France as a Captain RAMC, and at the beginning of the second war went to France again (1939-40) as consulting ophthalmologist to the British Army, with the rank of Colonel. In 1936 he had been appointed surgeon-oculist to the household of George VI on the King's accession, a post to which he was re-appointed by the Queen on her accession in 1952. He was created a Companion of the Royal Victorian Order in 1947. Juler took an active part in many professional societies and was a frequent contributor to the specialist journals. He was President of the Ophthalmology section of the Royal Society of Medicine 1942-44, Vice-President of the Faculty of Ophthalmology 1946-47, and President of the Ophthalmological Society 1948-50. He was treasurer of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund for many years up till 1961. Juler was christened "Franklin" but adopted the briefer form of the name. He married Mabel, daughter of Stanes Chamberlayne of Witherley Hall, Atherstone. He practised at 96 Harley Street, and lived latterly at 36 Harley House, where he died on 7 February 1962 aged 81. He was survived by his wife, their son Dr Humphrey Juler, and their four daughters; his elder daughter married Dr W D W Brooks FRCP, physician to St Mary's. He was a keen golfer, and used to organise the annual St Mary's golf tournament. Publications: Congenital total colour-blindness. *Ophthal Rev* 1910, 29, 65-71. Acute purulent keratitis in exophthalmic goitre, treated by tarsorrhaphy. *Trans Ophthal Soc* 1913, 33, 58-66. Treatment of intraocular foreign bodies at a base hospital in France, with H P Gibb and R Foster Moore. *Brit J Ophthal* 1918, 2, 564-571. Amblyopia from disuse. *Trans Ophthal Soc* 1921, 41, 129-139. A congenital anomaly of the optic nerve, with Ida C Mann. *Trans Ophthal Soc* 1922, 42, 87-101. Retinal haemorrhage in the newborn. *Trans Ophthal Soc* 1926, 46, 42-52. Some cases of damage to Descemet's endothelium. *Trans Ophthal Soc* 1930, 118-127. Hypotony after sclero-corneal trephining. *Trans Ophthal Soc* 1939, 59, 253-263. Heparin in thrombosis of the central retinal vein, with A StG Huggett. *Trans Ophthal Soc* 1942, 62, 123-134. Some points in the operation for acute glaucoma, and some reflections on refraction. (Presidential address.) *Trans Ophthal Soc* 1949, 69, 3-15.
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First Title value, for Searching Juler, Henry Edward (1842 - 1921)

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Publication Date 2012-05-31
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in Suffolk, the son of Dr H C Juler, a local practitioner of Huguenot descent. He received his professional training at St Mary's Hospital, where he was successively Demonstrator of Anatomy (1877), Medical Registrar, and Medical Superintendent, and was for a time in general practice with John Rowland Gibson (qv), Medical Officer to Newgate Prison. He also went through a course of post-graduate study in Paris and Berlin. Deciding to devote himself to ophthalmology, he was appointed Clinical Assistant to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and at the same time started practice in Wimpole Street. He was appointed, as Pathologist, to the staff of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, where there was abundant clinical material but no systematic teaching; he set himself with his customary energy to remedy this, and with the assistance of his colleagues laid the foundation of a successful school of ophthalmology. In 1884 he rejoined St Mary's Hospital as assistant to Sir Anderson Critchett and was responsible for the whole of the out-patient work and teaching of the hospital. When Sir Anderson Critchett retired in 1901 Juler became Senior Ophthalmic Surgeon to the hospital and Lecturer on Ophthalmology in the School, and the subordinate post in which he had served for more than twenty years was formally recognized by the creation of an Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeoncy. As Senior Ophthalmic Surgeon Juler continued to work assiduously, both in the Outpatient Department and in the wards. His kindliness made him a delightful colleague and teacher, and generation after generation of students came to regard him as a friend. Juler earned his reputation mainly as a clinician. With John Griffiths, he demonstrated the presence of the dilator fibres in the iris. He was deeply interested in the pathology of the eye, and many of the specimens prepared by him are in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was for a long time Ophthalmic Surgeon at the London Lock Hospital, and the experience gained there was embodied by him in his lectures on the syphilitic diseases of the eye and its appendages. He was President of the Harveian Society in 1899 as well as being Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society, and held office as Secretary, Vice-President, and President of the Ophthalmological Sections of the British Medical Association in the meetings at Birmingham (1890), Bristol (1894), and Swansea (1903) respectively. In private life he was hospitable and a keen horseman, motorist, and golfer. He was a man of untiring energy and enthusiasm, both in his work and in his recreation. He was a familiar equestrian figure in Hyde Park in the early mornings, educating his children in horsemanship. He rode fearlessly, not without occasional accidents, and his cheeriness of disposition carried others with him in sports and pastimes. His operative skill and dexterity were accompanied by a sympathetic consideration for the patient's trouble which made him very popular as a consultant. Early in the European War he lost his younger son, George C Juler, Lieutenant, 5th Lancers, who was in the first Expeditionary Force (1914). He had resigned his hospital appointments previously to this loss, but returned to work at the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital in the time of stress. During the last two years of his life, when he suffered from increasing deafness, he had gradually been retiring from practice in favour of his elder son, Franklin Anderson Juler, who succeeded him as Ophthalmic Surgeon at St Mary's Hospital. He married in 1879 Amy, second daughter of W J Anderson, a merchant of Cape Town and London. He died after a long illness at 17 Alexandra Court, Queen's Gate, W, on April 23rd, 1921, and was cremated at Golder's Green. He was survived by his widow, son, and three daughters. He had practised at 24 Cavendish Square, his private residence having been Harcourt House, 23 Cavendish Square, and his retirement had been spent at Westcliff Mansions, Eastbourne. His portrait, dated 1896, is in the College Collection. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Mary's and the Lock Hospitals. Publications:- *A Handbook of Ophthalmic Science and Practice*, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1884; 3rd ed, 1904. This was one of the standard works on ophthalmology of its time. It is a well written and careful compendium, with many illustrations. A pirated edition, published at Philadelphia in 1898, was not credited to his authorship, and the only acknowledgement he had of it was a beautifully bound gilt-edged copy. "Notes on Ophthalmic Surgery" in Keetley's *Index of Surgery*. "Retinoscopy as a Means of Diagnosis and Correction of Errors of Refraction." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1882, ii, 670. "Contribution to the Anatomy and Physiology of the Iris." - *Trans Eighth Internat Ophthalmol Congress*, 1894. "Syphilitic Affections of the Eye and its Appendages," Harveian Lectures, *Lancet*, 1897, ii, 1511, etc. Articles in *Ophthalmol Soc Trans* (1883, iii, *et seq*).
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First Title value, for Searching Tillaux, Paul Jules (1834 - 1904)

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Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Aulnay-sur-Odon, Calvados, in December, 1834. He began his medical studies at Caen, where he was Prosector of Anatomy and Interne at the Hôtel Dieu. He completed his studies in Paris, where in 1857 he gained in competition the post of Interne des Hôpitaux, becoming Prosector in four years' time. In 1863 he became Surgeon to the Bureau Central, the first step in the ladder of the surgical hierarchy. In 1866 he won for himself the position of Professeur-Agrégé of Surgery with a dissertation on the surgical affections of the nerves. In 1868 he became Directeur des Travaux Anatomiques, and began to lecture on anatomy and to give instruction in operative surgery. In 1878 he was appointed Surgeon to the Beaujon Hospital, and in 1879 was elected a Member of the Académie de Médecine, of which he was President at the time of his death. In 1886 he was transferred from the Beaujon to the surgical staff of the Hotel-Dieu, and succeeded Duplay in 1890 as Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Charite. In 1892 he was promoted to be Officier of the Legion of Honour, and eventually in 1904 became Grand Officier. On July 25th, 1900, he was elected Hon FRCS at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was President of the Académie de Médecine in 1904, until he died on October 20th, 1904. His portrait is in the Hon Fellows' Album. By his will he made large bequests to the Medical Association of the Department of the Seine and to other professional bodies, and left £20,000 to the French fund for pensions to working men. Publications: *Des Affections chirurgicales des Nerfs*, 4th, Paris, 1866. This was one of his agregation theses. *Traité de Chirurgie Clinique*, 2 vols., 8vo, illustrated, Paris, 1887-9; 4th ed, 1897. *Train d'Anatotnie topographique, avec Applications à la Chirurgie*, 8vo, illustrated, Paris, 1877; 10th ed, 1900. *Recherches cliniques et expérimentales sur les Fractures malléolaires*, 1872. *Recherches expérimentales sur le Mécanisme de la Production des Luxations coxofémorales en arrière*. This important monograph, published in 1878, embodied the results of Ollier's experimental and clinical researches. *Leçons de Clinique chirurgicale rédigées et publiées par...Paul Thiéry*, 8vo, Paris, 1895.
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First Title value, for Searching Rey, Charles Humphrey Jules (1915 - 2010)

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Publication Date 2010-06-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Charles Humphrey Jules Rey was a general surgeon in Guernsey. He was born on 15 August 1915, in Bognor Regis, into a family of French origins. His father, Jules Frederick Rey, was a general practitioner. His mother was Bertha Maud née Bevan. He was sent as a boarder to his preparatory school and from then to Harrow as an entrance scholar. He enjoyed his schooldays and was a regular visitor to anniversary dinners. During his time there a petition allegedly signed by 400 boys called for a reduction in the excessive number of parades. This aroused considerable press coverage, not least in Germany. A question was asked in Parliament, and Eton offered to send a platoon to restore order. He went on to Guy’s Hospital in 1933, where he was noted for his elegant morning dress and carnation, and qualified in 1939. After house jobs at Guy’s, he joined the RAMC. He served at first with a searchlight unit and was then posted to Burma. There he rose to the rank of major, serving as a surgeon in casualty clearing stations and military hospitals, but he also took on the responsibility of a deputy assistant director of medical services, arranging for the evacuation of some 180,000 casualties in 21 months. Years later, while waiting to receive the Burma Star in Guernsey, he found himself sitting next to a soldier whose life he had saved from a gunshot wound in the shoulder. On demobilisation, he decided to specialise, completed registrar jobs at Guy’s and in other hospitals, and passed the FRCS in 1952. During this time he made friends with Jim Dickson, another Guy’s man, who had gone to Guernsey. He told Charles of an impending vacancy in the practice of Bostock and Webber, and there Rey moved in 1957. He worked closely with Dickson to provide a surgical service, but was also on call for general practice, the police doctor rota and became the divisional surgeon of the Guernsey division of St John Ambulance Brigade. He played a major part in planning the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. He was exceptionally courteous, dignified and self-disciplined. He made his calls in a Rolls-Royce and a three-piece suit. He married Thelma, who had studied at the same college of art as his sister. They had no children. He kept fit by a daily swim, which he continued even after undergoing cardiac surgery. He died at the age of 94 on 16 January 2010 from a lung abscess.
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First Title value, for Searching Tree, Mark (1898 - 1984)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Mark Treisman, the son of Wolfe Treisman, an outfitter, and of Esther (née Davis) was born in London on 10 May 1898. His paternal grandparents and several generations of his family were farmers in Lithuania until Jews were forbidden to own land there. He later changed his name to Tree and states that a cousin Herman Treissman, FRCS, was an ophthalmologist who died in 1963, although this is not recorded in *Lives of the Fellows*, Vol 4, p.412. He was educated at the Central Foundation School, Whitechapel, before entering London Hospital Medical College where he won the Sutton Pathology Prize in 1920. He recorded his indebtedness to Frank Juler, AM Levy and RJ McNeill Love. He was house physician at the Brompton Hospital and then clinical assistant to Moorfields and the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital where he won the Archer Prize in 1934. He also served as house surgeon to the Oxford Eye Hospital and as senior surgical registrar at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital before becoming consultant ophthalmologist to the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board. He was also ophthalmologist to the Birmingham schools for the partially sighted, and to the Birmingham Education Committee. In 1939 he married Ann Cowen whose family included many doctors, but there is no record of them having any children. He published important papers on eye defects in partially sighted children, and on familial hyaline dystrophy. Outside his professional work he was interested in art, antiques and gardening. There is no record of his date and place of death but he was listed as deceased in the General Medical Council's list of 2 January 1985.
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First Title value, for Searching Bridgeman, Hon Geoffrey John Orlando (1898 - 1974)

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Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The Hon Geoffrey John Orlando Bridgeman, the second son of the first Viscount Bridgeman, was born on 3 July 1898 at 39 Harley Street, London. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College Cambridge, and served in the Royal Field Artillery during the first world war, and was awarded the MC in 1918. He qualified in medicine from St George's Hospital in 1926, took the MB BCh two years later, and became FRCS in 1933. After working as chief clinical assistant at Moorfields and ophthalmic surgeon to the East Ham Memorial Hospital he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to St George's and to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. During the second world war he served as a Brigadier in the RAMC as consulting ophthalmologist India Command. He served his teaching hospital, St George's, most loyally and devotedly, as he also did the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. At Moorfields he worked in Frank Juler's clinic and was deeply grateful to him, and under the stimulation of Keith Lyle he developed a lively interest in orthoptic work. In middle and later life he was increasingly handicapped by deafness, so that in recent years he was seldom seen at congresses. In his retirement he was a keen gardener, but some years before he died determined efforts to clear some rough ground put him out of action for many weeks. He was a devoted husband and father, a loyal and respected colleague, and a modest man who never tired of trying to help other people. Geoffrey Bridgeman made many lasting friendships at Eton and took a prominent part in games. At Trinity College he was awarded a classical exhibition. When he entered Trinity he decided to read medicine and for a time had strong leanings towards medical missionary work. Throughout his life he was a deeply religious man and in 1919 he married Mary Talbot, a staunch churchwoman. They had one son and two daughters. He died on 15 October 1974 at the age of 76.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibb, Harold Pace (1878 - 1955)

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Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in 1878 son of James Gibb, M P for Harrow, he was educated at St Paul's School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he took first class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, in 1900. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he served as house surgeon to (Sir) D'Arcy Power. He then was house physician at the Brompton Hospital and for two years at the National Hospital for Paralysis and Nervous Diseases. It was at this period that he collaborated with F E Batten in producing an important study of Myotonia atrophica, which was published in * Brain* 1909. Gibb had by now decided to specialise as an ophthalmic surgeon, and was elected to the staff of the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital; he also became ophthalmic surgeon to the West London Hospital and the Victoria Hospital for Children in Chelsea. Thoroughly altruistic, Gibb cared little for private practice and devoted himself whole-heartedly to his work on the honorary staff of his hospitals. When war broke out in 1914 he tried to enlist as a combatant, but was subsequently commissioned as a temporary Captain in the RAMC. He served in Mesopotamia under Sir Victor Horsley, whom he had known at the National Hospital, and attended Horsley's funeral there. Later he was appointed an ophthalmic specialist with Frank Juler at No 24 General Hospital, Etaples, France. After the war he resumed his London practice at 53 Harley Street and his hospital appointments. He retired just before the beginning of the second world ward, but returned to his duties at the Central London Ophthalmic hospital from 1939 to 1945. He then retired to his house at Gerrard's Cross, Bucks, where he died on 21 November 19555 aged 77. Gibb was a brilliant but diffident man, with a flair for playing ball games. At Cambridge he played cricket for his college, as he had for his school; in later life he was an excellent golfer with a beautiful style. He was an omnivorous reader and painted in water colours. He was admired and liked by all who worked with him.
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First Title value, for Searching Frost, William Adams (1853 - 1935)

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Publication Date 2013-06-26
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at 47 Ladbroke Square, Notting Hill, London, on 10 March 1853, the third son and third child of Charles Maynard Frost, FRCS and his wife, wife *née* Adams. He was educated at Kensington Grammar School and entered St George's Hospital in 1872. Here he was a successful student and was prizeman in 1874. He served as house surgeon at the North Staffordshire Infirmary, and then returned to St George's Hospital, where he was house surgeon and demonstrator of anatomy. Having determined to practise as an ophthalmic surgeon he became a clinical assistant at Moorfields and ophthalmic registrar at St George's Hospital. In 1881 he was elected assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital, his senior being R Brudenell Carter, and was surgeon from 1892 until his retirement in 1906. He was the first ophthalmic surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea, and held office from 1887 until 1890, when he was succeeded by T Holmes Spicer. He won the Middlemore prize of the British Medical Association in 1882 and again in 1886, was honorary librarian of the Ophthalmological Society, and was lecturer on ophthalmic surgery at St George's Hospital. His health failed in 1906, he suffered from glaucoma and retired to Forest Row, Sussex. On the occasion of his retirement he was made consulting ophthalmic surgeon to St George's Hospital and to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, where he had for some years acted as surgeon. He married Minnie D Anderson on 8 January 1881, who survived him but without children. Mrs Frost's sister, Amy, married H E Juler, FRCS in 1879. Frost died 25 October 1935 at 5 Lansdowne Crescent, London, W. He left, subject to his wife's life interest, £200 each to Epsom College and the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, £100 each to the Hostel of St Luke, the Invalid Children's Aid Association, and the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and the ultimate residue as to two-thirds to St George's Hospital, and one-third to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. Publications:- *The Fundus Oculi, with an ophthalmoscopic Atlas illustrating the physiological and pathological conditions*. Edinburgh, 1896. The atlas is a magnificent piece of work, in the production of which he had the assistance of A W Head. *An artificial Eye, with some practical suggestions as to its use.* London, no date. *An enlarged model of an eye, upon which students could practise the use of the ophthalmoscope*. *Ophthalmic Surgery*, with R Brudenell Carter, FRCS London, 1887; Philadelphia, 1888. *The Jenner centenary, an inaugural address at St George's Hospital*. London, 1896.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, John (1866 - 1901)

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Publication Date 2012-02-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Aston, Oxfordshire, in May, 1866, the son of the Rev George Sandham Griffith, who at a later date became Rector of Ardley, Bicester. John Griffith was educated at Royse's School, Abingdon, and under Dr Grove at St Ives, Huntingdonshire. In 1884 he began his medical training at St Mary's Hospital, where he was Scholar in Pathology in 1888 and won the Prize in Ophthalmology in 1889. His career had been determined as it were by accident. An intimate friend at St Mary's was working for the Clinical Ophthalmic Assistantship, and suggested to Griffith that he too should compete. Griffith did so accordingly, beat his friend at the examination, and obtained the post, which he held at the time of his death, when he was Senior Clinical Ophthalmic Assistant. He was also appointed Clinical Assistant and Pathologist at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and later was elected Assistant Surgeon, and then full Surgeon as well as Lecturer. Here his clinic was largely attended by enthusiastic students and practitioners. Shortly before his final breakdown in health he was appointed Lecturer at Jonathan Hutchinson's Policlinic. For the last ten years of his life he had worked regularly at the histology of the eye, and had made a large collection of microscopic slides. One process of great value which he introduced about the year 1893 was the use of euchlorine as a bleaching agent for the removal of pigment from the uveal tract. His efficiency in minute anatomy and pathology gave him a good position in the Ophthalmological Society, where he was often elected to serve on pathological sub-committees of reference. At St Mary's he proved an excellent, kindly, and inspiring teacher, to whose enthusiasm many students owed their early interest in ophthalmology. For the last five years of his life he assisted Anderson Critchett and Henry Edward Juler (qv) in their private practices, had made his mark and obtained a large private connection. He died of phthisis on August 25th, 1901, having practised latterly at 16 Harley Street. He was a keen pathologist and brilliant ophthalmologist, and at the time of his death, in addition to the posts above mentioned, he was Curator as well as Surgeon at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Kensington Institute for the Blind; he had also been Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy and Assistant Pathologist and Curator at St Mary's Hospital. Anderson Critchett wrote of him:- "My dear friend and colleague, John Griffith, had such an interesting and attractive personality, and during his too short life had achieved so much work of sterling merit, that his memory must long survive with all who knew him. Before he had finished his student's career he was attracted to the study of ophthalmology, and devoted himself to it with that keen and indomitable energy which was one of his chief characteristics. He was an excellent pathologist, and enriched the museum at St Mary's Hospital with many valuable specimens. His special knowledge in this direction met with early recognition at the Ophthalmological Society. He did not, however, pursue this particular branch of study as an abstract science, but chiefly as a means to acquire knowledge which he could turn to practical advantage in the relief of human suffering. "For the last five years he assisted me in my private practice, where I had the happy experience of his exceptional ability, and it is with deep regret that I now pay this final tribute to a gifted colleague and a loyal friend." Publications: Griffith was joint-author of the chapter on "Refraction of the Eye" in Juler's *Ophthalmic Science and Practice*, 2nd ed, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1893. "Rare Form of Intra-ocular Melanoma." - *Ophthalmol Soc Trans*, 1894, xiv, 160, "Case of Filamentary Keratitis" (with G COWELL). - *Ibid*, xiv, 76. "Iritis a Sequel to Gonorrhoea." - *Ibid*, 1900, xx, 83. This was the latest subject of his study, wherein he maintained the frequency of the disease when compared with its syphilitic variety and laid stress on the length of its incubation period. "Criticism on Recent Views as to the Secretory Function of the Ciliary Body." *Ophthalmic Rev*, 1894, xiii, 247. "Choroidal Sarcoma in Infancy." - *Ibid*, 1895, xiv, 286. "Some Common Diseases of the Eyelids ; their Pathology and Treatment." - *Med Times and Hosp Gaz*, 1896, xxiv, 161, etc. "The Treatment of Idiopathic Ulcers of the Cornea in Children." - *Treatment*, 1897-8, I, 437.
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First Title value, for Searching Paton, Leslie Johnson (1872 - 1943)

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Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation Neurologist Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Edinburgh on 22 August 1872 the second son of James Paton, a Fellow of the Linnean Society and from 1876 curator of the Glasgow Art Galleries and Museum, and of Mary Kesson, his wife. He was educated at the Glasgow High School and University and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar. He took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1893, and taught botany and physiology at Cambridge before beginning his clinical training at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1897, where he was Shuttleworth scholar. He served as house surgeon to Edmund Owen at St Mary's, 1901, and as demonstrator of anatomy in the Hospital's medical school. He also taught physiology under Sir Thomas M Taylor at Wren's coaching school in Powis Square, Bayswater. He had been particularly interested in botany and worked for a time in Sachs' laboratory at Bonn; but he decided to make his career as an ophthalmologist, and after serving as clinical assistant to Marcus Gunn at Moorfields he was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to St Mary's in 1902, the year in which he took the Fellowship, H E Juler being his senior. In 1907 he became ophthalmologist to the National Hospital in Queen Square, where he gained his special experience in neurological ophthalmology in the last years of Hughlings Jackson's work there. From this double specialization he achieved at the same time, 1929-30, the presidency of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and the presidency of the section of neurology at the Royal Society of Medicine, before which he made his presidential address on the classification of optic atrophies. He was also chairman of the Council of British Ophthalmologists. He was secretary in 1909 and president in 1934 of the section of ophthalmology at the British Medical Association's annual meetings. In his earlier years he made several important researches, working with Gordon Holmes on papilloedema and intracranial tumours; and he discovered the syndrome of optic atrophy in one eye with papilloedema in the other, afterwards known as the Foster-Kennedy syndrome (see *Archives of Ophthalmology*, 1942, 28, 704, for admission of Paton's priority). He had also discovered the causative organism of angular conjunctivitis, the Bacillus duplex or Haemophilus diplococcus, but hesitating with Scotch caution to publish prematurely he was anticipated by Victor Morax and Theodor Axenfeld, after whom the organism is usually called the Morax-Axenfeld bacillus. The statement that Paton anticipated Morax and Axenfeld is based on the obituary notices, but as Morax and Axenfeld published their discovery in *Annales d'Oculistique*, 1892, 108, 393, eight years before Paton qualified, his priority is doubtful. Paton exerted a wide influence through the *British Journal of Ophthalmology* of which he was chairman for many years, and also helped in the interbellum decades to resuscitate the International Congress of Ophthalmology, whose successful meetings at Amsterdam 1929, Madrid 1933, and Cairo 1937 owed much to his energy. Although of world-wide reputation he was ever ready to help young workers and took an active interest in current research. He was an excellent and popular teacher, with a soupçon of dogmatism. He retired from St Mary's in 1929 and was elected consulting ophthalmic surgeon and a vice-president of the Hospital. He was elected consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the National Hospital in 1937, in which year he gave the Mackenzie memorial lecture at Glasgow on optic neuritis. He was also ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Caledonian Asylum, to the Royal Scottish Hospital, and to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was an honorary member of the French, Japanese, Hungarian, and Spanish-American ophthalmological societies, the Scottish Ophthalmic Club, and the Royal Medical Society of Budapest, and an honorary Fellow of the American Medical Association, the Association for Research in Ophthalmology, and the International Ophthalmic Council. He had a very large private practice, which he carried on at 29 Harley Street till near the end of his life. In later years he suffered from deafness. Paton married in 1906 Mary, daughter of R R Kirkwood of Glasgow, who survived him with two daughters. He died in London after a long illness on 15 May 1943, aged 71. Leslie Paton was a patriotic Scotsman, with a Scottish accent and many of the best racial characteristics. He was a kind-hearted man with a keen sense of humour, cheerful, encouraging, wise, friendly, and of great knowledge. He was a firm believer in the recuperative value of holidays and regularly took six weeks away from all work each summer. He was a keen fisherman and very fond of golf, which he played chiefly at Elie in Fife and at Virginia Water. There he built himself a house, Scotch Corner, on the Wentworth estate, where he annually entertained the competitors for the Paton cup, which he had presented to St Mary's Hospital Medical School. He was tall and of imposing presence. Publications: Intravitreous haemorrhages, with W E Paramore. *Lancet*, 1905, 2, 1248. Optic neuritis in cerebral tumours. *Trans Ophth Soc UK* 1905, 25, 129-162, and 1908, 28, 112-144. Some abnormalities of ocular movements, with J H Jackson. *Lancet*, 1909, 1, 900. A clinical study of optic neuritis in its relationship to intracranial tumours. *Brain*, 1909, 32, 65-91. The localising value of unequal papilloedema. *Brit med J* 1910, 1, 664. The pathology of papilloedema, with G Holmes. *Brain*, 1911, 33, 389-432. Classification of the optic atrophies. President's address, section of neurology, RSM, 9 October 1930. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1930-31, 24, 25-33. Optic neuritis, retrobulbar and papillary. Mackenzie memorial lecture, 29 October 1937. *Glasg med J* 1937, 128, 245-260.
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Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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