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First Title value, for Searching Wilde, Frank Roland ( - 2012)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-12-22
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Frank Roland Wilde was a senior anatomist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He studied medicine at Manchester University Medical School, qualifying in 1941. Prior to his appointment at Barts, he was a lecturer in anatomy at the Victoria University of Manchester, a surgical registrar at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and a senior lecturer at Barts. He was a member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Frank Roland Wilde died on 12 September 2012.
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First Title value, for Searching McFarlane, Alexander Gerald (1955 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-12-22
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Alexander Gerald McFarlane was a lecturer in anatomy at Edinburgh University Medical School. He was born on 14 October 1955 in London. He studied medicine at Westminster Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1978. Prior to his post at Edinburgh University, he was an orthopaedic registrar at Dundee Royal Infirmary and at the Bridge of Earn Hospital. He gained his FRCS in 1982. In 1994 became a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He also gained diplomas in obstetrics and gynaecology, family planning and community child health. He was a member of the Guild of Catholic Doctors. Alexander Gerald McFarlane died on 6 July 2013, he was 57.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006140
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First Title value, for Searching Wallis, Edward ( - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Vairakiam, Samuel Ariaratnappillai ( - 1922)

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First Title value, for Searching Sinnatamby, Chummy Sundaraja (1934 - 2019)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-01-07
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Professor Chummy Sinnatamby was an anatomist and the long-standing author and editor of Last’s Anatomy. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009909
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First Title value, for Searching Welch, Theodore Phillips (1932 - 2019)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-09-16
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Theodore Phillips Welch was born on 15 October 1932. He studied medicine at London University and University College Hospital Medical School, graduating MB, BS in 1958. He did house jobs at the Royal Northern Hospital in London and Barnet General Hospital before passing the fellowship of the college in 1964. He was appointed consultant in charge of the accident and emergency department at the Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow and also spent time as a lecturer in surgery at Chaingmai University in Northern Thailand. Eventually he became a supervisor in clinical anatomy to Queen’s and Sidney Sussex Colleges, Cambridge and a demonstrator in anatomy to the University of Cambridge. He died on 6 July 2019, aged 86.
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First Title value, for Searching McAlpine, Wallace Arnold (1920 - 2021)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-05-05
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Occupation Anatomist Cardiovascular surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Wallace McAlpine was a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon who worked in Toledo, Ohio. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
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First Title value, for Searching Barnbrook, Douglas Harold (1923 - 2012)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2018-05-24
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Douglas Harold Barnbrook, known as 'Barney', was a consultant general surgeon and professor of anatomy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He studied medicine at Birmingham University, gaining his MRCS LRCP in 1946. He passed his FRCS in 1951 and in the same year emigrated to Halifax, to his post at Dalhousie. He then practised general surgery in Kapuskasing and several surrounding towns in northern Ontario. He later continued his practice in Hamilton at St Joseph's, Chedoke and Joseph Brant hospitals. He also volunteered as a surgeon in Singapore. Later he worked in Toronto for a number of years before retiring. He collected classical music recordings and shared his wife's passion for collecting 18th century porcelain. Douglas Harold Barnbrook died on 24 October 2012 after suffering from dementia with Lewy bodies. He was 89. He was survived by his wife Margarita, his daughter (Nicola) and son (Matthew), four grandchildren and a great-grandson.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008031
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First Title value, for Searching Shanahan, Edward Francis ( - 1974)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10 2018-01-31
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Edward Francis Shanahan studied medicine at the National University of Ireland where he qualified MB BCh BAO in 1944 with first place and first class honours and won the McArdle Medal. He was an associate member of the International Society of Surgeons. He became lecturer in anatomy at University College, Dublin and is assumed to have died in 1974.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006930
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First Title value, for Searching Zimmerman, Jacob ( - 1997)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Jacob Zimmerman qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1943. He was a foundation member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Science and an Hunterian Professor of our College in 1966. He was an assistant Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the New York Medical College, and had been an adjunct in surgery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He was attending surgeon at St Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York, before going to Tel Aviv to be Professor of Anatomy. He published extensively on the relief of mitral stenosis and the fibrous skeleton of the heart. He died in 1997.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009009
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First Title value, for Searching Fuller, Charles Chinner ( - 1902)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-01-25
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Educated at University College, London, and practised at 160 Albany Street and at 29 Albany Street, Regent's Park, NW. He was Surgeon to the North-West London Free Dispensary for Sick Children. Later he was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at the Metropolitan School of Dental Science. At the time of his death he was practising, as he had done for many years, at 10 St Andrew's Place and at 33 Albany Street, and was Hon Surgeon to the Royal Society of Musicians and to Trinity College, London. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical, Obstetrical, and British Gyaecological Societies. He died on November 5th, 1902.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001917
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First Title value, for Searching Alexander, Harold George (1888 - 1958)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Harold George Alexander had a distinguished career in the Indian Medical Service. He was first in the entrance examination following appointments as house surgeon, casualty surgical officer and senior demonstrator of anatomy at Middlesex Hospital. He entered the Indian Medical Service as Lieutenant in July 1915, promoted Captain in July 1916 and Major in August 1926. He served in the first world war and was mentioned in dispatches in 1919. Later he became Professor of Anatomy at King Edward Medical College, Lahore, where he lived until early in the 1950s. On retirement he lived at Northwood Hills, Middlesex, and died on 23 March 1958.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006255
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First Title value, for Searching Marchant, Gladys Helen ( - 1969)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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Occupation Anatomist Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Gladys Helen Marchant trained in India and gained the MB, BS Calcutta in 1916. In 1922 she passed the Conjoint Examination as well as the DOMS. In 1923 she gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She passed the MD Lausanne in 1927, and in 1928 she gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1937 she became a Member and in 1943 a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Gladys Helen Marchant was Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at King George Medical College, Lucknow. She was Professor of Anatomy at Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi. She died on 9 May 1969.
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First Title value, for Searching Ransohoff, Joseph (1853 - 1921)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-17
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born on May 26th, 1853; studied at the College of Ohio, Cincinnati, USA, where he graduated MD in 1874. After becoming FRCS in 1877, he was Professor of Anatomy at Cincinnati from 1879-1881; then of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery from 1891-1902; of the Principles of Surgery from 1902-1905; and of Surgery and Clinical Surgery from 1905 to the time of his death in 1921. He practised at Livingstone Buildings, 7th Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, and was Surgeon to the Cincinnati Good Samaritan and Jewish Hospitals. He wrote voluminously on surgical subjects, and a long bibliography is contained in the Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, Series 1 and 2. He died of heart disease at his home in Cincinnati on March 10th, 1921.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003028
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First Title value, for Searching Yeates, Thomas (1870 - 1962)

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First Title value, for Searching Herlihy, William Francis (1923 - 1953)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation Anatomist Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born in Australia in 1923, he was educated at Sydney University. He qualified in 1945 and held resident posts for two years at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He next held a teaching fellowship in the Anatomy School of the University, taking his doctorate with a thesis on the role of the vertebral veins. He came to England in 1950 and was appointed house surgeon to the Infirmary at Derby; after taking the Fellowship in December 1951, he was promoted orthopaedic registrar. Promise of a distinguished career was cut short by illness. He flew back to his home in Australia, and died there in 1953 at the age of 30.
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First Title value, for Searching Palmer, William John (1826 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Fraser, Ian Urquhart (1926 - 2011)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Margaret Bird
Publication Date 2011-10-06 2012-02-01
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Ian Urquhart Fraser was an anatomy lecturer in London. He was born in Bangkok in 1926. During the Second World War he served in the Army and, in 1945, was based in Germany. Following his demobilisation, he returned to Britain to begin his studies as a medical student at King's College, London. Following the completion of his medical training, Ian obtained his MRCS and LRCP in 1954, and then worked at the American Hospital in Paris between 1956 and 1957. Back in the UK, he took up posts at Basildon and North End Hospital, Hampstead. By 1968 he was working at St Bartholomew's Hospital in West Smithfield and discovered a talent for teaching anatomy to medical students. He devoted the rest of his career to teaching medical students, initially at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and then at Bart's and the London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine following the merger of the basic medical sciences departments at Bart's and the Royal London with Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1990. During this period he often carried out locum work as a GP both in the Barbican and in Chalk Farm. He continued to teach well into his seventies and was considered to be one of the finest teachers of anatomy in the school of medicine. Ian had a wonderful sense of humour and a seemingly endless supply of witty comments and stories. He inspired his students with his command of anatomy coupled with memorable anecdotes, which aided the learning of a detailed and essential subject, thus vastly improving the recall of important anatomical facts. He was a valued colleague and friend who had the capacity to entertain and enliven even the dullest and most tedious meeting. He was immensely well-read and educated, and an enormous loss to the department when he retired. Ian was an intensely private person who, sadly, did not have any immediate family. In 2011 he was taken ill with heart and kidney problems. He was admitted into the Royal London Hospital and then to the cardiology ward at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he subsequently developed pneumonia. He died in hospital on 1 September 2011 at the age of 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Yoffey, Joseph Mendal (1902 - 1994)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-12-24 2017-04-20
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Joseph Mendel Yoffey was a professor of anatomy at the University of Bristol and a pioneering investigator into lymphoid tissues and bone marrow. He was born in Manchester in 1902 into an orthodox Jewish family and was educated at Manchester Grammar School. He went on to study medicine at Manchester University, qualifying in 1924. He continued his studies at Manchester, gaining a BSc in 1926, an MD in 1928 and an MSc in 1929. During this period, he held the Leech research fellowship and a British Medical Association research scholarship. After a year as a house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary, he began his career as an anatomist. He was an assistant lecturer in anatomy at Manchester, then a senior lecturer at University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff. In 1940, he was appointed as professor of anatomy at the University of Bristol and led the department there for the next 27 years. His first publication, in 1929, was on the comparative histology and cellular constituents of the fish spleen. He later focused on the lymphoid system. In 1940s he became interested in the lymphocytes in mammalian bone marrow. He also collaborated with American colleagues. From 1937, he spent two years with C K Drinker at Harvard University, studying the role of nasal lymphatics in the spread of poliomyelitis viruses. They went on to write *Lymphatics, lymph and lymphoid tissue. Their physiological and clinical significance* (Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1941), which became a classic text and was revised twice (with F C Courtice). At the Royal College of Surgeons, he was a Hunterian Professor (in 1933 and 1940), an Arris and Gale lecturer (in 1960) and a recipient of the John Hunter meal (in 1967). He was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Manchester in 1973. He was made an honorary life member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and the American Association of Anatomists. After reaching retirement age in the UK, he settled in Jerusalem, where he became a professor at the Hadassah Medical School. Joseph Mendel Yoffey died in 1994. He was survived by his widow, Betty, their three daughters, Judith, Deborah and Naomi, 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Darling, William (1802 - 1884)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born at Dunse, in Scotland. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and went to America in 1830, where he studied medicine in the University Medical School, New York. Here he took his degree, devoting his time to the study and teaching of anatomy, in which subject he obtained a considerable reputation. He returned to England in 1842, and in 1856 became a member of the College; in 1866, at the age of 64, he passed the examination for the Fellowship. About 1862 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy in the University of New York, and established a fine anatomical collection. He died at New York on Christmas Day, 1884, at the age of 82. His portrait is in the College Collection, but is not identified. Publications:- *Anatomography, or Graphic Anatomy*, fol., London, 1880. *A small Compend of Anatomy*. *Essentials of Anatomy*.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001382
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First Title value, for Searching Linder, Leslie (1923 - 1987)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation Anatomist Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Leslie Linder was born in London on 29 October 1923 to Hyman Linder, a merchant and his wife, Anna, née Karsberg. He was educated at Westminster School and Cambridge University. In 1962 he became lecturer in anatomy in the University of Natal for two years, and then was casualty surgeon in King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban. He took up the post of principal surgeon and senior lecturer in the department of surgery, University of Natal, Durban in 1968 and held this position until his death. He married Vivienne Sara on 27 January 1965 and they had two sons. His hobbies were bridge, photography, chess and music. He died on 1 November 1987 aged 64 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Achaya, Sita ( - 1993)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Sita Achaya qualified MB BS Madras in 1940 and later moved on to take the DGO and MS after winning 19 gold medals in the course of her studies. An Indian government scholarship enabled her to come to England and take her Fellowship in 1947. A house surgeon's position at Hammersmith was followed by a surgical registry in Edinburgh. She was recalled to India for appointment as Professor of Anatomy at the Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi, later becoming Principal of the same College and Superintendent of the attached hospital. She was appointed Dean of the Medical Faculty of Delhi University, and was President of the Anatomy Society of India for a term, besides acting as examiner in anatomy for numerous Indian universities. There was also a short stint away from the College when she was appointed Deputy Director-General of Health of Medical Education in the Ministry of Health of the Government of India. She married Lieutenant-General A C Iyappa, chairman of India's largest electronic production unit when he retired, and who died of cancer in 1983. There were no children of the marriage. She died in Bangalore, India, on 2 August 1993 following prolonged arthritis and eventual lung and kidney complications.
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First Title value, for Searching Moffat, David Burns (1921 - 2017)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-11-02 2020-07-02
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Occupation Anatomist
Details David Moffat was professor of anatomy at Cardiff University. He was born in Swansea on 3 October 1921. His father, William Burns Moffat, was a master tailor; his mother, Christine Alice Moffat née Williams, was a housewife. Moffat attended Swansea Grammar School and began studying medicine at St Bartholomew’s Medical School just as the Second World War was starting. After the shortened wartime course, he qualified with the MRCS LRCP in 1943. He was a house surgeon for six months at Barts and then joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon lieutenant, serving until 1946. He was posted to various naval air stations and survived several Atlantic convoys. After the war, he remained in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and achieved the rank of surgeon captain on the minesweeper *St David*. Following his demobilisation, he returned to Barts as a surgical chief assistant to J Basil Hume. In 1947, he went back to Wales, where he was an anatomy demonstrator in Cardiff. He stayed in the city, becoming a senior lecturer in 1962 and gaining a personal chair in 1970. Also in 1970, he was appointed as an honorary surgeon to the Queen. He formally retired in 1988 and then spent several years teaching in Iraq until the start of the Gulf War in 1990. His early research was on the structure, function and development of blood vessels, encompassing several organ systems. He was awarded an MD in 1960 for his work on the aortic arch system and the arteries of the brain. He later researched the vascular pattern of the kidney. He was editor of the *Journal of Anatomy* from 1986 to 1990 and was a prolific writer, writing, among other titles, *The blood vessels of the kidney* (Oxford, Blackwell, 1971) with Julia Fourman, and *Human embryology and genetics* (Oxford, Blackwell, 1972) with Felix Beck and John Lloyd. In retirement, Moffat continued to write, including *Lecture notes on anatomy* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific, 1987) and *Anatomy at a glance* (Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2002). He listed his interests as sailing, fell-walking, travel and oil painting. After he finally retired he enjoyed walking in the Lakeland Fells and across Gower beaches with his wife Joan (née Coltman), whom he married in 1944. Predeceased by his wife, Moffat died on 21 May 2017 at the age of 95. He was survived by his two sons and daughter, seven grandsons and five great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Hunter, James (1936 - 1980)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-22
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details James Hunter was born in Edinburgh on 20 April 1936, the son of James Hunter a golf greenkeeper. He attended the Portobello High School in Edinburgh and then St Margaret's Anfield School in Liverpool from 1949 to 1952. During the years 1956-57 he studied at the Liverpool Technical College and then went on to read medicine at Liverpool University, graduating MB ChB in 1962. He held posts at Sefton General Hospital, Walton Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital and the David Lewis Northern Hospital and at the Southport Infirmary. Between 1963 and 1966 he was attached to the department of anatomy at Liverpool University. He did National Service with the Friend's Ambulance Unit International Service from 1953 to 1956, spending time in Britain and in Greece. In 1968 he married Ms Turner and they had a son and three daughters. His hobbies were mountaineering and motoring (especially motor racing). He died on 23 March 1980.
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First Title value, for Searching Acland, Robert Dyke (1941 - 2016)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2018-11-28
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Reconstructive surgeon Anatomist
Details Robert Acland was a pioneer of plastic and reconstructive microsurgery. He was born in Exeter on 20 June 1941, the younger son of Sir Richard Dyke Acland, 15th baronet of Colum John, a barrister and Labour politician, and Anne Stella Acland née Alford. Acland grew up in the dower house at Killerton, Devon – his father having donated the main manor house and estate to the National Trust in 1944. He attended the local village school and then Bryanston School in Dorset, where he later said he developed an interest in breaking rules. He went on to study medicine at the London Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1964, he worked at Bukumbi Hospital in Mwanza, Tanzania. On his return to the UK, he was a senior house officer in Northampton, Mansfield and then Oxford. In 1969, he was a senior registrar in general surgery in Swindon, where he became interested in microsurgery after watching John Cobbett perform a microvascular anastomosis. He then spent two years at the London Hospital studying microsurgical instruments, funded by the Medical Research Council. He improved the tiny needles and threads needed for the surgery, invented the Acland micro vessel clamp and investigated how to prevent microthrombosis. Acland then trained as a plastic surgeon, as a registrar at Canniesburn Hospital in Glasgow from 1972 to 1975. In 1975, he accepted an offer to set up a microsurgery teaching laboratory at the Kleinert Kutz Hand Center in Louisville, Kentucky. He later played a key role in the founding of the University of Louisville’s fresh tissue anatomy dissection laboratory, the first of its kind in the United States. In 1983, he was appointed director and under his leadership the laboratory expanded and improved. Acland’s major work was the *Video atlas of human anatomy*, which used new technologies to capture moving three-dimensional images of structures in the body, from bone to surface anatomy. He also wrote a *Practice manual for microvascular surgery* (CV Mosby Company, St Louis, Mo, 1989), known as the ‘Red book’, a manual of microsurgical techniques, an indispensable tool for trainees. He was a founding member of the International Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. He was married three times. In 1963 he married Sarah Wood, a fellow student at the London Hospital Medical School. She later became a psychiatrist. They had two children – Beatrice and Daniel. They divorced in 1983 and he married Susan Bishop. They had a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Emily. They divorced in 1990 and in 1992 he married Bette Levy, a textile artist. Robert Acland died on 6 January 2016 of cholangiocarcinoma. He was 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Simpson, George (1805 - 1867)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-31
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Occupation Anatomist
Details At the time of his death Simpson was a Teacher of Vaccination by appointment of the Privy Council, and Surgeon of the Surrey Vaccination Establishment. He had previously been Surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary. He was throughout life, first Lecturer on, and then Professor of, Anatomy to the Artists' Anatomical Society. In 1825 he published *The Anatomy of the Bones and Muscles*; exhibiting the parts as they appear on dissection and more particularly in the living figure, as applicable to the Fine Arts. Designed for the use of artists and members of the Artists' Anatomical Society (4to, London). This early art anatomy is dedicated to Sir Thomas Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy, and is rightly described by Simpson as illustrated with highly finished lithographic impressions. For the education of native surgeons in India he devised a series of papier-mâché and gutta-percha anatomical figures, which obtained a Prize Medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He died at his residence, 18 Gower Street, on October 19th, 1867.
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First Title value, for Searching Galloway, Alexander (1901 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Bansal, Prakashchandra (1929 - 1980)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born in Allahabad on 29 June 1929, the son of Ramlal, an engineer and Bhagwan Devi, Prakashschandra was educated in Allahabad, Amritsar and Lucknow and graduated from King George's Medical School, Lucknow. He came to England and passed FRCS at the first attempt and returned to Bombay as reader in anatomy, Grant Medical College, transferring to the Government Medical College, Aurangabad in 1962 as Professor of Anatomy, becoming Dean 1966-77. From 1977 to 1979 he was Dean of the Government Medical College, Nagpur, and thereafter until his death joint Director of Education and Research, Bombay. He was editor-treasurer of the Anatomical Society of India for six years. He made many and wide-ranging contributions to anatomical literature. He was conferred member of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1976. He married Mangala in 1967, herself a doctor and a professor of microbiology. They had a son and a daughter. His hobbies included football, gardening, cooking, reading, and during his years in Aurangabad he was a keen and skilful tennis player. He died in 1980 survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, William (1840 - 1922)

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First Title value, for Searching Davis, Peter Reginald (1923 - 2013)

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by Anne Davis
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2014-06-13
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Peter Reginald Davis was professor of human biology at the University of Surrey. He was born on 27 July 1923 in Wimbledon, the younger son of A H Davis, a government physicist, and his wife, Amy. Peter's childhood was spent in west London, and he went to St Paul's School. He became a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1941, qualifying as a doctor in 1946. After house jobs, he went into the Army as a surgeon. At that time, you were expected to deal with anything that came your way as a surgeon, with very little backup; he gained extensive experience in post-war Germany, leaving him with alarming surgical stories which he enjoyed telling for many years. On leaving the Army in 1953, he chose to become an academic, and at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School he started a distinguished career in anatomical teaching and research. He was highly regarded by his students, and he loved teaching his children as well. They were regularly taken to the anatomy dissection room from a very young age and learned much anatomy at home. While at the Royal Free his interest grew in the anatomy and evolution of the human arm. This led to a research trip to Africa in 1959, where he spent two months on the Serengeti Plains, and in Olduvai Gorge, working with Louis Leakey. His subsequent PhD thesis was a study of the arm of the hominid *Proconsul africanus*. He was appointed professor of human biology at the University of Surrey in 1969. He developed extensive research into back injuries; his interest was fuelled by his own tendency to back problems, which he treated with typical inventiveness. Peter worked with the Coal Board to design better coal shovels, and the Army to improve tank driving seats. With his colleagues, he had fun with the Army - on one occasion he was locked in the guard room under suspicion of spying, and on another drove tanks on Salisbury Plain in the name of applied research. His work led to membership of the Ergonomics Society (this has since become the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors). He was editor of *The Ergonomist* from 1970 to 1971, and chair of the Society in 1985. He wrote many published academic papers and was an inspiring leader in the field of ergonomic research. One great pride was his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, awarded in 1973. He finally retired, becoming professor emeritus at the University of Surrey, in 1983. Peter Davis married Elizabeth Mary Jenman ('Betty') in 1947. Betty was also a doctor, involved in pathology and public health. They had three children, two of whom became consultant head and neck surgeons; their younger daughter was a senior psychologist. Peter and Betty retired together to a house in St Mawes, Cornwall, where they had a wonderful view over the estuary. Retirement gave them many happy adventures together on the water. They had a wooden boat built, as well as owning several cruisers, and Peter specialised in a range of small boats, including unstable pram dinghies, in which he used to meet his offspring on their arrival by sea. His life was made happy by his family of four generations; he always delighted in childlike things, including Winnie the Pooh, and in retirement he loved to see them and show off his continuing achievements. Despite frailty, his sense of humour remained until his last hours and 'The Prof' was a great favourite in his retirement home. He died very peacefully on 6 December 2013, aged 90.
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First Title value, for Searching Musgrove, James (1862 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born at Kendal, 18 October 1862, the fifth child of William Musgrove, draper, and Ruth Stramon, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh, where he was house surgeon to John Chiene at the Royal Infirmary and demonstrator of anatomy under Sir William Turner at the University. In 1896 he was appointed lecturer on anatomy at the newly instituted Colleges of St Andrews University. Here he equipped and furnished a laboratory and, when the third Marquess of Bute erected a permanent building for his department and endowed a chair of anatomy, Musgrove was appointed the first professor of anatomy. He held the post from 1901 to 1914, when he resigned on grounds of health and was succeeded by David Waterston. He married Elsie, widow of Professor Bell Pettigrew, in 1911; she was the second daughter of Sir William Gray, and survived him but without children. He and Mrs Musgrove presented to St Andrews University a magnificently furnished museum in memory of James Bell Pettigrew, professor of medicine from 1875, who died in 1908. The presentation was made on the occasion of the quincentenary of the University in 1911. He died at the Swallowgate, St Andrews, Fife on 6 February 1935, and was buried in the Eastern cemetery, St Andrews. He taught well and successfully, was artistic and a good dissector.
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First Title value, for Searching Kent, Robert Thomas (1854 - 1902)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-13
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details The eldest son of Robert Thomas Kent, of London. He matriculated in the University of Oxford on May 21st, 1872, and was a member of Exeter College. He took a pass degree, and then received his professional training at Edinburgh, where he was Demonstrator of Anatomy at Minto House and Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy at Surgeons' Hall, and at the Middlesex Hospital, where he acted as House Surgeon and Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School. He was appointed Extra Assistant Surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Later he was Dean of the Medical Faculty in St Mungo's College, Glasgow, and was then appointed Professor of Anatomy there as well as Examiner in Anatomy, Conjoint Board, Scotland. He was residing at Lillieslea, Lenzie, Dumbartonshire, in the year 1900, having previously lived at Partickhill, Glasgow. He retired from all his posts not long before his death, and took up his residence at Eastback Court, Coleford, Gloucestershire. He died at Bournemouth on February 27th, 1902. Publication: "On Medical Education," 8vo, Glasgow, 1893; reprinted from the *Glasgow Med Jour*, 1893, xl, 321.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Francis (1897 - 1965)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Francis Davies was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1897. After preclinical studies at University College, Cardiff he entered University College, London and qualified in 1922. He was awarded the MD in 1926 and the DSc in 1933. For his scientific contributions he was elected FRS Edinburgh in 1939, and FRCS in 1953. After house appointments at University College Hospital he embarked on a career in anatomy first at University College, then as Reader at King's College, London, and finally as Professor of Anatomy at Sheffield in 1935. He served as external examiner in anatomy at a number of universities, and during 1942-43 was a Vice-President of the Anatomical Society. For his valuable contributions to knowledge of the conducting system of the heart he was awarded the Symington Prize of the Society. In the second world war he served as Battalion MO to the Home Guard with the rank of Major. Davies was a Hunterian Professor at the College in 1941 and Arris and Gale Lecturer for 1944-45. From 1942 onwards he revised sections of *Gray's Anatomy* and became a co-editor of the 32nd edition. Davies was an excellent teacher, his lectures were masterly, and he had considerable administrative ability. In 1946 he was elected the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Sheffield. In his earlier years he was a keen golfer and motorist, till ill health incapacitated him. Eventually he retired to Barry on the coast of Glamorgan but his retirement was marred by a long and painful illness. He died at his home in Barry in March 1965 at the age of 67, survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Hensman, Arthur (1842 - 1893)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation Anatomist ENT surgeon
Details Born at Northampton, the younger son of John Hensman, a well-known local solicitor. He gained his medical education at the Northampton General Infirmary and University College Hospital, London. He commenced practice at Chatteris, near Cambridge, but in 1870 was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at Middlesex Hospital under Dr R Liveing, the Lecturer. He taught in the dissecting-room for the following twelve years, and published his *Anatomical Outlines* in 1878-1880, also his Introductory Lecture delivered on October 1st, 1877. In 1881 he succeeded Henry Morris (qv) as Lecturer. In addition to being Demonstrator of Anatomy he had lectured in the summer session on botany and comparative anatomy. He was an admirable artist with chalk upon the blackboard, as well as an accomplished water-colour artist, sketching country scenes including animals, birds, and angling. Shortly after his election as Lecturer he was appointed Surgeon to the Throat and Ear Department and Lecturer on Aural Surgery. In 1891 he suffered from influenza which weakened his health, but on Oct 1st, 1893, he was able to take the chair at the largest dinner of Old Middlesex Students hitherto known. Alarming advances of Bright's disease set in, and he died on November 1st, 1893. He married in 1868 Miss Elizabeth Fisher, who survived him. One of his brothers was a barrister with a large practice in Australia. Publication:- Hensman wrote a standard text-book in four parts entltled, *Anatomical Outlines for the Use of Students in the Dissecting Room and Surgical Classroom*, with original drawings by Arthur E Fisher, 4to, plates, London, 1878-80.
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First Title value, for Searching Loeb, Jacques Alfred (1925 - 2016)

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by Lori Loeb
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2016-12-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381304381304
Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Jacques ('Jack') Loeb was chief of surgery at the Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and also an author and anatomist. He was born in Berlin on 31 August 1925, the son of Joseph Loeb, founder of Loeb and Sutheim, one of the most prominent furriers in Europe, and Else Loeb (née Hein). His early education was in Berlin at Volksschule West from 1931 to 1934 and at the Kaliski School from 1935 to 1939. His family emigrated to England in May 1939. He attended Reading School from 1940 to 1943, where he was a house prefect and captain, school prefect and lance corporal both in the cadet corps and the Home Guard. He was awarded school colours in rugby. He also rowed for the school and was the 50-metre breaststroke swimming champion. In 1942 he passed the matriculation examination with the highest marks in the country in chemistry and was awarded school prizes for chemistry, French and German. He always credited his academic success to his housemaster, Wilfred J Streather, who took great interest in his progress and remained a lifelong friend. In 1943 he was accepted as a medical student at the University of London, at Guy's Medical School. The school was evacuated to Tunbridge Wells following severe damage to Guy's Hospital in the bombing raids of 1940 to 1943. While in Tunbridge Wells he was a member of a Home Guard battalion commanded by Major Jim Whillis, professor of anatomy, that guarded the coast near Ramsgate. He earned his MB BS with honours from Guy's Hospital Medical School at the University of London in 1949. He was awarded the gold medal as the top graduate of the medical schools of the University of London, and the Golding Bird prize in obstetrics and gynaecology. He did his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Jamaica, Belize and Grenada from 1951 to 1953. He then elected to join the Territorial Army and remained in the TA until 1959, being promoted to the rank of major. Shortly after his discharge from the Army, he became a resident surgical officer at Putney Hospital in London and in September 1953 he was appointed as a junior lecturer in anatomy in the University of London, tenable at Guy's Hospital Medical School. A year later he was promoted to lecturer. In September 1955, having obtained his FRCS, he was appointed as a surgical resident at Whittington Hospital in London. In September 1957, he was appointed as a senior surgical resident to the South East Kent Group of Hospitals. In 1959 he moved to Canada. He obtained his licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada and his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1959. In 1960 he was appointed to the courtesy staffs of the St Joseph's and Queensway hospitals in Toronto. In 1962 he was appointed to the Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, where he served as general surgeon from 1962 to 1985 and chief of surgery from 1974 to 1980. Upon retiring from the practice of surgery in 1985, he began an appointment as a tutor in anatomy and surgical consultant to the department of anatomy in the faculty of medicine at the University of Toronto. He was co-author of the second edition of *Thompson's core textbook of anatomy* (Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1990). In 1990 he retired from the university and spent one day a week at the University of Toronto's international student centre teaching English as a second language to international postgraduate students. In addition to his distinguished surgical and academic career, Jack was a keen athlete who skied (especially in Arosa, Switzerland), played tennis and golfed until his mid-eighties, was a voracious reader, an opera buff and an enthusiastic international traveller. He continued to correspond with his best friend from Guy's, Michael Gilbert, until 2015. Jacques was a devoted husband to Joan Sparfel from 1964 until her death in 2012. He had five children - Stephen, Graham and Karen (from an earlier marriage to Jocelyn Bennett), and Lori (Joan's daughter whom Jacques adopted) and Victoria. He had nine grandchildren. He died peacefully at Oakville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 90 on 10 March 2016, following a short illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Raye, Daniel O'Connell (1842 - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at Kilmainham, Dublin, in August 1842, a nephew on his mother's side of Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator, who was at the time a prisoner in Kilmainham gaol. He was educated at Queen's College, Galway; at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; in Paris and Vienna. He received a commission as assistant surgeon, IMS on 31 March 1866 and served on the Bengal side, was promoted surgeon on 1 July 1873, surgeon-major 31 July 1878, and surgeon-colonel 2 April 1894. He saw service on the North-East Frontier at Daphla in 1874-75, and was later civil surgeon at Nimar. He was professor of anatomy in the Calcutta Medical College, and in 1892 succeeded Kenneth McLeod as professor of surgery and first surgeon to the Hospital. In 1894 he was appointed inspector-general of civil hospitals in the Punjab, and retired on 2 April 1899. He married in 1881 Katherine Mary Fox (d 1922), and had three daughters. His death took place at Lacks Yews, Mattingley on 29 December 1925.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Eric Oliver (1904 - 1984)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation Anatomist ENT surgeon
Details Eric Harris was born on 18 October 1904 in Harbledown, Canterbury, the son of a pharmacist. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1927 and MB, BS in 1929, and he became FRCS in 1941. During the war, he held temporary appointments as ENT surgeon to the Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow, and Hillingdon Hospital and he later became consultant ENT surgeon to the Hampstead General Hospital, St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney and Hounslow Hospital. After he retired, he was appointed senior lecturer in anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, a post he held until his 78th year. He was a senior Fellow of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists and honorary consultant surgeon to the Royal Masonic School for Girls for 25 years. Golf was his favourite recreation. He married Hilda Dorothy Innis on 2 March 1941. They had no children. He died on 28 September 1984, in his 80th year, survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Dooley, Denis (1913 - 2010)

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by R M Kirk
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2013-02-14
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Occupation Anatomist Public health officer
Details Denis Dooley was Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy from 1965 to 1980. He was born on 10 December 1913. He was educated at St Ignatius' College, Stamford Hill, London, and then went on to study mathematics and Latin, gaining a BA degree from London University in 1936. He then returned to his old school as a teacher. In 1938, he developed peritonitis from a burst appendix and was an inpatient at St George's Hospital for three months, after which he decided on a medical career - financed as a wartime fire-watcher. He trained in medicine at St Mary's Hospital, London. He was determined to gain a house post working for the prominent surgeon Arthur Dickson Wright, who he knew appointed only the most outstanding graduates. Denis had no illusions about his place on the list, but noted that Dickson Wright's house surgeons were worked so hard that they almost invariably failed to last the full six-month appointment. Denis decided to wait. Sure enough, the next successful candidate lasted only a few weeks, and Denis stepped into the breach. Sadly, he lasted for an even shorter period, before taking to his bed in the residency. The next morning, the door of his room opened sufficiently to reveal Dickson Wright's nose. He asked: 'Dooley, how soon before you are back at work?' Denis groaned: 'Sir, the way I feel now, I shall never work again.' The nose was withdrawn, the door closed, and the appointment terminated. In 1946 Denis became a house surgeon to Sir Zachary Cope and, a year later, became a research registrar to Sir Alexander Fleming, administering the recently available penicillin to treat a patient suffering from bacterial endocarditis. From 1948 to 1952, he was a resident medical officer at Charing Cross Hospital. He was generous in helping out during busy periods. One day, when the casualty department was busy, he undertook to see the male revisits. Soon the queue had disappeared, but the treatment area was bulging with patients. An anxious nurse emerged, holding a stack of casualty cards. On each was written 'RUS.DD'. When Denis was asked the meaning, he admonished the junior doctors for their lack of Latin, replying: 'Quite simple; *Rep. ut supra* (repeat as above) Denis Dooley'. His role at Charing Cross included the health care of medical students, resident doctors and nurses. At that time most of the newly qualified doctors were ex-servicemen, and they were expected to adhere to pre-war rules, including being banned from living a married life. Denis tried to protect them from the oppressive restrictions, but only with partial success. His support for the juniors brought him into conflict with the governing body and he was warned not to apply to have his appointment renewed. From 1952 to 1954 he was a general practitioner in Barnes and Wimbledon. He then served as a medical officer for the Ministry of Health, becoming a senior medical officer in 1973. By chance, one of his duties was to inspect the London teaching hospitals. He arrived to inspect the governance of Charing Cross Hospital, and he could not help but feel contempt for the unctuous greetings he received from the same people who had in effect sacked him for attempting to protect the resident doctors from authoritarian restrictions. From 1965 to 1980 Denis served as Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy. One of his duties was to regulate the use of bodies for dissection in the study of anatomy. Out of this appointment came a series of reports and lectures, including the Arris and Gale lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1972 (published as 'A dissection of anatomy' *Ann R Coll Surg Engl* 1973 July; 53[1]:13-26), a Royal Institution lecture in 1974 ('The rediscovery of anatomy'), and the Medical Society of London annual oration in 1977 ('On the anomaly of anatomy' *Transactions of the Medical Society of London* 92-93;192-208). In 1972, in recognition of his work, he was made a life member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and in 1979 he was awarded an OBE. He was a devote Roman Catholic. In 1946 he carried a cross 500 miles to Vézelay Abbey in Burgundy, France, as part of a group marching for peace. Friends remember him for his generosity and for his rejection of personal possessions. He was a master of the portentous-seeming entrance, soon to be punctured by a humorous and sly, witty follow-up - the ultimate 'character'. Outside medicine, he enjoyed golf, bridge and scrabble. He met his wife Eileen at St Mary's Hospital. They had a son, Michael, and a daughter, Johanna. Denis Dooley died on 19 May 2010 at the age of 96. His last words were the Lord's Prayer, recited in Latin.
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First Title value, for Searching Bharucha, Phirozshah Vyramji (1886 - 1970)

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First Title value, for Searching Channell, Gerald Dalton (1911 - 1950)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-26
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Occupation Anatomist Thoracic surgeon
Details Born in Natal in 1911 and educated at Guy's Hospital, where he won the Hilton Dissection Prize in 1933 and qualified through London University and the Conjoint Board in 1936. After serving as house surgeon and junior demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's, he was appointed University Demonstrator of Anatomy at Cambridge in 1938. During the second world war he served as a Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy, and published a paper on the immersion foot syndrome. He returned to Guy's as assistant lecturer in anatomy, working on the lumbrical and interosseous muscles. He became interested in congenital deformities of the heart and decided to transfer from anatomy to thoracic surgery. He passed the Fellowship in 1949, and was appointed a Registrar at Brompton Hospital. While pursuing his own research there, he was killed in an accidental explosion on 27 May 1950, aged 38, survived by his wife and child. Publications: Immersion foot syndrome, with C C Ungley and R L Richards. *Brit J Surg* 1945, 33, 17-31. The action of the lumbrical and interosseous muscles in some of the movements of the digits, with J Whillis. *J Anat* 1949, 83, Proceedings p 50. The effect of ulnar nerve block at the level of the pisiform bone on movements of the ring finger, with the same. As the foregoing, p 71.
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First Title value, for Searching Hind, George William (1802 - 1885)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Worked with Sir Charles Bell at the Windmill Street School and served under him at the Middlesex Hospital, where he acted as House Surgeon; when Bell was appointed Professor of Surgery Hind followed him to University College Hospital. Here he instituted the Anatomical and Pathological Museum, and was appointed the first Curator. He prepared many dissections which remain a testimony of his manipulative skill. He was invited to become Demonstrator of Anatomy at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, but Lord Brougham, the President of University College, engaged him to continue as Curator at an increased salary. He also became known as a private teacher of anatomy and surgery, and for a time was recognized by the College, but with the developments of medical education, the College barred his teaching as outside the curriculum, and he was one of the last of 'the grinders' for which London had long been celebrated. In 1883 ill health compelled him to give up his classes. He was in straitened circumstances owing to his previous generosity to relations, but old pupils and admirers rallied to his aid, and an annuity was purchased which enabled him to end his days in comfort. He died at his house in Euston Road on July 4th, 1885. Publication: *A Series of Twenty Plates illustrating the Causes of Displacement in the Various Fractures of the Bones of the Extremities*, fol., London, 1836.
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First Title value, for Searching Collum, Archie Tillyer (1868 - 1896)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-07 2012-03-22
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Physician
Details The fifth son of Robert Collum, MD, of the HEIC, who had been Staff Surgeon to Sir Charles Napier, and who afterwards practised as a physician in London. He retired first to Harmondsworth in Middlesex and then to Surbiton. A T Collum was educated at Epsom College, and entered Charing Cross Hospital as Scholar in 1885. He had a brilliant career as a student and was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in his second year. He served as House Surgeon and House Physician, and was elected Medical Registrar in 1892 and Assistant Surgeon in 1894, acting as Joint Demonstrator of Anatomy and Surgical Tutor. He died of septicaemia after a fortnight's illness in Charing Cross Hospital on February 12th, 1896, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Collum was a sound and practical teacher, with a gift for imparting his knowledge. He was genial, friendly, and scrupulously straightforward both on the football field and elsewhere. He was Treasurer of the Students' Club, and after his death there was a proposal to form an athletic ground in his memory. At the time of his death he held a commission as Surgeon Lieutenant in the Queen's Westminster Corps of Volunteers. Publications: "Malformation of the Alimentary Canal: Atresia at the Middle of the Duodenum." -*Trans. Pathol. Soc.*, 1895, xlvi, 60, 61. "Extrameningeal or Subcranial Haemorrhage, with Report of a Successful Operation." -*Lancet*, 1893, ii, 684.
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First Title value, for Searching Harsant, William Henry (1850 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Green, Ronald Bramble (1895 - 1973)

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First Title value, for Searching Vincent, Samuel Anderson (1909 - 1976)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Samuel Anderson Vincent, the younger son of James Vincent, a musician, was born on 13 June 1909 in Belfast. He was educated at Roseland Preparatory School and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution before entering Queen's University. After resident appointments at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and at Tyrone County Hospital, Armagh, he served in the RAMC throughout the second world war, becoming a Major. During the war he spent some four and a half years overseas, serving on troopships as well as with medical units of the 8th Army in the Western Desert, Sicily and Italy. On demobilisation he was appointed surgeon to the Ulster Hospital for Women and Children and surgeon to Musgrove Park Hospital, Belfast. He was also lecturer in anatomy at the University of Belfast from 1948 to 1974 and a member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as a fellow of the Ulster Medical Society and former President of the Belfast Medical Students' Association. His published work included papers on biomedical engineering and on electrical and other aspects of enuresis in childhood. Outside his professional work he was fond of painting in water colours and playing the violin, and was a keen fly-fisherman. He married Lindsay Pine Dundee in 1951. They had no children and, when he died on 18 October 1976, he was survived by his widow.
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First Title value, for Searching Parry, Eric (1907 - 1995)

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First Title value, for Searching Nasmyth, Alexander ( - 1848)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-29
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Occupation Anatomist Dental surgeon
Details Alexander Nasmyth came of the Scottish family of that name. He practised latterly at 13A George Street, Hanover Square, W, and was well known as an anatomist and surgeon-dentist. He made valuable donations to the Royal College of Surgeons Museum, and is included in Richard Owen's "Lists of Donors of Specimens presented to the Museum, 1832-1856". The membrane covering the enamel of an unworn tooth is named after him 'Nasmyth's membrane', and his work on the anatomy of the teeth was of high importance. Nasmyth worked harmoniously with Edwin Saunders (qv) in connection with the dental treatment of cleft palate. He became paralysed in the spring of 1846, when Saunders undertook his practice at an hour's notice and carried it on successfully. At the time of his death he was Surgeon-Dentist to the Queen and the Prince Consort, and Member of the Linnean, Royal Medico-Chirurgical, Zoological, Microscopical, and Ethnological Societies. Whilst practising at 13A George Street, Hanover Square, he had a house at Great Malvern, where he died on August 4th, 1848. His lithograph portrait is in the College Collection. Publications: Nasmyth contributed many valuable papers to the *Edin Med and Surg Jour* between 1830 and 1840. *Researches on the Development, Structure and Diseases of the Teeth*, 8vo, 7 plates, London, 1839. There is an historical introduction republished at Baltimore by the American Society of Dental Surgeons, 8vo, 1842. A continuation of the preceding, 8vo, 10 plates, London, 1849. (This is posthumous.) "Report of a Paper on the Cellular Structure of the Ivory, Enamel and Pulp of the Teeth, as well as of the Epithelium," 8vo, London, 1839; reprinted from *Brit Assoc Rep*. "On the Structure, Physiology and Pathology of the Persistent Capsular Investments and Pulp of the Tooth." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1839, xxii, 310; and other papers to the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society. *Three Memoirs on the Development and Structure of the Teeth and Epithelium*, 9 plates, London, 1841. In the College Library are the Appendix in MS to the *Researches on the Teeth*, also the original sketches for plates illustrating "Cellular Structure of the Teeth". Nasmyth contributed papers to the Geological and Ethnological Societies on the teeth and subjects connected with them. To the Institut de Paris he contributed "Memoir on the Cellular Structure of the Teeth and Epithelium", and he was Lecturer to the Royal Institution on "The Structure of Recent and Fossil Teeth".
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First Title value, for Searching Banerji, Lilat Mohan (1880 - 1968)

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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, John Lloyd (1863 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Senior, Harold Dickinson (1870 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Brown, John Macdonald (1857 - 1935)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Dunfermline in 1857, he was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he held a Grierson bursary, and afterwards at the London Hospital. As lecturer on anatomy at Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh he soon made a name for himself. It is said that he had an extraordinary power of imparting knowledge. Armed with a few coloured chalks and a blackboard he expounded the details of human anatomy with clearness and precision. He confined himself to the essentials and developed a method, which for examination purposes had no rival. Although his incisive style and powerful voice were often reminiscent of the drill-sergeant, he always held the attention of the students and his results, as proved at the examination table, were most successful. Coming to London he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Northwest London Hospital in 1896 and was physician to the Navy, Army and Royal Air Force Institute. He retired to Leamington in 1926 and became consulting physician to Leamington Spa. He married Caroline Helen Murray, second daughter of Adam Murray, alderman of Manchester. She died in 1928 without children. He died at Leamington on 28 November 1935 and was buried at St Mary's, Lillington, Leamington. Publications:- The femoral artery in apes. *J Anat*. 1881, 15, 523. Chancroidal bubo and bubonic chancroid. *Edinb clin path J*. 1884, 1, 889. The science of human anatomy; introductory lecture. *Edinb med J*. 1885, 30, 585. Treatment at the Royal Leamington Spa. *Prescriber*, 1927, 21, 104. *The large intestine, its function and disabilities*. Leamington, 1927
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First Title value, for Searching Salsbury, Carmen Russell (1898 - 1979)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-09
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Occupation Anatomist Medical Officer Pathologist
Details Carmen Russell Salsbury was born on 21 July, 1898, in the County of Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. He was the youngest child of the two daughters and three sons of John Albert Salsbury, a farmer. He was educated in a one room country schoolhouse for four years and then graduated with honours in all subjects from Newburgh High School. He was awarded the MC CM at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 1924 and won the surgery medal, the Mundell Prize in applied anatomy and the Professor's Prize in pathology. He became a Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada in 1924. He held appointments at Drayton Hospital, Drayton, North Dakota, and in Illinois and Colorado. At the University of Oklahoma he spent four years teaching anatomy and applied anatomy. Finally he became Assistant Professor of Anatomy and lecturer in surgical pathology at Queen's University, Kingston, 1935-40. During the first world war he served as a Sergeant in the Canadian Infantry, he was wounded and awarded the DCM. In the second world war he served with the RCAMC as a surgical specialist with the rank of Major and was awarded the ED. For twenty years he worked with the Workmen's Compensation of British Columbia, and was, for ten years, chief clinical medical officer. He estimated that he did approximately forty years military service in both war and peace. His interests were swimming, gardening and building. In 1927 he married Amy Alice Malakowsky and they had one daughter, Sylvia. He died on 19 September, 1979, survived by his daughter and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Walls, Eldred Wright (1912 - 2008)

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by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2012-01-18 2013-07-24
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Eldred Walls was professor of anatomy at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London, and a highly distinguished anatomist. He was born in Glasgow, the second son of J T Walls, but was orphaned at the age of 13. Financial pressures meant he had to leave Hillhead High School at 15 and matriculate in Glasgow University aged just 16. He qualified MB ChB in 1934 with first class honours and the Struthers gold medal, after first completing a BSc in botany. During his undergraduate years he was a noted sportsman, especially in rugby, where he was a Scottish trialist. After a short spell as a general practitioner, he decided upon a career in anatomy rather than clinical medicine, and was appointed as a demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy at Glasgow University, a position he held for five years. In 1941 he moved to Cardiff as a senior lecturer in anatomy at University College of South Wales, where he had command of the University Naval Reserve. He also studied hypnotism, on one occasion putting members of the London Symphony Orchestra into a trance and having them behave bizarrely on stage. However, he felt uncomfortable with the subject and never again put on any form of public display. In 1947 he moved to London to assume the readership in anatomy at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. His MD with honours, awarded in the same year, was on the conducting tissues of the heart. Two years later he was promoted to the S A Courtauld chair of anatomy at that medical school, where he remained until his necessary retirement in 1974. His love of anatomical teaching being undiminished, he returned to Scotland, where he was appointed as a lecturer in anatomy at Edinburgh University, teaching both undergraduates and postgraduate trainees in surgery. On reaching 70 he was again required by the university to retire, but unofficially he continued to tutor trainee surgeons on a regular basis for another 20 years, well into his nineties. An inspirational and charismatic teacher, deft with blackboard and chalk, he inspired great affection among his thousands of students, many of whom continued with a love of anatomy throughout their careers. Many would claim that in his later years Eldred had become the acknowledged doyen of the world of anatomy. He was made an FRCS by election in 1976 in recognition of his lifelong contribution to the teaching of anatomy to surgical trainees. In 1963 he became president of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, having previously served as treasurer for eight years. He contributed many papers to the *Journal of Anatomy*, as well as chapters in *Cunningham's textbook of anatomy* (Oxford University Press), and delivered many eponymous lectures, including the Gordon-Taylor lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1976 ('Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor, surgeon-anatomist and humanist,' *Ann R Coll Surg Engl.* 1977 Jan;59[1]:4-10). Generally, he committed these lectures to memory and delivered them immaculately without a single note. His research on the structure and function of the anal sphincter led to his appointment as honorary anatomist to St Mark's Hospital, an association he enjoyed until his death. During his time at the Middlesex he took a keen interest in medical education and was dean of the medical school from 1967 to 1974, during which time he raised millions of pounds which led to the establishment of the Jules Thorn Institute. Apart from an interest in medical history, his outside interests were few. In his entry in *Who's Who* he listed but one - an annual visit to Lords! In 1939 he married (Jessie) Vivien Robb, a fellow medical student whom he met in the dissecting room, who died shortly after their diamond wedding anniversary in 1999. They had two children, Andrew and Gwyneth, both of whom qualified in medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Eldred Walls died on 24 March 2008, aged 95.
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First Title value, for Searching West, James Fitzjames Fraser (1833 - 1883)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in London; studied at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was Dresser to John Flint South (qv), and took honours in anatomy at the 1st MB, but never graduated at the University of London. After qualifying he was appointed House Surgeon at the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, in 1854, when the Medical School was starting. In 1857 he was elected Surgeon and held that post for the following twenty-six years. At the same time he acted as Professor of Anatomy at Queen's College. He was an active member of the Birmingham Branch of the British Medical Association, and was for a long time on the Council, being at one time President, also Chairman of the Pathological and Clinical Sections. Whilst belonging to the old school, he adopted some part of Lister's method. He made frequent visits to Continental hospitals and took copious notes of his observations, which he handed on to the students attending his classes. He practised at 51 Union Passage, and lived at 117 Harley Road, Birmingham. His health failed early, dropsy and oedema of the lungs supervened, and he died on March 24th, 1883. West published papers on surgical cases, also observations on French and German surgery, was a leading member, and for one year President, of the Birmingham Shakespearean Dramatic Club.
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First Title value, for Searching Price Thomas, John Martyn (1935 - 2000)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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Occupation Anatomist Breast Surgeon General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Martyn was born in London on 6 August 1935. His father, Sir Clement Price Thomas, was surgeon to King George VI, President of the BMA, the Association of Surgeons, the Royal Society of Medicine and Vice-President of the College. His mother was Dorrie Ricks. He was educated at Leighton Park and then went into the RAF medical branch to do his National Service, before going on to St Thomas's. There he won the Grainger prize in anatomy and was greatly influenced by Sharpey-Schafer and Arthur Buller. He was house surgeon to Robert Nevin and house physician to Bill Medd and Kingston. After a period as an anatomy demonstrator, he went to Hammersmith as house surgeon to Richard Franklin and Selwyn Taylor, before going on to Oxford to complete his surgical training. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport in 1975, where he developed a special interest in urology and breast cancer. In 1995 he moved to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, to teach anatomy and be a consultant to their breast unit. He was a talented painter and sculptor, and a member of the Chelsea Arts Club, as well as a keen sailor and golfer. In 1962 he married Deirdre Irene McMaster. They had three daughters, Emma, Kate and Clem, who inherited his artistic talents. He died on 6 June 2000 from a sarcoma of the oesophagus.
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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, George Archibald Grant (1906 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-21
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born on 11 November 1906, George Mitchell studied medicine at Aberdeen University, where he qualified in 1929. He was for a time surgeon in the Scottish Highlands, but then took up anatomy. During the second world war he served in the RAMC in North Africa, the Middle East and Europe, finally reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. During the war he had a special rôle in pioneering penicillin treatment, working with Fleming and Florey, and collaborating with Arthur Porritt in the book *Penicillin therapy and control in 21 Army Group*, which described the use of penicillin in the invasion of Europe. After the war he returned to become Professor of Anatomy at Manchester in 1946, where he threw himself into the study of the autonomic nervous system. He was Rockefeller Fellow in the United States in 1956, Chairman of the International Nomenclature Committee and President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He wrote several textbooks, including *Anatomy of the autonomic nervous system, Cardiovascular innervation and Essentials of neuroanatomy*, in addition to more than 150 research articles. In retirement he enjoyed Egyptology, medical history, antiques and music, despite a hemiparesis. His wife Mary predeceased him; they had one son, Grant, and two daughters. He died after a long illness on 14 April 1993.
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First Title value, for Searching Wapnick, Simon (1937 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-26
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Simon Wapnick was an anatomist based in New York. He was born on 25 October 1937 in Pretoria, South Africa, the son of Percy Jacob Wapnick and Fanny née Levitt. He was educated at Pretoria Boys’ High School and then went on to the University of Pretoria Medical School. He held house appointments at Pretoria General Hospital and Harari Hospital, in the then Rhodesia. In 1964 he went to London, where he was a locum registrar at St Stephens and King George’s Hospitals, London, and followed the basic science course at the College and the Fellowship course in surgery at St Thomas’s. In 1965 he was a senior house officer at Great Ormond Street. From 1966 to 1969 he worked as a registrar and clinical tutor at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in Hammersmith. In 1969 he returned to Africa, as a lecturer and senior lecturer at the department of surgery at the Godfrey Huggins School of Medicine, Rhodesia. From 1972 he was a specialist surgeon at the department of surgery, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel. He then emigrated to the US, where he was a surgeon at Brooklyn Veterans Administration Hospital in New York. He subsequently taught gross anatomy at Ross University Medical School in the Dominican Republic and at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. At the time of his death, Simon was an assistant professor in the department of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College. He taught gross anatomy to first year medical students and facilitated a postgraduate gross anatomy course for various residency programmes. He wrote papers on a range of topics, including skeletal abnormalities in Crohn’s disease, diverticular disease, hiatus hernia, and carcinoma of the oesophagus and stomach. He was actively interested in various Jewish organisations in Israel and in Africa. He married Isobelle née Gelfand, the daughter of Michael Gelfand, the author of books on tropical medicine and on the Shona people, in 1962. They had two daughters (Janette and Laura) and a son (Jonathan), and three grandchildren (Chloe, Jordan and Michael Joshua). A keen marathon runner, Simon Wapnick died on 26 May 2003 of an apparent heart attack, while out jogging in Central Park.
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First Title value, for Searching Black, James (1852 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at Finchley, Middlesex, 27 December 1852, the fifth child of Thomas Black, merchant and Mary Guy, his wife. He was educated at the Cholmley Grammar School, Highgate and matriculated in the University of Cambridge from Caius College in January 1874. He was a scholar of the college from Michaelmas 1875 until Lady Day 1876 and graduated BA in 1877 after he had been placed in the third class of the Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, 1876. He received his medical education in the medical school at Cambridge under Prof Clifford Allbutt and Prof Humphry, FRCS and afterwards went to St Thomas's Hospital, where he was house surgeon. At Westminster Hospital he was at first demonstrator and later lecturer on anatomy from 1879 to 1883, posts he resigned when the Westminster Hospital ceased to teach anatomy and physiology, subjects which were undertaken by the medical school at King's College, London. From 1884 to 1887 he examined in elementary anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was for some years assistant surgeon at the North West London Hospital, and after serving as surgical tutor he was elected aural surgeon to Westminster Hospital in 1886, a position he resigned in 1895, when he was succeeded by Philip R W de Santi, FRCS. In 1890 he left 10 Wimpole Street and retired to Beulah Hill, SE. He married Clara Anne Fleming in 1875, who survived him with a son, John Black, LDS, his elder son, Guy Black, MB London, having been killed in the war of 1914-18. He died on 13 April 1935 at Hillcroft, Rotherfield, Sussex and was buried at St Denys', Rotherfield. Black was an excellent anatomist and W G Spencer said of him that "he was the most rapid draftsman with coloured chalks on the blackboard that I happen to have known". Publications:- A case of trephining for supposed abscess in the temporosphenoidal lobe. *Proc Med Soc Lond*. 1887, 10, 254. Case of cervical ribs. *Proc Anat Soc Great Britain*, 1897-98, pp. Xlvii-i. *Treatment of alarming symptoms occurring in suppurative disease of the middle ear*. Graduation thesis for MB Cambridge, 1887.
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First Title value, for Searching Lannon, Joseph (1911 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05 2016-02-05
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Occupation Anatomist Paediatric surgeon
Details Joseph Lannon was born on 11 March 1911. He was educated at the University of Witwatersrand and after qualifying in 1934 proceeded to train as a surgeon, passing the FRCS in 1938. During the second world war he joined the New Zealand forces and served in the New Zealand General Hospital in North Africa, transferring later to the South African Medical Corps, serving in 8SA casualty clearing station and then in 8A field ambulance station which was involved in the battle of El Alamein and for which he was decorated. He returned to South Africa in 1943, being demobilised in 1945 with the rank of Major. After the war he practised in Johannesburg and was surgeon at the Benoni Boksburg, Johannesburg, General and North East hospitals. He was one of the early specialist paediatric surgeons at the Memorial Hospital for Children. He was also a very competent and much respected part-time lecturer in anatomy. In 1949 he was awarded the Hamilton Maynard Prize for his paper on the previously unknown parasympathetic nerve pathways to the colon and the anatomy of the lumbar ganglia. He enjoyed English literature, the classics and the history of medicine. He encouraged the students at the Witwatersrand Medical School to re-establish a history of medicine society and was remembered for a very entertaining talk on one of his favourite topics, the diseases of Napoleon. His interest in literature emerged through passing literary allusions in his lectures. A former student of his recalled his viva with Lannon. He was asked about carpal bones and the student mumbled the mnemonic about Hamlet and Polonius. When asked what he was mumbling Lannon inquired who Hamlet and Polonius were and, the answer being unsatisfactory, the student was sent to the Library in his lunch hour to read the play and anything else he could find on the two characters. He returned afterwards to give Mr Lannon a discourse on the subject! Joss, as he was fondly known, died on 30 October 1990, survived by his son Michael, a doctor, and his daughter, Christine.
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First Title value, for Searching Stansfield, Frank (1910 - 1981)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Frank Stansfield became something of a legendary figure in the teaching of anatomy to aspiring surgeons. He was known with gratitude, by thousands who faced the Primary FRCS hurdle, for his personality and style of teaching in the College and 'out of hours' in a fetid basement lecture room held out for them the last chance of a pass. Indeed the intensive cramming course run jointly with David Slome for over 20 years boasted an 80-85% pass rate. The imparting of his encyclopaedic knowledge of anatomy was accompanied by quirkish witticisms provoked by faltering and erroneous answers to questions: 'That is positively grotesque.' 'You are anticipating backwards and retrospecting the future.' 'We go at one speed and one speed only: dead slow.' 'What is a lecture? It is words proceeding from the mouth of the speaker to the notebooks of his pupils without entering the brains of either.' 'What is revision? It is learning something for the first time one week before the examination.' He was born on 4 August 1910 in Nelson, Lancashire, the only child of a successful cotton manufacturer. He was educated at Sedbergh School and at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was organ scholar. He qualified from the London Hospital Medical College and held clinical assistantships in medicine, neurology and paediatrics and was senior demonstrator in anatomy at the London Hospital from 1937 to 1939. During the second world war he was in the RAF, becoming Squadron Leader in the medical branch. After the war he became senior lecturer in anatomy, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at the College and was also Bland-Sutton lecturer, Arnott demonstrator and examiner in anatomy for the Conjoint Board and for the Faculty of Dental Surgery. Other medical activities included his work as assistant medical officer, Royal Borough of Kensington (1939-42), and as divisional surgeon and county surgeon in the St John Ambulance. As a confirmed bachelor with some freedom and as a man of some means he travelled first class - always. Indeed, he was one of the few holders of a first class go-anywhere rail ticket, for he enjoyed anything to do with railways and his knowledge of the railways of the UK was probably as complete as was his knowledge of the anatomy of the human body. He died on 3 October 1981, aged 71.
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First Title value, for Searching King, Thomas Wilkinson (1809 - 1847)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-14
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Occupation Anatomist
Details The son of a medical man practising at Dover, he entered Guy's Hospital in 1824 after an education in London and Paris. He practised in Bedford Square, and at the time of his death was Lecturer on Pathological Anatomy at Guy's Hospital, where he contributed much to the *Guy's Hospital Reports*, writing especially on cancer. He married in 1841 Anne Best, who survived him, and died of phthisis at his residence in Bedford Square on March 26th, 1847. Sir Samuel Wilks says of him, "He had not lived long enough to be famous, but the few who were acquainted with him personally or by his writings knew him to be a very remarkable man. He gave a few lectures on pathology, but they were not practical and were badly delivered. Some of them were published in the *London Medical Gazette* for 1843 and are well worthy of perusal on account of their highly philosophic character." Publications:- *Of some of the First General Laws or Fundamental Doctrines of Medicine and Surgery*, 8vo, London, 1840. "The Safety-valve Function of the Heart." - *Guy's Hosp Rep*, 1837, ii, 104. This is one of the most valuable and best known of his papers. "On Disorders which are Variable, and on the Practical Inferences which are Deducible from the Character of Changeableness," 8vo, London, 1840; reprinted from *Guy's Hosp Rep*, 1840, v, 215. In January, 1847, shortly before his death, King published a paper in the *Lancet*, 1847, i, 89, "On the Nature of Cancer, and a Simple Mode of Examining the Structure of Tumours", in which he refers to another paper published by him in the *Lond Med Gaz*, 1845, xxxvi (NS i), 597, "On the Frequency of Cancer in the Two Sexes, and at Different Ages, as a Point of Diagnosis and Practice". He refers also to his own customary teaching on tension and to an analysis of his papers, published "at the museum of Guy's Hospital", with interesting conclusions by Charles King, "an able friend".
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First Title value, for Searching Crymble, Percival Templeton (1880 - 1970)

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First Title value, for Searching Ottley, Walter (1850 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Whillis, James (1900 - 1955)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-16
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 8 September 1900 son of C Whillis he was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Newcastle Medical School, where he graduated with first-class honours and was awarded the Philipson scholarship; he served as demonstrator and then lecturer in anatomy. Whillis was appointed Reader in Anatomy at Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1935, but retained a keen interest in clinical medicine. He proved his administrative ability at the outbreak of war in 1939 when he helped to transform a nursing home and four houses near Tunbridge Wells into a residential medical school. Everything that could be moved from Guy's was transported under his guidance, and in six weeks the new school was functioning efficiently. When Professor T B Johnston retired in 1948 Whillis succeeed to the Chair of Anatomy, and was also made Director of the Department of Medical Illustration. Whillis had a special interest in the anatomy of the living subject. He studied the movements concerned with swallowing and speech production, and was quick to grasp the opportunities which radiology and cinematography offered to record results. He made a special study of the practical aspects of proprioception and the problem of rehabilitation. For several years he paid monthly visits to the Ministry of Pensions hospital at Stoke Mandeville and to the Facio-maxillary Unit at East Grinstead. Whillis devised a prosthesis for cases of upper limb amputations, which utilised the currents generated in contracting muscles by the outflow from the proprioceptive cortical areas concerned. He was invited to become chairman of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists in 1950, and in 1953 was chairman of the inaugural Congress of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy. Whillis was a charming man, pleasant and easy to work with. He was a lucid lecturer who could make rapid clear drawings on the blackboard. Frank and outspoken when the occasion demanded, he was so sincere that he made no enemies. In 1926 he married Dorothy Margaret Lee and they had one son Dr James Anthony Whillis. Whillis loved a game of golf and was interested in archaeology and antique furniture. He lived at St Denis, Seal, Kent and died after a short illness on 27 January 1955 aged 54. Publications: *Elementary anatomy and physiology* London Churchill 1938; 3rd edition 1949. Co-editor with Professor T B Johnston of *Gray's Anatomy*, 27th-31st editions, London, Longmans 1938-54. *Anatomy for dental students*, with Professor M F Lucas Keene. London, Arnold 1950.
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First Title value, for Searching Nicol, Thomas (1900 - 1983)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-25
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Thomas Nicol was born in Scotland on 4 August 1900, the son of William Nicol and Mary Wilson Gilmour and after early education entered the University of Glasgow for his medical studies, qualifying in 1922. Shortly after qualification he became senior house surgeon to Sir William Maccwen at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, and demonstrator in the department of anatomy at Glasgow University. In 1926 he passed the FRCS Edinburgh and in the following year was appointed senior lecturer in anatomy. He undertook research into the role of the reticulo-endothelial system in the defense system of the body and its stimulation with 17 beta-ostradiol. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by Glasgow University in 1934 and the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1935 with the Bellahouston Gold Medal and the Struthers Gold Medal and Prize. In 1936 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at King's College, London, and two years later was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. After the outbreak of war the department of anatomy was evacuated, first to Glasgow and later to Birmingham, and the opportunities for further research were reduced. He examined in anatomy for the primary FRCS for many years and was also examiner to the Universities of London, Birmingham, Durham, Glasgow and St Andrew's. He was John Hunter lecturer in applied anatomy at St George's Hospital and Malcolm McHardy lecturer at the Royal Eye Hospital. Throughout his life he encouraged his students to broaden their knowledge by attending lectures by visiting professors who came to King's College and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1951. He remained at King's College for 31 years, retiring in 1967 but then went to the Institute of Laryngology where he started a department of clinical anatomy, remaining as director until 1982. His recreations were music, golf and swimming and he was appointed honorary member of the Mark Twain Society in succession to Sir Alexander Fleming. He was also Lord of the Manor of Heveningham, Suffolk. In 1927 he married Evelyn Keeling, daughter of Thomas Keeling, former engineer-in-chief of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Sadly his wife was stricken with rheumatic fever during pregnancy resulting in severe heart valve disease and she died in 1966. He died on 7 February 1983, aged 82, survived by a son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, James Oswald (1921 - 2000)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Anatomist Urologist
Details James Robinson, formerly senior surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, was born on 25 June 1921 in Brisbane, Australia. At an early age his parents moved to France, where his father, Ernest Longton Robinson, died in 1928. His mother, Mary Gordon Olive née Love, then married Rupert Shelton Corbett (a Barts surgeon). After a period at prep school in Sussex, James went to Charterhouse School from 1935 to 1939, before entering Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, for his pre-clinical training. His clinical years were spent during the war at St Bartholomew's, from which he qualified in 1944. After house appointments, he became Squadron Leader in the RAF until 1947. He was a natural teacher, first of anatomy at the medical college of St Bartholomew's, where he edited the 9th edition of *Rawling's Landmarks and surface markings of the human body* (London, H K Lewis, 1953), before proceeding to his post-fellowship training as chief assistant to the late John Hosford and Sir Edward Tuckwell. At this period he was co-author of *The diagnosis and management of urological cases - a handbook for students, residents and general practitioners, etc*, (London, Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1955) with Bruce Pender, and also produced *Modern urology for nurses* (London, Heinemann Medical). He spent a year in the USA, from 1955 to 1956, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as instructor in surgery with Frederick Coller and Reed Nesbit, before returning to the North Middlesex Hospital. Over the years he made many American friends, including Ben Eismann, professor of surgery in Denver, with whom he had several near-disastrous skiing trips; his love of that country was to prove life-long. Appointed to the consultant staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1958, he inspired numerous medical students by his superb teaching and relaxed, simple and well-ordered approach. Above all, he was noted for his courteous approach to patients and students, both in outpatients and on ward rounds. At times he admitted to frustration, "If only they answered a question 'I don't know'!" Life was never dull in his company; students on his firm enjoyed evening parties, usually in black tie, in hostelries up and down the Thames. He was devoted to the students, being President of the students' union for many years. Unfailing loyalty to the hospital and medical college for a quarter of a century led to his becoming the youngest member of the board of governors. In this capacity he represented a rather restless group of younger consultants when change was inevitable. His chairmanship of committees, including the medical advisory committee and the medical council, was done with ease, being both tactful and firm. A positive solution to difficult problems, without confrontation, occurred with James in the chair. When Barts developed a new major accident plan, it was 'Jimmy', as he was affectionately known, who re-designed it and brought it into the twentieth century. Indeed he was at a hospital in Gerrards Cross when he heard of the Moorgate Underground disaster. He drove at high speed back to Barts, to be near the centre of action. He was a prime mover in establishing the Barts Research Development Trust. He enjoyed the privilege of being on the consultant staff of King Edward Hospital for Officers, the Royal Masonic Hospital and Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. He was also honorary surgeon to St Dunstan's, the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain and the Coram Foundation for Children. James was a member of many societies, including the Travelling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Medical Society of London, the Hunterian Society, and the Knights of the Round Table, to name but a few. He gained much pleasure by being elected to the Frederick Coller Surgical Society in the USA and becoming an honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the Georgia Militia. His Cambridge connections made a profound impact on him: he was for 18 years President of the Cambridge Medical Graduate's Club, after being secretary for many years. Although it is now a dining club, he steered the members into providing scholarships, by raising money for the regius professor of physic. He married Pamela Charney in 1946 and they had a daughter, Caroline, and a son, Michael. After they divorced, he married Patricia Laxton. She died of cancer and sometime later Jimmy met and married Veronica Clifton, with whom he spent many happy years. In retirement he and Veronica moved to the USA, where he was appointed professor of medical history at the University of Texas, Dallas. He made many important contributions to the literature and lectured widely on medical and military history. They came back to the UK to live in Lymington in Hampshire. He enjoyed golf, tennis, photography and cabinet making, and took a great interest in the history of Lord Nelson. Dogged by cerebro-vascular problems, his locomotion and sight deteriorated, and he spent his last year in a nursing home, where he died on 19 April 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching McMinn, Robert Matthew Hay (1923 - 2012)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Vishy Mahadevan
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2013-01-23
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Robert Matthew Hay McMinn was a leading anatomist, who will always be associated with the medical atlas that bears his name. Known to his friends and colleagues as 'Bob', he was born on 20 September 1923 in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, the only child of Robert Martin McMinn, a local general practitioner, and Elsie Selene McMinn née Kent. A few years later, the family moved to Brighton, where Bob McMinn completed his school education on a scholarship at Brighton College. Following in his father's footsteps, he then studied medicine at Glasgow University, qualifying in 1947. Bob was a keen and accomplished sportsman during his university years, distinguishing himself as a member of the university hockey team and by being crowned in 1944 as the Scottish universities champion in the 440 yards hurdles. Immediately after completing his house officer postings in Glasgow, Bob McMinn joined the RAF for this National Service. During this period he served in Iraq, as well as in East and West Africa. He returned to the UK in 1950 and promptly joined the anatomy department of Glasgow University as a demonstrator. This marked the beginning of his career as an anatomist. In 1953 he was appointed as a lecturer in anatomy at Sheffield University, where, three years later, he was awarded a PhD. In 1958, he was awarded an MD (with commendation) by Glasgow University for his research on wound healing. In 1959, while still at Sheffield, Bob was invited by the Royal College of Surgeons of England to give the Arris and Gale lecture. In 1960 Bob joined the department of anatomy at King's College on the Strand in London as a reader, becoming titular professor in the same department, a few years later. In 1970 he was appointed as the Sir William Collins professor of human and comparative anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the last but one person to occupy this eponymous chair before it was abolished in the 1980s. Alongside the professorship he was also conservator of the Wellcome Museum of Anatomy at the college. It was during his term of office at the Royal College of Surgeons that Bob McMinn conceived of the idea of producing a pictorial atlas of human anatomy based largely on the outstanding collection of exquisite dissections of the human body that were already on display in the College's Museum of Anatomy. Most of these dissections were the work of D H Tompsett, prosector to the College. In collaboration with Ralph Hutchings, a senior laboratory technical officer and accomplished photographer, Bob McMinn authored *A colour atlas of human anatomy* (London, Wolfe) in 1977. The atlas is now into its sixth edition. It has been translated into more than 30 languages and has sold several million copies worldwide. The fourth and subsequent editions of the atlas have borne the name *McMinn's atlas of clinical anatomy*, in recognition of Bob's great and lifelong contribution to the teaching of anatomy. In the late 1980s Bob McMinn accepted from his friend and erstwhile colleague, Raymond Jack Last, the editorship of the very popular textbook, *Anatomy - regional and applied* (Edinburgh, Churchill), a book that Last first wrote in 1954, and then updated periodically up to and including the seventh edition. Bob edited the eighth and ninth editions. The skilful revision and enrichment of the original text without any loss of the style and spirit of Last's prose was a matter of great pleasure and satisfaction to Jack Last, and ensured the continued popularity of the book. Bob McMinn was an active member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and served, in an honorary capacity, successively as programme secretary and treasurer of the society. He was also a founding member of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists (BACA), which came into existence in July 1977, and served as the association's very first honorary secretary. In July 2000, during the third joint meeting of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists and the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) held at St John's College, Cambridge, Bob was awarded the BACA medal 'to recognise and honour his global contribution to the study of anatomy through his research and outstanding publications'. Bob was awarded a fellowship (by election) of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1978. In 1948, following his graduation from medical school, Bob married Margaret Grieve Kirkwood, a fellow medical student. In 1995, Bob and his wife Margaret returned to their native Scotland to set up home in the picturesque village of Ardfern on the banks of Loch Craignish in Argyll. They enjoyed their retirement in this small and close community, participating with much enthusiasm in various village activities. Bob died on 11 July 2012 at the age of 88, after a femoral fracture sustained in a fall. His wife Margaret predeceased him by a year. They were survived by a son and a daughter, and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Kirk, John (1881 - 1959)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born on 27 November 1881 son of the Rev John Kirk and Eliza Walker Lewis of Edinburgh, he was educated at George Watson's College and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated MB ChB in 1904. After graduation he held the post of house-surgeon at the Mildmay Mission Hospital, Bethnal Green before going to New Zealand in 1906. A deeply religious man, Kirk spent the years 1907 to 1928 in medical missionary work in China under the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission. He became lecturer in human anatomy at the Kung Yee Medical College, Canton and in 1924 was placed in charge of the new department of anatomy the first of its kind in South China. His leaves were spent profitably: in 1914 he took the FRCS, and in 1921-22 he was full-time demonstrator of anatomy at Birmingham University. Kirk was one of a small group of doctors who realised that it was their duty to establish modern medical education in China at a few well-equipped centres, and in 1920 he visited Canada and the USA as a member of the delegation financed by the Rockefeller Foundation to seek support for medical education and research in South China. In the result they founded three university medical schools. For six years Kirk was a member of the council on medical education of the Chinese Medical Association and was president from 1923 to 1925. In 1928 Kirk returned to England and joined the staff of University College London as a demonstrator of anatomy; in 1930 he became senior demonstrator and was made responsible for the anatomy class for the primary FRCS students. Kirk made the dry bones of anatomy live, and his classes drew students from all over the world; he took a personal interest in his students. He became sub-dean of the Faculty of Medicine and was senior tutor in the Faculties of medicine, science, and engineering, and lecturer in anatomy to the Slade School of Fine Art. In 1937 Kirk was appointed to the SA Courtauld chair of anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and retained this post until retirement in 1949. His superb knowledge of anatomy, vast experience, lucid delivery, and sincere interest in his students brought him much affection and respect. He was honorary treasurer of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1937 to 1947 and a vice-president from 1947 to 1949, and examined for the Primary FRCS. On retirement he received the title of Professor Emeritus, and in 1952 he was elected FRCS. Kirk who was a tall, handsome man, combined natural dignity with deep humanity. In 1908 he married Norah Elizabeth Hughes; they had two sons and one daughter. Kirk died on 26 September 1959 at his home Hopefield, Winscombe Way, Stanmore at the age of 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Gabriel, Vrasapillai (1885 - 1965)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-04
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Vrasapillai Gabriel was born on 18 December 1885 in the town of Mannar in Northern Ceylon. He came from a well known Northern family who were the hereditary administrators in the day of the British Raj. His father was Mudaliyar V Varsapillai JP, UPM, Adigar of Musale. He was born into a family of two boys and five girls. He was educated at St Thomas College in Colombo and entered the Ceylon Medical College in 1904. He won the Jejeebhoy Scholarship on entering and then carried away the Rockwood Gold Medal in Surgery, Garvin Gold Medal in Operative Surgery, the Loos Gold Medal in Pathology and finally the Diploma Medal in 1910 when he graduated. He proceeded to England that year and entered the London Hospital. In 1913 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1914 a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, being the first Ceylonese to be elected to this College. He worked in England for several years as a registrar at the Royal Eye, the Italian Hospital, Queen Square and finally as medical superintendent of the Shoreditch Infirmary. He returned to Ceylon in 1920 when he was appointed lecturer in anatomy in the Ceylon Medical College. In 1923 he was appointed surgeon to the out-patients General Hospital Colombo and in 1926 he was appointed to the visiting staff. In 1940 he was appointed senior surgeon which post he held till 1948 when he retired from the staff. He was as well lecturer in clinical and operative surgery in the University of Ceylon. In addition to his work in the hospital, he took interest in all things medical. He was a prominent member of the Ceylon Medical Association of which he was elected its President in 1940. He was President of the Ceylon Government Medical Officers' Association from 1937 to 1940. He was a member of the Ceylon Medical Council for over 15 years. His interest in medical education led him to be elected to the Court of the University of Ceylon and to the University Selection Board. In 1945 he was elected President of the Ceylon Association of Science, but for reasons of health he could not fill the post. In 1962 he was one of the first to be elected an Honorary Member of the newly formed Ceylon Association of Surgeons. Mr Gabriel was one of the early exponents of gastric and biliary surgery in Ceylon, a part of surgery he relished and wrote and lectured on before the Surgical Associations. He was the pioneer of spinal anaesthesia in Ceylon in the early twenties, a form he advocated vigorously in the days before relaxants and modern anaesthesia came into being. In 1920 he married Florence Mary McCulloch, a nurse at the London Hospital, whom he met when a student there. He had one son, Anthony Gabriel, who is also a Fellow of the College and surgeon to Colombo Hospitals. He died on 26 May 1965 after a brief illness in Colombo.
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Alexander (1804 - 1890)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born on February 6th, 1804, the sixth son of Charles Shaw, Clerk of the County of Ayr, and Barbara Wright, his wife, daughter of a Collector of Customs at Greenock. John Shaw (1792-1827), Lecturer on Anatomy at the Great Windmill Street School of Medicine, who helped Sir Charles Bell in making his discoveries on the nervous system; Sir Charles Shaw (1795-1871), who saw much service in the Carlist Wars; and Patrick Shaw (1796-1872), the legal writer, were his brothers. One of his sisters, Marion, married Sir Charles Bell, another became the wife of Professor George Joseph Bell. Shaw was educated at the Edinburgh High School and afterwards went to the University of Glasgow, matriculated in 1819, and graduated MA on April 11th, 1822. He then entered the Middlesex Hospital, London, where Sir Charles Bell had been Surgeon since 1812, and was elected Assistant Surgeon in 1836 and Surgeon in 1842. On his retirement in 1872 he was appointed Consulting Surgeon. He joined the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital when it was first founded, and at the time of his death was the sole survivor of the original members of the staff. He was admitted a pensioner at Downing College, Cambridge, on June 28th, 1826, but the death of his brother John in 1827 caused him to leave Cambridge and take up duty at the Great Windmill Street School. At the Royal College of Surgeons he served as a Member of the Council from 1858-1865. At the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society he served as Hon Secretary, Vice-President, and Treasurer, publishing some papers on rickets in the *Medico-Chirurgical Transactions*(1832, xvii, 434; 1840, xxiii, 336); also "Dislocation of the Atlas upon the Vertebra Dentata" (*Ibid*, 1848, xxxi, 289) and "Successful Treatment of Popliteal Aneurism" (*Ibid*,1859, xlii, 209). In 1869 he republished, with additions, Sir Charles Bell's *New Idea of the Anatomy of the Brain*, which had originally been issued privately in 1811. Sir Charles Bell died in 1842, and Lady Bell then kept house for her brother, making it a centre for the literary and scientific society of the period. Shaw married in 1856 Susan Turner (d 1891), widow of J Randall, and by her had one son, who died an infant. He practised at 22A Cavendish Square, but retired to 136 Abbey Road, NW, and died on January 18th, 1890. Shaw was perhaps better known as an anatomist interested in the physiological experiments of his brother-in-law, Sir Charles Bell, than as a surgeon; but he was a good surgeon who never lost interest in his profession, although he was incapacitated from work for some years before his death. There is a portrait in the Fellows' Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Maclay, Charles Workman (1913 - 1978)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Charles Workman Maclay was born in Glasgow on 4 November 1913 and educated at Glasgow Academy and at Strathallan where he won a gold medal and was dux of the school. As a student at Glasgow University he won the Lorimer Bursary in anatomy and physiology, the Macleod Gold Medal in surgery, and the Asher-Asher Gold Medal in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat. He graduated BSc in 1933 and MB ChB in 1936 and took the FRCS Edinburgh in 1940, the FRCS England in 1941 and FRFPS Glasgow in 1943. His early interest in anatomy was confirmed by his appointment as senior demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy at King's College, London University, only one year after graduation. Yet he continued to be attracted by general surgery and was a surgical specialist, RAMC, between 1939 and 1947. He took part in the Normandy landing and subsequent invasion of Europe and was demobilized with the permanent rank of Major. During these years and later he contributed papers to medical and scientific journals. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the Boston Combined Hospitals, Lincolnshire, in 1948 but resigned in 1957 and emigrated to South Africa, to which he was lured by the especial problems of the third world and by his passionate desire to contribute towards the betterment of underprivileged people. He had a good command of French and German, some knowledge of Italian and Afrikaans, and eventually an ability in certain African languages or dialects. In 1964 he forsook his private and hospital practices in Natal to become senior lecturer in anatomy in the Durban Medical School, University of Natal, where he taught with distinction for five years before accepting the post of senior lecturer in anatomy at the University of Cape Town. He evolved a large series of diagrams for teaching gross anatomy, neuroanatomy, and embryology, and also a masterpiece of concise instruction in applied anatomy. He married in 1938 Mary Russell who trained as a nurse in Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary and they had two sons. He died on 12 April 1978, aged 64 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Ismail, Hisham Ismail (1947 - 1988)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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Occupation Anatomist Vascular surgeon
Details Hisham Ismail was born in Heliopolis, Cairo, on 28 August 1947, the second son of Mohammed Ismail, a civil aviation engineer and general manager of Cairo airport. His early education was at Heliopolis Secondary School before entering Ain Shams Medical School, Cairo, where he obtained honours in surgery at the final examination. During his student years he was judo champion for five years and some of his surgical studies were at Charing Cross Hospital. After qualifying in 1969 he came to England and initially undertook house appointments in the St Thomas's Group of Hospitals. He decided to pursue a career in surgery and from 1972 to 1975 was rotating senior house surgeon and surgical registrar in the Guy's Group where he came under the influence of Frank Ellis and Hugh Kinder. He passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1976 and the Fellowship of the College in the following year. He had a special interest in vascular surgery and after leaving Guy's Hospital spent some time as surgical registrar at King's College Hospital. In 1972 he married an Australian anaesthetist, Dr Glenys Penniment FFARCS, who was working at Guy's Hospital in junior anaesthetic posts and after they had both completed their training they returned to her home in Perth where he was able to obtain an appointment as registrar in vascular surgery at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Hollywood, Western Australia. At that time his qualification permitted him to work in hospital but was not accepted by the board for registration to do private practice outside the hospital. He therefore returned to Cairo in 1983 to an appointment as associate professor of vascular surgery at Malariah Hospital where he also undertook some private practice. In 1985 he returned to Australia as vascular surgeon in Canberra but shortly afterwards developed a carcinoma of the nasopharynx which forced him to discontinue his hospital practice although he was able to continue working part-time in the department of anatomy of the University of Western Australia. He died on 17 January 1988 aged 40, survived by his wife and three children.
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First Title value, for Searching Lewin, Monica Cynthia (1926 - 1998)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-17 2021-04-20
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Monica Lewin was a surgeon at Kingston Public Hospital and a part-time lecturer in anatomy at the University of the West Indies. She was born on 15 August 1925, in Clarendon, Jamaica. Her father, James Mahoney Lewin, was the 'grand old man' of the district of Vere, in Jamaica. He founded and became first the headmaster of the Vere Technical High School, having travelled extensively in England, India and the United States for the YMCA. Her mother was Asinath née Elliot, also a schoolteacher. Monica was educated at the Hampton School, where she became the first black head girl, and won a Jamaica Government scholarship to the Royal Free in 1944. After qualifying, Monica was house surgeon to Geraldine Barry, and house physician at St Margaret's Hospital, Epping. After junior jobs in Brighton, the Royal London Homoeopathic and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospitals, she passed the final FRCS and returned to Jamaica as senior registrar to Sir Harry Annamunthodo. She was appointed surgeon to the Children's and Kingston Public Hospitals in 1963, and became a part-time lecturer in anatomy at the University of the West Indies in 1968. During the unrest in Kingston in the 1960s, she worked day and night treating gunshot and machete wounds. Monica married David Atkinson when they were both medical students in 1949. David also became an FRCS, according to Lord Brock the first husband and wife to hold the English Fellowship. He joined her as senior lecturer and consultant urologist at the University Hospital in Kingston. They eventually returned to England when David became consultant urologist at the North Middlesex Hospital. Monica 'kept her hand in' as a clinical assistant in the accident and emergency departments of the Royal Northern and Whittington Hospitals. To their surprise, they had two children, a son, David, and a daughter, Mary, when they were past 45. There are three grandchildren, Luke, Emily and Richard. Monica retired in 1988. Among her hobbies was that of being a radio 'ham'. She died from a cerebrovascular accident on 17 February 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Fletcher, James Ogden (1824 - 1874)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-12-14
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at Prestwich, Lancashire, and served his apprenticeship with John Goodman, of Salford, with his uncle, James Ogden, one of the leading medical men in Salford, and with his uncle's successor, William B Lumb. Young Fletcher took a keen interest from the first in science, especially in chemistry and botany. He made a collection of the plants of Southern Lancashire, which was nearly exhaustive. He entered as a student at the Manchester School of Medicine, and won a prominent position by his diligence and acquirements. He settled in Manchester as a general practitioner, and was appointed Medical Superintendent to one of the temporary hospitals established to combat the very prevalent fever 'of a low type', which was probably typhoid, for while prescribing and organizing he endeavoured in fatal cases to elucidate 'the pathology of typhoid fever as it affected the intestinal canal'. He had a severe attack, but made a satisfactory recovery. He was appointed in conjunction with his brother, Dr Shepherd Fletcher, one of the Lecturers on Anatomy in the new Chatham Street School of Medicine, and continued to lecture until the two medical schools in Manchester were amalgamated, when his students presented him with a valuable testimonial. Fletcher was appointed in 1865 by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company their Consulting Surgeon, and during two or three years gained a wide experience of railway injuries and travellers' injuries generally. He was for some years active in the management of the Manchester Medical Society, of which he was President in 1869, and was much interested in the Medico-Ethical Society. At the time of his death he was Medical Officer of the 'A' and 'B' Divisions of the Manchester City Police, and of the City Gaol. He was a Fellow of the Medical Society of London. His death occurred at Manchester, where his addresses were 35 Lever Street and Greenhays Lane, on September 14th, 1874. Publications: *Railways in their Medical Aspects*, 8vo, London, 1867. In this work he tabulated the more important facts relating to 175 patients injured in railway accidents, chiefly in collisions. "Sugar found in the Perspiration, Tears, and Ceruminous Matter of the Ears." - *Med. Times Lond.*, 1847, xvi, 393. "On the Treatment of the Feet and Breech Presentations." - *Ibid.*, 1849, xix, 595. "Exophthalmic Goitre." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1863, I, 529. This last is an interesting paper, in which five cases of recovery are related.
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First Title value, for Searching Young, Alfred Harry (1852 - 1912)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-06
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at Warrington. He studied at University College, Liverpool, and at Edinburgh, where after graduation he acted as Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy under Sir James Russell and as Senior Demonstrator under Sir William Turner. Young then went to Manchester in 1877 as Demonstrator of Anatomy and Assistant Lecturer at Owens College under Professor Morrison Watson. After two years he resigned to become Pathological Registrar at the Manchester Royal Infirmary After two further years he was made Medical and Surgical Registrar, and finally for one year Surgical Registrar only. He was next appointed Surgeon to the Manchester Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, and in 1883 he became Surgeon to the Salford Royal Hospital. He was apt to speak out his mind forcibly, yet he would often afterwards take up a conciliatory attitude, but in 1882 he failed to be elected Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and showed some resentment. There was friction between Owens College and the Surgeons of the Infirmary which led the Surgeons to resign their teaching posts at the College. Young was appointed in 1885 Professor of Anatomy on the death of Professor Morrison Watson, and soon after became Dean of the Medical School. Young from the beginning had carried out much research in human and comparative anatomy, but he was less successful as a lecturer because he spoke too fast and lectured above the heads of elementary students. As an examiner in anatomy he sometimes seemed not to seek the student's knowledge, but rather how much the student had to learn. His post as examiner in anatomy included the Conjoint Fellowship Examination at the College, also at the Universities of Oxford, London, Birmingham, and Liverpool. For some years he represented the Victoria University on the General Medical Council, and for a time acted as Pro-Vice-Chancellor. He numbered among his Assistants Professor Paterson, of Liverpool; Professor Robinson, of Edinburgh; Professor P Thompson, of Birmingham; and Professor William Wright, of the London Hospital. In later years Young devoted much time to the anatomy and development of the blood-vessels. Ill health compelled him to resign his professorship in 1909, and after a long illness he died at his home at Didsbury on February 23rd, 1912. He was survived by Mrs Young and one daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Keen, John Asaria (1894 - 1969)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-18
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Occupation Anatomist ENT surgeon
Details Keen was born on 4 July 1894 and qualified from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School during the first world war, and served as a medical officer in East Africa. After the war he obtained the FRCS, and practised as an ENT surgeon in Leicester for over fifteen years. He then diverted his career to anatomy, and after a short period of teaching at St Thomas's he moved to Cape Town where he became a senior lecturer. In 1951 he was appointed as the first occupant of the Chair of Anatomy at the University of Natal in Durban. The author of several publications on ear, nose and throat surgery, he later made important contributions in anthropology, comparative anatomy, embryology and teratology, and was responsible for a revision of Ellis's *Anatomy* which was extensively used in South Africa. Professor Keen retired from his chair in 1959, and was succeeded by his elder son. The next few years Keen spent in Switzerland, continuing some teaching in anatomy at the University of Lauzanne. In 1965 the Wessex Regional Hospital Board decided to establish a regional department of anatomy in connection with the basic medical sciences course which is held in Southampton for junior hospital staff in the region who are candidates for the Primary Fellowship in surgery or anaesthesia. A new unit was built as an extension of the department of morbid anatomy in the General Hospital and in 1966 Professor Keen became the first regional tutor in anatomy. The success of this venture has been in great measure due to the wisdom and devotion of Keen in developing a pattern for a job for which there were no guide lines. On a day release basis he took forty postgraduates in anatomy and histology tutorials as well as individual young surgeons who came to him for revision tuition when studying for the Primary or Final Fellowship. His careful and beautiful prosections of parts and the whole cadaver were an essential part of his success as a first class teacher. This success can be measured not only in examination results but in the affection and esteem in which he was held by colleagues and junior staff alike. He was fully launched on the third year of his new work when he died on 7 October 1969 aged 75, survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Rowlands, Eustace Alwynne (1905 - 1986)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Alwynne Rowlands was born in Launceston, Tasmania on 19 July 1905 and after attending the Launceston Church of England Grammer School he entered Melbourne University from which he graduated MB, BS in 1930. After resident posts at the Alfred Hospital he came to England where he was resident surgical officer at the Salford Royal Hospital, the Royal Masonic Hospital and St Mary's Hospital, London. He was registrar to Sir Geoffrey Jefferson and to Victor Bonney. On his return he was appointed senior lecturer in histology and embryology in the University of Melbourne and in 1938 obtained the FRACS. In 1938 and 1939 he was acting Professor of Anatomy. In 1923 he had joined the Royal Australian Naval Reserve as a Midshipman and was promoted Lieutenant in 1927 and in 1934 as Surgeon Lieutenant. He was mobilised on the outbreak of war and saw service in HMAS Perth in the Mediterranean at the battle of Cape Matapan and in the evacuations of Greece and Crete. He was transferred to the Pacific, being appointed as the medical equipment officer to the Australian, British and Dutch Pacific Fleets. He was demobilised as a Surgeon Commander but continued in the RANR until retirement as Surgeon Captain. For his services to the navy he was awarded the OBE and the VRD. In 1946 he was appointed inpatient surgeon to the Alfred Hospital and consultant surgeon to the Repatriation Hospital. He was known as a dextrous and gentle surgeon making full use of his pre-war experience when Professor of Anatomy. He was renowned for his loyalty to his junior staff whom he asssisted and encouraged in every way possible. In 1964 he was elected to Melbourne City Council and from 1971 to 1972 was Lord Mayor of Melbourne. He was a member of the Council of the University from 1965 to 1975. He also served on the boards of many hospitals and medical and dental institutes in and around the city in addition being a director of several companies. He first met his wife "in bed" - she was one of the sisters who nursed him after an operation! They were married in 1928 and Nell was not only a wonderful wife and mother to his son and two daughters but a magnificent theatre sister who assisted him in all his private operations. He died on 8 February 1986, survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Ger, Ralph (1921 - 2012)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2012-10-31
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Ralph Ger was a clinical anatomist and innovative surgeon, who spent most of his working life in New York at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He emigrated from South Africa during the period of apartheid, and obtained much of his surgical training in the United Kingdom after war service in the South African Medical Corps. Born on 20 February 1921, he was brought up in a modest home in a working class neighbourhood of Cape Town. His father, Morris Ger, emigrated as a young man from Lithuania. In his adopted country he worked first as a butcher and then as a meat inspector. He married Mary (née Shattenstein), who was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants. Ralph had an older brother, Lazarus, who became an accountant and, a younger sister, Zelda. Ralph went to the local school and matriculated at the age of 15, during which time he also received teaching in the synagogue. Subject to bullying, his undoubted scholastic ability, a natural flair in sports and his considerable height countered the verbal abuse and stone throwing he experienced on his way to school. He had visions of becoming a veterinary surgeon, but at the time the only centre for this was at the University of Pretoria, where the tuition was in Afrikaans and not in English. Ralph turned to medicine. Entering the University of Cape Town, he graduated at the early age of 21 in 1942. From 1938 he was appointed as a student demonstrator in the department of anatomy. At university he excelled in many sports: he enjoyed playing soccer in the Cape Town league, and was excellent at tennis and table tennis. For most of his adult life Ralph was a keen golfer. Indeed, his retirement present was a new set of golf clubs. He obtained his licence from the South African Medical Council on completion of house appointments at Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. In 1944, Ralph joined the South African Medical Corps as a lieutenant and was posted to a military hospital as a medical officer on the tuberculosis ward. He was then ordered to board the Liberty ship *Nirvana*, a well-worn vessel built in the USA and billed as a 'mule ship', capable of only a few knots and used to transport mules from South Africa to Karachi for use in the Burma campaign. Ralph was responsible for the welfare of the crew and the muleteers, although at times he was called on to help the ship's 'vet' relieve large bowel obstructions by dis-impaction of solid faeces. He returned to South Africa when peace was declared and was posted to the medical division at Springfield Hospital, Natal, before being discharged in 1946 with the rank of captain. Ralph continued to demonstrate anatomy for a further year in Cape Town, but decided on a career in surgery rather than pure anatomy. In pursuit of this he decided to continue his training in the United Kingdom, as did so many South African, Australian and New Zealand doctors, and became a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Anatomy held no terrors for him and he passed the primary FRCS in 1948, before going to the Walton Hospital, Liverpool, as a junior registrar in surgery. At the time large numbers of post-war trainees were competing for posts in the UK, but family circumstances dictated that Ralph should return to South Africa, where he spent a year as a resident at the Somerset Hospital, Cape Town. Returning again to the UK, Ralph registered as a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh to prepare himself for the final FRCS examination. He obtained posts as a registrar in the UK, firstly at the Wingfield-Morris Hospital in Oxford in orthopaedics (in 1952) and then at St Catherine's Hospital in Birkenhead during 1953. Study did not come easily as the posts were very busy, and sleep deprivation almost drove him to a nervous breakdown. A short-lived early marriage failed, and this did not help his health. It was in Liverpool that he worked for a superb teacher with a great knowledge of basic sciences, Alfred Mark Abrahams, and during this period he passed the final FRCS, first in Edinburgh and then in London. The Abrahams were very hospitable and Ralph met their three-year-old son, Peter, who was later to become a doctor and is now an anatomist. Little did Ralph know that he and Peter would later be co-authors of *Essentials of clinical anatomy* (London, Pitman, 1986). Ralph's final posts in the UK were at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, and St Thomas' Hospital throughout 1954, as a senior registrar in general surgery and urology. When he returned to South Africa he went to Baragwanath Hospital, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for over a year in 1955. This well-known trauma centre was very busy and his future wife, Dorrit, was working there as an occupational therapist. Dorrit Neumann was the only child of Jacques Neumann and Charlotte Neumann née Silberberg. Jacques was born in Würzburg, Germany, and graduated from the University of Hamburg and built up a successful practice there as a consultant physician. In 1937 Dorrit's parents emigrated to Johannesburg in order to escape the horrors of Nazi persecution. Jacques Neumann repeated three years of medical training in order to practice in South Africa as a general practitioner. It is believed that Charlotte Neumann's family all died in the Holocaust: she herself died when her only daughter, Dorrit, was 11. Ralph Ger spotted this tall and attractive occupational therapist on the hospital tennis courts and, having tracked Dorrit down to the appropriate department, invited her out for a meal - the beginning of a long courtship. They married in 1958 in Johannesburg, by which time Ralph had an increasing private practice as a surgeon in Cape Town, whilst still retaining a strong interest in anatomy as a lecturer in the medical school. He had other appointments between 1958 and 1966, as a consultant in surgery at Cape Town University Medical School and was attending surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital. He was also an examiner in basic sciences for the College of Physicians, Surgeons and Gynaecologists of South Africa, and became the director of programmes in anatomy to the college. He was also appointed to the staff of Somerset Hospital, a non-white institution. As he wrote in an unpublished memoir: 'This appointment brought joy to my heart, because I was able to do something to improve the situation that had arisen in a country where the civil rights of the majority of the population were non-existent. I always had mixed feelings of living in a racist community, but the apartheid government was reaching new lows. I met a man who belonged to a Christian organisation and who was trying to ameliorate the conditions under which the blacks lived, and I arranged a weekly clinic for those who needed surgery, driving them to hospital where I could treat them.' Some university students became militant on the problem of apartheid, and one of their number recognised that their actions might lead to situations needing medical care. Ralph agreed to treat them, irrespective of the cause of their problems. One night the security police visited the Ger home and, after a thorough search, took Ralph to prison, where he was interrogated throughout the night. He was released in the morning, only to find that the student who had asked for medical support had had his accommodation ransacked by the police several days earlier. The police had found an address book incriminating Ralph Ger as the movement's medical attendant. The very next day, following his release, the front page of an Afrikaans newspaper pictured Ralph as the 'movement's doctor'. His hard-earned hospital appointments were immediately terminated by order of the government. Emigration for Ralph and Dorrit and their three children seemed the only option. He turned to a South African friend, 'Effie' Ephron, who was working at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine and had also trained in the UK. Following his advice, Ralph travelled to the USA and was successful at an interview for a post at the Lincoln Hospital, managed by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. So began a long association with the Albert Einstein, after sad farewells to friends and relations in South Africa. Ralph and Dorrit settled in Great Neck, New York. Their three children all attended local schools and had successful careers. Their daughter Amanda married Jerry Gitilitz after studying early childhood education. Their son, Michael, studied mechanical engineering and now works for Oracle. Kevin, the youngest, studied aeronautical engineering and works for Jetstar airlines in Australia. Ralph Ger's long association with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine encompassed a 10-year post as assistant professor of surgery from 1966. He soon became chief of surgery at the Jack D Weiler Hospital on the campus of the medical college. Happily Ralph had access to the dissecting room and, by 1968, Ralph and his colleague 'Effie' Ephron had reshaped the anatomy course with an emphasis on clinical anatomy. Ralph left the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1986 to become chair of the department of surgery at Winthrop University Hospital on Long Island, but he continued his commitment to the Einstein anatomy courses for another 20 years, as a popular, witty lecturer. He gave his last lecture in 2009, at the age of 88, on the abdominal wall and hernias. So popular was his teaching that he received many awards. Using a blackboard, coloured chalks and very few projected slides, he was able to make his subject come alive and easily remembered. He was a logical choice as director of courses on operative surgery. Ralph played a major role in the creation of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) in 1983. He first went to the 1982 Liverpool meeting of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists (BACA). He was also pleased to find at national meetings that many American surgeons shared his concerns and vision for teaching relevant clinical anatomy. He became president of AACA after Ollie Beahrs of the Mayo Clinic and Robert A Chase of Stanford University, California, and was the driving force for the publication of the transactions of AACA meetings, first in *American Surgeon*. Later he and Ray Scothorne, Regius Professor of Anatomy at Glasgow University, became the first editors of *Clinical Anatomy*, a joint publication of AACA and BACA. Many innovations in his surgical practice were based on sound anatomical principles, and were the source of numerous publications and scientific presentations. Ralph was one of the first to perform laparoscopic hernia repair: he was a pioneer in the use of muscle transposition to aid healing of chronic ulcers in many areas of the body, including sacral sores, lower limbs and feet. Ralph and Dorrit were gracious and warm hosts and friends. Guests were met with Ralph's winning smile. He was very knowledgeable when golf tournaments were televised, and any spare moments on his way back from hospital duties were spent at a driving range at his country club. Wimbledon fortnight was compulsive viewing in the Ger household. They were also fond of theatre, visiting Stratford-upon-Avon for performances of the bard's works. Ralph Ger died on 6 April 2012. He was survived by Dorrit, his children, Amanda, Michael and Kevin, and his grandchildren, Jason, Andrew and Alexa.
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First Title value, for Searching Tatum, Thomas (1802 - 1879)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-28
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in Salisbury, an elder brother of George Roberts Tatum (qv), and there passed his boyhood and received his early education, after which he became a student at St George's Hospital. As there was at that time no medical school in connection with the Hospital, young Tatum, like his teacher and friend, Sir Benjamin Brodie, had perforce to spend his time between Hyde Park Corner and the Hunterian School of Anatomy in Great Windmill Street. He completed his medical education in Paris, but before qualifying in 1828 was appointed House Surgeon at St George's Hospital. He devoted a large part of his time to anatomy and became a masterly dissector. In 1830 he was appointed Teacher of Anatomy at the Hunterian School in conjunction with Herbert Mayo (qv). He held this post for only a year, as Mayo became first Professor of Anatomy at King's College, and Tatum was appointed first Lecturer on Anatomy at the Kinnerton Street School, from which sprang the St George's Hospital Medical School. He held this office for many years, resigning it only when appointed Lecturer on Surgery, a post held by him till 1867. In 1840 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to St George's Hospital, and in 1843 succeeded Robert Walker as Surgeon, becoming Consulting Surgeon on his retirement in 1867. Tatum spent the close of his life at Salisbury, thus severing his long connection with his hospital and with the Royal College of Surgeons, where from 1857-1863 he had been an active Member of Council. As an operator Tatum was brilliant. In amputation of the thigh he usually selected the old flap operation by transfixion; it used to be a favourite amusement with the students to time him and count the number of seconds occupied in the removal of the limb. An old nurse in the hospital, whose name recalled a pleasant memory to many an old St George's man - Mrs Dale - begged hard to be allowed to be present at the 'big' operation. She was never tired of recounting how at the moment Mr Tatum introduced his knife "she turned away her head for an instant, and when she turned it back again, the limb was off; and how he did it she could not imagine". Tatum was the first in this country to perform the operation of excision of the upper jaw for the removal of nasopharyngeal polypus - an operation which has been performed and practised by M Flaubert, of Rouen. The tumour and portion of bone removed are preserved in the museum of St George's Hospital. The patient made a good recovery, and was seen in perfect health seven years after the operation. Tatum died at Eastbourne, at the house of his son-in-law, on September 5th, 1879, and was buried in Brompton Cemetery. He married twice; the first Mrs Tatum was a daughter of William Brodie, MP for Salisbury, and niece of Sir Benjamin Brodie. His son by his second marriage was MRCS at the time of Tatum's death. His portrait is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: "Injuries and Diseases of Muscles" in Holmes's *System of Surgery*. He was an occasional contributor to the medical journals of cases of especial interest which occurred in his practice.
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First Title value, for Searching Mottershead, Sidney (1914 - 1998)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details A consultant surgeon in south Teesside, 'Sam' Mottershead was a colourful, amusing and forthright person who contributed much to surgery and was a great exponent of clinical anatomy. He was born in Stockport on 5 December 1914, and received his medical education in Manchester, gaining the Tom Jones prize in anatomy and distinctions in pathology and bacteriology. He qualified in 1938 in both university and conjoint examinations. After surgical house jobs in Manchester, he joined the anatomy department, working with Frederic Wood Jones and did research on 'glomus bodies' for his MD, having previously gained a BSc in anatomy. He served in the RAMC in India, then returned to Wood Jones's department, before joining the surgical unit at the Newcastle Royal Infirmary as chief assistant. Whilst in Newcastle, he wrote a chapter on the abdomen for the eighth edition of *Buchanan's manual of anatomy* (London, Bailliere Tindall & Cox, 1950), edited by Wood Jones, who had clearly generated his enthusiasm for the subject. Appointed consultant general surgeon to south Teeside from 1949 to 1979, he developed special interests in gastro-intestinal problems, breast disease and vascular problems. In the early 1950s, he set up a special clinic for vascular surgery in Teesside. He always had an interest in postgraduate education and served as regional tutor for the Royal College of Surgeons and as a clinical teacher in the University of Newcastle. For the College, he was a formidable but fair examiner in the primary FRCS in anatomy, and was seen to reduce one international rugby player to a rather 'pallid state'! He also examined for the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and enjoyed the challenge of maintaining standards of basic sciences in Britain and abroad, in Sri Lanka and Baghdad. His interest in and profound knowledge of anatomy led him to become a founder of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists (BACA). At the meetings he gave some excellent papers and could hold his own debating the subject, even with the most experienced medically qualified Professors of Anatomy (a disappearing breed). Sam was a member of other medical societies, including the Manchester Medical Society and the North of England Surgical Society. He was Chairman of the Middlesborough and Cleveland division of the BMA from 1972 to 1973. He was always trying to improve hospital facilities, and was a valued member of the planning committee of the new South Cleveland Hospital, being the originator of a public appeal for a CT scanner. His farewell to the NHS took the form of a surgical study day, followed by a dinner, at which his infectious wit came to the fore in an after-dinner speech, lasting some 30 minutes without notes. His marriage to Marjorie née Gibson, who survives him, was very happy. Whenever possible, they escaped to their flat in Majorca. They had three daughters, Susan, Margaret and Jane, and a son, Robert. At the time of his death there were five granddaughters. He died on 10 February 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Douglas-Crawford, Douglas (1867 - 1927)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-10-05
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in Liverpool, the son of a local medical man. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he was Junior Demonstrator in Pathology; after graduating he became Demonstrator of Anatomy to Professor Melville Paterson at University College, Dundee. He pursued his medical studies in Berlin, and at University College Hospital. After obtaining his Fellowship he joined the staff of the University of Liverpool as Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy under his former chief, Professor Paterson. Until the day of his death the importance of anatomy in surgery was an outstanding feature of his life's work. By every means in his power he sought to promote the study of anatomy as applied to surgery, both general and dental. In 1903 he became Lecturer at the University in Surgical and Applied Anatomy; in 1907 Lecturer in Clinical Surgery; in 1912 Lecturer in Clinical Surgery for Dental Students. In the same year he was a Vice-President of the Section of Anatomy at the Liverpool Meeting of the British Medical Association, and in 1925-1926 he was Chairman of the Faculty of Medicine. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Stanley Hospital in 1895, and full Surgeon in 1898. In 1910 he became Surgeon to the Royal Southern Hospital, where till the time of his death the bulk of his hospital surgery was carried out, and where he was latterly Senior Hon Surgeon. At the time of his death he also held the posts of Consulting Surgeon to the Liverpool Dental Hospital, the Hoylake and West Kirby Cottage Hospital, and the Druids Cross Hospital. During the Great War he served in Liverpool, and abroad with the 1st Western General Hospital. Much of his energy was given at one time and another to the Liverpool Dental Hospital and to teaching in the University. He was Tutor to Dental Students, to whom his instruction made a special appeal and among whom his reputation was high. He practised at 75 Rodney Street. A most active man, of breezy, cheerful manners, he had just been granted an extension of his term of office as Senior Surgeon of the Royal Southern Hospital, when he died suddenly while engaged in his usual work, on February 7th, 1927. He left a widow, but no children. Publications:- "Intraspinal Tumours, with Case of Successful removal." - *Liverpool Med.-Chir. Jour*., 1909, xxix, 815. "Chronic Prostatitis: its Cause and Treatment." - *Ibid.*, 1910, xxx, 300. "Volvulus." - *Ibid.*, 1911, xxxi, 891. "Jejunostomy for Malignant Stricture of Oesophagus." - *Ibid.*, 1914, xxxiv, 270.
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First Title value, for Searching Buckley, John Philip (1882 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born 11 October 1882, the third child and only son of Samuel Buckley, FRCS, consulting physician to the Clinical (now the Northern) Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children, Manchester, and his wife, Florence Woolley. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1904; he gained distinction in physiology at the London intermediate MB. He received his clinical training at the Manchester Medical School and Royal Infirmary, and the London Hospital. He graduated in medicine at Cambridge and in London, as well as taking the Conjoint qualification, proceeded to the Fellowship in 1911 and next year became MD Cambridge and MS London. He served as house surgeon and medical officer at the central branch of the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, and practised at 8 St John Street. He lived in his father's house Broadhurst, Old Bury Road, Cheetham Hill. He was appointed assistant surgeon to Salford Royal Hospital, and in 1914 to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. During the war of 1914-18 he served in France and the Near East as a captain, RAMC, and was awarded the Military Cross for brave service in the Sinai area. On return to civilian practice he became lecturer in surgical pathology at the Victoria University, and in due course surgeon to the Infirmary, to which he was ultimately a consulting surgeon. He was also surgeon to Grangethorpe Ministry of Pensions Hospital, and consulting surgeon to the Ship Canal Company. He was president of the Association of Surgeons, and of the Manchester Surgical Society in 1947-48. He was a learned comparative anatomist, and as a surgeon was chiefly interested in proctology and the treatment of hernia. In later life he became interested in forensic medicine. He was popular and approachable among his students and assistants. Buckley was a big man in every sense, fond of all the good things that life can offer. As a young man he was a keen rugby footballer, and later played rackets and tennis. Like his father he was a collector of books, and a good raconteur. Buckley never married. He died at his home on 20 December 1949, aged 67. Publications:- Method of treating the sac in radical cure of inguinal hernia. *Lancet*, 1914, 2, 1409. Superimposition of a retrograde upon a direct intussusception. *Brit med J*. 1919, 2, 665. The etiology of the femoral hernial sac. *Brit J Surg*. 1924-25, 12, 60.
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First Title value, for Searching Derry, Douglas Erith (1874 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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Occupation Anatomist Anthropologist
Details Douglas Erith Derry studied medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1903; he was Crichton Research Scholar in Anatomy 1903-04, and Demonstrator in Anatomy. Very soon, however, Derry went to Egypt, and by 1906 was Assistant Professor of Anatomy at the Government School of Medicine, Cairo. In 1909 Derry became anthropologist to the Archaeological Survey of Nubia; his combined interest in anatomy and archaeology brought him great opportunities at a time when so many exciting archaeological discoveries were being unearthed. Derry returned to England in 1910 to be Assistant Curator in the Anatomy Department of University College London, became Lecturer in Physical Anthropology in 1912, and in 1914 Demonstrator in Anatomy and Curator and Lecturer in Physical Anthropology. He was a Member of the Royal Anthropological Institute. All through the first world war Derry served in the RAMC, and was awarded the Military Cross. Derry returned to the Government Medical School, Cairo in 1919 as Professor of Anatomy. He travelled extensively in Egypt and spent a winter at the Wellcome archaeological excavations at Gebel Moya, south of Khartum, but soon realised that the conditions there were not to his taste. In the years following the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb at Luxor in 1923 Derry took a leading share in examining the human and other remains, and was the first anatomist to examine the mummy of the Pharoah Tutankhamen. Later Derry devoted himself wholly to his work as Professor of Anatomy at the School of Medicine, which became the Faculty of Medicine of the newly formed Egyptian University. His influence on the medical profession in Egypt was profound: in a quarter of a century the number of medical undergraduates grew from 600 to more than 3600. After the end of the second world war Derry was exposed to the hazards of life in Cairo. He was injured during a revolver attack by a student, and was brusquely evicted from his chair as an act of political reprisal in January 1952. In September 1952 his son John was killed with many spectators at the disastrous crash at Farnborough Air Display. Derry's years of retirement were spent in a sixteenth-century cottage, Little Linden Cottage, Radwinter, near Saffron Walden, Essex. He was still upright and alert until his sudden death on 20 February 1961 at the age of 87. Selected Publications: Some physical characters of a prehistoric Sudanese race. *Proc Int Cong Med 17*, London 1913, 1 pt 2 p 99. Mummification methods practised at different periods. *Ann Serv Antiq Egypte*, 1942. Dynastic race in Egypt. *J Egypt Archaeol* 1956.
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First Title value, for Searching Swaney, William Eric (1919 - 2013)

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by John E Harris
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2013-11-06
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Occupation Anatomist Orthopaedic surgeon
Details William Eric Swaney, known as 'Bill' to his colleagues, was head of orthopaedics at Royal Melbourne Hospital. As head of a very busy orthopaedic unit, he mentored many young orthopaedic surgeons and trainees in the early days of the Australian orthopaedic training programme. Bill was born in Footscray, a western suburb of Melbourne, on 12 March 1919 and was an only child. His father, William Henry Swaney, was a public servant in high office. His mother, Margaret Elizabeth Swaney née Brown, came from a family that owned a steel foundry. He was educated at Scotch College in Melbourne and was a good student and sportsman. He played rugby and rowed in the 1937 first crew. Thereafter he was a lifelong supporter of the school and a member of its council. He studied medicine at Melbourne University and there met Marie Cockbill, who was a medical student in his year and who later became a successful anaesthetist and university academic. They were married in 1943 and were an inseparable, dynamic and devoted couple throughout their lives and into the seventieth year of their marriage. Bill and Marie had five children and managed to find the optimal balance between being a close and loving family and leading busy professional lives. Following medical graduation, Bill carried out his residency at the Alfred Hospital, then joined the Army and bravely served in the South West Pacific, where he was mentioned in despatches. He rarely talked about this experience, but apparently as a young medical officer he frequently worked alone in the most difficult of circumstances treating and operating on sick and wounded soldiers. When stationed in the Solomon Islands, Bill met Charles Littlejohn, the first orthopaedic surgeon at Royal Melbourne Hospital, who may have encouraged him to specialise in orthopaedics. After the war, Bill returned to work and study at Melbourne University and Royal Melbourne and Heidelberg Repatriation hospitals. It was there he met the eminent orthopaedic surgeons Brian Keon-Cohen and John Jens. He obtained his FRACS and in 1951 went with his young family to England, where he passed his FRCS on his first attempt and worked for two years at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He worked there with Jip James, who later became professor of orthopaedics at Princess Margaret Rose Hospital in Edinburgh, and from him Bill acquired many useful skills especially related to spinal conditions. He returned to Melbourne in 1953 to commence private practice and to work in the orthopaedic unit at Royal Melbourne Hospital under the leadership of Brian Keon-Cohen, who had been appointed after the retirement of Charles Littlejohn. Also working in the unit at that time were Eric Price and Peter Williams, both of whom later became head of orthopaedics at the Royal Children's Hospital. The four must have made a formidable orthopaedic team. Bill was greatly influenced by Brian's intellect and teaching, and they became very firm friends and shared the same consulting rooms. Bill was subsequently appointed head of the Royal Melbourne orthopaedic unit in 1963, following Brian's retirement. At that time Bill was still a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Australian Army, holding the rank of colonel, and, in 1969, that role sent him once again into a war zone, this time to Vietnam. Under Bill's leadership at Royal Melbourne he introduced a new system where each surgeon had his own outpatient clinic and waiting list. It was an interesting time when joint replacement was becoming established and, despite some initial bureaucratic resistance, he was able to instigate a dedicated orthopaedic theatre for this purpose. There was a steady flow of talented newly-trained surgeons through the unit, including Kingsley Mills, Peter Kudelka, Owen Deacon, Doug Ritchie, Max Wearne, Brian Davey and Neil Bromberger. Notable trainees of the time included Bob Dickens, Clive Jones, Jonathan Rush, Bill Heape, Bill Cole and later John Bartlett, Ian Jones and John Harris. Bill was one of the original members of the Victorian branch of the orthopaedic training committee and he greatly enjoyed lecturing and teaching trainees and students. He was a gentleman, of the no nonsense autocratic era, and ran the unit and his practice in that way, earning the wide respect of his colleagues and hospital staff. He was a distinguished looking man who kept his military erect posture and dressed immaculately, usually in a suit. He also had a penchant for suede shoes. Bill was always punctual, and operating lists and clinics seldom went over time. He operated with great alacrity with the traditional 'non touch technique', that was so instilled in his time. He was multi-skilled, but had a special interest in the spine, shoulders and feet. He did original research on blood supply to the rotator cuff and the influence of the impinging coracoacromial ligament supposedly compromising the blood supply. He also introduced the primitive but effective form of stabilisation of spinal fusions by placing acrylic bone cement over the graft and encasing the lumbar spinous processes. The cement was later removed. He would do spinal osteotomies to correct gross deformity in ankylosing spondylitis and was a skilled manipulator of the spine and stiff joints, including shoulders knees and even feet, which is seldom done now in orthopaedic practice. Bill also maintained a longstanding association with the Melbourne University anatomy school and was a feared examiner in anatomy, which was one of his special areas of expertise. He was also an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' primary examination and was at one time president of the Australian Physiotherapy Association. His large private practice and public hospital commitment provided a spectrum of patients from near and far, from the very poor and humble to the most wealthy and privileged in high office. When he retired from the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1979 his wide experience and no nonsense reports made him sought after for medico-legal opinions, especially if there was conjecture about the degree of infirmity. Although he enjoyed operating until he was 70, he became somewhat disillusioned with medico-legal practice, which he didn't miss when he was fully retired. He loved to spend time with Marie and his family, and he also greatly enjoyed his other life as a gentleman farmer at a superb property at Melton, then just outside Melbourne, but now one of its outer suburbs. In fact he so greatly enjoyed his farm that Marie confided that even in Bill's early orthopaedic days Brian Keon-Cohen thought that Bill seemed more interested in his farm at times than his orthopaedics! He and Marie enjoyed travel and made many friends over the years, particularly in the Orkney Islands, where Bill's family had originated. In his retirement Bill wrote a wonderfully candid treatise about his life and experiences, which revealed his modest openness, humaneness and strong character. Unfortunately the tragic death of his son John greatly saddened his later years and his longevity also meant he outlived many of his old friends. He remained 'on the ball' however, and was always interested in his colleagues' careers and progress, and enjoyed meeting to discuss old times. Bill died on 22 April 2013, aged 94, and Marie sadly died four weeks later. Predeceased by John, they were survived by their other sons William, Rowan and Simon, and by their daughter, Susan. Bill Swaney was a man of fine presence who served his country and his profession with the highest distinction.
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First Title value, for Searching Mayo, Herbert (1796 - 1852)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details The third son of John Mayo (1761-1818), MD Oxon, born in Queen Anne Street, London, on April 3rd, 1796. He entered the Middlesex Hospital on May 17th, 1814, and was there a pupil of Sir Charles Bell until 1815, becoming a House Surgeon in 1818, by which time he had taken his MD degree at Leyden. In 1826 he purchased, with Cesar Hawkins, Sir Charles Bell's interest in the Hunterian or Great Windmill Street School of Medicine, and carried it on with the assistance of George Gisborne Babington (qv) until 1830. The school declined steadily in numbers, and Mayo endeavoured to sell it as a going concern to Dr J A Wilson and Samuel Lane (qv). The negotiations fell through, and Lane started a private school of medicine adjoining St George's Hospital in 1831. The relationship of the two schools remained friendly, and some of the pupils from Windmill Street were transferred to Lane's School with the remark that "they will not lose by the change, but will find the school at St George's a genuine artery of the old Windmill Street stock." Mayo was elected Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1827, and resigned his post in 1842. From 1828-1830, in succession to J H Green (qv), he was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons, delivering fifteen lectures yearly. He was appointed Professor of Anatomy at King's College when the school was established in 1830, and became Professor of Physiology and Pathological Anatomy there in 1836. He applied unsuccessfully for a vacant professorship at University College, resigned his chair at King's College, and devoted himself from 1836 to the establishment of a medical school at the Middlesex Hospital. His health began to fail in 1843 owing to osteo-arthritis, and he became so crippled that he resigned his appointments and became physician to a hydropathic establishment, first at Boppart and afterwards at Bad Weilbach, where he died on May 15th, 1852. He married Jessica Matilda, daughter of Samuel James Arnold (1774-1852), the dramatist, by whom he had one son and two daughters. Mayo early became involved in the question of priority in the discovery of the function of the trigeminal and facial nerves which was claimed for Sir Charles Bell, the truth appearing to be that whilst Bell showed roughly that the facial nerve was motor and the fifth sensory, the demonstration was elaborated and proved by Mayo and Magendie. There is no doubt that Mayo was the true father of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1836, although the appointment of Charles Bell as Surgeon in 1812 had greatly enhanced the reputation of the Hospital. In later life Mayo was somewhat of a mystic and became interested in mesmerism and its phenomena. The College Collection contains a mezzotint of Mayo at about 40 years of age, engraved by David Lucas from a painting by J Lonsdale; also a lithograph by T Bridgford representing him later in life. Publications:- *Anatomical and Physiological Commentaries*, Part 1, August, 1822. It contains an account of his experiments to prove the function of the portio dura. Part 2 was published in July, 1823. *Outlines of Human Physiology*, 8vo, London, 1827 ; 2nd ed, 1829. *Outlines of Human Pathology*, 8vo, London, 1836. Translated into German, Darmstadt, 1838-9. *The Cold Water Cure*, 1845. *Letters on Truths in Popular Superstitions*, 8vo, London, 1848 and 1851.
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First Title value, for Searching Pegington, John (1934 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details John Pegington was born at Pontypool, Gwent, on 10 September 1934, the only child of Arthur John Pegington, a building contractor, and Edith May, née Pearce, the daughter of a cobbler. He recalled growing up surrounded by coal mining and music and, after education at Pentnewynydd Primary School and Monmouth Grammar School, he went to the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff and graduated in 1959. After house appointments in medicine, surgery and paediatrics in Cardiff he spent two years doing his National Service with the RAMC in Aden. On returning home he worked as surgical house officer to Owen Owen, who made a lifelong impression on him at Bridgend Hospital. He then took the primary FRCS course at the College and, having previously been rather put off anatomy as a medical student, was so inspired by the teaching of Professors Last and Stansfield that this sowed the seeds of his ultimate interest. After further house officer appointments at Cardiff and St James's Hospital, Balham, during which time he passed the final FRCS, he spent four years in Libya as surgeon to an oil company's hospital in Tripoli. He often remarked that it was only a revolution which caused him to leave Libya in 1970. After returning to Pontypool and doing some locum consultant jobs, depression drove him to apply for the post of assistant professor in the department of anatomy at the University of Ottawa. Having passed the North American Board examinations he was appointed associate professor and then acting head of the department in 1976. By then he had become intensely interested in medical education and was an outstanding teacher; indeed, for five successive years he was voted the best pre-clinical teacher in Ottawa. But personal problems and a yearning for home brought him to London in 1979, as senior lecturer in anatomy at University College. Somewhat daunted by the strength of anatomy research there, and concerned about the teaching of topographical anatomy, he designed what he felt to be an appropriate course for medical students, and he also taught in the accident and emergency department of University College Hospital. Thus did he develop a vocational type of training course for surgeons on the basis of his Canadian experience. In 1987 he was appointed Samuel Augustine Courtauld Professor of anatomy at University College and Middlesex Hospital Schools of Medicine. Before and subsequent to this appointment he had examined for the primary FRCS in London and Edinburgh. He also examined in a number of other London medical schools as well as in the Universities of Malaya, Hong Kong, Muscat, Nairobi and Zimbabwe. He made substantial contributions to computer assisted learning and interactive teaching methods as adjuncts to, but never as a substitute for, traditional methods. He had a passion for art history and was renowned for his course in 'anatomy for artists' at the Slade School for fourteen years. He published many papers, both as sole author and in collaboration with others, and produced many teaching videos dealing with basic, applied and surgical anatomy. As a teacher of large audiences he was a professional communicator, with every lecture meticulously prepared and illustrated; but he was also an excellent teacher of small groups of students, whom he handled kindly and with no more than gentle teasing. He had a lifelong interest in music. The last two years of his life were marked by much suffering and he died of cancer on 28 July 1994, aged 59. He never married.
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First Title value, for Searching Ingle, Laurence Mansfield (1892 - 1965)

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Publication Date 2014-08-18
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Laurence Ingle was born in Cambridge in 1892, the son of Arnold Clarkson Ingle, a general practitioner who was also physician to the Leys School. Laurence went to the Leys, and then to King's College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1909 as an Exhibitioner. He was devoted to music and to rowing, becoming Captain of the College Boat Club in 1912. For his clinical studies he came to the London Hospital and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1914. In 1915 he joined the RAMC, was wounded on the Somme, and later served in Salonika, Egypt, and East Africa. After the war he returned to Cambridge to obtain his degree in medicine, and to revise anatomy to prepare for the Primary FRCS examination. In the summer of 1919 he again rowed for King's, and it was during this second spell at Cambridge that he met Agnes Sinclair Ferguson who was reading English at Newnham; they were married in 1920 and shortly afterwards they left for China where he joined the staff of the Shantung Christian University (later renamed Cheeloo University) as a lecturer in anatomy. Lectures had to be given in Chinese, and Laurence rapidly mastered the language, and in the course of the next few years translated Gray's *Anatomy*, Rose and Carless's *Surgery* and Miles and Wilkie's *Operative surgery* into Chinese, a remarkable achievement for a busy teacher, and later Professor of Surgery. In 1926 he took the FRCS, and turned over to the practice of surgery, continuing as Professor in Cheeloo University till he retired in 1939 and returned to England, where he did a short course at Roehampton and then served in the Ministry of Pensions dealing with disabled pensioners who required artificial limbs and other appliances. As his work was centred at Cambridge he also undertook some supervision of anatomy for Emmanuel College. Cheeloo University and its medical school was an interdenominational missionary institution staffed from Great Britain, the United States, Canada and China, and it was important in helping to establish modern medicine in China, in which Ingle played a prominent part. This was due not only to his professional ability, but also to his friendly and cheerful disposition, and there is no doubt that in every aspect of his life he owed a lot to his wife, and to the happy home life he enjoyed with her and their son, who followed his father's example and became a medical missionary in South Africa, and their daughter who became a nurse. As age advanced he suffered increasingly from emphysema which forced him to give up his more energetic pursuits but did not prevent his continuing some of his tutoring in anatomy, and other sedentary occupations. He died at his home in Cambridge on 3 April 1965 and was survived by his wife, son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Pritchard, John Joseph (1916 - 1979)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-25
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Occupation Anatomist
Details John Joseph Pritchard was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1916. He was educated at St Peter's College and at the University of Adelaide, where he graduated in 1934 with the BSc in medical science and mathematics. The same year he obtained the Primary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1935 he came to England with a Rhodes Scholarship and entered Magdalen College, Oxford. There he took his BA one year later with first class honours in physiology. His clinical training was at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, from which he took the Conjoint qualification in 1940 and the Oxford BM BCh the same year. He was then successively demonstrator in physiology at Oxford, demonstrator in anatomy at University College, London, then assistant lecturer, senior lecturer and reader in human anatomy at St Mary's Hospital Medical School from 1941 to 1952. On appointment as Professor and head of the department of anatomy at Queen's University, Belfast, he rapidly made a name as an inspired teacher of students, a diligent promoter of research and as a kind and approachable friend to all who sought his help or advice. One of his innovations was the establishment of an honours course leading to a BSc in anatomy, where original research played a major part. His own main interest was in bone growth and repair, but he encouraged a wide range of research activity. The application of anatomy to clinical medicine was a feature of his lectures to physiotherapy as well as to medical students. He was Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Visiting Professor in Anatomy at Auckland University in 1963 and Visiting Professor of Anatomy at Illinois University in 1965-1966. He travelled widely as an external examiner to anatomy schools in Britain, Africa and SE Asia. He had particularly close links with Khartoum University, from which medical graduates frequently came to his department to work for a PhD degree. He took a great interest in the welfare of Malaysian students in Northern Ireland, and was a patron of their society. He was a popular President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1967 to 1969, and in 1973 became editor of the *Journal of anatomy*. He was of great help to junior anatomists in advising them on the papers they submitted, sometimes revising the articles, sometimes even rewriting them with the grateful approval of the authors. In 1964 he was elected FRCS and in 1973 he became a Fellow of the British Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He was also Chairman of the Northern Ireland Branch of the Multiple Sclerosis Society. He died on 10 April, 1979, aged 63 years, leaving his wife, Muriel, a daughter and three sons, one a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Maguire, Frederick Arthur (1888 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation Anatomist Gynaecologist
Details Born on 28 March 1888 at Corbar NSW son of a schoolmaster, he was educated at Sydney Grammar School and Sydney University. Qualifying in 1911 he was appointed RMO at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and in 1912 he became a demonstrator of anatomy. In 1914 he joined the Australian Expeditionary Force in New Guinea as a Captain in the RAAMC and was second in command under Neville Howse from August until October, in which month he took command until April 1915 when he joined the staff of the DGMS. From 1916 to 1918 he commanded the 9th Field Ambulance AIF and was mentioned in dispatches four times. From 1918 to 1920 he was ADMS 3rd Division in France, and on his return to Australia DDMS 2nd Military District from 1921 to 1934. In 1935 he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Governor- General, and in 1941 was promoted Major-General as DGMS from which he retired in 1942. From 1944 to 1945 he acted as consulting surgeon to the Women's Branch of the Royal Australian Navy. From 1920 to 1925 he was acting Professor of Anatomy at Sydney University, working as an examiner from 1920 to 1938, and while on a visit to Brisbane in 1932 gave a demonstration in the new anatomy school in William Street on the anatomy of the female pelvis in relation to repair operations. From 1934 to 1939 he was a member of the Senate of Sydney University and chairman of the Cancer Research Committee from 1936 to 1938. Maguire became senior gynaecological surgeon to the Royal Alfred Hospital as consulting gynaecologist to St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. In 1934 he had been President of the section of naval and military surgery at the Australian Medical Congress in Hobart, President of the section of gynaecology of the BMA at Brisbane in 1950, and President of the NSW branch in 1950-51. He was a member of Sydney Municipal Council in 1949 and 1950. As a teacher he was outstanding, writing in particular on anatomy with reference to gynaecological problems. A kind, generous and enthusiastic man, he had great courage and a tremendous capacity for work. Hospitaller and Almoner of the Australian Priory of the Order of St John of which he was a Commander, he was also a prominent Freemason representing the United Grand Lodge in NSW and was Grand Master of Grand Lodge of NSW in 1930-31 and in 1944. Maguire was married three times and survived by his third wife, Dr M M McElphone, a research colleague. He died on 10 June 1953 aged 65.
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First Title value, for Searching Horn, Joshua Samuel (1914 - 1975)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon Anatomist General surgeon
Details Joshua Samuel Horn was born in London of Jewish parents on 14 July 1914. He won a scholarship to University College Hospital, where he had a brilliant career and collected various undergraduate medals and prizes. 'Josh', as he was known, had charm, dedication, and courage. During the hungry 'thirties, and influenced by the struggle against unemployment and fascism, he joined the Socialist Medical Association and the Communist Party, remaining a Marxist all his life. After qualification in 1936 he became lecturer in anatomy at Cambridge, then returned to University College Hospital. He came under the influence of Wilfred Trotter, whom he greatly admired, and took the FRCS when he was only 23 years old. During the blitz he worked as a surgeon in the dockside area of London; then spent four years in the RAMC, moving with the troops of the second front from Normandy to the Rhine and later to West Africa, where he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1948 he was appointed surgeon to the Birmingham Accident Hospital. There his special interests were hand surgery and the repair of nerves. He wrote a number of papers and was a founder member of the Institute of Accident Surgery. At the age of 40 he was struck with multiple sclerosis, which characteristically he bore with great fortitude, but fortunately was able to continue for 15 years a surgical career in Peking. He helped to pioneer the reattachment of severed limbs, and, as an adviser to the Ministry of Health, he founded an accident hospital in Peking and planned modern burns units. He was elected to the executive of the International Society for Burns Injuries. His activities took him far and wide through People's China, learning at first hand the medical and social changes which had followed liberation during the cultural revolution. He wrote about his experiences in a fascinating book, *Away with all pests: an English surgeon on People's China*. Returning to England in 1969, he was appointed lecturer in anatomy, his old love, at the London Hospital. Although his health was deteriorating, he lectured widely on medicine in China, helping many to understand the marriage between traditional and modern medicine and the peasant-doctor movement. He was a fine speaker. He intended to write more on the changing Chinese medical and social scene, and, in 1974, revisited Peking for this purpose. He collapsed in his hotel room from a heart attack, and as he was too ill to move, his room was converted into an intensive care unit for days before his transfer to hospital - an indication of the esteem in which he was held. He was married and had one daughter and one son. He died in Peking on 17 December, 1975, aged 61 years.
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First Title value, for Searching McWhinnie, Andrew Melville (1807 - 1866)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-11
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in London and was educated chiefly at Verdun, where he gained a mastery of French and an affection for French people and their institutions. He was apprenticed to Edward Stanley (qv), Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in 1825. Having become MRCS in 1830, he attended wounded at the Hôtel-Dieu during the three days' Revolution in 1830, and came under the favourable notice of Larrey, Dupuytren, and others. In the following year, 1831, he accompanied Stanley to Paris, and interpreted Stanley's observations. Under Biett at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, McWhinnie first acquired his knowledge of skin diseases which afterwards served him when with James Startin he developed the Skin Hospital at Blackfriars. After returning to London he became Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital in succession to Frederick Skey; in 1834 he was appointed Assistant Prosector to Thomas Wormald; in 1839 he succeeded Dr Arthur Farre as Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy and Medical Jurisprudence, holding office until September 11th, 1860; in 1841 he became Assistant Surgeon at the Blackfriars Skin Hospital. But it was only after previous failures (*see* PAGET, SIR JAMES) that he was elected Assistant Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital on May 14th, 1854, when he received 154 votes, and his opponent, Holmes Coote (qv), 65. He lived at Blackfriars, near the hospital, so that many operations at night fell to him. His health began to fail and he resigned on June 27th, 1860, to die after an exhausting illness at 5 The Crescent, Blackfriars, on February 27th, 1866. He added a number of anatomical preparations to the Museum of the Hospital. A peculiarity of manner is said to have interfered with his success as a lecturer. He was a staunch friend, much beloved, with a high sense of honour. Publications: Translation of Cloquet's *Anatomical Description of the Parts Concerned in Inguinal and Femoral Hernia*, 8vo, London, 1835. *Illustrations of the Effects of Poisons* (with Dr GEORGE LEITH ROUPELL), fol, London, 1833, illustrated by McWhinnie. *A Series of Anatomical Sketches and Diagrams* (with THOMAS WORMALD), 4to, with 5 plates, 1838, and 1843, with 28 plates, which for simplicity and accuracy can hardly be surpassed. "On the Varieties in thc Muscular System of the Human Body," 8vo; reprinted from *London Med Gaz*, 1846, xxxvii, 184. "Account of the History of Dissection of a Case of Malformation of the Urinary Bladder." - *Lond Med Gaz*, 1850, xlv, 360. It was republished by Dr Charles A Pope, Boston, USA with his case of congenital inversion of the bladder. *Introductory Address at the opening of the Medical Session at St. Bartholomew's on 1st October*, 1856.
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First Title value, for Searching Paterson, Andrew Melville (1862 - 1919)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born at Manchester in 1862, the son of the Rev J C Paterson, Presbyterian Minister; studied at the Manchester Grammar School and Owens College, then proceeded to Edinburgh, where he graduated MD brilliantly with a thesis on the "Spinal Nervous System of the Mammalia". He then acted as Demonstrator of Anatomy at Edinburgh and afterwards at Owens College. In 1888 he was elected Professor of Anatomy at Dundee, and here he established a reputation as a teacher, also as a writer of anatomical articles by his work in Cunningham's *Text-book of Anatomy* (1902), and further by his *Anatomist's Note Book* and his *Manual of Embryology*. In 1894 he was elected to the recently founded Derby Chair of Anatomy in the University of Liverpool, and under him the Anatomical Department made great progress. Whilst Dean of the Medical Faculty from 1895-1903 he took a prominent part in the construction of the university buildings. In spite of administrative work he made a number of contributions to anatomy, in particular on the sternum, the sacrum, and the limb flexures. In 1903-1904 he was Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology at the College and gave three lectures on "The Development and Morphology of the Sternum". He became President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and a member of the Association of American Anatomists. He examined in anatomy at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and London, also for the Indian Medical Service; he was appointed to the Conjoint Board in 1912, having been elected FRCS in 1910. Although not practising, he was attracted to the mechanical aspects of surgery. He was greatly interested in the establishment of the Liverpool Dental Hospital, for which, as Treasurer, he assiduously raised funds, always regretting that dentistry was not, as other specialties, an integral part of medicine. During the War (1914-1918) he held a commission in the RAMC, rising to Lieutenant-Colonel, first working at the Orthopaedic Centre at Alder Hay, then as Assistant Inspector of Military Orthopaedics under Sir Robert Jones, and he discharged his duties with the greatest thoroughness by organizing centres. At the same time he suffered the grievous loss of his son, Lieut Paterson, at the Battle of Jutland. Never in robust health, he yet possessed a tireless energy. He played golf and at one time was captain of the Royal Liverpool Club. In the course of his military duties he returned from London to Liverpool, fell ill of bronchopneumonia, and died at 21 Abercromby Square on February 13th, 1919. His funeral at Mosely Church was attended by representatives of the City and of the University, and by many closely attached friends. He was survived by his widow (*née* Beatrice Eadson), a son, and three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Stibbe, Edward Philip (1884 - 1943)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Anatomist Medical Officer
Details Born 12 November 1884 at Glasgow, eldest child of Godfrey Stibbe, hosiery machine builder, and Sophia Dennis, his wife. He was educated at Allan Grant's School, Glasgow, and at Wyggeston School, Leicester, before entering Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1908 he entered the Government Medical Service in Fiji in 1909; in 1912 he became district medical officer of Vosburg in South Africa, and interested himself in measuring native skulls. During the first world war he served as medical officer at the 1st Northern General Hospital at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1915-18. He went back to South Africa in 1919 as professor of anatomy at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. He took the Fellowship in 1925, and began to teach anatomy in this country, being successively demonstrator at Durham and Liverpool Universities and senior demonstrator at University College, London, and at the London Hospital under William Wright. In 1935 he joined the staff of King's College in the Strand, and was appointed University of London reader of anatomy; three years later, 1938, he was elected professor. At King's he filled the offices of sub-dean and tutor in the Medical Faculty. He was a wise and generous friend of his pupils, and served the College well in the difficult years of evacuation, 1939-42. At the Royal College of Surgeons Stibbe was a Hunterian professor in 1936, lecturing on the surgical anatomy of the sub-tentorial angle, and he examined for the Conjoint Board 1933-38 and for the Fellowship 1936-41. He was elected to examine for the Fellowship overseas in 1939-40, but the war postponed these examinations. He also examined for Durham and Liverpool Universities and for the Society of Apothecaries. Stibbe was a member of council of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He edited in 1932 a *Practical anatomy*, by six teachers; William Wright, T E Yeates, J S B Stopford, S E Whitnall, M F Lucas Keene, and himself. In 1930 he wrote a *Textbook of physical anthropology*, which reached a second edition in 1938. Stibbe married (1) in 1909 Celia Evelyn Rail, and there were two sons and a daughter of the marriage; (2) in 1924 Florence Kate Roy, who survived him, dying on 5 June 1949. He died on 23 July 1943 at Hardby, Gerrards Cross, Bucks, aged 58, and was buried in St James's churchyard, Gerrards Cross. Publications: *Textbook of physical anthropology*. London, 1930; 2nd edition, 1938. True tracheal diverticulunt. *J Anat* 1929-30, 64, 62. *Practical anatomy*, by six teachers, edited. London, 1932. *Anatomy for dental students*, by six teachers, edited. London, 1934. Some observations on the surgery of trigeminal neuralgia. *Brit J Surg* 1936-37, 24, 122. *Aids to anatomy*. London, 1940.
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First Title value, for Searching Digby, Kenelm Hutchinson (1884 - 1954)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born on 4 August 1884 at Ealing, he was the son of William Digby (1849-1904), senior partner of William Hutchinson, East India merchants, and of his second wife, Sarah Maria Hutchinson. They were both from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. William Digby was a journalist in England and India and a liberal politician, and was awarded the CIE for famine relief work in 1877-79. Kenelm Digby was educated at Quernmore School, Kent and studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, where he won the Michael Harris, Hilton and Beaney Prizes and was house surgeon and resident obstetric assistant. He qualified in 1907, and from 1909 to 1911 was surgical registrar and anaesthetist at Guy's Hospital. He was admitted FRCS in 1910, and in 1912 became principal medical officer to the Great Central Railway. Digby in 1913 went to Hong Kong as professor of anatomy at the newly opened university. In 1915 he was also made Ho Tung professor of clinical surgery, and occupied these chairs until 1923 when he became professor of surgery. Digby was honorary consultant in surgery to the Hong Kong Government from 1915 to 1948, and from 1930 to 1948 surgeon at the Queen Mary Hospital. In 1939 he was appointed OBE for medical services to Hong Kong. In December 1941, after the capture of Hong Kong by the Japanese, Digby was offered his freedom from internment if he co-operated, but he steadfastly refused and chose to enter the Stanley Camp. He was there for four years and throughout this period he resisted the severe pressure to force his collaboration. As senior surgeon to the camp hospital Digby contributed much to the morale of the three thousand internees, many of whom contracted diseases; his own health and strength were impaired. After the liberation of Hong Kong in 1945 Digby retired and was honoured with the title of emeritus professor. However in 1949, owing to his failing health, he returned to England and did research work, mainly on the subepithelial lymphatic glands in immune reactions, at the Royal College of Surgeons. Digby's medical interests were wide; he published many papers on various subjects and in 1919 a book entitled *Immunity in Health: the functions of the tonsils and the appendix*. He was president of the Hong Kong and China Branch of the BMA in 1946, and from 1952 to January 1954 served on the Overseas Committee of the Council of the BMA as representative of the Far Eastern branches. Digby had great integrity, honesty of purpose and enthusiasm. He was a zealous teacher and in spite of heavy commitments he managed to keep up with advances in medicine by visiting the leading surgical centres in England and the United States whilst on leave. In 1913 he married Selina, daughter of John S Law, and they had two daughters. Digby died on 23 February 1954 at the age of 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Causey, Gilbert Washington (1907 - 1996)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Gilbert Causey was born on 8 October 1907 in Wigan, Lancashire, the son of George Causey and Ada, née Hargreaves, who were shopkeepers. He was educated at Wigan Grammar School and Liverpool University. In 1930 he qualified MB ChB with first class honours, having been awarded numerous prizes and medals. After house posts at Liverpool Royal Infirmary he was appointed surgical registrar at Walton Hospital, Liverpool, and became a Fellow of the College in 1933. He then spent some time in general practice in Fowey, Cornwall, before joining the Emergency Medical Service at the outbreak of the second world war in 1939. He commenced his academic career in 1947 in the anatomy department of University College Hospital. The new head of department was Professor J Z Young who was continuing research in peripheral nerve injuries that had been started at Oxford during the war. This stimulated Causey's interest in peripheral nerves and he established his own research group with Elizabeth Palmer, C J Stratmann and others. In 1952 he was appointed Sir William Collins Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons, a post he held until 1970. His department, with R J Last, J Stansfield and R Livingston rapidly established an international reputation in the teaching of anatomy for the primary FRCS. Generations of surgeons passed through this course while attending the Basic Sciences Institute at the College. His own teaching was very authoritative with excellent, and reproducible, blackboard diagrams. This old fashioned technique enabled surgeons to present good records of their operations and clinical findings. Using the new electron microscope he continued his work on peripheral nerves, undertaking important early ultrastructural studies. These studies were continued despite the vibrations from London Underground trains which ran below the College. The solution was to reflect a beam of light from a dish of mercury onto the ceiling: when the train had passed the beam became steady and Tony Barton was able to take a photograph in the moment of time when it was still. In 1964 he was awarded the DSc Liverpool and later published a small but influential book, *The cell of Schwann*. In it he established the importance of segmental demyelination as a pathological process which Gombault and Millet had first identified towards the end of the last century but which had since been widely forgotten. Another book was on electron microscopy and he co-wrote a dissecting manual with J T Aitken, J Z Young and J Joseph. He was honorary treasurer of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland for many years. His extra-curricular interests were gardening, sea fishing, Cornish history and playing the violin in amateur quartets. In 1935 he married Ellen Elizabeth Hickinbottam and she died in 1995. He died on 25 August 1996, survived by their two sons and three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffiths, Victor George (1920 - 2014)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2014-07-18
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Of those serving the needs of Malta and its population after the Second World War, the name of Victor Griffiths stands out as a most remarkable man. A gifted general surgeon, he had a very wide repertoire, including thoracic surgery. He served Malta as professor of surgery and of anatomy over many years and was described on his death by a former trainee, Michael Camilleri of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 'as an expert diagnostician, a technically gifted thyroid, prostate, breast, stomach, biliary and colonic surgeon. He based his craft on mastery of anatomy and respect for the physiological consequences of different surgical options that led him to choose the least traumatic one'. Over a long professional life, he trained many surgeons who now practise in various parts of the world. He was a very cultured man with wide ranging interests and was the last local civilian surgeon to the Royal Navy in Malta. He was born on 23 September 1920 in Paola, a town in the Grand Harbour area of Malta. Known for having the largest parish church on the island and the Hal Safleni Hypogeum (Neolithic underground temple and burial place), it also has the only mosque and Islamic cultural centre in Malta. Victor was the son of William Edward Griffiths and Liberata Jessie Chapman. Both the Griffiths and Chapman families had naval connections, and came out to Malta in the 19th century. His father worked in the expense accounts department of the Royal Naval Dockyard, and was active in Lord Strickland's Constitutional Party, a pro-British political party, whose followers were known as 'Striklandjani'. Reputedly his father had an undercover role in intelligence and security in the Dockyard. His father had two daughters from a previous marriage and Victor Griffiths was the eldest of four sons of a second marriage. Victor Griffiths received his education at HM Dockyard School and the Lyceum, the oldest secondary school in Malta, before going to the Royal University of Malta, where he qualified with a BSc in 1939 and an MD in 1942. Local house appointments were undertaken after qualification, but he felt it was necessary to gain further experience in the UK, hopefully proceeding a surgical career. In Malta his surgical mentor was Peter-Paul Debono, whom he regarded as a master-surgeon. During his university medical training he met Mary Dolores Grech Marguerat, the daughter of Oreste Grech Marguerat and one of the few female medical students in his year. She and Victor often sat at lectures in close proximity: Mary, in the hope of improving her own lecture notes, borrowed those of Victor. On one occasion, Victor passed on a page on which was written a single sentence: 'Marie, je t'aime'! Their courtship was in part continued on long walks into the country village where her family had been evacuated. They both qualified in 1942, and married in April 1949. In November 1942, Malta had its first outbreak of poliomyelitis and a second occurred in 1945. Hugh Seddon of Oxford had launched orthopaedic services on the island, and the governor offered Verdala Castle, now the president's summer residence, as a children's orthopaedic hospital. Mary Marguerat became the medical officer and was also a founder of the Malta Polio Fund, which, having widened it scope, is still active today. From 1945 Victor Griffiths continued his studies on a Maltese government scholarship in England with the aim of obtaining the FRCS in one year, which, to everyone's surprise, he did. Advised to get more experience in provincial hospitals, he worked at the Royal United Hospital Bath and in other registrar posts. For a period he worked at Hammersmith Hospital and the British Postgraduate Medical School under many of the top surgeons, including George Grey Turner, who had come down from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It is thought he visited other London teaching hospitals, as his study wall had shields, not only of the British Postgraduate Medical School, but of St Bartholomew's, Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals. On returning to Malta in 1947, Victor Griffiths was appointed as a consultant surgeon, and in 1960, a lecturer in surgery. In 1969 he succeeded Alfred Craig as professor and head of surgery at the University of Malta and director of surgery at the health department, where he proved an inspiration to medical students and house surgeons alike. He relinquished this post in 1977 as a result of the medical union's dispute with the Dom Mintoff government. He was appointed as a consultant adviser and director of the department of surgery in 1987, retiring in 1991. From 2003 to 2008 he was university ombudsman, an ideal person to settle disputes at any level. A great believer in teamwork in the care of patients, with his colleague Alex J Warrington he performed many combined procedures, despite limited resources. The Griffiths-Warrington team performed synchronous combined abdominoperineal resection of the large intestine in patients with chronic ulcerative colitis, alternating their roles as the abdominal or perineal surgeons to hone their skills in the different parts of the surgery. During surgery he taught continually, peppering assistants and students with questions and training them to marshal their thoughts. He encouraged them to think about current practice and when conventional measures should be questioned or even abandoned. Victor Griffiths had a long interest in and fascination for the basic sciences, and was appointed professor of anatomy to the University of Malta in 1953. To glean ideas on the running a professorial department, he went back to England. From October 1953 to March 1954 he joined Alec J E Cave as an honorary lecturer in the department of anatomy, St Bartholomew's Medical School. The main author of this tribute, then demonstrating anatomy under Cave, found Griffiths a stimulating colleague with a wide anatomical knowledge, an excellent teacher of students as well as a fair examiner of their knowledge. Both Alec Cave and Victor Griffiths had the ability to make any lecture more interesting by building up blackboard pictures in coloured chalks. Throughout his active university life and beyond Griffiths' talks were, in addition to their academic value, inspiring in their use of the English language and syntax. It was said of him that: 'Compared with the way this eloquent speaker expressed words, more recent presentations look thin and shallow despite today's use of audio-visual technology.' In 1990, in retirement, Griffiths became the first editor of *BOLD*, the principal publication of the International Institute on Ageing, United Nations - Malta, and only stepped down in 2012. Outside medicine, he was a voracious reader with an insatiable appetite for learning. He was a founder member of the British Cultural Association in 1979 and became its chairman in 1988. He was a great supporter of English teaching in Maltese schools through 'speak your mind' debates with sixth form pupils. Many honours came his way: he was a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and in 1996 received Malta's National Order of Merit. In 2002 he became a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), in recognition of his work promoting relations between the United Kingdom and Malta, especially in medicine, culture and education. It was presented to him by the British High Commissioner on behalf of HM The Queen. Victor and Mary had two children. Their first child, Margaret Mary, was born in May 1950. She read languages at Bristol University, and became an educator at university and school level, and currently works in the field of dyslexia. She married Henry Naud and has two children, Chantal and Robin. Chantal has two sons, so Victor Griffiths became a great- grandfather before he died. Victor and Mary's second child, William Edward Griffiths, was born in January 1955, studied natural sciences at Oxford University and followed his parents into medicine. After house appointments in Bath and Oxford and a short spell of missionary hospital work in Zambia, he entered general practice in Richmond, Surrey. He married Lucy Boyce. Sadly, Victor Griffiths recognised the onset of his own Alzheimer's disease. He died on 28 March 2014, aged 93, and was survived by his wife Mary, two children, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Dodds-Parker, Arthur Francis (1867 - 1940)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born 14 June 1867 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the second son and third child of Henry Parker, manager of the Elswick lead works, Newcastle, and Mary Phillips, his wife. On 5 October 1908 he took the extra name of Dodds, and after that date was known as Dodds-Parker. He was educated privately until he entered Magdalen College, Oxford, matriculating there on 21 October 1886. He graduated with second-class honours in the Modern History school, and received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital. During the Boer war he served with the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, and was afterwards appointed demonstrator of human anatomy at Oxford, when Arthur Thomson, FRCS was the lecturer. He was appointed house physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1897, and house surgeon in 1898. From 1901 to 1903 he acted as assistant surgeon, was surgeon from 1904 to 1927, and was then elected consulting surgeon. Dodds-Parker did much towards the rebirth of the Oxford School of Medicine, and worked hard for the good of the Radcliffe Infirmary, more especially in connexion with the out-patients' department. In the university he was Litchfield lecturer in surgery in the years 1906, 1910, 1914, 1920, and 1926, lecturer in applied anatomy in 1908, and Reader in applied anatomy in 1927. During the war he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel RAMC(T), his commission as major bearing the date 3 March 1909. He was in charge of the surgical division of the 3rd Southern Hospital, and assistant surgeon to the Southern Command. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he served as a member of the Court of Examiners during the year 1925. He had rowed in the Magdalen College eight and in the university eight, and coached many Magdalen and Brasenose crews, both verbally from the towpath and by means of models to illustrate the fundamental principles of oarsmanship. He was also the medical adviser to the college and university crews. From 1927 onwards he was a member of the Oxford City Council, and was much interested in the various art collections of the town and university. He married Mary Wise on 5 April 1904; she died before him, leaving a son and daughter. He died on 22 September 1940 at 5 Canterbury Road, Oxford.
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First Title value, for Searching Odgers, Paul Norman Blake (1877 - 1958)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at Oxford on 3 July 1877, he graduated from Lincoln College with first-class honours in physiology in 1898. He qualified in 1902 from Guy's Hospital, where he was senior science scholar, and held resident posts there and at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Plymouth. He took the Fellowship in 1903 and the Oxford Master of Surgery degree in 1904, was a clinical assistant at the Evelina and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospitals, and practised for nearly ten years at Northampton where he became consulting surgeon to the General Hospital. He was a vice-president of the section of diseases of children at the Brighton meeting of the British Medical Association, 1913. In the war of 1914-18 he served as a Major, RAMC. He returned to Oxford after the war, and was appointed senior university demonstrator of anatomy in 1925 and reader in human anatomy in 1931, retiring in 1945. His own college, Lincoln, elected him to a fellowship. He examined in anatomy for Oxford and London Universities and for the FRCS "Odg", as he was known to colleagues and pupils, was an excellent organiser and teacher. He was Arris and Gale lecturer at the College in 1933. He made several valuable contributions to developmental anatomy before the Anatomical Society of which he was an active member. After retiring he lived at 19 Hanover House, London NW where he died on 30 November 1958 aged 81, survived by his wife, two sons, and a daughter. Publications: *Class-book of practical embryology for medical students*. Oxford University Press 1945. 64 pages. Articles in the *Journal of Anatomy*: Development of the ventral pancreas in man. 1930, 65, 1. Two details about the neck of the femur: 1, the eminentia; 2, the empreinte 1930, 65, 352. Circum-aortic venous rings. 1931, 66, 98. The lumbar and lumbo-sacral diarthrodial joints. Arris and Gale lecture, R.C.S. 1933, 67, 301. The formation of the venous valves, the foramen secundum, and the septum secundum in the human heart, 1935, 69, 412. An early human ovum (Thomson) in situ. 1937, 71, 161. Development of the pars membranacea septi in the human heart. 1938, 72, 247. The development of the atrio-ventricular valves in man. 1939, 73, 643. A pre-somite human ovum with a neurenteric canal. 1941, 75, 381.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Arthur (1858 - 1935)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born 21 March 1858 the son of Fleet-Surgeon John Thomson, MD, RN, he was educated at the Edinburgh Collegiate School and at Edinburgh University. He served for several years as demonstrator of anatomy at the University, being appointed junior demonstrator in 1880, and acting as senior demonstrator under Sir William Turner until 1885, when he became lecturer on human anatomy at the University of Oxford. The lectureship was attached to Dr Lee's foundation at Christ Church, and was converted into a professorship in 1893. In this capacity he was a member of the Hebdomadal board and the general board of the Faculties. He represented the University on the General Medical Council, 1904-29, and unofficially fulfilled the duty of dean of the Faculty of Physic for many years in the University. In 1907 the subject of physical anthropology, which had interested him for some years, was converted into a regular course of study and the University diploma in anthropology was instituted. Eighteen years later, and largely due to his efforts, fully equipped classrooms and a museum of anthropology were established as an addition to the anatomical department. He was also keenly interested in the development of the Oxford ophthalmological department under R W Doyne, and in 1928 he gave the Doyne memorial lecture. He was also interested in various objects outside the University. He lectured for some years to the students of the Royal College of Art at South Kensington and from December 1900 to May 1934 he was professor of anatomy at the Royal Academy, Burlington House. He was himself a skilled watercolour artist and exhibited at the Royal Academy; in 1922 he was president of the Oxford Art Society. He was, too, a Ruskin trustee in the University of Oxford, and in that position did much to foster the teaching of art and to increase the interest taken in the subject. He was president of the Anatomical Society in 1906-08. He married in 1888 Mary, daughter of Norman Macbeth, RSA, who survived him with two daughters. He died at 163 Woodstock Road, Oxford on 7 February 1935, and was buried in Wolvercote cemetery, after a funeral service in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Arthur Thomson did much for the Oxford Medical School. He found it almost moribund, without any systematized teaching in anatomy and physiology and with no teaching at all in pathology, medicine, or surgery. He left it with well appointed laboratories, a highly skilled professorial staff, and numerous students. The credit was not wholly his, for a beginning had already been made before his arrival from Edinburgh, but his energy, his tact, and his manifest honesty of purpose accelerated the progress which had to be made against the natural opposition to science in an intensely conservative University. Versatile to a marked degree, Arthur Thomson created no school of anatomy amongst his pupils, and as a teacher was more at home in directing attention to the form rather than to the structure of the human body. As a man he was charming and hospitable, a good speaker, a fair-minded opponent, an excellent mimic, and a good blackboard artist, apart from his hobby of water-colour sketching. The high position which he held in the hearts of his students was shown by their large attendance at a farewell banquet, which was given him when he resigned the chair of anatomy to become emeritus professor. Publications: *A handbook of anatomy for art students*. Oxford, 1896; 2nd edition, 1899; 3rd, 1906; 4th, 1915; 5th, 1930. *The anatomy of the human eye*. Oxford, 1912. *The ancient races of the Thebaid from the earliest times to the Mohammedan conquest*, with D Randall Maclver. Oxford, 1905. The riddle of the pecten, with suggestions as to its use, Doyne memorial lecture, 1928. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1928, 48, 293. His bibliography in the *Journal of Anatomy* lists 43 publications from 1883 to 1929.
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First Title value, for Searching Holthouse, Carsten (1810 - 1901)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-18
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Edmonton on October 14th, 1810. He was the eldest son of Carsten Holthouse, and at the age of 14 was apprenticed to Le Gay Brewerton, at Bawtry, Yorkshire. He was released from his articles before the customary period had elapsed, and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was Dresser to (Sir) William Lawrence, and Clinical Clerk to Dr Latham. After qualifying he studied in Paris, and then started practice in 1836 at his father's house in Keppel Street. He assisted in the Out-patient Department of St Bartholomew's and was attracted to eye and ear affections. But in 1843, being appointed Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at the Aldersgate School of Medicine in succession to Frederick Skey (qv), who had been appointed Lecturer on Anatomy at St Bartholomew's, he subordinated surgery to anatomy for some years. In 1849 began his connection with Westminster Hospital: the Medical School had come to a crisis, and in June, 1849, a new staff of lecturers was collected - Drs Radcliffe and Basham, Messrs Charles Brooke and Holthouse, the last as Lecturer on Anatomy. Owing to the inadequacy of the museum, particularly in anatomical preparations, the Royal College of Surgeons suspended its recognition of the school until Holthouse had, with great energy, reorganized the museum. The difficulty of the school centred on the claims of the senior staff of the hospital to the pupilage fees, irrespective of the increased need for expenditure. The medical student was held as primarily a pupil of one or other member of the senior physicians and surgeons. After five years Holthouse refused to continue to lecture without payment, the scanty fraction of the pupils' fees having been exhausted by the expenses. The result was that Holthouse was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Westminster Hospital on March 12th, 1853, and Surgeon on January 17th, 1857. At the same time he was allowed to put the school on a surer footing, the physicians resigning much of their primary claim to the pupilage fees, the surgeons holding on for another thirty years to what they called their rights. For some months during the Crimean War Holthouse served on the staff of the Civil Hospital at Smyrna, among his colleagues being Sir Spencer Wells and J Whitaker Hulke (qv). On his return he settled at 2 Storey's Gate, Westminster, and remained there for many years. He developed a practice in ophthalmology, and in 1857 took part in founding the Surrey Ophthalmic and Eye Dispensary, which afterwards became the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark. He paid special attention to squint, was conservative as regards the tenotomy so much in vogue, aiming to improve by use the vision in the deviating eye; the systematic use of spectacles for the common convergent squint had not become general. Thus as a surgeon Holthouse ranged too widely; at the same time he had great confidence in his own powers of diagnosis and treatment, which gave less than sufficient heed to the knowledge of others. These characteristics were naturally a serious bar to success. In 1875, at the age of 65, he became Consulting Surgeon to Westminster Hospital, and then took up a fresh practice - that of the treatment of habitual drunkards in a home - which resulted in anxiety and financial loss, but perhaps served experimentally to forward development on that question. Holthouse enjoyed vigorous health until about two years before his death. He underwent an operation for cataract, upon which followed an apoplectic seizure with temporary recovery, then further attacks rendered him helpless for months before his death on July 18th, 1901, within three months of completing his ninety-first year. He had been the Senior Fellow of the College after the death of Sir Rutherford Alcock, Chairman of Westminster Hospital, in 1897, and was the last but one of the 300 original Fellows, Spencer Smith (qv) dying a few months later on November 29th, 1901.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Archibald (1849 - 1940)

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Publication Date 2013-12-04 2017-05-05
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in 1849 at Riverina, New South Wales, son of Sydney Grandison Watson, RN, pastoralist on the Upper Murray. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, where he won the scripture prizes and was noted as an athlete. He was destined for the Church, but after a visit to the Pacific islands, where he lived at the court of Thackabu, King of Fiji, he decided to study medicine, and went to Europe for the purpose in his middle twenties. He studied at Bonn and Göttingen, qualifying MD *cum laude* from the latter in 1878, with a thesis *Ueber das Fibro-Adenom der Mamma*, and in Paris where he received the MD in 1880 for his thesis *Étude sur le traitement des hernies étranglées inguinales et crurales vulgaires*. Here he made friends with Pierre Marie (1853-1940), the neurologist and describer of acromegaly, whose career he followed with admiration. Coming to London, he took the LSA in 1880, the Membership of the College in 1882 and the Fellowship in 1884. He was for a time demonstrator of anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and taught at the London School of Anatomy kept by Thomas Cooke at Handel Street, Brunswick Square. He also took a course at Moorfields. In 1883 he went to Egypt to study cholera. In London he had made the acquaintance of Edward Stirling (1848-1919), like himself a native of Australia, who returned to Adelaide in 1881 as lecturer in physiology, afterwards becoming professor and FRS and a knight. When Sir Thomas Elder endowed a chair of anatomy in 1884 at Adelaide University, Watson was appointed on Stirling's advice as the first professor. Watson held the chair from 1885 to 1919, when he retired with the title of emeritus professor; he had also taught pathology, surgical anatomy, and operative surgery. A dispute at the Adelaide Hospital and the consequent retirement of many of the staff led to his appointment as surgeon there, and he subsequently became consulting surgeon. He eagerly applied his anatomical knowledge to surgical problems, and his surgical teaching was influential throughout Australia, while he criticized surgery "throughout the world". He had a passion for the preservation of the tissues, and would denounce the unnecessary destruction of even the smallest subcutaneous vein. Watson had an unusual appreciation of the anatomical planes of the body and the possibilities they gave of a bloodless approach or mobilization of a viscus. He drew attention to, if he did not discover, the value of the division of the lateral blade of the mesentery of the colon as a means of mobilizing it. His anatomical knowledge of the blood supply of the uterus, and his teaching that the vessels could be exposed by division of the peritoneum, made hysterectomy a precise and safe operation. He was also associated with Professor Stirling in the pioneer work on hydatid disease. During the South African war, Watson served as consulting surgeon to the Natal Field Force in 1900, and in the first world war was pathologist to the Australian Imperial Forces in Egypt, 1914-16. Watson was an imaginative talker and a dramatic lecturer. He was a man of many interests, a student of electricity, a good linguist, and an experienced sailor with a knowledge of the migrations of fish. In 1935 his past pupils presented him with his portrait painted by W B Mclnnes, and founded the Archibald Watson annual prize of six guineas in applied surgical anatomy, for an undergraduate of the Adelaide University Medical School. The portrait shows him as a bearded man of fine presence. Watson travelled widely in the outlying parts of Australia and Australasia. His exploits and adventures became legendary even in his life-time. He died at Thursday Island off Cape York, the northern-most point of Queensland, on 30 July 1940. He left a legacy of £1,000 to the pupils who had subscribed for his portrait; they used it to endow a scholarship in the University.
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Arthur (1862 - 1948)

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Publication Date 2013-10-23
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born 1862, the son of James Robinson, of Manchester, he was educated at Edinburgh University, where he took honours when he graduated in medicine and surgery in 1883, and won the gold medal at the MD examination 1890 for his thesis on the development of two rodents. After serving as demonstrator of anatomy to Sir William Turner at Edinburgh, and as demonstrator and lecturer under Professor A H Young at Owens College and the Victoria University, Manchester, he came to London in 1896 as the first whole-time lecturer in anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, succeeding John Bland-Sutton. He, took the English Conjoint qualification at once, and in 1900 was appointed professor of anatomy at King's College in the room of A W Hughes, and was elected a Fellow of King's. Robinson was a Hunterian professor in 1903-04. He was appointed professor of anatomy and sub-dean of the Medical Faculty at Birmingham in 1905, but returned to Edinburgh to succeed the famous D J Cunningham in 1909 as Gate professor; he held the chair till 1931, when he was elected emeritus professor on his retirement. He had been elected a Fellow of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons in 1912 and was elected to the English Fellowship in 1924, and made Honorary Doctor of Laws at Edinburgh University in 1932. His sight was failing, and he settled at Eastbourne, Sussex; he lived near Edinburgh during the war of 1940-45, but was an invalid for the greater part of the end of his life. Robinson married in 1888 Emily, third daughter of John Baily, who survived him, but without children. He died at Eastbourne on 3 December 1948, aged 86. Robinson was an outstandingly inspiring teacher, endowed with the faculty of visualizing and explaining the volume of structures in the round. His most important researches were made on the development of the ovarian follicle and the development of veins. His editions of the *Manual* and *Textbook* of his predecessor, Cunningham, made him known to generations of anatomy students beyond his immediate pupils. Publications: Cunningham's *Manual of practical anatomy*, edited and revised, 4th edition, 1910; 5th, 1912; 6th, 1917; 7th, 1919-20; 8th, 1927. Cunningham's *Text-book of anatomy*, edited and revised, 4th edition, 1913; 5th, 1922; 6th, 1931. *Surface anatomy*, by Arthur Robinson and E B Jamieson, 1928. On the position and peritoneal relations of the mammalian ovary. *J Anat* 1886-87, 21, 169. On the anatomy of the Hyaena striata. *Ibid* 1888-89, 23, 90 and 187. Observations on the earlier stages in the development of the lungs of rats and mice. *Ibid* p 224. Nutritive importance of the yolk sac. *Ibid* 1891-92, 26, 308. The formation and structure of the optic nerve and its relation to the optic stalk. *Ibid* 1896, 30, 319. Report of the committee of collective investigation of the Anatomical Society, with F G Parsons. *Ibid* 1898-99, 33, 189-203. Early stages of the development of the pericardium. *Ibid* 1903, 37, 1-17. Lectures on the early stages in the development of mammalian ova and on the formation of the placenta in different groups of mammals, Hunterian lectures, 1903. *Ibid* 1904, 38, 186-204; 325-340; 485-502. Observations on the development and morphology of the tail, with A H Young. *Brit med J* 1904, 2, 1384-1391. On a specimen of the hind-gut opening into a cloacal chamber in a child, with F S Mackenzie. *J Anat* 1906; 40, 409. Some malformations of the human heart, with A H Young. *Med Chron, Manchester*, 1907-08, 47, 96-106; *Dreschfeld memorial*, Manchester, 1908, p 16-26. Later development of the inferior vena cava in man and in carnivora, with F P Reagan. *J Anat* 1921-22, 56, 482. Description of a reconstruction model of a horse embryo twenty-one days old, with A Gibson. *Trans Roy Soc Edin* 1917, 51, 331-347. A glance at anatomy from 1705 to 1909. *Edin med J* 1909, 3, 405-419.
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First Title value, for Searching Gladstone, Reginald John (1865 - 1947)

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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born 9 June 1865, third and youngest son of Thomas H Gladstone, DPh and his wife Matilda, daughter of Joshua Field, FRS, a pioneer of large marine steam engines and one of the founders of the Institution of Civil Engineers. His father died when he was six. He was educated at Clapham Grammar School, Aberdeen Gymnasium, and Marischal College in Aberdeen University. He took his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital where he served as house physician and house surgeon, but since he was a victim of bilateral congenital cataract he decided to make his career as an anatomist. After periods of work at Cambridge and Vienna he served the Middlesex Hospital Medical School as junior and senior demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer in embryology, a subject of which he made himself master. He went with R A Young, MD to Vienna to study methods of teaching anatomy and surgery, and in 1906 to Vancouver for the British Medical Association. He left the Middlesex Hospital in 1913 on his appointment as Reader in anatomy and lecturer in embryology at King's College, London, posts which he held until his retirement at the age of 73 in 1938. Gladstone was a most conscientious teacher and popular with his students in spite of his extremely poor sight. He also devoted much time to research, and was a regular reader in the College of Surgeons Library for many years. He left a fully documented series of embryologic specimens at King's College Hospital Medical School, and a large collection of his own beautiful anatomic drawings for a projected *Handbook of Embryology* which he never could bring himself to complete. He was a frequent contributor to the *Journal of Anatomy*, *British Medical Journal*, *Annals of Surgery*, *British Journal of Surgery*, the *Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute*, and the*Proceedings of the Zoological Society*, but his only full scale publication was his great book *The pineal organ* which deals exhaustively with the comparative anatomy of median and lateral eyes. He also wrote the article "Brain" for the *Encyclopaedia Britannica*. He served for many years as Recorder of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and was an assiduous member of the Zoological Society of London, regularly visiting the gardens on Sundays. He was an accomplished draughtsman and a keen amateur of music. Gladstone lived for many years at 22 Court Lane Gardens, Dulwich, SE21, but the house was bombed in 1941 and he moved to Greenhayes, Sway Road, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, where he died on 12 February 1947 aged 81. He had married in 1912 his first cousin, Ida Millicent Field, who survived him with a son and a daughter. Publications:- *The pineal organ, the comparative anatomy of median and lateral eyes, with special reference to the origin of the pineal body*, by R J Gladstone; and a description of the human pineal organ considered from the clinical and surgical standpoints, by Cecil P G Wakeley; foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. London, Baillière, 1940. 528 pages, 324 illustrations. A presomite human embryo. *J Anat* 1941, 76, 9-44.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, David Vaughan (1911 - 1969)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22 2022-06-01
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born on 28 October 1911, second son of Joshua Davies, farmer, and Mary Emma Ryder, of Dolfonddu, Cemmaes, he was educated at Cemmaes Primary School, Montgomeryshire and Towyn County School, where he gained an entrance scholarship to University College, London. There he was awarded a gold medal in physiology and passed the Primary examination for the FRCS in 1932. His clinical training he took at University College Hospital, held the Ferrier scholarship in 1933 and 1934, and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the degrees of London University in 1935. After serving as house surgeon at University College Hospital and as a temporary medical officer in the RAF, he joined the Anatomy Department at Cambridge, was granted the degree of MA in 1937 and became a Fellow of St John's College from 1944 to 1948. At Cambridge he worked under Professor H A Harris as a demonstrator and later as lecturer, leaving in 1948 to succeed Professor Appleton at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. In 1956 he was elected a Fellow of University College, London. For many years a member of the Council of the Anatomical Society, he was its President from 1965 till his death, and he edited the *Journal of anatomy* between 1960 and 1964. In 1963 he was elected a Fellow of the College, for which he had acted as an Examiner in the Primary Examination and as an Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1945. He also examined for the Universities of London, Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Strathclyde, Khartoum and Melbourne, and for those universities in special relationship with the University of London. In 1966 he spent six months as Visiting Professor in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Davies took an active part in the affairs of London University, and at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, he was Sub-Dean in 1955 and 1956 and director of the electron-microscopy unit of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council in addition to his duties as Professor of Anatomy. He took a great interest in student welfare both in the University, where he was a member of the committee of halls of residence and chairman of the house committee of Connaught Hall, and at the Hospital, of which he became a governor, and he was a valued member of the Medical School Council and President of the Rugby Club. He contributed much to anatomical literature: he was co-editor of the 32nd and 33rd editions of *Gray’s anatomy* and sole editor of the 34th edition. He was particularly interested in the anatomy and physiology of joints and contributed to the *Textbook of rheumatic diseases* edited by W S C Copeman. As a Welsh speaking Welshman "DV" kept a warm affection for his native country. He was for many years a member of the Cymrodorian Society and the London Welsh Association, High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1961 and 1962, and President of the Montgomeryshire Society in 1964 and 1965. In 1940 he married Ruby Bertha Ernest by whom he had two sons and a daughter. He died of a subarachnoid haemorrhage on 16 July 1969, aged 57, and a memorial service was held in the church of St Mary, Lambeth on 11 October 1969.
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First Title value, for Searching Pick, Thomas Pickering (1841 - 1919)

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First Title value, for Searching Haslam, William Frederic (1856 - 1932)

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Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born 24 August 1856 at 4 Friar Street, Reading, the son of James Haslam, a land and estate agent and auctioneer, and Catherine Clarke his wife. He was educated at Amersham Hall School, Caversham, and at Marlborough Grammar School, and was early apprenticed to a surgeon on the staff of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. Entering St Thomas's Hospital, London, on 1 October 1874 he acted as prosector in 1875-76 and in that year gained the first College prize. In 1876-77 he was appointed, whilst yet a student, assistant demonstrator of anatomy, and was selected as a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons on account of the beauty of his dissections. He also gained the Cheselden medal for anatomy and surgery. He acted as house surgeon in 1878-79 and was afterwards non-resident house physician. During 1879-82 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school of St Thomas's, and served as resident accoucheur in the Hospital in 1881. Later in this year he acted as assistant medical officer at the Deptford Fever Hospital. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Birmingham General Hospital, in February 1882, becoming surgeon in 1891, and consulting surgeon in 1914. At Queen's College, Birmingham, he was appointed medical tutor in 1883, and acted as demonstrator of anatomy 1884-92. When the University of Birmingham was established he was appointed the first lecturer in applied anatomy, a post he occupied for eight years. In the University, too, he lectured on surgery to dental students 1908-13, and was joint professor of surgery 1913-19. On his retirement from the chair of surgery in 1919 he was appointed dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and began again to lecture on applied anatomy; during 1919-28 he taught osteology to the first year students, and spent the greater part of his working day in the dissecting room. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he was examiner in anatomy 1891-99 and 1919-24. He was a member of the Court of Examiners 1903-13, and a member of Council 1908-24, being a vice- president in 1917-18. He married on 2 October 1888 Amy, daughter of Lewis Cooper, of Caversham Hill, Reading, but there were no children. He died on 18 February 1932 after a long illness and was buried at the Lodge Hill Cemetery, Selly Oak, Birmingham. Haslam was certainly the best beloved teacher of his generation in Birmingham. On the occasion of his retirement in 1928 he was presented by his colleagues and friends with a silver tray and a cheque as a mark of their affection, and during his life time a "Haslam Oration" was founded by the Birmingham Medical Society. The first Oration was delivered by Dr J C Brash, his successor in the chair of anatomy 3 February 1930. He was humble-minded, versatile, absolutely trustworthy and always ready to help a colleague by sound advice, or by taking place temporarily in the lecture room or operating theatre. He was perhaps, one of the last surgeons to base his surgery upon a profound study of anatomy. Publication:- A review of the operations for stone in the male bladder. The Lettsomian lectures, 6 and 20 February and 5 March 1911. *Trans Med Soc Lond*. 1911, 34, 145, etc.
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Samuel William Langston (1803 - 1871)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-19
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details The son of William Parker, Medical Officer of Health for the Aston Union, who practised in Aston Road, Birmingham, where he was born. He was educated at Heathfield Road School, Handsworth, under the Rev Daniel Walton, and afterwards attended the medical and surgical practice of the Birmingham General Hospital, his more strictly scientific training being obtained in the School of Medicine at the corner of Brittle Street, Snow Hill, where lectures were given by W Sands Cox, FRS. He then came to London and entered at St Bartholomew's Hospital whilst John Abernethy was Surgeon and Lecturer, after which he completed his studies in Paris. He assisted his father for a short time, but in 1830 he married and began to practise on his own account in St Paul's Square, Birmingham. Parker took a keen interest in the development of Queen's College, Birmingham, becoming at an early period of its history Professor of Comparative Anatomy, and of Descriptive Anatomy and Physiology - posts which he held for a quarter of a century. His services to the associated hospital date from its foundation in 1840 to 1865, and on his retirement he was given the title of Consulting Surgeon. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the Leamington Hospital for Diseases of the Skin. He was, too, an active promoter of the Birmingham Philosophical Institution in Cannon Street, where in 1835-1836 he delivered a remarkable course of lectures "On the Effects of Certain Mental and Bodily States upon the Imagination". Langston Parker began life as a general practitioner of medicine, became a surgeon, and ended as a syphilographer. He had a cultivated musical taste, was an enthusiastic playgoer, an accomplished French and a competent Italian scholar. His love of the theatre led to his exchanging his Independent Nonconformist views for those of the Church of England. He married as his first wife Mary Adams, of Derbyshire, and left a son, S Adams Parker, LDS, RCS. He died in Paradise Street, Birmingham, on Friday, October 27th, 1871, and was buried at Aston. There is a lithograph portrait of him by Maguire in the College collection. Publications: *The Stomach in its Morbid States*, 8vo, 1837. This was evidently inspired by the teaching of John Abernethy, whose pupil he had been. The work was condensed and appeared as *Digestion and its Disorders*, 8vo, 1849. *The Modern Treatment of Cancerous Diseases*, 4to, 1857. *Clinical Lectures on Infantile Syphilis*, 1858.
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First Title value, for Searching Symington, Johnson (1851 - 1924)

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Publication Date 2013-04-11
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Educated at Taunton and at the University of Edinburgh, and after graduating with brilliance was appointed an Extramural Lecturer on Anatomy at Minto House. Not only was he a first-rate teacher of anatomy, but he pursued anatomical research and published a number of important papers in the *Journal of Anatomy* (1878, xii et seq.), especially on the anatomy of children. His thesis on "The Topographical Anatomy of the Child" was a valuable contribution to the later developmental history of the parts and organs of the human body. The endocranial, endodural arachnoid, and cerebral casts made by him were of outstanding merit and were an important contribution to the improvement of prehistoric craniology, whilst his papers on the forms and relations of the viscera were of great importance. His descriptive account of the brain in the eleventh edition of Quain's *Anatomy* was founded on comparative and developmental studies. In 1894 he published *The Cerebral Convolutions in the Primates* and extended his observations in neurology to the brains of Monotremes and Marsupials. *The Cerebral Commissures in Non-placental Mammals* (1894) corrected some current misapprehensions about the corpus callosum. He also made a special study of the organ of Jacobson in Monotremes and Marsupials, and was the first to give a complete and accurate description of the organ in Ornithorhyncus and to establish affinities with its representative in Reptiles. Two papers on the marsupial larynx were issued by him in 1899. He was appointed in 1893 to the Chair of Anatomy at Queen's College, Belfast, in succession to Peter Redfern (qv). Symington delivered the second Struthers Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, the first lecturer having been Sir Arthur Keith. In 1903 he was President of the Anthropological Section of the British Association at the Southport Meeting, and was elected FRS. From 1904-1906 he was President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. At one time or another he was Examiner in Anatomy at the Universities of London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow, and Dublin, and for the Indian Medical Service. He was Vice-President of the Anatomical Section at the Edinburgh Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1898, and President of the Pathological Section at the Oxford Meeting in 1901. At Belfast Symington stimulated the younger men to original work, and by contributions aided the Medical Societies. Of inspiring personality, he excelled as a counsellor and in administrative capacities. Shortly after his appointment to the Professorship of Anatomy at Belfast he was elected on the Governing Body of the College; in 1901 he succeeded Professor Purser as Registrar, and was one of the Hon Secretaries of the Better Equipment Fund which did so much to improve the College by a new set of buildings for the Medical Faculty. On the Academic Council and numerous Committees he served with enthusiasm and energy. He was one of the seven Commissioners appointed to frame the statutes of the Queen's University, Belfast, under the Irish University Act of 1908. In 1918 illness compelled him to retire from his professorship and active work. The Senate of Queen's University upon the occasion passed a resolution "recognizing his magnificent work for the University and for the Science of Anatomy". His old pupils in Belfast and Edinburgh raised a fund to endow a Symington Prize to be awarded for research in anatomy by junior anatomists. The first award of the prize was made by the Anatomical Society about a year before his death. He died in Edinburgh on February 24th, 1924, leaving a daughter, his wife having predeceased him. Publications: Joint-editor of Quain's *Anatomy*, 10th ed, 1890-5, ii, pt. 2, and iii, pt. 4; 11th ed, 1908, iii, pt. 1, 2. *The Topographical Anatomy of the Child*, fol., 14 plates, 1887. Series of papers on anatomy of the child in *Edin Med Jour*, Edinburgh, 1885-1893. *Atlas of Topographical Anatomy of the Head, Neck, Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis*, fol., 27 plates, Belfast, 1917. *Atlas of Skiagrams illustrating the Development of Teeth* (with J. C. RANKIN), 4to, 12 plates, Edinburgh, 1908.
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First Title value, for Searching Heselson, Jack (1910 - 1993)

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Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Jack Heselson was born on 4 January 1910 in Cape Town, and after his schooling at Wynberg Boys' High School attended the Univesity of Cape Town, where he graduated BA in 1929 and MB ChB in 1933, obtaining distinctions in the final examination and the degree with honours. After his internship at Somerset Hospital, where he served with Professor Charles Saint, he signed up as a ship's doctor and spent a year in Antarctica. With the typical enterprise and enthusiasm that was to characterise his later career, he returned with specimens of whale heart and pituitary for the departments of anatomy and physiology respectively. In 1936, while a lecturer in anatomy at UCT, Jack decided to embark on a career in surgery. After a period of postgraduate training at Hammersmith Hospital in London, he obtained his FRCS in 1938. He had met his future wife, Sylvia Gavron, BA MB ChB, while an undergraduate at UCT, and they married in London in 1937. After resident surgical appointments in England, he joined the Emergency Medical Services at the outbreak of war, and acted as clinical assistant to Tudor-Edwards at Brompton Hospital, London. He enlisted in the South African Medical Corps in 1941, and saw action in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy and was discharged with the rank of major. Returning to private practice in Cape Town in 1946, Jack held part-time appointments at Groote Schuur, Victoria, False Bay and Wynberg Military hospitals, and from 1969 to his formal retirement in 1975 he headed a surgical firm at Groote Schuur. His contributions to academic surgery were considerable. He was the first surgeon to introduce diagnostic laparoscopy to the department in the 1950s and remained a firm proponent of its advantages and potentials. Together with the late Teddy Schrire he initiated the Pigmented Skin Lesion Clinic, and he was an early protagonist of radical amputations for advanced soft tissue sarcoma. Jack was a true 'general surgeon' with a wide repertoire, excellent technical ability and a surgical fearlessness that few of his colleagues could match. His special interest was the surgery of malignant disease. At a time when radiotherapy was relatively primitive and chemotherapy in its infancy, surgery remained the only means of cure. Jack would often accept cases that other surgeons had turned down as inoperable, and the surgical *tour de force* became his personal hallmark. Jack will be remembered most for his boundless energy, enthusiasm and his love of people. He devoted considerable time to his hospital duties despite a busy private practice. He took a personal interest in, and made it his business to get to know, all levels of staff working on his unit. A kind and humble man, he was always available for advice, even to the most junior members of his team. He maintained an unswerving personal ethical code and was never heard to criticise a colleague. Teaching was Jack's great love, whether it was at the operating table or with a group of students at a patient's bedside. He retired formally but reluctantly as head of a surgical firm in 1975. His hobbies of walking, swimming, sailing and carpentry, and a love of classical music were not enough to sustain his post-retirement energies. He stayed on at Groote Schuur as a part-time staff member, continued to teach students and never missed or failed to contribute to the weekly academic meetings. Sylvia was a tower of strength to Jack and encouraged and supported him as his surgical career blossomed. He in turn provided enormous support when tragedy struck Sylvia in the form of progressive visual loss. With his own health slowly failing, Jack took a post as part-time lecturer in the Department of Anatomy at UCT in 1985. It came as no surprise to learn that he was soon acknowledged as one of the best teachers in the department, drawing on his clinical experience to underline the relevance of anatomical knowledge. In 1990 his contributions to the department of surgery at UCT were acknowledged with the conferring of a Distinguished Surgeon Award. In the same year his wife died; a blow from which he never fully recovered. He continued to teach anatomy until a week before his death. He died suddenly on 13 June 1993, survived by his daughters, Joan (a radiologist practising in Denver, Colorado), Lynne (a psychiatrist practising in Kingston, Ontario) and his son Neil (a radiologist in Cape Town), their spouses and six grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Wagstaffe, William Warwick senior (1843 - 1910)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-16
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details The son of Matthew French Wagstaffe, in medical practice at 10 Walcot Place, Kennington; was educated at Epsom College, being one of the first hundred boys admitted to the school. He was Prefect and Captain of the cricket and football team and a good amateur actor. Among his school friends and contemporaries were Sir Henry Morris, Sir Augustus Hemming, and Sir James Goodhart. He later worked at home and at the School of Mines, attending Professor Tyndall's lectures and classes at King's College. He graduated BA in the 1st class in 1861. Gaining two entrance scholarships in classics and mathematics, and in natural science and modern languages, he entered St Thomas's Hospital and so maintained himself without further expense to his parents. After qualifying he was successively House Surgeon, Surgical Registrar, Demonstrator of Anatomy, and in 1871 Resident Assistant Surgeon, following John Croft (qv). As such he moved to the new Hospital, and on the retirement of his trusted adviser and friend, F Le Gros Clark (qv), he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital. He was soon appointed Lecturer on Anatomy in conjunction with Francis Mason (qv). He published *The Student's Guide to Osteology* in 1875, and was Examiner in Anatomy and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons 1877-1878. He edited the second edition of Le Gros Clark's *Outlines of Surgery* (1872). In addition he was one of the Secretaries of the Pathological Society from 1875-1877 under Jenner, Pollock, and Murchison. He was one of the founders of the Old Epsomian Club. In 1878 his surgical career was cut short by general spinal paralysis with severe attacks of lightning pains. He quickly became helpless and bedridden, but with intellect unimpaired. His friends always found him bright, cheery, and busy with literary work. He lived at Dorset House, St John's Road, Sevenoaks, died there on January 22nd, 1910, and was buried in the parish churchyard. He was survived by his wife, a daughter of F W Tetley, of Leeds. She had been his devoted companion and nurse, and their one child was William Warwick Wagstaffe, OBE (qv), Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Publications:- Wagstaffe published a number of anatomical papers in *Jour Anat and Physiol*, vii-x, 1872-6, and in *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, of which he was co-editor from 1874-1876; also in *Pathol Soc Trans*, xviii-xxix, 1866-78. As an invalid he published: "In Memoriam, F Le Gros Clark, FRCS, FRS." - *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1891, xxi, p. xxiii. Mayne's *Medical Vocabulary*, 6th (1889) and 7th eds. Translation of Heiberg's *Atlas of the Cutaneous Nerve-supply of the Human Body*, 1885. "George Rainey, his Life, Work, and Character." - *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1892-3, xxi, p. xxiii.
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First Title value, for Searching Coates, Sir Albert Ernest (1895 - 1977)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-20
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Albert Ernest Coates was born on 28 January 1895 at Ballarat, Victoria. His father was a minor postal official and his grandparents had emigrated from Suffolk and Cornwall, attracted by the news of the gold discovery. Leaving school at the age of eleven he decided early to become a doctor and he worked at a succession of jobs while studying for the entrance examination to Melbourne University. The outbreak of the first world war, during which he served as a medical orderly at Gallipoli and in the Intelligence Corps in France, interrupted his university career. He graduated MB BS in 1924; proceeded to MD in 1926 and MS in 1927, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1932. He served his resident year at the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he became successively honorary surgeon to outpatients in 1927, an inpatient surgeon in 1935 and consultant surgeon in 1954. From 1935 to 1941 he was surgeon to the neurosurgical unit. He lectured in anatomy at the University of Melbourne from 1925 to 1928 and in surgical anatomy from 1935 to 1949, and taught anatomy at the Victorian National Gallery from 1926 to 1934. He was Stewart Lecturer in surgery at the University from 1949 to 1956. He was twice President of the Victorian Branch of the British Medical Association, and in 1964 became Foundation Fellow of the Australian Medical Association. While in the anatomy department Coates performed a series of experiments into the function of the sympathetic nervous system, studying the effects on muscle tone of cutting the nerves. It was found that this operation had little effect on the muscles, as did sympathetic ramisection for the treatment of spastic muscle. During the second world war he served as senior surgeon to the Australian forces in Malaya and in Sumatra where he was taken prisoner. His outstanding service as chief medical officer to the Allied Prisoner of War Hospital in Thailand will never be forgotten by all those who had the misfortune to share with him the dreadful experience of living and working in the appalling railway construction camps, where he carried out unending surgical work with the crudest of facilities in conditions of starvation and disease. His forceful personality helped many to survive who might without his presence have succumbed to the conditions. As a surgeon he was bold and dexterous and a skilled, successful and popular teacher. He always had the well-being of his patients foremost in his mind and he never forgot a patient. He was twice married: his first wife died in 1934 and he married again in 1936. There were two sons (both medical graduates) and three daughters. He died on 8 October 1977.
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First Title value, for Searching Coppleson, Sir Victor Marcus (1893 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Grainger, Richard Dugard (1801 - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Box, Charles Richard (1866 - 1951)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation Anatomist Physician
Details Born on 3 March 1866, the son of the Rev John Box and his wife Sarah Bray. He was educated at Dulwich College, and started work in business in the City. Finding this uncongenial he entered St Thomas's Hospital medical school, where his student career was brilliant. He took honours in physiology in 1889, and in medicine and obstetric medicine at the London University graduation in 1892, having qualified through the Conjoint Board the previous year. Although he took the Fellowship of the College in 1893, he decided to practise as a physician, and took the London MD in the same year. He was appointed medical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital in 1894 and held the post for three years. He became resident assistant physician in 1897, and took the Membership of the College of Physicians. He was appointed an assistant physician in 1900 and elected FRCP in 1906. He was in charge of the children's department, became physician in 1915 and consulting physician on retirement in 1926. Throughout almost his whole connexion with the hospital he acted as demonstrator of morbid anatomy (till 1919), and carried out most of the post-mortem examinations. He was also chairman of the medical and surgical officers committee. In the medical school he was successively lecturer in medicine and applied anatomy, medical tutor and sub-dean. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the 5th London General Hospital with the rank of major, RAMC. He was also physician, and ultimately consulting physician, to the Royal Masonic Hospital, the London Fever Hospital, and the Willesden General Hospital. He examined in medicine for the Universities of London and Birmingham, for the English Conjoint Board and the Society of Apothecaries. At the Apothecaries he was long a member of the Court and might have been Master, had he not been living in Devonshire, during the war of 1939-45. At the Royal College of Physicians he was a councillor, and a Censor in 1930-31; he delivered the Lumleian lectures in 1933 on "Complications of the specific fevers". Box was a skilled diagnostician, and a practical and watchful physician. His attitude to innovations was somewhat cynical, but he had an encyclopaedic and precise knowledge of medical literature, which was put to good use in his few masterly publications. His writings on fevers were authoritative. He was an honorary member of the British Paediatric Association. Box practised at 2 Devonshire Place, and lived latterly at 1 Harley House, Regent's Park. He married in 1905 Marian Jane, daughter of George Thyer of Bridgwater, Somerset, who survived him. He died in St Thomas's Hospital on 3 April 1951, aged 84, and was cremated at Streatham Vale. A memorial service was held in the chapel of St Thomas's Hospital on 11 April. He left £1,000 to the Society of Apothecaries, and his residuary estate to St Thomas's Hospital to form the Box fund for helping students. Box's interests lay entirely in his practice and his pathological work. He had few relaxations, but enjoyed an annual holiday in the Channel Isles. Publications:- Edited *St Thomas's Hospital Medical Reports*, 1893-6. *Clinical applied anatomy*, with W McAdam Eccles. London: Churchill, 1906. *Post-mortem manual, a handbook of morbid anatomy and post-mortem technique* [the same]. 1910, 2nd ed 1919. Fevers, in *A textbook of the practice of medicine*, edited by F Price. Oxford, 1926, and subsequent editions. Complications of specific fevers, Lumleian Lectures, RCP 1933. *Lancet*, 1933, 1, 1217, 1271, 1327.
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First Title value, for Searching Gowland, William Percy (1879 - 1965)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-04
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born in 1879 the son of Dr George Robert Gowland, LRCP, LRCS, LM, Edinburgh 1874. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Owens College and Manchester Medical School, where he won a gold medal in anatomy, and qualified through London University in 1903 with first-class honours in obstetrics and gynaecology. After demonstrating anatomy and physiology in the Medical School, he held resident appointments at the Royal Infirmary and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He practised for a time at Oldham, Lancashire, served as a ship's surgeon in the Cunard liner *Mauretania*, and took the MD in 1906. Gowland decided, however, to make an academic career in anatomy, was appointed assistant lecturer under A M Paterson at the University of Liverpool, and took the Fellowship in 1912. He was elected Professor of Anatomy at the University of Otago and settled in New Zealand at the end of 1914, making it his home for the rest of his long life. He found a small department at Dunedin, and on account of war conditions had little assistance in teaching some fifty students during his first five years as professor. He did, however, introduce new histological equipment and prepared diagrams and drawings to complete the masterly series begun by his predecessor John Scott, who had died in February 1914. Gowland also gathered a first-class library for his department. After the war his classes increased four-fold and his courses were prolonged from five to six terms, but in spite of this extra teaching duty and without adequate full-time assistance, though helped by a succession of able young demonstrators, he improved the histological service, preparing an excellent collection of slides, and planned a new building for the anatomy and physiology departments, which was opened late in 1926, when he was provided with two efficient assistants. During the first twelve years of his professorship, 1914-26, Gowland took a busy part in the affairs of the Medical School and in its social side at the Clinical and Dunedin Clubs. But after his new department opened he devoted himself entirely to it and to his students, being a keen supporter of their rugger and boxing clubs. He developed new methods of teaching, introducing his students more fully to embryology and neuro-anatomy. He spent the year 1929-30 travelling in North America and Europe with a Rockefeller Fellowship, and brought back new ideas and techniques to New Zealand. Thereafter till 1943, when he suddenly resigned the chair which he had held with such success for nearly thirty years, Gowland lectured regularly on embryology, histology and neuro-anatomy to all his students and shared all the practical classes, providing direct personal instruction and forming lasting friendships. He also stimulated a succession of his demonstrators to begin research and publish their results. His school became internationally famous through the success of his pupils, and the brilliant work of many New Zealand surgeons during the second world war has been ascribed in part to Gowland's excellent grounding in three-dimensional anatomy. After resigning his chair he made a successful new career as Director of Clinical Services at Wellington Hospital, in the North Island, but finally returned to the South, retiring to Nelson where he died on 2 September 1965 aged eighty-six. His wife had died before him, and he was survived by his two sons, the younger of whom Humphrey Gowland, MB ChB, practised as a surgeon at Wellington, and in due course his son Stuart followed him as a consultant urologist. Gowland was awarded the Honorary DSc of Otago University in 1962 and was created CBE in 1963. He was a man of outstanding personality and vitality, honest, brusque and humorous.
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First Title value, for Searching Todd, Thomas Wingate (1885 - 1938)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born at Sheffield, 15 January 1885, the eldest son and first child of the Rev James Todd, Wesleyan minister, and Katherine Wingate, his wife. He was educated privately and afterwards went to school at Nottingham. He then entered the Victoria University, Manchester, where he won the University scholarship at the intermediate MB examination and graduated MB BCh with first-class honours in 1907, and took a postgraduate course at the London Hospital. He lectured on anatomy in the University when A H Young was professor and subsequently under Professor Elliot Grafton Smith, who appreciated his merit and incited him to do some good original anatomical research. In 1910 he was elected the Tom Jones surgical research scholar, and became interested in the anatomical teaching of dental students. He left England on 30 November 1912 to take up an appointment as professor of anatomy in the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and here he spent the rest of his life. During his later years he acted as director of the Brush Foundation at Cleveland, which was founded in 1928 by Charles Francis Brush to study "the restriction of population and the betterment of the human race, more especially in connexion with heredity and environment." He married Eleanor Pearson of Manchester on 9 November 1912. She survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died at his house, 2687 Shaker Road, Cleveland Heights, on 29 December 1938 suddenly, with a coronary thrombosis. During the first world war he held a commission as captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, as he retained his British nationality. Todd in the United States and Herbert Henry Woollard in England did much to revolutionize the outlook of anatomy. Todd, by his paper on the "Arterial lesion in cases of cervical rib", published in 1913 in the *Journal of Anatomy*, 47, 250, was amongst the first to call attention to the arterial changes which follow pressure on the sympathetic nerve supply of the vessel. Perhaps his greatest contribution was his demonstration that from infancy to old age the human skeleton undergoes a succession of changes, and by recognition of these changes that it is possible to assess the approximate age of any given skeleton. By 1933 he had examined 3,407 human skeletons, all with well-ascertained racial and social histories. Another field of enquiry was the mobility of the alimentary canal, and especially disturbances in rhythm and vigour produced by mental states. The results were summarized in 1930, when he delivered the Beaumont lectures, and they were published under the title *The behaviour patterns of the alimentary tract* in the same year. Through the Brush Foundation he organized a systematic and continued examination of 800 children, to investigate the growth changes. The results appeared in the *Atlas of skeletal maturation*, with 75 plates, London, 1937. It gives standard examples of the stages in ossification which the hand passes through from birth to maturity, and is labelled "Part I". Another field of work was the growth of the face and its bearing on the practice of the dental surgeon. It was said of Todd that he was quite tireless, working with an evangelical fervour, his mind so teeming with ideas that it early appeared a single life would be too short to enable him to encompass all he wished to do. He had a keen sense of humour, was easy to work with, and had many interests outside his anthropological work.
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First Title value, for Searching Farquharson, Eric Leslie (1905 - 1970)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Eric Farquharson was born on 13 December 1905, the only son of William Anderson Farquharson, SSC, and Agnes Ness Cowie. A paternal great-grandfather, grandfather and two uncles were medically qualified. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh. Postgraduate studies followed in Paris, Vienna and Heidelberg. After graduation he spent one year as house surgeon in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, of which six months was spent in the wards under the charge of the late W J Stewart, who was to have a great influence upon him. Later, junior appointments at Kirkcaldy Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary were followed in 1933 by a return to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh as clinical tutor in the charge of Mr W J Stewart, where he remained for five years completing his surgical training. In 1938 he was appointed temporary assistant surgeon, and on his return after war service he was appointed in 1946 to what was then called assistant surgeon to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In 1947 he was appointed honorary consultant surgeon to the Royal Infirmary at Berwick-on-Tweed. Between 1952 and 1960 he served as visiting consultant surgeon to the Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy. In 1959 he was appointed as surgeon "in administrative charge of wards" in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He served in the RAMC in the second world war from 1939-1945 attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel as officer in charge of a surgical division. His service began at Edinburgh Castle and took him to the Orkney Islands, to East Africa, Ceylon and India. He served on the Court of Examiners from 1951-57, and on the Council from 1966 until his death. He took particular pleasure in the fact that he served contemporaneously on the Council of both English and Edinburgh Colleges. In October 1968 he was elected Vice-President of the Edinburgh College, continuing to serve on the Council of the College. In his courtesy to all and his great attention to patient care, he consciously modelled himself on W J Stewart, whose house surgeon and whose tutor he had been. He had a considerable inventive gift displayed in a variety of surgical instruments. Surgical skill was perhaps reflected in his hobby of handcraft, and a great gift in the distillation and presentation of knowledge. Prominent among his interests was the training of surgeons and in this his memorial certainly lies in his *Textbook of operative surgery*, the first edition of which was published in 1954 and the fifth edition was in preparation at the time of his death. He was a lecturer in applied anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. He was an examiner in surgery at the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Birmingham. He took an active part in the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and in the Moynihan Club. In June 1940 he married Elizabeth McWatt, also a medical graduate of the University of Edinburgh, the sister, daughter, niece and grand-daughter of doctors, whose father had practiced in Duns, Berwickshire, for a period of almost sixty years. They had two daughters - the eldest of whom, Margaret, is qualified in medicine and working for her Fellowship. He died on 8 December 1970 from cancer of the colon, after an illness lasting many months, the knowledge of which he kept to himself, and during which he continued for most of the time to look after patients. Publications: *Textbook of operative surgery*. 1954, and later editions. Problems of the chronic duodenal ulcer without stenosis. *Brit med J* 1953, 1, 144-7. Doubts and misgivings about the treatment of duodenal ulcer. *Lancet* 1956, 2, 849-51.
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First Title value, for Searching Hamilton, William James (1903 - 1975)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation Anatomist
Details William James Hamilton was born in County Antrim on 21 July 1903 and educated at Queen's University, Belfast, where he took the BSc with first-class honours in 1926 and obtained first place and first-class honours in the final medical examinations in 1929. He proceeded MSc in 1931 and went to Glasgow University as a lecturer in anatomy. There he obtained the Struthers Anatomical Prize and Gold Medal in 1932 and was awarded the DSc in 1934. At about that time he was elected FRS Ed. At Glasgow he came under the influence of T H Bryce and this instilled in him a passion for embryology. He then went to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School as deputy director of anatomy and in 1936 was appointed to the Chair of Anatomy in the University of London at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. That year he was awarded the MD of Queen's University with high commendation. During his early years as a professor he introduced innovations in anatomical teaching resulting in the human body being presented to students as a dynamic, developing, functioning, and eventually ageing entity in which structure and function are closely related. The clinical relevance of what he taught was always prominent, and he helped to make surface and radiological anatomy integral parts of the preclinical course. In 1945 he returned to Glasgow as Regius Professor of Anatomy, but in 1947 accepted appointment to the newly created Chair of Anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, where he remained until his retirement. He was President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1953 to 1955 and was elected FRCOG in 1959 and FRCS in 1968. He was awarded an honorary DSc of Queen's University, Belfast, in 1968 and the John Hunter Medal and Triennial Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1973. He was Dean of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School from 1956 to 1962. When he took office this was a small school with limited academic horizons, but he succeeded in obtaining chairs in obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery, and medicine over the short space of three years. During his deanship plans were laid for the new hospital and medical school at Fulham, and he played a leading part in determining the existing pattern of buildings. Hamilton was a prolific producer of books and chapters in composite works, and in recent years was occupied in the production of teaching films in embryology. His scientific papers were principally on embryology and placentology, and it is not possible to consider his impact on these fields without mentioning the name of J D Boyd, his lifelong friend and colleague. Those who were privileged to know and understand Hamilton not only respected him but felt a deep admiration and affection for him. The simplicity and warmth of his character were never more in evidence than when he could be observed playing with small children. Students soon learnt that he was very approachable and could be relied upon to do all he could for anyone in need of help. His appreciation of the beauty of form and composition made him particularly suitable to be Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy of Arts, a position he held for about 20 years. Professor Hamilton married Maimie Young of Belfast in 1933. It was a source of pride and joy to him that his four sons are members of the medical profession and that his only daughter is a dental pathologist. He died on 3 May 1975, aged 71.
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First Title value, for Searching Last, Raymond Jack (1903 - 1993)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-14
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Occupation Anatomist General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Raymond Last was born on 26 May 1903 in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of John Last, a bookseller, and Mildred Louisa Rundle - interestingly he always made a point of describing himself as English! He was educated at Adelaide High School and the University of Adelaide, where he was taught anatomy by Professor Wood-Jones. He graduated MB BS in 1924 just after his 21st birthday, the youngest person ever to qualify in medicine in Adelaide. He was appointed resident medical officer at Adelaide Hospital in 1925 and then worked as a general practitioner in Booleroo Centre, a country town in South Australia, from 1926 to 1938. Shortly before war was declared in 1939 he came to England seeking a higher surgical qualification. In the winter of 1940 he survived several days in a lifeboat off Iceland, and after being rescued he served with the British forces liberating Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) from Italian occupation. He commanded the Abyssinian Medical Unit from 1941 to 1944 and was personal physician to the Emperor Haile Selassie and his family. From 1945 to 1946 he served with the RAMC in Borneo with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the war he returned to London to take the FRCS and was appointed anatomy demonstrator and curator at the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1950 he was appointed Professor of Applied Anatomy, a post which he held for the next twenty years, and warden of the Nuffield residential college, looking after the welfare of Commonwealth students in London. Ray Last was an inspiring teacher of anatomy, and his stimulating lectures on the primary FRCS course at the College are remembered by generations of aspiring surgeons from all over the world. His textbook *Anatomy: Regional and applied*, first published in 1954, ran to eight editions and was immensely popular for its clarity and style, being based on general principles and their surgical application. The excellence of his own illustrations was later recognised by the Medical Artists' Association who awarded him an honorary fellowship in 1992. He also edited Wolff's *Anatomy of the eye and orbit, Aids to anatomy*, and he wrote various papers on applied anatomy, especially of the knee joint. After retirement in 1970 he went to live in Malta, but he received many invitations to lecture abroad and for the next eighteen years he spent several months each year as visiting professor of anatomy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He travelled widely, lecturing in India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, and delighted in meeting his former students. His retirement was marked by the presentation of a portrait by Joan Whiteside, an oil painting of the Royal College of Surgeons by Anne Wright and also of a commemorative parchment book with letters from hundreds of contributors. These were donated by his former residents and students, who remembered him with gratitude and affection, recognising the important influence he had on their subsequent careers. He generously endowed a chair of comparative anatomy at the University of Adelaide with the royalties from his textbook. Despite failing eyesight he remained active until his death, aged 89, in Malta on 1 January 1993. He married twice, firstly to Vera Jedell in 1925, and secondly to Margret Milne in 1939 who died in 1989. He had two sons by his first marriage - Professor John Last, an emeritus epidemiologist in Ottawa, and Peter Last, a medical administrator in Adelaide, both of whom survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Peter Llewellyn (1926 - 1994)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Professor Peter Williams was an outstanding anatomist who was known and respected world-wide for the editing and revision of *Gray's Anatomy*. He was born on 11 November 1926 at Caerleon in Gwent, the elder son of Jack Williams, a Welsh education and child-welfare officer. His father, who held strong left-wing political views, was a renowned orator and contested the North Devon seat for Labour (subsequently won by Jeremy Thorpe). His mother, who strongly supported him in his chosen career, was a district nurse and midwife. Peter Williams was educated at the Jones West Monmouth School in Pontypool, and subsequently won a state scholarship to St Catherine's College, Cambridge, in 1944, where he was awarded first-class honours in both parts of the natural science tripos. He also won the St Catherine's scholarship in anatomy and the Marmaduke Shield university scholarship in anatomy. His tutor was Dr D V Davies, a formidable figure well-known to that generation, who described him as the best student he had ever had, and Davies and Peter Williams were known by their contemporaries as 'the only persons to know every word in Gray'. In 1947 he went to Guy's Hospital Medical School as a clinical student, where he won the Treasurer's gold medal in 1950. After junior appointments at Guy's, he did his National Service in the RAMC at BMH Wuppertal in Germany, and then returned to Guy's, where he became successively research fellow, lecturer, senior lecturer and reader in anatomy. In 1970 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at London University, a position he held for the next ten years. He was a distinguished teacher and researcher in anatomy, and besides numerous papers on neuroscience he wrote *Basic human embryology* (which ran to three editions) in 1966 and *Functional neuroanatomy of man* in 1975. His research into the functions of the neuron and its myelin sheath gained him a DSc from London University in 1970. It is, however, with the modernisation of *Gray's Anatomy* that his name is inseparably linked, and he 'retired' in 1980 in order to devote himself to this task. In 1954 he had been appointed indexer for the centenary edition (32nd) of Gray's by Professor T B Johnson, and he became expert adviser to Professor D V Davies for the 34th edition. Davies, who resisted change in the book, died prematurely in 1968, after which Williams became joint editor with Roger Warwick for the 35th edition. This was an opportunity to introduce radical changes in format with an altered text and bibliography, and over 600 new diagrams, many drawn by Williams himself. He became senior editor for the next two editions, and in 1989 chairman of the editorial board for the 38th edition, in which some 150 specialist contributors participated. His life's endeavour, as he himself said, was to transform the study of anatomy from a static, descriptive exercise into a vibrant, dynamic and experimental natural science, interlocked with other disciplines, and in this he certainly succeeded. He had a fiery personality, and would never admit to retirement in the usual sense of the word. His outside interests included gardening, astronomy and cricket, which he followed enthusiastically. He married Irene Holland in 1954 and they had one son, Ross, and a daughter, Lyn. His younger brother, Michael, is emeritus professor of anatomy at Sheffield University. He died aged 67 on 5 October 1994 following a heart attack, some six years after a successful coronary bypass operation for angina.
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First Title value, for Searching Redfern, Peter (1821 - 1912)

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Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Details Born at Chesterfield, the son of Peter Redfern, distinguished for scientific attainments; he was educated privately in classics, and then apprenticed for five years to Richard Collis Botham, who was Surgeon to the Chesterfield Union and Workhouse. Redfern and another apprentice, C E Black, who afterwards graduated with honours at the London University, were reported to Botham as having surreptitiously operated for squint on parish patients by the tenotomy method practised by Stromeyer. Redfern left Botham's house the next day and went to Edinburgh with an introduction to Robert Knox, the anatomist. He there came under the teaching of Goodsir in anatomy and the early development of histology, also under Hughes Bennett in medicine. Redfern gained prizes and gold medals both at Edinburgh and at the London University. In 1842 Goodsir had lectured on cartilage, and he directed Redfern to make further researches upon that subject - the histological structure, the absence, unlike bone, of repair by the reproduction of its own substance, and the changes it undergoes in disease, of which he published a number of papers based on examination by the compound microscope. Through Goodsir and Knox, Redfern was appointed in 1845, at the age of 24, Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at King's College, Aberdeen. He pursued there his observations on articular cartilage, including a series of ninety experiments on the healing of cartilage, chiefly in dogs, between 1849 and 1851. Redfern became widely known as a teacher of anatomy, and in May, 1860, was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Queen's College, Belfast, in succession to Hugh Carlisle, the first professor. At the original establishment of the College a Faculty of Medicine had not been included, but by 1860 seventy-nine students were in attendance in the Anatomical Department at the back of the Royal Academical Institution, at some distance from the College. Redfern was able to induce the authorities to construct an Anatomical Department and Museum adjacent to the College. By 1866 the attendance of students in anatomy and physiology had risen to 156, and to 325 in 1881-1882, attracted by the teaching of Redfern and his colleagues, Andrews and Gordon. Redfern was an enthusiast who held that a knowledge of anatomy could only be acquired by dissection; he was a masterly lecturer who brought before his class the application of anatomy to medicine and surgery. He took few holidays, even during the last ten years of his life, and often worked far into the night preparing the next day's lecture. He examined for anatomy in the Universities of Aberdeen, Ireland, and London. Beyond his early work on cartilage he made no further original observations on anatomy, but was occasionally consulted in the early days of the use of the microscope. In 1852 he examined water for the Watford Water Company, and in 1853, mineral and varieties of coal for the Gillespie and Russell trial at Edinburgh over the lease of a supposed bed of coal (*see Jour Microsc Soc*, 1855, iii, 106). As regards the physiology of that day, as one of the secretaries at the British Association Aberdeen Meeting in 1859, he read a paper before Prince Albert on the volitional as well as the sensorial power of the spinal cord. Also in 1874 at the Belfast Meeting, celebrated for the Tyndall and Huxley discussions, he was one of the general secretaries. At the British Medical Association Meeting at Belfast in 1884 he gave the address on physiology. Redfern lived by the seaside, at Temple Patrick House, Donaghadee, where he spent his holidays, surrounded by his family, occupying himself in gardening and planting fruit trees and shrubs. He resigned and retired there as Emeritus Professor after 1893, his colleagues, pupils, and friends marking the occasion by the presentation of his portrait, which now hangs in the Examination Hall of Queen's University. He had celebrated his ninety-first birthday on December 17th, 1912, when he caught cold and died on the following December 22nd, the senior FRCS. His portrait is reproduced in Keith's *Menders of the Maimed*, 1919, and in the *British Medical Journal*. He left over £96,000. He married into a well-known Aberdeen family, his wife being a distant relative of Joseph Black, the chemist. They had issue three sons and five daughters, one son, Dr J J Redfern, being Physician to the Croydon Hospital. Publications: "On Abnormal Nutrition in Articular Cartilages." - *Monthly Jour of Med Sci*, Edinburgh, 1849, ix, 967, 1065, 1112, 1275. "On Normal Nutrition in the Human Articular Cartilages, with Experimental Researches." - *Ibid*, 1850, x, 214. "On the Healing of Wounds in Articular Cartilages" - *Ibid*, 1851, xiii, 201. "On the Thickness of the Articular Cartilages at Different Periods of Life." - *Ibid*, 1854, xviii, 21.
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First Title value, for Searching Luke, James (1799 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Wright, William (1874 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born at Wigan, 24 February 1874, the second child and first son of Joseph Wright, clothier, and Agnes Rae, his wife, both parents being of Scottish extraction. He was educated at Wigan Grammar School and at Owen's College, Manchester. He practised for a short time as a general practitioner, in partnership with Louis Birch at Ince in Makerfield, Wigan. Private practice proving uncongenial, he soon returned to Manchester as demonstrator of anatomy at Owens College. Here he quickly made his name as a good and inspiring teacher, and was appointed lecturer on anatomy in the University of Birmingham, then under the control of Sir Bertram Windle who kindled his archaeological spirit. In 1905 he was appointed lecturer on anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital, acted as sub- dean, and lived in the residential quarters with the students. Sir Arthur Keith was elected Conservator of the Royal College of Surgeons Museum in 1908, and Wright was immediately invited to fill his place as professor of anatomy in the Medical School attached to the London Hospital. He accepted the post, and in 1910 was made dean of the Medical School on the death of Munro Scott. He filled both these posts with great advantage to the School and Hospital until his death. His last annual report was published posthumously in the *London Hospital Gazette*, 1937, 41, 42-50. He married on 17 July 1937 Gwladys Jones, widow of his close friend and life-long companion Gwynne Jones (d 1933) and mother of Howell Gwynne-Jones, MRCS, CVO, and Surgeon-Commander W T Gwynne-Jones, RN. Mrs Wright died on 27 December 1943. Wright died after a prolonged illness on 21 October 1937, at his house Villa Candens, Gerrards Cross, Bucks, and was buried after a funeral service in the Gerrards Cross Parish Church. William Wright was an excellent teacher of anatomy and a good organizer. He was president of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1931-33, and president of the anatomical section of the British Medical Association in 1910. He was in constant request as an examiner at the various licensing bodies, and was sent to Canada as senior examiner when the Primary FRCS was first held in the Dominion, and in 1935 he flew to India on a similar errand with Professor G A Buckmaster as his colleague, with whom he had also examined in Melbourne in 1931. The Secretary of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons expressed "the sorrow felt in Australia and New Zealand" at the deaths of Buckmaster and Wright, in a letter to the *Brit med J* 1938, 1, 650. During the war he was gazetted lieutenant, RAMC (T) on 7 March 1917, and was subsequently promoted captain. Interested in archaeology, he did some good field work at Driffield in East Yorkshire on the skulls found in the round barrows, and lectured on the prehistoric and early historic inhabitants of England, giving the results of his digging in Gloucestershire. In 1935, in collaboration with L E Tanner, MVO, he published an important paper on investigations regarding the fate of the Princes in the Tower. He showed in this paper that, as the odontoid process was not yet united to the body of the axis, the children whose bones were disclosed were under the age of 13. From this and other anatomical points in connexion with the spine and the teeth he was able to say with some degree of certainty that the bones belonged to children, Edward V and Richard Duke of York, who had been killed by suffocation. Wright was essentially a "clubbable" man, who was at home in the Athenaeum and the Savage Club. He loved music and surrounded himself with artistic possessions. Leonardo da Vinci appealed to him both as an artist and as an anatomist. He was created a Knight of Grace of the Norwegian order of St Olaf for his help in publishing the Windsor Castle Leonardo drawings; and he left to the College Library his copy of this publication, *Quaderni d'Anatomia*, 6 vols., Christiania 1911-16, inscribed to him by the editors. He filled many offices at the Royal College of Surgeons: he was Hunterian professor 1904-7, 1908-9, 1912-13, Arris and Gale lecturer 1918, Thomas Vicary lecturer 1925 and 1934, examiner for the Primary Fellowship 1914-19, 1923-28, 1929-34. Publications: Skulls from the round barrows of East Yorkshire. *J Anat* 1904, 18, 119; 1905, 19, 417. Prehistoric and early historic inhabitants of England, Hunterian lecture. *Middx Hosp J* 1907, 11, 90; 1908, 12, 39. Morphology and variation of the skull, Hunterian lecture. *Lancet*, 1909, 1, 669. *Practical Anatomy*, with F G Parsons. London, 1912. The book was designed especially for candidates intending to present themselves for the Primary FRCS. It was remodelled and the substance of it appeared later in the Six Teachers' *Anatomy*, London, 1932, and the Six Teachers' *Anatomy for Dental Students*, London, 1934. Recent investigations regarding the fate of the Princes in the Tower, with Lawrence E Tanner, MVO. *Archaeologia*, 1935, 84, 1-26.
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First Title value, for Searching Zuckerman, Solly (1904 - 1993)

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Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Solly Zuckerman was born on 30 May 1904 in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of Moses Zuckerman, a gold prospector and businessman and his wife Ruth, née Glaser. He was educated at the South African College School and the University of Cape Town, where he was Libermann Scholar. He then came to London and was Goldsmid Exhibitioner at University College Hospital, followed by a period of research as an anatomist. He was demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Cape Town from 1923 to 1925, Union Research Scholar in 1925 and research anatomist to the Zoological Society of London and subsequently demonstrator of anatomy to University College London from 1928 to 1932. He then became Rockefeller Research Fellow at Yale University, USA, from 1933 to 1934, Beit Memorial Research Fellow from 1934 to 1937 and demonstrator and lecturer in human anatomy at Oxford University from 1934 to 1943. He was a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1937 and was later elected an honorary FRCS. In 1939 Zuckerman married Lady June Rufus Isaacs, the eldest daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Reading, and they had one son and one daughter. In 1943 he was elected FRS and in the same year he was appointed Sands Cox Professor of Anatomy in the University of Birmingham but was seldom seen there during the war because of his commitments at national level. He had already established a reputation as a scientist and after the outbreak of war conducted a series of important experiments concerned with pulmonary blast injuries. He was appointed as Scientific Adviser to Combined Operations HQ and became scientific adviser on planning to the Allied Armies from 1939 to 1946. It was said that his advice to switch bombing from towns and cities to railways and marshalling yards had a crucial effect on the Normandy campaign because it greatly impaired the Germans' ability to mobilise their Panzer divisions. He was awarded the CB for his services in 1946. After the war Zuckerman returned to Birmingham where he rapidly established an outstanding department in which his interests lay in scientific achievement rather than conventional anatomy. He introduced an intercalated BSc course as a new venture which was very successful, but he tended to denigrate clinical practice and took the rather lofty view that it was not his prime responsibility to teach topographical anatomy to medical students but rather his main function was to train embryo scientists that he said the clinicians would ruin in six months by their conventional, and rather pedestrian, approach to problems. Nevertheless, despite this rather Draconian view, the teaching of anatomy was left in the hands of a few dedicated enthusiasts and was of a high standard. The secret of Zuckerman's success was that he had learnt at an early age the importance of delegation and he had an almost uncanny ability to select persons of merit and then leave them to get on with the job in hand. Thus it was that he rapidly collected around him a group of young scientists, several of whom became internationally recognised as authorities in their respective fields of endeavour, and the department acquired an enviable reputation. After a few years Zuckerman again became heavily involved at national level but despite increasingly long absences from Birmingham he retained a close awareness of what was occurring in the department. One of his close associates said of him that in one hour on a Sunday morning Solly would describe in detail what needed to be achieved in the following week and fully anticipated that this would be attained by the time of his next visit on the following Sunday. His commitments at this time were horrendous and it was reputed that he required four secretaries to manage his itinerary. Zuckerman was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence from 1960 to 1966 and Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government from 1964 to 1971, as well as being Honorary Secretary to the Zoological Society from 1955 to 1977 and its President from 1977 to 1984. He was either chairman or a member of numerous senior committees advising several Departments of State in the Government, and his views carried considerable weight with the Ministers responsible and their associates. Zuckerman was knighted in 1956, advanced to KCB in 1964, awarded the Order of Merit in 1968 and in 1971 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Zuckerman of Burnham Thorpe. He was honoured by the Americans with the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm and by the French by his appointment as a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. Throughout his hectic career, which can seldom have been exceeded in its breadth and content, Zuckerman published some 570 papers and about 14 books or treatises, including an informative and amusing autobiography entitled *From apes to warlords* in 1978. This influential scientist and most remarkable man died on 1 April 1993 at the age of 88.
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First Title value, for Searching Shepherd, Francis John (1851 - 1929)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born 25 November 1851 the second of the ten children of Robert Ward Shepherd, general manager of the Ottawa River Navigation Co, and his wife, * née* Delesderniers, who was of Swiss origin. He was born at Port Cavignal, afterwards named Como, a village about 38 miles from Montreal on the southern side of the Lake of Two Mountains. Educated at the village school he passed to the Montreal High School, and appears to have entered the Arts Faculty at McGill in 1868. On 1 November 1869 he was a member of the newly established Medical Faculty of McGill. He made a short visit to the United States as soon as he had graduated in 1873, as there was no resident appointment vacant at the Montreal General Hospital. The years 1874 and 1875 were spent in postgraduate study. He visited London first, became a student at St Thomas's Hospital, and passed the first and second examinations for the MRCS with the intention of entering the Indian Medical Service. From London he passed to Marburg and from there to Vienna, where he took out courses in dermatology under Hebra and in anatomy under Zückerkandl. Whilst he was in Vienna his friend Osler wrote in April 1875 telling him that he had been appointed demonstrator of anatomy at McGill. He accepted the post and retained it until 1883, when he was appointed lecturer on anatomy, a position he held until his retirement in 1913, when he was succeeded by Sir Auckland Geddes. When Shepherd began to teach anatomy the subjects had to be obtained by resurrectionist methods. He was instrumental in 1883 in obtaining a legal supply, and he insisted that anatomy could only be learnt by dissection. In 1878 he was appointed medical officer to the Montreal Dispensary, and in May of the following year he was elected surgeon to out-patients at the Montreal General Hospital. In 1883 he exchanged this post for that of physician to the Charity and undertook the surgical work. He was also made temporary registrar of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill. In 1908 he became dean of the Faculty in succession to Sir Thomas Roddick, and remained dean until 1914. In 1883 too he was vice-president of the Students' Medical Society, which had been established by his contemporary and colleague William Osler in 1877, and during 1882-95 he acted as librarian of the Faculty. Shepherd gave valuable advice during the building of the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1891-93, but was never a member of the staff. In a similar manner he was greatly interested in the Montreal Maternity Hospital from 1886 until his death. He married Lilias Gertrude Torrance in 1878. She died in 1892 leaving two daughters. His only son was killed in action at Cambrai. He died suddenly on 18 January 1929, probably of coronary thrombosis. Shepherd was *felix opportunitate vitae*. He came to McGill in its infancy and took a very large share in raising it to the position it now occupies. He had a life-long friend in his McGill contemporary, Sir William Osler, and like him was a frequent visitor to the medical schools in Europe. He was too a man of culture, who trained himself to a knowledge of art, was president of the Montreal Art Association, 1918-29, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian National Gallery, Ottawa. A portrait by Miss Des Clayes, painted by subscription in 1924, hangs in the Assembly Hall of the Medical Building at McGill University. Another, by Alphonse Jongerz, is in possession of the family. A memorial lecture was established at McGill University in 1953. Publications: Howell's *F J Shepherd - surgeon* contains as an appendix a list of his very numerous writings.
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First Title value, for Searching Cave, Alexander James Edward (1900 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Alexander James Edward Cave was professor of anatomy at St Batholomew's Hospital and an acknowledged world expert in comparative anatomy. He was born in Manchester on 13 September 1900, the eldest son of John Cave, a schoolmaster and Therèse Anne, née D'Hooghe. He was educated at Manchester High School and Victoria University, Manchester, where he was much influenced by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith and J S B Stopford in anatomy. It was to anatomy that he returned on qualification, becoming first demonstrator and then lecturer at Leeds, before moving to University College London to be senior demonstrator of anatomy. In 1935 he moved to the College, first as assistant conservator of the museum and then as Arnott demonstrator under Arthur Keith, until he was appointed professor of human and comparative anatomy in 1940. He held this post throughout the war, during which time he was responsible not only for the museum, but also for the allocation of anatomical subjects to evacuated metropolitan medical schools. After the war he was appointed professor of anatomy at St Bartholomew's, and for the next two decades taught generations of Bart's medical students, with whom he was a popular and entertaining figure. They honoured him by making him treasurer and later president of the students' union and president or vice-president of the rugby, soccer and swimming clubs. In the field of anatomy he was an enthusiast for comparative anatomy, devoting his time to studies of the rhinoceros, elephant, whale and dolphin, on which he became the unchallenged world expert. As the years passed Cave became an expert on palaeontology and wrote extensively on ancient Egypt and the archaeological material in the Hunterian Museum, as well as the pathology and posture of Neanderthal man. He was invited to help the dean and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral to examine relics supposed to be those of Thomas à Beckett (which he showed not to be) and was later invited to Salford to examine the skull of St Ambrose Barlow, his report enabling the Catholic bishop of Salford to authenticate the relic. He continued to contribute erudite and exact papers to the *Journal of Zoology* long after his retirement in 1967. Innumerable honours came to him, including his election to the Fellowship. He was an examiner for the conjoint and the primary over a period of 30 years; he was the Wood Jones medallist in 1978, and from 1956 he was an assiduous Hunterian trustee. In 1948 he served as vice-president of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He was president of the Linnean Society from 1970 to 1973, vice-president and silver medallist of the Zoological Society of London and honorary associate of the British Museum (natural history) from 1974. He married Dorothy May Dimbleby in 1926, by whom he had a daughter, Veronica. Dorothy predeceased him in 1961 and in 1970 he married for the second time, to Catherine Elizabeth Fitzgerald. His funeral Mass was celebrated by his grandson, Father Peter Madden.
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Herbert Hughlings William (1912 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Hughlings Jackson, a distant cousin of the great neurologist, was born on 3 October 1912, the youngest of the five children of William Herbert Jackson, a former master mariner who owned a stevedoring business in London and later worked for the Mission to Seamen. His mother was Beatrice née Walker. For a time during the first world war, Hughlings was placed in the care of the head gardener of Lord Radstock, who was a patron of the Mission. Radstock was like a second father to the young Hughlings. Hughlings was educated at the Coopers' Company's School in the East End of London, and in 1931 won an open exhibition to Birkbeck College, where he did the first MB. He went on to the London Hospital Medical College in 1933. There he was dresser to Russell Howard and Sir Henry Souttar and won prizes in clinical and minor surgery. After qualifying, he did junior posts in outpatients and the receiving room at the London Hospital, and was house physician to Ryle and McCance at Addenbrooke's. This was followed by a year as RSO at the Royal Cancer Hospital under Cecil Joll and Lawrence Abel, and a year as a registrar at the Princess Beatrice Hospital under Abel and Sir John Peel; these two years were combined with work in the Emergency Medical Service throughout the Blitz. He joined the RAFVR in 1942, and served as a Surgical Specialist in Cairo, Aden and the UK. On demobilisation, he returned to the London Hospital to demonstrate anatomy and in 1947 became first assistant to Alan Perry and A M A Moore, as well as Northfield (on the neurosurgery unit) and Vernon Thompson (thoracic surgery). Later he went to work with E T C Milligan at the Memorial Hospital and Melville Capper and J A Pocock in Bristol, taking the FRCS and London MS, and publishing several research papers en route. But, along with so many of his ex-service contemporaries, he found it impossible to get a consultant appointment in England. On Capper's advice, he went to Manitoba, Canada, for two years and then returned as a consultant to Redhill General Hospital in 1955, combining this with a clinical assistantship at St Peter's. At Redhill he met Beryl Collins. They married in 1959. In 1960 Hughlings went to Ibadan as senior lecturer and consultant. He was appointed senior lecturer in anatomy at Brisbane in 1969, in which post he remained until he retired in 1976. Hughlings and Beryl were very hospitable people who made their home open to many, and supported missionaries and Christian causes, including the Red Sea Mission team, of which he was a foundation member. In Brisbane he was involved in setting up the Christian Medical Fellowship, conducting a weekly Bible study for the young people of his own church. He was a great storyteller, had a mischievous sense of humour, and was essentially a humble man. He died from pneumonia in Brisbane on 7 August 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Morris, Edward Walter Talwin (1899 - 1995)

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Publication Date 2015-09-24 2018-04-12
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Occupation Anatomist
Details 'Tom' Morris was born in 1899 at Adelaide, where he started to read medicine, but interrupted his studies to enlist during the first world war, narrowly surviving the Spanish 'flu epidemic in 1918 aboard a troopship. After the war he came to England to follow in his father's footsteps at St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1926 and then joined the Sudan Medical Service, where he spent the next twenty-one years, surviving diphtheria, malaria and amoebic dysentry. He developed an interest in anatomy whilst studying for the primary, passed the final FRCS in 1935, and then returned to St Thomas's as a senior lecturer in anatomy in 1949. There he continued to teach anatomy until 1965, when he went back to Khartoum to continue to teach for a couple of years before moving to Scotland, to the University of St Andrews, where he pursued research into the embryology of the heart by means of electron microscopy. He was still teaching anatomy during his 94th year, and remained physically and mentally fit until the day of his death, which was precipitated by his push-starting his car. He left a wife and two sons, the youngest of whom, H C T Morris, continued the family tradition of demonstrating anatomy at St Thomas's before becoming a GP. He died on 17 February 1995. See below for an additional extended obituary written in 2018 Edward Walter Talwin Morris, known as 'Tom', was a surgeon in the Sudan Medical Service and then a teacher of anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London. He was born in 1899 in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of Edward Walter Morris, a doctor originally from Reading, England and Dora Annie Morris née Jacobson. He started to read medicine in Adelaide during the First World War, but interrupted his studies to enlist, narrowly surviving the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918 on board a troopship. After the war, he went to the UK in his father's footsteps to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1926. In 1929, he joined the Sudan Medical Service, where he spent the next 20 years mainly in the south and west, surviving diphtheria, malaria and amoebic dysentery. From 1944 to 1949 he was based in Khartoum as the senior surgeon and lecturer in surgery. He developed an interest in anatomy whilst studying for the primary and passed the final FRCS in 1935 while on leave from the Sudan. He returned to St Thomas's as a senior lecturer in anatomy in 1949. He continued to teach anatomy there until 1965, when he went back to the Sudan for two years as professor of anatomy at the University of Khartoum. After moving to Scotland, he taught anatomy at the University of St Andrews, where he also pursued research into the embryology of the heart using the electron microscope. He was still teaching anatomy in his 94th year. His death, on 17 February 1995, was precipitated by successfully push-starting the family car. He was survived by his wife, Margaret (née Orr-Patterson) and two sons, the younger of whom, Hubert Charles Talwin Morris, continued the family tradition of qualifying at St Thomas's before becoming a GP. Nick Morris Hugh Morris Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Birkett, John (1815 - 1904)

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Publication Date 2006-03-01 2012-03-22
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born April 14th, 1815, at 10 The Terrace, Upper Clapton, Middlesex, the only child of John and Mary Birkett. Educated at various private schools; at one the master was a Frenchman, at another a mathematician and astronomer, and at a third a Greek scholar. Birkett thereby gained a wide general knowledge. In September, 1831, he was bound apprentice to Bransby Cooper, then Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, being, as is thought, the last pupil to pay the customary fee of £500 which gave the apprenticeship some claim to consideration when a vacancy occurred on the hospital staff. Birkett did not begin his medical studies at Guy's Hospital until October, 1832. He was admitted M.R.C.S. on Oct. 6th, 1837, and was immediately appointed a Demonstrator of Anatomy. He held the post until 1847, and had in succession as his colleagues James P. Babington, Thomas Moody, and Alfred Poland. He was elected F.R.C.S. without examination in 1844 and signalized the session 1845-1846 by giving demonstrations on microscopic anatomy on certain evenings in each week, and in this way beginning the teaching of histology in the medical school. In 1847 he was appointed to make the post-mortem examinations in the hospital, and in May, 1849, he was elected Assistant Surgeon in consequence of the death of John Morgan and the promotion of Edward Cock (q.v.). In the same year he gained the Jacksonian Prize for his Essay on "Diseases of the Mammary Gland". In this year, too, making a bid for practice he moved from 2 Broad Street Buildings, where he had lived since 1840, to Wellington Street, Southwark. He lectured on anatomy jointly with John Hilton (q.v.) in 1851, and two years later he was elected Surgeon to Guy's Hospital on the resignation of Bransby Cooper, his former master, and this post he held until 1875, when he retired on reaching the age of 60. As full Surgeon he lectured on surgery conjointly with John Poland, and in 1856 he moved to Green Street, Grosvenor Square, where he spent the rest of his active life until he retired to Sussex Gardens in 1896, where he died after a prolonged illness on July 6th, 1904. At the Royal College of Surgeons he served on the Council from 1867-1883, and was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology from 1869-1871, lecturing on the nature and treatment of new growths. He was an Examiner in Anatomy and Physiology (1875-1877), a Member of the Court of Examiners (1872-1882), of the Examining Board in Dental Surgery (1875-1882), Vice-President (1875 and 1876), and President (1877). He was one of the Founders of the Pathological Society of London and served as a Vice-President (1860-1862), doing good work by insisting upon the use of the microscope in the investigation of tumours at a time when such a method was unusual. He served for some years as Inspector for the Home Office of the Anatomical schools of Anatomy in the Provinces. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers in 1871 and 1892. In 1842 he married Lucy Matilda, daughter of Halsey Jansen; five sons and a daughter survived him out of a family of seven boys and three girls; two of his sons were distinguished football players. John Birkett was essentially a surgeon of the old school, a reliable operator, a good anatomist, and very careful in the after-treatment of his patients. He obtained good results because he was clean in himself, was not engaged in anatomy, and was accustomed to have the patient washed before he was brought into the operating theatre. The diagnosis and treatment of tumours of the breast, hernia operations, and the surgery of the arteries interested him most; abdominal operations and surgical interference with joints and veins were abhorrent to him. As a teacher he was slow and uninspiring; as an individual he was a cultured gentleman of wide knowledge, an excellent field botanist, and a great walker. In these walks he carried into private life the characteristics which had made him successful as a surgeon. Few men knew better than he how to use a map. To form one that could be serviceable and easily consulted even if the walk were no longer than from Sevenoaks to Maidstone or across the Yorkshire Moors from Danby to Goathland he would make the starting-point the centre by joining two or more of the ordnance survey plans. Then after bevelling the edges that the junction might be almost invisible, colouring the areas of equal height, describing concentric circles increasing by two or more miles, mounting on linen and constructing a case no whit inferior to that sold in the map-sellers' shops, he was secure from losing his way in his peregrinations, come fog, come snow, or blinding rain. Publications: - A. Von Behr's *Handbook of Human Anatomy, General, Special and Topographical.* Translated from the original German and adapted to the use of English students by John Birkett. 8vo, London, 1846. *Description of Some of the Tumours Removed from the Breast and Preserved in the Museum of Guy's Hospital,* 8vo, with 6 plates, London, 1848. *Diseases of the Breast and their Treatment* [Jacksonian Prize Essay], 8vo, plates, 1850. *Adenocele of the Mammary Gland, *8vo, London, 1855. *Contributions to the Practical Surgery of New Growths or Tumours. Series iii. Cysts* 12mo, plates, London, 1859. Articles on "Injuries of the Pelvis", "Hernia", and "Diseases of the Breast" in Holmes's *System of Surgery,* 1870, and again in Holmes and Hulke's *System of Surgery,* 1883.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, John William Simmons (1926 - 2013)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-06-06 2014-07-04
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Occupation Anatomist
Details John Harris was a well-known anatomist who became professor at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine: he was appointed to the chair on the retirement of Ruth Bowden. It is possible that he had contemplated a career in obstetrics and gynaecology in his early years and was very much a clinical anatomist. As such, he was one of the dwindling number of medically-qualified doctors who choose a career in basic sciences, much to the benefit of undergraduates and postgraduates whom they teach. He was a very worthy recipient of an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985, having already gained the fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was born in Hythe, Kent, on 6 June 1926, the son of William Harris, an antiques dealer, and his wife May née Littlewood. His only sister, Penny, was a teacher who emigrated to Toronto, Canada. He went to Maidstone Grammar School for his secondary education, where he was not particularly athletic, but excelled in science subjects. John won a scholarship to train at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, and undertook his preclinical studies in Cambridge, whence the preclinical school had been evacuated during the Second World War. Luftwaffe bombing had damaged or destroyed some of the buildings at Charterhouse Square, and the preclinical school was evacuated to Cambridge, where Bart's students were resident in Queens' College. Students and teaching staff shared the excellent facilities of the University of Cambridge, including lecture theatres and the anatomy dissecting room. Their teachers were all appointed to serve Bart's Medical College and supervise their preclinical studies. W J Hamilton, initially a rather intimidating figure, with a Northern Irish accent, was well-known for teaching clinically relevant anatomy. He stressed the importance of structure as it related to function, and introduced students early to surface and radiological anatomy. Hamilton Hartridge taught the students physiology, mainly following his own textbook, and Arthur Wormall, with Harry Gordon Reeves, taught biochemistry. Returning to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical studies, most of his tuition was in West Smithfield, although the more specialised units, such as orthopaedic and chest surgery, still remained at Hill End Hospital, St Albans, the evacuated site. Qualifying in 1949, John was appointed as a house surgeon to the surgical professorial unit from July 1949 for six months, working with Sir James Paterson Ross. Having also developed an interest in obstetrics and gynaecology, he served as an 'intern and extern' midwifery assistant until June 1950. He developed a further interest in this field as a house surgeon in obstetrics and gynaecology at Farnborough Hospital, Kent, during which time he passed the diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, often regarded as a passport to a career in general practice. Finally, as part of the General Medical Council requirements, he undertook a house physician post at Farnborough hospital. It was during his time as a house surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital that he met his future wife, Sonia Naish, a Bart's nurse and later a theatre sister. They married in 1951 when he was working Farnborough Hospital, Kent. Her parents were shop retailers. His commitment to obstetrics and gynaecology continued when he obtained a registrar post at the Luton and Dunstable hospital for two years from June 1952, a hospital that had strong links with St Bartholomew's Hospital. Having passed the membership examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) in 1953, he undertook six months as a casualty officer at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, and must surely have been the only casualty officer in the UK with the MRCOG at the time. It is not known whether he did intend to pursue a career in anatomy at this time, as many budding surgeons worked as demonstrators in anatomy, physiology or pathology for a year or more whilst studying for the FRCS. Having obtained a position as demonstrator in the London Hospital Medical College anatomy department in March 1955, he held the post for seven years. So by now his future career had been decided, and in 1961 he went for a year to the USA as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow to the department of embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington. Starting at the London Hospital Medical College, he enjoyed teaching topographical and neurological anatomy and embryology to medical and dental students. Teaching applied anatomy to student nurses, physiotherapists, student and postgraduate radiographers and laboratory technicians was part of an increasingly busy schedule. He enjoyed teaching embryology to BSc students. Many of his research interests were in the field of embryology. The development of the mammalian secondary palate and the production of cleft palate by experimental techniques was one, but his early training in obstetrics and gynaecology dictated other interests. These were 'The morphology of human uretero-placental blood vessels throughout the course of pregnancy', 'Intravascular trophoblast in monkey, baboon and human uteri with the placenta in situ' and 'The effect of thalidomide on rabbit, rat, mouse and chick embryos'. Presumably this was connected with the ghastly malformations seen in children born to mothers taking the drug thalidomide during pregnancy. In 1962, having returned from Washington DC, John was appointed as a senior lecturer in anatomy at the London Hospital Medical College, a position he held until September 1967, when he moved as reader in anatomy to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. In April 1973 he had the title of professor of anatomy conferred on him. His great interest in clinical anatomy was apparent as he organised courses on surgical anatomy for postgraduate students taking the primary FRCS and those sitting part one of the MRCOG. John was well known as very fair examiner in the primary FRCS examinations, always correcting mistakes and testing knowledge very broadly. From 1972 to 1981 he examined for the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England. From 1978 to 1992 he examined for the Edinburgh College, and from 1980 to 1992 for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. At national level he was visiting examiner in anatomy to six London-based medical schools and the University of Liverpool. Abroad his skills were obvious as an external examiner for the universities of Ghana and Singapore, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Active in the affairs of London University, he became honorary secretary and later chairman of the board of studies in human anatomy, but kept in touch with clinical matters as a university member of Hampstead Health Authority and as vice dean of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. Prominent in his support of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, he was a council member for some 20 years, programme secretary from 1975 to 1977, treasurer for 10 years and was honoured by his colleagues when elected president for two years from 1990. During this last post he and his wife represented the Anatomical Society at the first joint meeting of the British and American Associations of Clinical Anatomists held in Norwich. He was also a member of the Zoological Society of London, the International Society of Developmental Biologists and of the British Society for Developmental Biology. Shortly after retirement John suffered a spinal thrombosis, from which his mobility deteriorated, eventually robbing him of his passion for gardening and his main source of consistent exercise. Sonia's health, though poor, was optimally managed by many consultants, aided and abetted by John's meticulous medical record keeping of her conditions and test results, which enabled her to remain ambulant and to be the designated driver until the last three years of her life. John's health suddenly deteriorated in May 2010 with acute renal failure secondary to a lymphoma. For this he was investigated and treated at King's College Hospital by one of his old students. His great faith defeated the enormous odds against his ever returning to his house at Sevenoaks and to his beloved Sonia. Though bedbound, during his last years he was able to nursed at home, awakening every morning to the sight of his beloved garden, which he had designed himself, with its changing pattern of colours. Predeceased by Sonia, John Harris died on 21 June 2013, aged 87. He was survived by his two sons, Richard, a chartered surveyor, and David, a dermatologist, their wives and two grandchildren, James and Jennie.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Arthur Ralph (1876 - 1955)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation Anatomist Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 3 September 1876 son of Vincent Thomas Thompson QC, Assistant Recorder of Leeds, he came of a family many of whose members distinguished themselves through three or four generations in law, medicine, and administrative or academic work; they were related by marriage to similar prominent professional families such as the Brodies and de Morgans. Reginald Thompson FRCP, physician to Brompton Hospital, was his uncle. He was educated at Leeds Medical School and Guy's Hospital, and studied in Paris. While at Guy's he was a strong "forward" in the Rugby XV and later played for Barbarians. Qualifying in 1901 he was a house surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Shadwell, and at Guy's successively demonstrator of anatomy, anaesthetist, surgical registrar, and the first resident surgical officer. While demonstrator of anatomy he wrote a classic paper on dislocation of the hip in infants. Under the influence of Arbuthnot Lane, then the outstanding personality at Guy's, he kept up his anatomical studies, gave a Hunterian lecture at the College in 1908 on the anatomy of long bones in relation to fractures, and became a vice-president of the Anatomical Society. He was appointed in 1910 to be the first surgeon-in-charge of the new genito-urinary department at Guy's, a post he held till retirement in 1936, when he was appointed a consulting surgeon emeritus, for he had built up the department admirably to the highest standards. During the war of 1914-18 he also served at the Grove War Hospital, Tooting. He was President of the Section of Urology in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1931-32, and a member of the International Society of Urology. He examined in anatomy for the Primary Fellowship 1918-23, and was secretary and vice-president of the Chelsea Clinical Society. His great ability and experience were offset by faults of social character. Absolutely honest, he was absolutely without tact, cultivated his prejudices, and was so blunt of speech that he was nicknamed "Rudy". When asked why he wore a bowler hat in the wards, he replied "To annoy the Matron". His uninhibited comments lost him friends and virtually destroyed his private practice, but he was his own only enemy; to those who could bear his mannerisms he was an amusing well-informed companion, and he did acts of kindness by stealth. During the years 1944-53 he was an assessor to the Ministry of Pensions, and a frequent visitor to the College. He had practised at 143 Harley Street and 31 Queen's Gate Terrace. He married in 1906 Florence Wansey who survived him with their two sons and two daughters. He died in Guy's Hospital on 16 October 1955, aged 79, and a memorial service was held in the Hospital Chapel on 28 October. Publications: Joint author with Sir Alfred Fripp: *Human anatomy for art students*. London 1911. Excision of the hip-joint. *Guy's Hosp Rep*. 1905, 59, 347. Relationship between the internal structure of the upper part of the femur and fractures through the base of the neck of the femur. (Hunterian Lecture) *J Anat*. 1907-08, 42, 60. Figures relative to congenital abnormalities of the upper urinary tract, and its surgical anatomy. 1913-14, 48, 280. The capacity of, and pressure of fluid in the urinary bladder. *J Anat*. 1918-19, 53, 241. Primary union in operations on bladder and prostate. *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1923, 16, Urology, p. 47. Some features of the elbow joint. *Journal of Anatomy* 1923-24, 58, 368. Some points in connection with the successful issue of simple prostatectomy. (Presidential address, Section of Urology.) *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1931-32, 25; 907. Homer's surgery. *Manchester Univ Med Sch Gaz*. 1954, 33, 238; summary in *Proc Roy Soc Med*, History section, 1953, 45, 765. Recollections. *Guy's Hosp Gaz*. 1951, 65, 347, 363, 384, 409, 425, 447, 466, 494; 1953, 67, 277; and 1954, 68, 73. These "Recollections" show Thompson at his best: generous, amusing, but never unkind character sketches of surgeons and anatomists whom he had known since his student days, with sufficient technical detail to make them interesting as a record of the surgery which he had seen or practised.
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First Title value, for Searching Heath, Christopher (1835 - 1905)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-05-04 2012-03-22
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in London on March 13th, 1835, the son of Christopher Heath (1802-1876) and Eliza Barclay. His father was the well-known Irvingite who was instrumental in building the beautiful Catholic Apostolic Church in Gordon Square, where he afterwards acted as angel, or minister, of the congregation. Heath was educated at King's College School, which he entered in May, 1845. He was apprenticed to Nathaniel Davidson, of Charles Street, Manchester Square, and began his medical studies at King's College, London, in October , 1851. Here he gained the Leathes and Warneford Prizes for general proficiency in medical subjects and in divinity, and was admitted an Associate in 1855. From March 11th to Sept. 25th, 1855, he served as hospital dresser on board H.M. Steam Frigate *Impérieuse* in the Baltic Fleet during the Crimean War, and was awarded a medal. He was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at King's College, and served as House Surgeon at King's College Hospital to Sir William Fergusson (q.v.) from May to November, 1857. In 1856 he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at Westminster Hospital, where he was made Lecturer on Anatomy and Assistant Surgeon in 1862. Heath was consulting Surgeon to the St. George and St. James's Dispensary in 1858, and in 1860 he was elected Surgeon to the West London Hospital at Hammersmith; in 1870 he was Surgeon to the Hospital for Women, Soho; and later he was Consulting Surgeon to the National Dental Hospital in Great Portland Street. He was elected Assistant Surgeon and Teacher of Operative Surgery at University College Hospital in 1866, where he became full Surgeon in 1871 on the resignation of Sir John Eric Erichsen (q.v.). He was appointed Holme Professor of Clinical Surgery in 1875, resigned his hospital appointments in 1900, and was then made Consulting Surgeon and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery. At the Royal College of Surgeons he gained the Jacksonian Prize in 1867 with his essay upon "The Injuries and Diseases of the Jaws, including those of the Antrum, and with the Treatment by Operation, or otherwise." He was a Member of the Council from 1881-1897; Examiner in Anatomy and Physiology from 1875-1880; a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1883-1892; and an Examiner in Dental Surgery in 1888. He was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology in 1887, Bradshaw Lecturer in 1892, and Hunterian Orator in 1897. He was a Vice-President in 1895, and was called upon to act as President when John Whitaker Hulke (q.v.) died on Feb. 19th, 1895. Heath was elected President in his place in the following July and served his term of office during the year 1895-1896. In 1897 he visited the United States and delivered the second course of "Lane Medical Lectures" which had been recently founded at the Medical College, San Francisco. He visited Montreal on his way back to England and was given the honorary LL.D degree by the University of Montreal. He was President of the Clinical Society of London and an Associate Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Heath lived for many years at 36 Cavendish Square; the house has now been rebuilt. He married (1) Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Jasper Peck; and (2) Gabrielle Nora, daughter of Captain Joseph Maynard, R.N. He died on Aug. 8th, 1905, leaving a widow, five sons, and one daughter. His fourth son, P. Maynard Heath, F.R.C.S., became Surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children. Heath was a brilliant surgeon and a great teacher. His intimate knowledge of anatomy made him a dexterous operator, but his comparative inability to appreciate new truths of bacteriology cut him off from the scientific side of surgery. Early in his career he showed a very special aptitude in the art of surgery, of which his master, Sir William Fergusson, was so excellent an exponent. For thirty-three years Heath was one of the most active members of the Surgical Staff of University College, and his boldness and skill were exhibited in his successful case of simultaneous ligature of the carotid and subclavian arteries for aneurysm in 1865. The patient lived for five years afterwards in spite of her intemperate habits. As a teacher Heath was at once direct and practical, and as an examiner prompt, penetrating, and just. He served the College in various capacities for many years, and in all of these devoted himself with zeal and energy to its interests. He was a born conversationalist with marked antipathies; a hard hitter with a confident belief in his own opinion. In person he was tall and handsome; in mind wonderfully alert, seeing instantaneously any flaw in the argument of his adversary. There is a marble bas-relief by Mr. Hope Pinker in the hall of the Medical School buildings of University College Hospital, and there is a good likeness of him in the portrait group of the College Council, by Jamyn Brookes. PUBLICATIONS:- All Heath's works were published in London. The chief of these are:- *A Manual of Minor Surgery and Bandaging,* 1861; 13th ed., 1906; 16th ed., 1917 (edited by H. MORRISON DAVIES). *Practical Anatomy. A Manual of Dissections,* 1864; 9th ed., 1902 (edited by J. E. Lane); translated into Japanese, Osaka, 1880. This text-book displaced *The Dublin Dissector,* which had been the favourite of many generations of medical students (see HARRISON, ROBERT). *Injuries and Diseases of the Jaws,* 1868; 4th ed., 1894 (edited by H. P. DEAN); translated into French, 1884. *Essay on the Treatment of Intrathoracic Aneurism by the Distal Ligature*, 1871; re-issue, 1898. *A Course of Operative Surgery*, 1877; 2nd ed., 1884; translated into Japanese, Osaka, 1882. *The Student's Guide to Surgical Diagnosis*, 1879; 2nd ed., 1883; Philadelphia, 1882; New York, 1881. *Clinical Lectures on Surgical Subjects*, 1891; 2nd ed., 1895; second series, Philadelphia, 1902. He edited a *Dictionary of Practical Surgery* in 2 vols., 1886.
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First Title value, for Searching Cooke, Thomas (1841 - 1899)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-07
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in the United States of America in 1841, the only son of John Hawley Cooke and Jane, daughter of the Hon Richard Hawley. His parents took him to Paris as an infant, where he had no regular education. At the age of 13 Cooke was left to make a private arrangement with a schoolmaster. Starting as a medical student, he gained at the age of 21 the B es L and B es S of the University of Paris. He served as Extern and Interne at the Bicetre, Sainte-Eugenie, Saint-Louis, Lariboisiere, and Le Midi Hospitals, and for some years was Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Ecole Pratique de la Faculte de Medecine. In 1870 he graduated MD and received a Mention Honorable, Faculte Medicale de Paris, for his "Esquisse d'une Anatomie Operatoire - Considerations generales: Region parotidienne, Cavite buccale, Regions soushyoidienne et sterno-mastoidienne" (8vo, plates, Chartres, 1870). His financial position had been poor and became worse with the Siege of Paris in the autumn of 1870. He came over to England and passed the MRCS examination in January, 1871, and the FRCS in the following June. He was thereupon appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy and Physiology at Westminster Hospital Medical School, and in August, 1871, was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital. An appointment which promised advantages both to the Hospital and Medical School on the one hand, and to Cooke on the other, turned out a dismal failure. Cooke's training and experience had been entirely in the Paris of the Third Empire. He could not adapt himself to the hospital outpatient practice; the surgery he attempted was pre-Listerian. Curiously he failed to adapt his wonderful knowledge of anatomy to the practice of surgery. Hence he gained no private practice from his hospital appointment. He could only get a livelihood by his remarkable talent as a demonstrator of anatomy to students who had failed to profit by the teaching at their own medical school. He held the post of Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Hospital Medical School with increasing friction until 1875. When vacancies occurred on the senior surgical staff he was not promoted. Later he was relieved of all hospital duty, but remained nominally Surgeon to Out-patients at the Westminster Hospital until his death. Cooke started the London School of Anatomy and Physiology with one or two pupils, and developed the last of the private medical schools of London, based on its recognition as a school which a student referred in anatomy might attend for individual instruction. Courses on operative surgery on the dead body were also given. Cooke was engaged in demonstrating in his dissecting-room from early morning until night. He taught with the greatest energy and enthusiasm what he published in his *Tablets of Anatomy and Physiology*, the first part of which was issued in 1873. Anatomical instruction underwent changes; the study of frozen sections increased in importance as abdominal and thoracic surgery developed; and morphology and embryology made greater demands upon the attention of students. Cooke was a determined advocate for anatomy by dissection, and published *A Plea for Practical Work in Anatomy* in 1893, *Specialism in Teaching and Examining* in 1896, and *The Old and New School of Anatomy* in 1897. The School of Anatomy was entered from Handel Street, Brunswick Square, through a small gate in Henrietta Mews, a notice over the door bearing the words 'Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery'. There was a large dissecting-room, and an anatomical tank in which as many as seventeen cadavers could be preserved. The grounds included part of an old graveyard with tombstones remaining. A small cottage, and a shed used for storing books and papers were attached. Cooke lived at 40, Brunswick Square, in the immediate neighbourhood. Cooke's Medical School at its acme numbered more than one hundred students a year. Sir John Bland-Sutton related that in 1878 he took an extra six months' course of anatomy there owing to the facility for dissecting during the summer months. Cooke's objective methods of teaching appealed to him; with intense enthusiasm, by vivid and inspiring demonstrations, he exhibited the chief anatomical points on the dissected subject in strict relationship during a three months' course, assuming his class to be already familiar with the elementary details of anatomy. He was so engaged, demonstrating in his dissecting-room, when he died suddenly from aneurysm on Feb 8th, 1899, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. His son, Dr F G Hamilton Cooke, had assisted him and had collaborated in the preparation of the 11th edition of the *Tablets*. The school continued with the assistance of Edward Knight, but changes in the curriculum and improvements in the Schools of Medicine caused it to decline; the war of 1914-1918 hurried on its end. Cooke married in 1871 Aglae, daughter of the 21st Comte de Hamel de Manin, Officier of the Household of Louis XVIII, Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, who survived him. He had issue: three sons - one, Francis Gerrard Hamilton Cooke, assisted his father and later, after practising at Westcliff-on-Sea, was appointed assistant medical officer to the Madras Railway Company; a second, Granville Cooke, poet and inventor, died under tragic circumstances in 1925 - and two daughters, one of whom married Mr R R Garratt, Secretary to the Royal Free Hospital, and the other Mr Herbert Wilson. Publications:- *Tablets of Anatomy and Physiology*, first part, 1873; 11th ed in three 4to vols., 1898. *Aphorisms in Applied Anatomy and Operative Surgery*, 8vo, 1891. *Dissection Guides*, 1892. *A Plea for Practical Work in Anatomy*, 8vo, 1893. *Specialism in Teaching and Examining*, 1896. *The Old and New School of Anatomy*, 1897.
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First Title value, for Searching Bowden, Ruth Elizabeth Mary (1915 - 2001)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Anatomist
Details One of the leading anatomists of her day, Ruth Bowden was born in India on 21 February 1915. Her father was a missionary, and her aunt, Edith Brown, had founded the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, Punjab. As was usual, Ruth was sent back to England at the age of eight to be educated and to avoid the health risks. She stayed with an aunt and was brought up in a family of cousins, one of whom, Ronald Keays, who was later to become secretary of the Royal Society, fostered her interest in science. She was sent to St Paul's School for Girls, London, from which she went to the London School of Medicine for Women, at the Royal Free Hospital. After qualifying in 1940, she did house posts at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, and then went to work with Seddon in Oxford from 1942 to study peripheral nerve injuries. These experiences led to a Rockefeller fellowship to Johns Hopkins and a Hunterian Professorship in 1950. Ruth succeeded Mary Lucas-Keene as professor of anatomy at the Royal Free School of Medicine in 1951 and held that post with distinction for 30 years. She was a stimulating lecturer, keen to show how anatomical facts were related to function, and took a personal interest in each student. Among many contributions to research, those on peripheral nerve healing and the pathology of striated muscle were outstanding. She was invited to examine for the College in the conjoint and FRCS, visited eight overseas universities, was Chairman and later vice-president of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, vice-president of the Linnaean Society, the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and was WHO consultant in anatomy to the University of Khartoum. Her contributions were recognised by election to the FRCS in 1973, and her appointment as OBE. Ruth never retired. She lectured at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School from 1980 to 1983, and was appointed Sir William Collins Professor at the College in 1985, where she set about with great enthusiasm to reform the teaching of anatomy for surgeons, introducing a whole new section to illustrate the images provided by computerised tomography. Ruth was a keen supporter of the Grand Priory of the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, of which she was a dame and hospitaller. She was engaged in re-equipping a hospital in St Petersburg, and cajoled the surgeons she encountered in the College to give her equipment that had been replaced or had passed its sell by date. She was regularly to be seen examining the skip parked in the front drive of the College, rescuing books that had been discarded from the library. Orphan children in Poland received a big consignment of teddy bears, carefully repaired and washed by Ruth. Leprosy colonies in India were visited, and she advised on their peripheral nerve disorders. She was vice-president of Riding for the Disabled in the UK, and also advised on this in Romania. For many years she was closely involved with the pioneer hospice, St Joseph's, in Hackney. Ruth was also keenly interested in medical history, and was archivist of the collection of records of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. She joined the Medical Women's Federation in 1948, was national President from 1981 to 1982, and represented them on the Women's National Commission from 1984 to 1987.
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First Title value, for Searching Boyd, Alexander Michael (1905 - 1973)

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Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Alexander Michael Boyd was born on 5 March 1905 and went to school at Haileybury. Even at school team games do not seem to have interested him, but he early developed a liking for shooting and fishing, which harmonized with his somewhat Victorian upbringing at home. His life membership of the MCC meant little to him, but much to the friends who were given his tickets to Lord's. He came to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and soon distinguished himself by winning the Foster Prize in Anatomy in 1926, and was *proxime accessit* for the Harvey Prize in Physiology. He qualified in 1929 and took the FRCS in 1931, after which he served for two years as a demonstrator of anatomy under Professor H H Woollard and did some useful research into the musculature and innervation of the ureter. In 1934 he joined the Surgical Professorial Unit as a chief assistant, and his remarkable memory for patients' names and their histories gave an early indication of his flair for clinical work. At first he devoted special attention to a study of thyroid tumours and carcinoma of the breast, but from 1936 onwards he began to lay the foundations for his investigations into the pathology and treatment of peripheral vascular disease, which became the dominant interest of his whole future career. Before the second world war interrupted his programme for a time, his skilful use of arteriography had enabled him to classify the varieties of obliterative arteritis according to the particular level at which the disease occurred in the arterial tree. Boyd served in the Emergency Medical Service for the first year of the war, and then in the RAMC both at home and in the Middle East ending up as Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the Surgical Division of the 63rd General Hospital in Cairo, where he made a considerable impression both professionally and socially, and became an examiner in surgery in the Fuad I University. On returning to St Bartholomew's he generously undertook the direction of the Anatomy Department which was still evacuated to Cambridge and temporarily without a professor, and his influence was much appreciated not only by the Bart's students but even more by the staff of the host department of anatomy. This interlude lasted for six months, and he then returned to the hospital as assistant director of the surgical professorial unit and was appointed by the University as Reader in Surgery, though he was appointed to the Chair of Surgery in Manchester in 1946 before the Readership was due to commence. In Manchester he inherited the department in which Professor E D Telford had established such a reputation for vascular surgery, and this Boyd proceeded to develop still further with his characteristic energy and enthusiasm. He greatly appreciated the collaboration with the basic science departments of the University, but his outstanding contribution stemmed from the careful follow-up of all the patients treated under his direction. He was thus enabled to make an accurate assessment of the value of certain procedures employed in the treatment of well-defined clinical conditions, and he placed greater reliance on such clinical research than upon animal experiments. He thus became convinced of the value of well-tried methods of treatment, and rather sceptical of the innovations introduced by some other surgeons with similar interests. His pre-eminence in his specialty was attested by his election as President of the International College of Angiology, and as senior editor of the journals *Angiology* and *Vascular surgery*. Boyd was a superb teacher both at the bedside and in the lecture theatre, and students flocked to listen to his clear discourses based upon anatomy, physiology, pathology and physical signs, interspersed with amusing anecdotes which fixed facts in their minds. He surprised some of his colleagues by insisting on undertaking his full share of the emergency work of his Unit, and this he did because of the unique opportunities thus afforded for the demonstration of physical signs. It was unfortunate that for his last thirty years he suffered increasing disability from ankylosing spondylitis and arthritis, which limited his ability to take his proper part in meetings of surgical societies, and latterly interfered even with his work at home. It also prevented him from following his great interest in gardening, and in growing flowers and vegetables for competitions at horticultural shows, which gave him much enjoyment. He retired from the Chair of Surgery in 1970 and after further gradual deterioration in health he died, aged 68, on 7 April 1973. He was unmarried.
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First Title value, for Searching Hall, John Charles (1816 - 1876)

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Publication Date 2012-03-22
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Nottingham in December, 1816, and received his preliminary education in Doncaster. He was then apprenticed to Mr Carrick, of Kensington, and proceeded, after serving his time, to St George's Hospital, where he became Assistant and afterwards House Surgeon under Brodie and Keate. From St George's he went to Paris, and on his return settled in practice at Retford, and in 1848 migrated to Sheffield as a physician. He soon became attached to the School of Medicine there, and in 1854, with Drs Law and Elam, was elected Physician to the Dispensary. He laboured during four years, till 1858, to attach a hospital to this institution, and despite much opposition succeeded in doing so with the assistance of S Parker and others. Twenty-five beds were opened in 1858, and in 1872 this number had increased exactly fourfold. In 1858 he was presented with a handsome piece of plate in recognition of his untiring exertions on the hospital's behalf. He was Hon Secretary as well as Physician to the institution, his management was admirable and impressed his colleagues. Hall was one of the pioneers of improved conditions of labour. He studied the occupational diseases of Sheffield, and by protest and toil endeavoured to get them remedied. He wrote to *The Times*, contributed letterpress descriptions which accompanied the sketches of the Sheffield Halls in the *Illustrated London News*, and gave evidence before a Royal Commission on the special diseases of grinders and other workmen. *The Times* at last acknowledged his efforts in the following words: "Dr J C Hall, by his persistent efforts for years on behalf of these poor men, has at last forced the public to listen to him." Largely through his efforts, 'Hospital Sunday' was established in Sheffield, and at the time of his death he was a member of the Hospital Sunday Committee. He was of great service to Friendly Societies, particularly to the Oddfellows. He was President of the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association in 1866-1867, and at its meeting at Sheffield when Vice-President of the Section of Medicine, read a paper on the "Sheffield Diseases of Occupations". He was a Member of the General Council of the Association, and in 1872-1873 was President of the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society. He was an eloquent and pointed speaker, able to quote the poets admirably. Well read in the literature of his profession, he kept himself abreast of the progress of the day, was a skilful physician and a remarkably rapid and ardent worker. He died at his residence, Surrey House, Sheffield, on October 26th, 1876, and was buried in the General Cemetery. He had been two years a widower at the time of his death. By his marriage with Miss Orridge he left two sons and two daughters. At the time of his death, besides being Senior Physician to the Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary, he was Lecturer on the Practice of Physic at the Sheffield Medical School, having been previously Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Botany. He was also Consulting Physician to the Midland Railway Company, and Medical Referee to a number of Assurance Societies. Publications:- *Interesting Facts connected with the Animal Kingdom, with some Remarks on the Unity of our Species*, 8vo, London, 1841. *Clinical Remarks on Certain Diseases of the Eye, and on Miscellaneous Subjects, Medical and Surgical, including Gout, Rheumatism, Fistula, Cancer, Hernia, Indigestion, etc., etc.*, 8vo, London, 1843. *On the Nature and Treatment of some of the More Important Diseases, Medical and Surgical, including the Principal Diseases of the Eye*, 2nd ed., 8vo, London, 1844. *Facts which prove the Immediate Necessity for the Enactment of Sanitary Measures to remove those Causes which at Present Increase most fearfully the Bills of Mortality, and Seriously Affect the Health of Towns*, 8vo, London, 1847. "On the Pathology, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Thoracic Consumption; Bed-side Sketches," 8vo, London, 1850; reprinted from *Lond. Med. Gaz.*, 1850, xlv, 494, etc. *A Letter to the Chairman of the Board of Guardians of the Sheffield Union on the Pre-vention of Cholera*, 8vo, London, 1853. "Analytical Synopsis of the Natural History of Man" prefixed to Bonn's edition of Charles Pickering's *Races of Man*, 8vo, London, 1854. *Hints on the Pathology, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Thoracic Consumption, with Microscopic Illustrations of Tubercle*, 3rd. Ed., 12mo, London, 1856. *Medical Evidence in Railway Accidents*, 8vo, London, 1868. *Pathology and Treatment of the Sheffield Grinders' Disease*, 1857. *The Trades of Sheffield as influencing Life and Health*, 1866.
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First Title value, for Searching Edington, George Henry (1870 - 1943)

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Publication Date 2013-05-21 2015-06-16
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born on 10 January 1870 at 14 Buckingham Terrace, Glasgow, W, second child and eldest son of George Brodrick Edington, iron-founder, and Charlotte Jane his wife, daughter of Peter Watt, MD. He was educated at Kelvinside Academy and Glasgow University and at King's College, London. At Glasgow he graduated with commendation in medicine and surgery in 1891, and proceeded MD with commendation in 1895. The following year he took the English conjoint qualification, and was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Faculty at Glasgow in 1897. Edington held numerous clinical and academic posts at Glasgow. He served as senior demonstrator of anatomy and from 1908 as professor of surgery at Anderson College, and lecturer in anatomy and surgery at the Western Medical School. He was lecturer and assistant to the professor in clinical surgery at the University (Sir Hector Cameron), and also examiner in surgery; was extra surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and was on the staff of the Western Infirmary, where he was early associated with Sir William Macewen, and became surgeon in 1913 in succession to Sir George Thomas Beatson. In the same year, 1913, he was admitted DSc Glasgow for a thesis on "Congenital occlusion of the oesophagus and lower bowel". He edited the *Glasgow medical Journal* from 1902 to 1918. Edington took a very active interest in soldiering, in the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps from 1901 (captain 1904), and in the RAMC(T) from 1908 (major); he was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1912. He served in command of the 1st Lowland field ambulance at Gallipoli in 1915, and was promoted colonel AMS in 1916. He then served as officer commanding the 78th General Hospital at Alexandria, was ADMS to the 52nd (Lowland) Division, and later senior medical officer at a base camp in Palestine. He was subsequently Honorary Colonel, RAMC units attached 52nd Division. During the second world-war he served on the Scottish civil nursing reserve advisory committee and on the Council of the Scottish National Blood-transfusion Association. In 1911 he had commanded the RAMC detachment at the Coronation of King George V. Edington took a leading part in professional societies in the cultural life of Glasgow. He was a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons and the International Society of Surgery, and a member of the Moynihan Club, at whose gatherings, especially when abroad, his genial humorous spirit was welcome. In 1927-29 he was president of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and from 1928 till 1940 he represented the Faculty on the General Medical Council. From 1930 he was chairman of the executive of the Scottish branch of the British Red Cross Society, of which he was a member of Council. In 1937 he was president of the Royal Medico-chiruigical Society of Glasgow, giving his presidential address on the connexions of embryology with clinical surgery. He improved the Society's house by providing an adequate setting to combine the fire-place from Lister's accident ward in the old Royal Infirmary, presented by J H Teacher, MD, with the plaque of Lister presented by Sir Hector Cameron, FRCP. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1942. Edington had a large consulting practice. He was an Honorary Physician in Scotland to King George V from 1922 to 1927, and was elected FRCS England as a Member of twenty years' standing in 1931. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace for the City and County of Glasgow, and was assessor elected by the general council of the university to the University Court. In 1941 he received a rare appointment for a medical man of membership of the Royal Company of Archers, the King's Bodyguard in Scotland. Edington's health began to fail about the age of seventy and he underwent an operation. He died in the Western Infirmary, after suffering a heart attack while fishing, on 24 September 1943. He was never married, but lived with two sisters at 20 Woodside Place, Glasgow, C3. Fishing, travel, poetry, and books had been his chief relaxations. Publications:- *The soul of a voluntary hospital*, 1931. Chole-fistulo-gastrostomy. *Brit J Surg*. 1933, 20, 679. Cysts in hernial sacs. *Lancet*, 1935, 1, 670. Embryology and clinical surgery, illustrative examples from the cephalic and caudal ends of the body. (Presidential address.) *Trans Roy Med-chir Soc Glasg*. 1937, 32, 1.
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First Title value, for Searching Tuson, Edward William (1802 - 1865)

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Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born on March 25th, 1802, the son of John Tuson, a well-known general practitioner in London. He began the study of medicine under Carpue at the little school in Dean Street, Soho, and then entered the Middlesex Hospital. As House Surgeon there he, at the early age of 22, came prominently before the medical world by the publication of his great work, *Myology*, "A Series of Plates Superposed, showing the Different Layers of Muscles in Situ, with their Origins and Insertions". The importance of this work can scarcely be estimated by the student of the present generation, for subjects for dissection were only to be obtained at the private schools through the agency of the resurrection men. Such superposed anatomical plates were in constant use throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both by artists and medical students. After qualifying Tuson began to lecture on anatomy on his own account. His lectures were given in a room in the Gerrard Street Dispensary, Soho. It was a small beginning, and he was proud when he had, as he thought, perfected his first pupil in anatomy. An idea was then prevalent that the examinations at the College were capriciously, if not unfairly, conducted. Tuson's pupil went up and failed, and his teacher, possessed with the current prejudices, was at once of opinion that the young man had been plucked in order to ruin his (Tuson's) little nascent school. This was in 1826 before the reform of the College Examination system, and only a few years after Cruikshank had published his mordantly satiric drawing entitled "An Examination at the College", in which a deaf examiner asks a student to describe the organs of hearing through an ear-trumpet. Tuson complained to Sir Astley Cooper, who encouraged him and promised to support his school. He therefore soon removed from Gerrard Street, taking the School of Anatomy in Little Windmill Street, which Dermott had vacated. Here with an able staff he conducted a flourishing school. On February 28th, 1833, Tuson was elected Assistant Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, beating Benjamin Phillips and Alexander Shaw by a small majority. On June 2nd, 1836, he was elected to the office of Surgeon in succession to Sir Charles Bell, resigned. On the formation of the Medical School at the Middlesex Hospital, Tuson joined it and brought over to it his own pupils, thus materially contributing to its success. In 1847 things were not going well at the Hospital, the management of which was far from satisfactory. Quarrels arose among the surgical staff, and Tuson came into collision with his colleagues in the matter of some school fees. He acted indiscreetly, and in the end the whole surgical staff resigned in order to compel his retirement. From that day Tuson ceased to be a public man. His ardent ambition had been crushed, his position blighted, his hopes destroyed. For the last fifteen years or so of his life this once promising anatomist and teacher was little known beyond the circle of his private practice at 15 Harley Street. Tuson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on April 5th, 1838, and was also a Fellow of the Linnean Society, but made no contribution to either. He died on Nov 10th, 1865. His son was John Edward Tuson (qv). Publications:- *Myology: Illustrated by Plates; in Four Parts*, fol, London, 1825; 2nd ed, 1828. *A Supplement to Myology: containing the Arteries, Veins, Nerves, and Lymphatics of the Human Body, the Abdominal and Thoracic Viscera, the Ear and Eye, the Brain, and the Gravid Uterus, with the Foetal Circulation*, fol, London, 1828. Both these monumental works have superposed coloured plates of some depth. *The Anatomy and Surgery of Inguinal and Femoral Hernia*, illustrated by plates coloured from nature, and interspersed with practical remarks, fol, London, 1834. *The Dissector's Guide, or Student's Companion*. Illustrated by numerous woodcuts, clearly exhibiting and explaining the dissection of every part of the human body. Of this, the 2nd and 3rd American editions were published in 1887 and 1844 (8vo, Boston). *The Cause and Treatment of Curvature of the Spine and Diseases of the Vertebral Column*, 8vo, 25 plates, London, 1841. *The Structure and Functions of the Female Breast, as they relate to its Health, Derangement, and Disease*, 8vo, London, 1846. *To the Governors of the Middlesex Hospital* (relative to the Disputes which exist between the Medical Officers of the Hospital and himself), 8vo, London, 1847. *Spinal Debility: its Prevention, Pathology, and Cure, in relation to Curvatures, Paralysis, Epilepsy, and various Deformities*, 8vo, London, 1861. He also published a *Pocket Compendium of Anatomy*, and contributed to the *Lancet* and *Medical Times*.
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First Title value, for Searching Gray, Henry (1827 - 1861)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-15
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Gray's father was Private Messenger to George IV and William IV; his sister and a brother died young, but a second brother, Thomas William Gray, left two daughters, one of whom supplied Clinton Dent (qv) with biographical details. Gray entered at St George's Hospital as a perpetual student on May 6th, 1845. The hospital at that time partly held its medical school in rooms rented in Kinnerton Street. Here the teaching of anatomy, chemistry, physiology, etc, was carried on; the lectures on medicine, surgery, and the clinical part of the curriculum being given at the hospital. Lecturers on anatomy in former days were in the habit of describing the premises (75 Kinnerton Street, now the Animals' Hospital and Institute) as a diagrammatic representation, on a large scale, of the auditory canal and internal ear, the main door, which was at the end of a short passage, being compared to the tympanic membrane. Gray began to work at anatomy with much determination, probably under Henry Charles Johnson (qv), whose name is identified with the St George's Hospital Medical School Prize in Anatomy. He pursued his study so diligently that in 1848, at the age of about 21, he was awarded the Triennial Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons for an essay on "The Origin, Connection and Distribution of the Nerves of the Human Eye and its Appendages, illustrated by Comparative Dissections of the Eye in the other Vertebrate Animals". The prize, which has been awarded only twelve times since it was founded in 1822, has been associated with the John Hunter Medal since 1867. All who remembered Henry Gray as a student agree in describing him as a most painstaking and methodical worker, and one who learned his anatomy by the slow but invaluable method of making dissections for himself. In June, 1850, he was appointed House Surgeon, and held the post for the usual twelve months under Robert Keate, Cesar Hawkins, Edward Cutler, and Thomas Tatum, doing the work under two surgeons for six months and under the other two for the remaining six months. On June 3rd, 1852, he was elected FRS, a rare distinction to be conferred on a man of twenty-five. Having now come to be regarded as a very rising man, he returned to the dissecting-room and devoted himself to the great work with which his name is identified - the *Treatise on Human Anatomy*. The first edition of the *Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical*, was published by Parker & Son in 1858. In the preface, dated August 1st, 1858, the author "gratefully acknowledges the great services he has derived in the execution of his work from the assistance of his friend, Dr H V Carter, late Demonstrator of Anatomy to St George's Hospital. All the drawings from which the engravings were made were executed by him. In the majority of cases they have been copied from or corrected by recent dissections made jointly by the author and Dr. Carter." Gray also thanks Timothy Holmes (qv) for his able assistance in correcting the proof-sheets. Holmes, a polished scholar, probably improved the style in which the book was written, for Gray's own literary manner appears to have been very crude. Still, Holmes's help only amounted to the polishing of a rather rough-hewn block, and does not detract at all from the scientific value of Gray's work as an anatomist, or from the skill shown in the arrangement of the subject. The book, known as "Gray's Anatomy" to many generations of students, reached the 23rd edition in 1928. Timothy Holmes and Pickering Pick (qv), both friends of Gray, have been among its chief editors, and its illustrations have been largely drawn from specimens in the College Museum. Dr Vandyke Carter, the draughtsman, was a student in human and comparative anatomy in the College Museum in 1853. The book on its first appearance was praised by the *Lancet*, but accused by the *Medical Times* (1859, I, 241), in a scarifying article, of being largely a plagiarism from Quain and Sharpey's *Anatomy*, the text-book of the period. This charge Clinton Dent has sufficiently refuted:- "Undeniably many passages in Gray's work could be cited in which the phraseology and description closely resemble that of Quain and Sharpey's 'Anatomy'; but it is somewhat absurd in ordinary anatomical descriptions to accuse one writer of paraphrasing passages to be found in the work of another…. Forgetfulness of the source from which we are borrowing is an extremely common form of originality." In 1861 Caesar Hawkins and Edward Cutler, Surgeons, were succeeded by the Assistant Surgeons of St George's Hospital, and Gray became a candidate for the post of Assistant Surgeon, the other candidates being Timothy Holmes and Athol Johnson. Gray's election was regarded as certain, when he contracted small-pox while looking after a nephew ill of that disease, and died of its confluent variety after a very short illness. Athol Johnson retired from the contest; Holmes and Henry Lee (qv) were elected. Gray, at the time of his premature death, was engaged to be married. His career had shown the highest promise and he was deeply mourned by his friends. Sir Benjamin Brodie, then growing blind, took up his pen almost for the last time to say to Charles Hawkins - "I am most grieved about poor Gray. His death, just as he was on the point of realizing the reward of his labours, is a sad event indeed…. Gray is a great loss to the Hospital and the School. Who is there to take his place?" He died on Thursday morning, June 13th, 1861, whether at his residence, at 8 Wilton Street, Grosvenor Place, or not is uncertain. Among other positions held by him at the time of his death were the Surgeoncies to the St George's and the St James's Dispensaries. It is idle to speculate whether Henry Gray would have distinguished himself as a surgeon to the same extent as he did as an anatomist, but he had already done sound work in pathology, and, indeed, at the time of his death he had made good progress with a work on "Tumours", the manuscript of which is lost. Publications: Apart from the *Anatomy* Gray's writings comprise: "On the Structure and Use of the Spleen," which gained the Astley Cooper Prize of £300 in 1853. He was assisted in the important preliminary research for this essay by funds from the Royal Society, made out of the annual Parliamentary grant. Numerous papers on anatomy and surgery, viz, two in the *Med-Chir Trans* and others in the *Pathol Trans* and *Phil Trans*, notably "On the Development of the Optic and Auditory Nerves" (*Phil Trans*, 1850, cxl, 189), and "On the Development of the Ductless Glands of the Chick" (*Ibid*, 1852, cxlii, 295).
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First Title value, for Searching Thane, Sir George Dancer (1850 - 1930)

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Publication Date 2012-12-05
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born on May 27th, 1850, at Great Berkhamsted, the eldest son of George Dancer Thane, MD St Andrews, who practised in Hart Street, Bloomsbury. He entered University College, London, in 1867 and was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy to Professor G Viner Ellis (qv) in 1870, a year before he obtained the diploma of MRCS. He succeeded Viner Ellis as Professor of Anatomy at University College in 1877 and retained the chair until 1919, when he was elected Emeritus Professor. As Professor of Anatomy he trained some brilliant men who acted as his demonstrators, amongst them being Rickman J Godlee (qv), Quarry Silcock (qv), Bilton Pollard, S G Shattock (qv), and Charles Stonham (qv). For many years he was Inspector of Anatomy and Inspector under the Vivisection Acts. Both positions were delicate and full of difficulties, but he carried out the duties tactfully and without friction. On December 8th, 1881, he was elected a member of the Physiological Society, which was then a small body of working physiologists. Numerous honours came to him. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1919; was President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1896; was a member of the French and German Anatomical Societies, of the Anthropological Society of Paris, and of the Royal Society of Upsala. The Royal College of Surgeons elected him FRCS; the University of Edinburgh conferred upon him the honorary degree of LLD, and the University of Dublin that of ScD. He was for many years Dean of the Medical Faculty at University College, and throughout his active career he was in constant request as an examiner in anatomy at numerous universities and examining boards throughout England and Wales. He married in 1884 Jenny, the eldest daughter of Aug Klingberg, of Stockholm, who survived him with two daughters. He died at his home, 19 St John's Road, Harrow, Middlesex, on January 15th, 1930, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery. Thane was a man of encyclopaedic anatomical knowledge, and was one of the British representatives at the Basle conference where a new anatomical nomenclature was evolved which did not meet with his approval. In 1850 G Viner Ellis (qv) succeeded Jones Quain, the first Professor of Anatomy at University College, and in 1877 Thane succeeded Ellis. Ellis's conception of teaching anatomy was an insistence upon the exact observation of fact and a clear and restrained expression of what he exposed by dissection, for he regarded an interest in the subject as outside the aims of a teacher. Without sacrificing any of the discipline of precise observation and lucid expression, Thane made the study of human anatomy a humane occupation and threw into his teaching the whole force of his personality. He became keenly interested in his pupils individually, and from 1874-1914 kept a detailed students' register, written in a careful hand, with red ink for failures and purple ink for successes. In regard to rules and regulations he was a martinet, and was intolerant of smoking, yet his class was orderly, not from fear but from a real desire on the part of his pupils to stand well in his sight. He edited Ellis's *Anatomy* and was for many years responsible for the purely anatomical portions of Quain's *Anatomy*. Here his powers of lucid description, combined with brevity and informed by his extensive knowledge, made the successive issues examples of what may be done by a competent editor. Publications: Edited Ellis's *Demonstrations of Anatomy*, 8vo, London, 1887 and 1890. Edited Jones Quain's *Elements of Anatomy*, 9th and 10th ed, 8vo, London. Appendix to Jones Quain's *Elements of Anatomy* - "Superficial and Surgical Anatomy" (with R J GODLEE), 10th ed, 8vo, 1896.
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First Title value, for Searching Barnett, Cyril Harry (1919 - 1970)

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Occupation Anatomist
Details Cyril Barnett was born on 30 October 1919, in North Hackney, London, to Barnett Barnett, a traveller in chemistry, and Rosa (née Freedman) his wife. He was educated at Selhurst Grammar School, Croydon and entered St Catharine's College, Cambridge in October 1938, where in his second year he was awarded a College Prize. In 1940 he entered Westminster Medical School, and during his clinical training won the Chadwick Prize in Medicine and Surgery, the Abrahams Prize in Clinical Pathology, and the Prize in Forensic Medicine. After holding resident appointments as house surgeon to Norman Matheson FRCS at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex, and senior house physician to A G Maitland-Jones FRCP at the Northern Hospital, he was commissioned in the Royal Army Medical Corps in May 1944. He served as Lieutenant and Captain until April 1947, for much of the time as regimental medical officer to an infantry battalion in Burma. On demobilization he obtained the post of orthopaedic registrar under B Whitchurch Howell FRCS at Southend General Hospital, Essex, and while there he passed the Primary FRCS examination and became interested in the anatomy of orthopaedic conditions. This led to his decision to seek an appointment in an anatomy department. In October 1947 he became part-time demonstrator at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, under Professor A B Appleton. He was appointed full-time demonstrator by Professor D V Davies in April 1949, passing the final FRCS examination soon afterwards. Promotion to assistant lecturer, lecturer and senior lecturer followed, and he was appointed University Reader in October 1955. In April 1956 Cyril Barnett received a grant from the Nuffield Foundation to enable him to take up a temporary appointment in the Anatomy Department of the University of Melbourne under Professor Sydney Sunderland; he returned to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in October 1957. In October 1963 he was invited by the University of Tasmania to become Foundation Professor of Anatomy and Dean of the proposed new medical school. The University of London gave permission for him to be seconded to Hobart in April 1964 to plan and initiate the new school; he returned to St Thomas's in December 1967. The University of London conferred on him the title of Professor of Functional Morphology in 1965 in recognition of his interest in the relationship of structure to function in organs, tissues and cells. Amongst those who influenced Cyril Barnett were Rodney Maingot and Frederic Wood Jones who was a friend of his. Cyril Barnett was a member of the Anatomical and Heberden Societies, a Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society, and a Founder Member of the Biological Engineering Society. He was a member of the Editorial Board of Medical and biological illustration, and a Consultant to the Army Personnel Research Establishment of the Ministry of Defence. Between 1950 and 1970 he published nearly seventy papers. Cyril Barnett died from carcinoma of the tongue, on 23 October 1970, a week before his fifty-first birthday. He was survived by his wife, Sheila Catherine, nee Arnold, and their son and daughter. Publications: The axis of rotation at the ankle joint in man. (jointly) *J Anat* 1952, 86, 1-9. The metatarsal formula in relation to march fracture. (jointly) *Lancet*, 1953, 1, 172-5. Locking at the knee joint. *J Anat*, 1953, 87, 91-95. The oldest anatomical school in London. *St Thomas's Hosp Gaz* 1953, 51, 179-182. Spiral structures within the hepatic portal vein of mammals. *Proc Zool Soc* 1954, 123, 747-751. A comparison knee and avian ankle. *J Anat* 1954, 88, 59-70. The structure and functions of fibrocartilages within vertebrate joints. *J Anat* 1954, 88 363-368. Squatting facets on the European talus. *J Anat* 1954, 88, 509-513. Some factors influencing angulation of the neck of the mammalian talus. *J Anat* 1955, 89, 225-230. Flow of viscous liquids in branched tubes, with reference to the hepatic portal vein. (jointly) *Nature*, 1956,177, 740-742. Wear and tear in joints. *J Bone Jt Surg*, 1956, 38B, 567-575. A note on the dimensions of the bronchial tree. *Thorax*, 1957, 12, 175-6. The testicular rete mirabile of marsupials. (jointly) *Aust J Zool* 1958, 6, 27-32. The evolution of some traction epiphyses in birds and mammals. (jointly) *J Anat* 1958, 92, 593-601. Variations in the venous systems of mammals. (jointly) *Biol Rev* 1958, 33, 442-487. Struktur and Funktion der Synovialgewebe. (jointly) *Med Grundlagenforsch* 1960, 3, 623-650. *Synovial joints: their structure and mechanics*. (jointly) London, 1961. The normal orientation of the human hallux and the effect of footwear. *J Anat* 1962, 96, 489-494. Lubrication within living joints. (jointly) *J Bone Jt Surg* 1962, 448, 662-674. A suggested reconstruction of the land masses as a complete crust. *Nature*, 1962, 195, 447-8. A comparison of adult and foetal talocalcaneal articulations. (jointly) *J Anat* 1965, 99, 71-76. Absorption into rabbit articular cartilage. (jointly) *J Anat* 1965, 99, 365-375. *The human body*. (jointly) London, 1966. The effects of age upon the mobility of human finger joints. (jointly) *Ann rheum Dis* 1968, 27, 175-7. *Practical embryology*. London 1969. Oceanic rises in relation to the expanding earth hypothesis, *Nature* 1969, 221, 1043. Talocalcaneal movements in mammals. *J Zool* 1970,160, 1-7.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Henry Albert (1886 - 1968)

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Occupation Anatomist
Details Henry Albert Harris was born on 13 September 1886 at Rhymey, Monmouthshire, where his father was manager of the Bessemer Steel Plant; when that works closed four years later the family moved to Merthyr Tydfil where his father died when Henry Albert was 8 years old. As he was the youngest of six children his mother had a hard time educating them, but he distinguished himself by winning a scholarship from the local school which took him to University College, Cardiff where he graduated BSc in 1907, and also obtained the Board of Education Certificate in the theory and practice of teaching. After teaching for some years in the local schools he came to London to be a demonstrator in physics at the East London College, and it was not till he reached the mature age of 30 that he began the medical course, entering University College on a Bucknill Scholarship. Four years earlier, in 1912 he had married Margaret Llewellyn Webb, and therefore had to continue part-time teaching at the East London College in order to maintain his family. In spite of these difficulties he won the Junior and Senior Gold Medals in Anatomy and Physiology, and during his clinical years acted as a part-time demonstrator in anatomy under Sir George Dancer Thane, and later under Sir Grafton Elliot Smith. These duties, valuable as they were as a foundation for his life's work, did not interfere with clinical study, for he was awarded the Cluff Memorial Prize and the Senior Fellowes Gold Medal in Clinical Medicine while being promoted to the post of senior demonstrator in anatomy. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1920, and graduated MB, BS with honours a year later. No doubt it was such early struggles which produced the toughness of personality which characterized the rest of his life. Although it became clear from the time of his graduation that his career was to be in anatomy, he continued for the next ten years a close attachment to clinical medicine and especially to paediatrics, working as a part-time assistant in the Medical Unit of University College Hospital, and clinical assistant to the Child Welfare Clinic. He thus became specially interested in bone growth, using radiography as a method of research, and in this field his work is commemorated by "Harris's lines" of condensation in the metaphyses of long bones associated with periods of illness in childhood. The results of these researches were ultimately published in his book on Bone growth in health and disease, 1933. He was engaged in research in the United States in 1925-26 as a Rockefeller Medical Foundation Fellow, and in 1927 became Assistant Professor of Anatomy at University College. In 1929 he was awarded the DSc of London University and the William Julius Mickle Fellow¬ship, and in the following year the Alvarenga Prize of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Symington Prize of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1931 he was a Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and was appointed Professor of Clinical Anatomy, a post especially created for him at University College and Medical School. He was elected Fellow of University College in 1932, and in 1933 took the MD, and also the MRCP. He was awarded the honorary degree of DSc by the University of Wales in 1938. In view of this remarkable catalogue of achievements it is not surprising that he was elected to the Chair of Anatomy at Cambridge in 1934, and to a Professorial Fellowship at St John's College in 1935. He then had to undertake the task of modernizing the anatomy department and museum, which, with the necessary improvements in the teaching programme, occupied so much of his time that his research activities had to suffer. However, he had the satisfaction of creating a new department which after his retirement in 1951 remains as a permanent memorial to him as teacher and administrator. Unlike the majority of medical teachers he had been specially trained to teach, and his methods were fully appreciated by the student body in London and Cambridge. As a token of this he was given a presentation by a large number of his former staff and students to celebrate his 80th birthday, and in 1967 the Royal College of Surgeons elected him to the Fellowship. At the time of his retirement he was still full of bodily and mental vigour and therefore accepted the Chair of Anatomy at Cairo which he held until political complications drove him out and he moved to Khartoum, from which he finally retired at the age of 70 to return to Cambridge, where he died on 10 September 1968, three days before his 82nd birthday. He had a happy home life and enjoyed inculcating into his 5 children and 8 grandchildren the qualities of uprightness and toughness which he had admired in his own father and mother.
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First Title value, for Searching Jordan, Thomas Furneaux (1830 - 1911)

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Publication Date 2012-05-31
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details The son of a Birmingham surgeon. He received his professional training at Queen's College, where he was afterwards Professor of Anatomy. He practised in Colmore Row, Birmingham, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon, and in 1863 became Surgeon, to the Queen's Hospital. Some years later he exchanged the Chair of Anatomy for that of Surgery at Queen's College. For many years Furneaux Jordan was one of the leading surgeons in Birmingham. He was appointed Consulting Surgeon to a number of institutions - the Kidderminster, the Dental, the West Bromwich, the Women's, and the Birmingham Skin and Lock Hospitals. In 1866 he won the Gold Medal of the British Red Cross Society for an essay on "Shock after Surgical Operations and Injuries". He was subsequently President of the Birmingham Branch of the Association, as also of the Midland Medical Society. He resigned the Professorship of Surgery in 1884 and retired from the active staff of the Queen's Hospital in 1886, being then appointed Consulting Surgeon. He retired altogether from practice some years before his death, and lived at Teignmouth, where he died on July 7th, 1911, leaving a widow, three daughters, and three sons, two of the latter being in the profession, and one, John Furneaux Jordan, FRCS. Furneaux Jordan is now chiefly remembered by his method of amputating at the hip-joint, though his operation is no longer performed very frequently. It consisted in removing the head and a portion of the shaft of the femur through an external incision in the thigh and completing the removal of the limb by a circular incision through the muscles. The procedure is described in the second edition of his *Surgical Enquiries* (London, 1880, pp302-5, with two figures on Plate X). A good portrait of him accompanies his biography in the *British Medical Journal* (1911, ii, 141). Furneaux Jordan is described as a great surgeon, and would have been greater still and might have stood side by side with the greatest of them all had he possessed a more robust body. Full of the best traditions of his calling, he was gifted by nature with a fine quality of brain and by fingers of extreme delicacy, so that he should have been as great an artist as he was a surgeon. He was a born clinician, and appeared to do by instinct what others often failed to do after years of laborious effort. To see him examine a surgical patient was an object lesson in courtesy, gentleness, thoroughness, and precision not to be forgotten. A rapid and reliable diagnostician, his judgement was rarely at fault. He was a dexterous operator, original in his methods and ingenious in his plans; a fine anatomist, and a sound practical pathologist. Professor Jordan Lloyd, who assisted him in the case where he first amputated at the hip-joint by his own method, said that he was always under the impression that his procedure was evolved during the time he was actually doing it for the first time. He saw at once the advantages of an operation which further experience has fully confirmed. As a lecturer in the theatre or at the bedside he was unique among his contemporaries. His quiet confidence, his fluent speech, his keen enthusiasm, his concentrated knowledge, his skill in draughtsmanship, and his natural aptitude made him a teacher of conspicuous ability. His methods of giving instruction were vivifying and irresistible, and yet the manner of the man was like that of a gentlewoman. Publications:- Furneaux Jordan was not a prolific writer, but what he did write was worth reading and thinking over. His Hastings Essay on shock is a classic, and suggests to one the kind of work its author might have produced had he devoted his abilities solely to scientific investigation. The treatment of surgical inflammation is a volume of original thought and inquiry, and the numerous clinical lectures he delivered and published are brimful of splendid material. *An Introduction to Clinical Surgery, with a Method of Investigating and Reporting Surgical Cases*, 8vo, London, 1858. "Report on the Progress of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery," 8vo, London, 1858; reprinted from *Midland Quart Jour Med Set*, 1858, ii, 475. *The Treatment of Surgical Inflammations by a New Method, which greatly shortens their Duration*, 8vo, 15 plates, London, 1870. *On Clinical Education: The Introductory Address to the Clinical Session, 1871-2, at the Queen's Hospital*, 8vo, London, 1872. "The Constantly Moist Antiseptic Sponge Dressing," 8vo, 1 plate, Birmingham, 1879; reprinted from the *Birmingham Med Rev*, 1879, viii, 85. *Surgical Inquiries*: A Presidential Address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Birmingham and Midland Counties Branch of the British Medical Association, June 24th, 1873; 8vo, 8 plates, London, 1875. A second and greatly enlarged edition was published in 1881 with 10 plates under the title *Surgical Enquiries*. The second edition alone contains an account of the Furneaux Jordan amputation at the hip-joint. This volume also contains the Hastings Essay on shock, the treatment of surgical inflammations, and numerous clinical lectures. *Anatomy and Physiology in Character*: an Inquiry into the anatomical conformation and the physiology of some of its varieties; with a chapter on physiology in human affairs, in education, vocation, morals, and progress, 8vo, London, 1886.
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First Title value, for Searching Wood Jones, Frederic (1879 - 1954)

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Publication Date 2014-06-23
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Occupation Anatomist Anthropologist Medical Officer
Details Born on 23 January 1879 at Hackney, where his father was a builder and slate merchant, the family prospered and moved to Enfield, but his father died young and "Freddy" was brought up by his mother, whom he resembled in vivid good looks and alert mentality. He was educated at the London Hospital, qualifying in 1904. Having come under the influence of Arthur Keith, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship, he devoted himself to anatomy. As house physician to Sir Henry Head he became interested in neurology, and twenty years later during the first world war did good work in the treatment of nerve injuries and in the elucidation of trick movements. This interest was further displayed in his book *The Matrix of the Mind*, written with S D Porteous (1928). From June 1905 to September 1906 he served as medical officer at the cable station on the Cocos Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean, a post he took from his love of the sea and desire to study sea-birds and the natural history of an unspoiled island. In fact he produced a masterly study of the formation of coral reefs (*Coral and Atolls*, London 1910) which replaced Darwin's theory and led to his questioning much of Darwin's teaching. He also met his future wife, Gertrude daughter of George Clunies-Ross the Governor of the Islands. After a brief period in England, when he assisted Keith at the London Hospital Medical College and was married, he went to Egypt to assist Grafton Elliot Smith and G A Reisner in exploring ancient Nubian cemeteries; their report made great additions to knowledge in palaeopathology and physical anthropology. During 1908-12 he worked in England, as assistant to F G Parsons in the Anatomy department at St Thomas's Hospital and to Elliot Smith at Manchester University. He took the DSc in 1910 and was appointed the first Professor of Anatomy at the School of Medicine for Women (Royal Free Hospital) London in 1912. He held this post till 1919, but for much of 1914-18 was working in the RAMC at the Special Military Surgical Hospital at Shepherd's Bush. He was Arris and Gale Lecturer at the College in 1915, 1916, and 1919, enlarging the earlier lectures to form his book *Arboreal Man* (1916), which sought to change ideas on man's primitive origins; his clinical work led to his stimulating and successful book *Principles of Anatomy as seen in the Hand* (1920), followed much later by his similar *Structure and Function as seen in the Foot* (1944). He was elected in 1919, through the help of Sir Henry Newland FRCS, to the Elder chair of Anatomy at Adelaide University, in succession to Archibald Watson FRCS, and spent eighteen years in Australia, where he became very much at home. He was elected FRS in 1925. He resigned his post at Adelaide in 1926 on appointment as Professor of Physical Anthropology at the Rockefeller University in Hawaii, but after three years there he became (1930) Professor of Anatomy at Melbourne University, in succession to R J A Berry. During 1932-33 he went on leave from Melbourne to be Director of the American sponsored Peiping University Medical College in China. It was at this time that he applied unsuccessfully to succeed Keith as Conservator of the Hunterian Museum. During his years in Melbourne Wood Jones explored most of the islands off the coast of Victoria, often taking parties of his students to survey the fauna and flora for the McCoy Society. A film which he made at this time is deposited at the Department of History of Medicine at Melbourne University (1968). He came back to England in 1938 to succeed J S B Stopford as Professor of Anatomy at Manchester. When he retired in 1945, he was invited to fill the newly endowed Sir William Collins chair of Comparative and Human Anatomy at the College, with the Conservatorship of the Hunterian Museum, the intention being that he should restore the war-damaged Museum, which he successfully achieved. He retired from the Professorship in 1951 but continued as Honorary Conservator. He died after some months of failing health from cancer of the lung on 29 September 1954 aged 75, survived by his wife, who died on 12 October 1957, fifty years after their marriage. Wood Jones was elected a Hunterian Trustee in 1944, was Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1947, and was awarded the Honorary Medal of the College in 1949. He served for many years on the Council of the Zoological Society. Freddy Wood Jones was a ready writer and a skilful artist, who illustrated his own papers. Though he qualified as a surgeon, he might have achieved more as a research zoologist. His best work was done in comparative anatomy and zoology, and his happiest years were probably those spent at Cocos Keeling or in vacation cruises from Melbourne exploring the Australian islands. His views were always original and stimulating and usually expressed without reserve or regard for persons, since he enjoyed controversy without animosity. He was essentially a humble, friendly person interested in the pursuit of truth in natural history.
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First Title value, for Searching Reid, Robert William (1851 - 1939)

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Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born 14 May 1851 at the Manse of Auchindoir on Donside, Aberdeenshire, the sixth child and third son of the Rev William Reid and Elizabeth Mary Scott, his wife. He attended the village school at Lumsden and afterwards for a few months in 1866 the Aberdeen Grammar School, and then went to King's College, Aberdeen. He began his medical studies at Marischal College in 1868 and his interest in anatomy soon attracted the notice of Professor Sir John Struthers. He served as house physician at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and at the end of his term of office he became anatomical assistant to the professor. Thenceforward he devoted his life to anatomical teaching and study. In 1873 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school of St Thomas's Hospital, London, and in 1877 he lectured on anatomy and was thus the first in London to devote himself wholly to the subject. In 1887 he took a leading part in founding the Anatomical Society, of which he was president in 1910-12. Professor Struthers retired from the chair of Regius professor of anatomy at Aberdeen in the autumn of 1889 and Reid was called to fill his place, a position he held until September 1925. He represented the University of Aberdeen on the General Medical Council 1896-1901, and was president of the section of anatomy and physiology at the Aberdeen meeting of the British Medical Association in 1914. He died unmarried at 37 Albyn Place, Aberdeen on 28 July 1939, where for many years he had been tenderly cared for by his sister and his niece, Miss Margaret F Pirie. Reid came of an old north Scottish family, which had contributed distinguished representatives to the Church and the Army. One of his brothers was Major-General Sir Alexander John Reid and another was Dr William Reid, medical superintendent of the Aberdeen Royal Asylum. Robert Reid himself was fortunate in his opportunity, for he began his life's work when anatomical enquiry had come under the dominance of Darwin and when cerebral surgery, then in its infancy, was requiring anatomical landmarks for guidance in operations. David Ferrier and Gerald F Yeo in the Physiological Laboratory at King's College, London, from 1870 onwards were working at cerebral localization in monkeys. Victor Horsley, Charles Ballance, William Macewen, and Rickman Godlee were beginning to operate on the human brain. It was soon found that, using the small trephines then employed, it was necessary to have some external landmarks as a guide to the principal convolutions and sulci. Reid enquired into the matter and in 1884 published his paper in the *Lancet*, 1884, 2, 539: "Observations on the relation of the principal fissures and convolutions of the cerebrum to the outer surface of the scalp". The paper, which soon became a classic, he introduced by saying: "What I propose to do is to show that by taking large and easily felt landmarks on the head and drawing from them certain lines, these lines will indicate accurately enough for all practical purposes the position of the principal sulci, and by applying the one inch trephine to the skull with the centre pin on the line we can expose the fissure in any part of its course. The landmarks which can be easily felt on the outside of the scalp are the glabella or depression between the two nasal eminences, the external occipital protuberance, the superior curved line of the occipital bone, the parietal eminence, the posterior border of the mastoid process, the depression just in front of the external auditory meatus, the external angular process of the frontal bone, the frontal part of the temporal ridge, and the supraorbital notch. We shall also suppose that the base line, from which all perpendicular lines are drawn, runs through the lowest part of the infra-orbital margin and the middle of the external auditory meatus." The line was found to be of great practical use and "Reid's base line" was known far and wide. Reid did much good work at Aberdeen. He reorganized the anatomical department, founded the teaching of embryology, introducing its study by the use of x-rays, and elaborated the anthropological museum. In 1896 he installed a method of making measurements and records of the physique of his students. The record contains exact measurements and details of growth of 2,000 students drawn from the population of North-East Scotland, the results being published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute for 1923 and 1924. They show that the Aberdonian comes of Scandinavian stock and has little or no connexion with the Mediterranean race or with the dark-haired, round-headed Alpine stock. He also made valuable investigations into the relationships of the bones found in several ancient tombs in Aberdeenshire. He published in 1912 an illustrated catalogue of the anthropological museum at Marischal College, and in 1924 added an illustrated catalogue of specimens from prehistoric interments in Scotland. The Reid lectureship to further these researches was established in 1934.
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First Title value, for Searching Forster, John Cooper (1823 - 1886)

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Publication Date 2006-03-22 2012-03-22
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in Mount Street, Lambeth, where his father and grandfather had carried on a successful practice. The house was at the junction of the Westminster Bridge Road with Kennington Lane. It had a large garden, which Forster tended as a boy, and thus gained his lifelong love for flowers and ferns. He was educated at King's College School, then under the headmastership of Dr. Major, and entered Guy's Hospital in 1841. He acted as dresser for Aston Key (q.v.), and was captain and trainer of the Guy's Hospital Boat Club, which he raised to a high state of efficiency. He graduated M.B. at the University of London in 1847 after gaining the Gold Medal in Surgery. Between 1844 and 1850, whilst waiting for an appointment at Guy's, he held the post of Surgeon to the Surrey Dispensary, and was one of the very first to administer anaesthetics in the hospital. He was also Surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Women and Children in the Waterloo Bridge Road, a position he held for many years. In 1848 he visited Paris to study gunshot wounds. He was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at Guy's Hospital in 1850, and in the same year married Adela, the only daughter of Munden Hammond, of Kennington, by whom he had seven children. At this time he was living at 11 Wellington Square, the back of his house looking on to St. Saviour's Church, and the front into the large square of St. Thomas's Hospital. He was bequeathed a considerable fortune in 1859, and in 1864 he moved to 10 St. Thomas's Street, where two of his children died of diphtheria, and later in life he lived at 29 Upper Grosvenor Street. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to Guy's Hospital in 1855, and in 1870 he succeeded John Hilton (q.v.) as full Surgeon. This post he resigned in 1880, when Senior Surgeon, the occasion being an unfortunate dispute with the Treasurer and Governors of the hospital caused by some necessary changes in connection with the nursing staff introduced by a new matron somewhat untactfully. Dr. Habershon, the Senior Physician, resigned at the same time. Their action met with the sympathy of many former members of the school, four hundred of whom subscribed to a testimonial and a presentation of silver plate. Cooper Forster was a member of the Council of college from 1875-1886, of the Court of Examiners from 1875-1884, Vice-President in 1882-1883, and President in 1884. During his year of office he did much to promote the establishment with the Royal College of Physicians of a Conjoint Examining Board for England which enabled students to be examined satisfactorily both in medicine and surgery. On the day he ceased to be President he ceased to practise, although for many years his easy circumstances had led him not to desire private patients. He died of an obscure illness, which was not elucidated by a post-mortem examination, at his house in Upper Grosvenor Street on March 2nd, 1886, and was survived by his wife, one son and three daughters. Cooper Forster had a good, bold, and neat hand, which made him a skilful operator. When Dr. Habersohn, his medical colleague, proposed that he should follow Sédillot in opening the stomach in the case of cancer of the œsophagus in 1858 he did so readily, and thus performed what was practically the first gastrostomy in England. The operation was undertaken too late and the patient died forty-five hours after its completion. He went to Aberdeen in 1867 to study Pirie's methods of arresting hæmorrhage by acupressure, practiced it enthusiastically for a few months, and then returned to torsion of the arteries, known as 'the Guy's method' of stopping bleeding during amputations. He is described as quick in forming an opinion and in deciding upon a line of treatment, impatient of 'fads', deficient in scientific knowledge, and essentially a practical surgeon. His clinical lectures were noted for their decisiveness, terseness, and abounding common sense ; but he disliked lecturing, and having been appointed Lecturer on Surgery in succession to John Poland (q.v.), he soon resigned. Personally as well as socially he was a striking figure : considerably over six feet in height and of a commanding presence, he had a handsome expression ; his head was covered with bushy black hair ; quick and lively in manner, always courteous, he was, as he seemed, a great gentleman. He loved rowing, and his dinghy and four-oared boat manned by his family were well known on the Thames from Richmond to Oxford. When rowing became too strenuous for him he took to fly fishing, and later still in life he was accustomed to take a country walk on every fine Sunday. He carefully ascertained the direction of the wind before starting, took the train against it, and walked back with the wind behind him. He was a keen horticulturist, and his house in Grosvenor Street contained one of the best ferneries in London. After his death Mrs. Forster gave his *Trichomones reniforme* to the Conservatory at Kew Gardens. Cooper Forster was also a gourmet, and nothing pleased him more than to entertain his friends either at home or at Greenwich with a very carefully chosen bill of fare and the most choice wines. He is the central figure as President in Jamyn Brookes's portrait group of the Council, which hangs in the Hall of the College, and there is a portrait in the Council Album. Both are good likenesses.
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First Title value, for Searching Nunn, Thomas William (1825 - 1909)

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Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at Royston, Herts, in 1825, the eldest son of William Nunn, MRCS, who practised in Royston for many years. William Nunn's father, Thomas Nunn, was a surgeon in the Navy, and the wife of this Naval surgeon was a descendant of Sir Edmond Butts, Physician to Henry VIII. Both the father and mother of T W Nunn were members of the Society of Friends. Nunn was educated at a private school in the country, and at the age of 17 entered as a medical student at King's College, London, finding himself among distinguished contemporaries, Fergusson being then one of the prominent teachers in the Medical Department. He was much befriended by R Partridge, then Professor of Anatomy, who appointed him one of his Student Demonstrators, and by John Simon. Qualifying at the age of 21, he obtained the post of Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, which had then been established about eleven years in succession to the famous Hunterian School, and proved very popular, his demonstrations being largely attended. At about this time he was appointed Surgeon to the Westminster Western Dispensary, and here in 1849 he succeeded in ligaturing the external iliac artery, which made no little stir in London surgery at the time. He now began to publish his works on varicose veins and on anatomical subjects, and in 1858 was elected Assistant Surgeon to Middlesex Hospital, becoming full Surgeon in 1863, and Consulting Surgeon in 1879. His wards included those set apart for the treatment of cancer as well as the general wards, and his publications bear witness to his interest in and knowledge of malignant disease. Nunn was devoted to the welfare of the student, and was Secretary of the flourishing Middlesex Hospital Club from 1869-1883, being the last of the original members at the time of his death. He taught anatomy for sixteen years and then practical and operative surgery till 1873. As a teacher he was deservedly popular, and his old pupils referred affectionately to 'Tommy Nunn', who lightened their labours with his good humour and facilitated their comprehension of difficult matters by his skill as a draughtsman and frequent colloquial expressions. Eminently practical and always kind, Nunn set a fine example in dealing with patients, who were likewise his friends, in the days when medical teaching was perhaps less academic than it is to-day. Greatly interested in military matters, Nunn served in his early days as a combatant officer in the 3rd Middlesex Militia, and in a few years took a medical commission in the West Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, from which he retired as Hon Surgeon Major, receiving the Volunteer Decoration for his more than twenty years' service. Of this honour he was very proud. At the time of the Crimean War he had offered to form and join a medical company. Nunn for many years after 1879 kept up his connection with the Middlesex as a member of committees or as chairman at convivial meetings. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon, not only to his own hospital, but also to the Central London Throat Hospital, and to the London Hospital for Skin Diseases, Fitzroy Square. At one time he had seen a good deal of practice in Paris, where he was during the commune of 1871. Throughout the whole of his active professional life he lived in Stratford Place, but a few years before his death moved to 27 York Terrace, York Gate, NW, where he still saw some of his old patients. Latterly he spent part of his time at his country seat at Kneesworth, Royston; here he died on April 13th, 1909, and was buried in Royston Cemetery. Nunn married: (1) Isabella, daughter of Kenneth Maclay, of Nevermore, Ross-shire, and (2) Rosalie, daughter of George White, of Kensington, who survived him. A good portrait of him accompanies his biography in the *Middlesex Hospital Journal*, 1909, xiii, 79. There is also a portrait of him in the College Collection and a photograph in the Fellows' Album. Publications:- *Observations on Varicose Veins and Varicose Ulcers*, 16mo, London, 1850. *Inflammation of the Breast and Milk Abscess*, 12mo, London, 1853. *Observations and Notes on the Arteries of the Limbs*, illustrating the natural division of main arteries into what he termed segmental and trans-segmental branches for the supply of the proximal and distal segments of the limbs respectively, 8vo, London, 1858; 2nd ed, 1864; French translation in *Jour de l'Anat et Physiol*, 1874, x, 7. *Ward Manual: or Index of Surgical Diseases and Injuries*, 8vo, London, 1865. *On Cancer of the Breast*, 4to, 21 coloured plates, London, 1882. *A Page in the History of Ovariotomy in London*, 8vo, London, 1886. *On Certain Disregarded Defects of Development chiefly in Relation to the Curves of the Spine*, 8vo, 2 plates, London, 1888. *Growing Children and Awkward Walking*, 12mo, London, 1894. *Cancer Illustrated by One Thousand Cases from the Registers of the Middlesex Hospital and by Fifty Selected Cases of Cancer of the Breast*, etc, 12mo, 11 plates, London, 1899. *The Inaugural Lecture, Session* 1863-4, *delivered at the Middlesex Hospital Medical College*, 8vo, London, 1863. *Notes on Personal Hygiene*, No. 1, 8vo, London, 1865. "Maternal Conditions in Congenital Syphilis." - *Brit Gynaecol Jour*, 1891-2, vii, 435.
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First Title value, for Searching Parsons, Frederick Gymer (1863 - 1943)

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Occupation Anatomist Anthropologist
Details Born 12 November 1863 at 5 Westcombe Villas, Blackheath, SE, son of Thomas Cox Parsons, silk broker, and Lucy Susannah Kilvert, his wife. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the Grainger scholarship and became demonstrator of anatomy, lecturer (1886 to 1899) and for thirty years (1899-1929) University of London professor of anatomy and director of the anatomical department. After qualifying he had served for a time as a ship's surgeon and practised privately, but found his true bent in academic work. He was one of the group of anatomists who towards the close of the nineteenth century brought the teaching of anatomy in London to equal or excel the famous tradition of Edinburgh. He was a member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1886 and served the offices of secretary 1895-98, treasurer 1903-08, and president 1912-14, and in February 1898 was appointed one of the Society's trustees. He was secretary of the Society's Collective Investigation Committee 1894-99, and served on its Basel Nomina Anatomica Committee 1913-14 and again after the first world war. When he died he was the Society's oldest member. Parsons took an active part in the administration and improvement of medical education. He was for a time lecturer on biology at St Thomas's and lectured also at the London School of Medicine for Women. He examined in anatomy for the universities of Aberdeen, Cambridge, London, and Oxford, and for many other bodies including the Society of Apothecaries, during forty years. In 1912 he collaborated with his friend William Wright, his "opposite number" at the London Hospital, in a dissecting manual of *Practical anatomy*. In this as in all his teaching he avoided cumbersome topographical detail. He was for fifty years secretary of the London Anatomical Committee, which saw to the proper supply of anatomical material for the schools. He also collaborated with Bertram C A Windle in his studies of comparative myology. Parsons joined the Society of Apothecaries in 1898, served on its Court from 1936 till his death, and was Senior Warden in 1941. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1904), on whose Council he served frequently between 1910 and 1930 and was a vice-president 1920-23. Parsons took the keenest interest in all activities of St Thomas's Hospital and its Medical School and was a popular figure to many generations of students. He founded and for many years edited the hospital *Gazette*; he was secretary and treasurer of the amalgamated clubs and an active encourager of all athletic exercises. He was himself a keen small-boat yachtsman and for several years commodore of the United Hospitals Sailing Club. His life-long service and love of the Hospital found its expression in his detailed but very readable *History of St Thomas's Hospital*, published in three volumes 1932-34-36. His paper "St Thomas of London, the glorious martyr" was printed after his death, in the *Gazette* 1943, 41, 115. Parsons' first interest was in human topographical anatomy; of his many studies those on the cervical fascia, the caecum, and the parotid gland were the most outstanding. His work was always comparative, and he published much in the *Journal of Anatomy* and the *Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London*. Next he turned to more functional studies, and made a remarkable survey of the hyoid. At the Royal College of Surgeons he delivered two series of masterly Hunterian lectures: in 1898 on "The muscles of mammals with special relation to human myology", and in 1899 on "The joints of mammals contrasted with those of man". He did not undertake the exhaustive statistical measurements of the biometricians; he was prepared to submit his material for the use of mathematicians, but maintained that they approached anatomy with an abstract and lifeless outlook. He gradually turned to anatomo-anthropological studies, publishing an extensive study of the modern English femur and clavicle; and was led on through the study of the excavated crania from Hythe (*J Roy Anthrop Inst* 1908) and Rothwell (*Ibid*, 1910) to a general survey of the characteristics of the Anglo-Saxons and their modern descendants. His work on the Long-Barrow Race appeared in 1920. During the first world war he studied German racial elements on prisoners of war, determining that the so-called "Nordic" element was small except on the coast and in the Rhine Valley. He was much interested in London's history and in 1927 published *The earlier inhabitants of London*, which aroused considerable interest. In the same year, 1927, he was president of the section of anthropology at the Leeds meeting of the British Association and spoke on "The Englishman of the future", asserting that increase in proportional height was an evolutionary process. In 1928 he issued an *Atlas* of sixty-six Anglo-Saxon skulls. Parsons believed himself to be a typical "Saxon" Englishman, and he looked the part with his powerful build and red hair, as well as possessing many psychological characteristics often thought peculiarly English: a love of the sea and the country, undemonstrative courage, and blunt determination. He was fond of bicycling to the old towns of England and France, and was unperturbed by bad weather. Wood-carving was a favourite recreation. Parsons married Mary Parker, of Sywell House, Llandudno, North Wales, who died tragically with her daughter in 1915. After retirement in 1929 he lived at Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, interesting himself in local archaeology, but removed in 1940 to the Swan Inn, Thame, Oxfordshire, which he took over from John Fothergill the writer. He died there on 11 March 1943, aged 79, survived by two sons and a grandson. His principal writings have been detailed in the course of the life.
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First Title value, for Searching Hawkins, Caesar Henry (1798 - 1888)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

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Publication Date 2006-01-25 2012-03-22
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details One of the ten children of the Rev. Edward Hawkins, grandson of Sir Caesar Hawkins, Bart. (1711-1786), Surgeon to St. George's Hospital and Serjeant-Surgeon to George II and George III, who was descended from Colonel Caesar Hawkins, commanding a regiment of horse for Charles I. Caesar Hawkins was born on Sept. 19th, 1798, at Bisley, Gloucestershire, and, his father having died whilst he was still young, he was sent to Christ's Hospital (the Bluecoat School), where he remained from 1807-1813, when he had to be withdrawn as he was not destined for either Oxford or Cambridge. He was apprenticed to Mr. Sheppard, of Hampton Court, then the medical attendant of the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William IV, who lived at Bushey Park. At the end of his indentures in 1818 he was admitted a student at St. George's Hospital under Sir Everard Home and Benjamin Brodie, and attended the chemistry classes of Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution. As soon as he had qualified he began to teach anatomy at the Hunterian or Windmill Street School of Medicine, having Sir Charles Bell as his colleague. He was elected Surgeon to St. George's Hospital on February 13th, 1829, and resigned in 1861, when he was appointed Consulting Surgeon. In 1862 he was gazetted Serjeant-Surgeon to Queen Victoria, and was thus the fourth member of his family to hold a like office. He was a Member of the Council from 1846-1863, and of the Court of Examiners from 1849-1866; was Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1860; delivered the Hunterian Oration in 1849, when H R H the Prince Consort honoured the College with his presence; was Vice-President in 1850, 1851, 1859, 1860; President in 1852 and again in 1861; and Representative of the College on the General Medical Council from 1865-1870. In 1871 he was elected a Trustee of the Hunterian Museum. He was elected FRS on June 9th, 1856. He married: (1) Miss Dolbel, and (2) Miss Ellen Rouse, but left no issue by either. He died on July 20th, 1884, at his house, 26 Grosvenor Street. As a surgeon Hawkins attained eminence and achieved success, his opinion being especially sought in complex cases. For long he was noted as the only surgeon who had succeeded in the operation of ovariotomy in a London hospital. This occurred in 1846, when anaesthetics were unknown. He did much to popularize colotomy. A successful operator, he nevertheless was attached to conservative surgery, and he was always more anxious to teach his pupils how to save a limb than how to remove it. Long after he had become Consulting Surgeon to his hospital he continued to be a familiar figure on the wards, where he gave his colleagues the benefit of his lifelong experience. Caesar Hawkins was a man of sterling worth and merit, as well as of great capacity. His family was, indeed, distinguished for talent, as evidenced by the fact, above alluded to, that four of them rose to the rank of Serjeant-Surgeon. Two of Caesar Hawkin's own brothers were men of mark - Edward (1794-1877) the well-known Provost of Oriel who played so great a part in the life of Oxford during the Tractarian Movement, and Dr. Francis Hawkins, the first Registrar of the General Medical Council, who was known as one of the best classical scholars among the physicians of his time. His nephew Sir John Caesar Hawkins (1837-1929), Canon of St. Albans, was the author of the well known *Horae Synopticae*. Hawkins was not remarkable for graciousness of demeanour on a first acquaintance - in fact, most men complained of him as somewhat dry and repellent under these circumstances. But this vanished on a closer acquaintance, when his genuine kindness of heart and sincerity became recognized. Everyone knew how firm a friend he was to those who had earned his friendship, and how trustworthy a counsellor, and he ended his days amid the universal respect and regard of the many who had been his colleagues and pupils. One of the latter, when addressing students of St. George's at the opening of the session of 1885, thus concluded a reference to the examples left them by their predecessors in the school:- "I would point out to you, as an example of what I mean, the great surgeon who has lately passed away from us, full of years and honours, endeared to those who had the happiness of being his pupils by every tie of gratitude and affection, and reverenced by all who can appreciate stainless honour. Caesar Hawkins was rich in friends, who watched and tended the peaceful close of his long and brilliant career. They can testify how well he bore Horace's test of a well-spent life, '*lenior et melior fis accedente senecta*' (Epist. ii. 211). The old words involuntarily occur to everyone who contemplates an old age so full of dignity and goodness: 'The path of the just is as a shining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day'" (Proverbs v. 18). He has been described as one of the cleverest minds in the medical profession, a mind of unquestioned accuracy, unswayed by imagination, temper, or desire for renown. No one was more discreet and honest in council, or less influenced by self-interest. A bust by George Halse was presented to the College by Mrs Caesar Hawkins in June, 1855. Photographs are preserved in the College Collection. PUBLICATIONS:- Hawkins contributed largely to the medical journals, and reprinted his papers for private circulation under the title, *The Hunterian Oration, Presidential Addresses, and Pathological and Surgical Writings,* 2 vols., 8vo, 1874. Among these mention may be made of valuable lectures "On Tumours", and of papers on "Excision of the Ovum", "The Relative Claims of Sir Charles Bell and Magendie to the Discovery of the Functions of the Spinal Nerves", "Experiments on Hydrophobia and the Bites of Serpents", "Stricture of the Colon treated by Operation", etc.
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, George Viner (1812 - 1900)

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Publication Date 2011-11-16
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born on September 25th, 1812, the second son of Viner Ellis, of Duni House, Minsterworth, near Gloucester, where his family had for many years been landowners. He was educated at the Crypt Grammar School, and then at the Cathedral Grammar School, and was afterwards apprenticed to Dr Buchanan, of Gloucester. On the advice of his scientific uncle, Daniel Ellis, FRS, Edinburgh, he was entered as a medical student at the newly-founded University College, London, where his career was one of distinction, In his vacations he studied in Paris, and he also followed courses of lectures and worked at anatomy in Berlin. He was for a long period Demonstrator of Anatomy under Professor Richard Quain, and succeeded him in the Chair of Anatomy in 1850, resigning with the title of Emeritus Professor in 1877. He never mingled much with the professional world. At the time of his death in the year 1900, Viner Ellis was *magni nominis umbra* to the younger generation of medical students, but in his day he had been one of the ruling spirits of the world of anatomy in this country. He gave his whole working life to the study and teaching of his chosen subject. Though too austere and unsympathetic in manner and strict in discipline to be popular with the great body of students, he was held in the highest respect by all, and in almost affectionate regard by a chosen few. Though he disdained the art of clothing the dry bones of anatomy with any flesh of human interest, his lectures were so exact in detail and so clear in expression that they were always listened to with close attention if not with pleasure. He taught most conscientiously, having his students' credit greatly at heart. Such was his grief when University College men failed badly in the Royal College of Surgeons examinations, that on one occasion, after they had figured very poorly, he appealed to his class, with tears rolling down his face, to remove this disgrace from him. His name soon became a household word with medical students at large when he published his famous *Demonstrations of Anatomy: being a Guide to the Knowledge of the Human Body by Dissections*. This appeared in 1840, and quickly became the standard text-book in English and American dissecting-rooms. The 11th edition was published in 1890 (edited by Professor G D Thane). A number of quaint anecdotes were told of Ellis. His class was always in perfect order, and once when his colleague, Professor Robert Grant, then very old and feeble, found his men unmanageable, he called Viner Ellis to his aid. After a brief but convincing interview with Ellis the unruly became quiet as lambs in 'poor old Grant's' lecture-room. He hated smoking and forbade it to his dissectors, who once, so the legend runs, petitioned the Council of University College for leave to purify the air in the dissecting-rooms with tobacco smoke. The petition was granted, and Ellis at once sent in his resignation, only withdrawing it when he had received assurances that he should never again be asked to tolerate the accursed thing. When he subsequently caught a comfortable party of smokers round a stove, his anger was memorable. He was secretive as to his place of residence, and students out-of-doors were wont cautiously to shadow him on his way home, but he always apparently succeeded in giving his followers the slip. The popular myth was to the effect that he kept two *ménages*. In the afternoons he used to go round to each individual dissector and would show his approval of a hard worker by patting him on the shoulder with hands "too visibly subdued to that they worked in" - a mark of approval not always properly appreciated. He spent most of his time in the dissecting-room, looking in after his midday lecture and sniffing the air as though to gain an appetite for lunch. To the specially privileged he would sometimes unbend, the hard face wrinkling every now and then into kindly smiles. He would reveal unsuspected depths of knowledge and feeling, and would tell stories of the old resurrectionists, some of whom he had known, or would show a love of literature in discussing the Elizabethan poets. He was an expounder rather than a discoverer in anatomy, a rigorous verifier and systematizer of what was already known. He discovered the corrugator ani muscle, a fact commemorated in a student's epitaph composed in his memory:- "Here lies, beloved by few, and feared by many, Georgy, discoverer of the corrugator ani." After his retirement Professor Ellis built himself a house in his native place, and lived quietly there with his sister. He devoted himself to the cultivation of his garden and was a successful apple-grower. He also taught the older boys of the parish in a night school, for he hated to be idle. With Viner Ellis passed away almost the last of the great teachers who had first made the Medical School of University College famous. He died at his residence, Severn Bank, Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, on April 25th, 1900. He was several times Examiner in Anatomy at the University of London, but refused to join the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, who in his day were required to test the knowledge of candidates in surgery as well as in anatomy. Publications:- In addition to the *Demonstrations of Anatomy*, Ellis published:- *Illustrations of Dissections in a Series of Original Coloured Plates the Size of Life, representing the Dissection of the Human Body,* fol., London, 1867; 2nd ed., 2 vols., 8vo, New York, 1882. This is as much a classic as the *Demonstrations*. The drawings were finely executed from nature on stone by G H FORD. They were from Ellis's dissections. He wrote the greater part of the description of the nerves in his and Sharpey's edition of Jones Quain's *Elements of Anatomy*, 6th ed., 1856. He also contributed several papers on scientific subjects to the *Lond. Med. Gaz.*
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First Title value, for Searching Rutherford, Norman Cecil (1882 - 1951)

2024-05-10T12:43:55Z

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Publication Date 2014-05-16 2020-07-02
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born about 1880 he was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1903, taking also the triple qualification of the Scottish Royal medical corporations. He went to South Africa as civil surgeon to the military hospital at Middelburg (1903-04) and from 1905 to 1908 was a district surgeon and magistrate in the Orange River Colony. He came home, took the Fellowship at the beginning of 1909, and was appointed first assistant to the professor of anatomy in the school of medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He began to publish results of anatomical research at this time, joined the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland, and was commissioned in the Officers Training Corps. He worked at Freiburg in Germany in 1910-11, and was then appointed demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer on embryology under Professor William Wright FRCS at the London Hospital Medical College. He belonged to the Anatomical and Zoological Societies and to the Anthropological Institute, and continued to publish his researches. He was also active in the OTC of London University. During the first world war he served in the RAMC and won the DSO in 1917. After the war he seems not to have resumed practice or research. He retired to a cottage near Leybourn, Yorkshire, where he died early in 1952. Publications: Congenital absence of transverse mesocolon. *Brit med J* 1910, 2, 1160. A curious arrangement of the retro-clavicular musculature. *Anatomischer Anzeiger* 1910, 37, 148. Human embryo of the fifth week. *Dublin Journal of Medical Sciences*, 1910, 130, 475. Note upon an anomalous form of parotid gland. *J Anat* 1911, 45, 442-443. Contribution to the embryology of the fore-limb skeleton. *J Anat* 1914, 48, 355-377. **See below for an additional and expanded obituary uploaded 2 July 2020:** Norman Cecil Rutherford was a military surgeon and anatomist who was decorated in the First World War, suffered from shellshock and in 1919 was tried for the murder of a fellow officer, Miles Seton. He served time in Broadmoor Hospital and later resumed his medical career. He was born on 14 March 1882 in Bradford. His father, John James Rutherford, was a doctor in Shipley; his mother was Nanny Rutherford née Firth. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University and, while still a student, eloped with Alice Maud Roberts, the daughter of James Roberts (later Sir James), a Yorkshire industrialist and businessman. The pair fled to Scotland, where they were married on 27 August 1902. Rutherford went on to qualify a year later. In September 1903, he set sail for Cape Town, South Africa, and served as a civilian surgeon to the military hospital in Middelburg, Cape Colony. His wife joined him and their first child, Sibyl Margaret, was born in April 1904 in an Army tent. When Alice’s younger brother Jack was drowned in Ireland in August 1904, the young couple returned briefly to England. They then went back to South Africa, to Natal, where their second daughter was born. (They went on to have four more children.) From 1905 to 1908 Rutherford was a district surgeon and magistrate in the Orange River Colony. The couple returned to the UK and in 1909 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was appointed as a first assistant to the professor of anatomy in the school of medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin and was commissioned in the Officers’ Training Corps. From 1910 to 1911 he worked at Freiburg, Germany. During this period, he published several papers, including ‘A note upon the mechanical effects of a massive left-sided pleural effusion’ *Br Med J*. 1911 Oct 28;2(2652):1064, ‘A curious arrangement of the retro-clavicular musculature’ *Anat Anz* 1910 37 148-150 and ‘Human embryo of the fourth week’ *Trans Roy Acad Med Irel* 1910. He was subsequently appointed as a demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer on embryology under the anatomist William Wright at the London Hospital Medical College. At the outbreak of the First World War, Rutherford was called up to serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps, eventually becoming a lieutenant colonel. He served in the trenches, was buried alive and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1917 for ‘conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty while in charge of an advanced dressing station’. On his return to England, he found his wife wanted a divorce. Major Miles Seton, a colleague from Edinburgh and South Africa, who had emigrated to Australia and returned to the UK, may have been his wife’s lover or confidant. On the evening of 13 January 1919 Rutherford went to the home of Seton’s cousin, Sir Malcolm Seton, in Holland Park, London, where he knew Seton was staying and shot his rival. Having committed the crime, he calmly waited for the police to arrive. At a sensational trial, Rutherford was found guilty of murder, but was declared insane and was imprisoned in Broadmoor Hospital. (The *Medical Directories* record his address as ‘uncommunicated’ during the years of his incarceration.) While at Broadmoor, Rutherford wrote *An outline history of the Great War* (Cambridge University Press, 1928), with the help and encouragement of Gordon Vero Carey and Hugh Sumner Scott. The Home Office refused to allow his name to appear on the cover, but he was acknowledged in a preface in the second edition. The book was sent to the Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks and may have expedited Rutherford’s relatively early release in 1929. Once he left Broadmoor, he was reinstated on to the Medical Register, but chose to practise abroad. He visited Canada, taught eye surgery in Vienna and then studied eye disease in Persia. Rutherford and his wife finally divorced in 1938. Alice remarried and died aged 100 on the Isle of Man. Rutherford did not remarry. In 1950, he retired to Coverham Abbey in Yorkshire. He then sailed to South Africa, to Kloopf in Natal. He died at St Mary’s Hospital, Pinetown District, Natal on 6 December 1951 at the age of 69. His granddaughter reported that, when he died in South Africa, he asked for his tin hat from the trenches to be buried with him. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Goodeve, Henry Hurry Iles (1807 - 1884)

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Publication Date 2012-02-15
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Occupation Anatomist Obstetrician
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dublin. He was born at Portsmouth and was the scion of a Norfolk family, his father being John Goodeve, banker, latterly of Bury Hall, Hants. Through his mother, Elizabeth Hurry, he claimed kindred with Sir John Hurry, the famous champion of Montrose. His father, John Goodeve, was thrice married, leaving male issue by each marriage. Of the first family William James Goodeve, surgeon in Clifton and lecturer on anatomy, was father, by Lady Frances Jemima Erskine, of the Earl of Mar, who had been a claimant for the dormant peerage. Of the third family was Dr Edward Goodeve, well known in Calcutta, and British Commissioner of the Constantinople Cholera Conference. Henry Goodeve made an early start in life, and before he was 22 had assisted his elder brother as a Lecturer on Anatomy, had taken part in conducting the *Athenaeum* with his cousin, Frederick Denison Maurice, had graduated at the University of Edinburgh, and had married Miss Isabella Barlow, who was his devoted helpmeet till her death in 1870. He obtained an appointment in the East India Company's service and was stationed at Rampoor for four years, during which time while out tiger-hunting he received a gunshot wound in the cheek. It was a frightful injury, and divided the facial nerve, producing permanent facial paralysis. He was appointed Professor of Anatomy to the Calcutta Medical College on its first establishment in 1835. Subsequently for some ten or eleven years he devoted himself to obstetrics and had the largest practice in Bengal. He became friends with men of high distinction such as Sir Ranald Martin and Dr O'Shaughnessy (later Sir William Brook), pioneer of Indian telegraphy. Incessant labour, involved especially by his overwhelming practice, began to tell on him. He obtained leave, returned to England, and after one short visit to India, retired and was granted a special pension for distinguished merit by the HEIC. This retirement he utilized for the development of a scheme he had already conceived - namely, the extension to high-caste and other Hindus of the benefits of English education. He brought with him to London four young Brahmins, placed them at University College, and superintended their career. Some of them highly distinguished themselves, notably Dr Soojoocoomar Chuckerbutty. In 1845 he was deputed to England, taking with him four students to complete their education at University College, London. S C Chuckerbutty, one of these students, after serving as an uncovenanted Medical Officer, passed first into the IMS at the first competitive examination, which was held in January, 1855, and held the Chair of Materia Medica in the Calcutta Medical College from 1864 until his death on Sept 29th, 1874. In spite of his heavy duties Goodeve found time to start reforms and to found charitable and medical institutions in Calcutta, which, as his biographer in the *Medical Times* points out (1884, ii, 65), "still bear testimony to his zeal, benevolence and judgment". The Crimean War breaking out after Dr Goodeve had been resident for some years in London, he volunteered for service and was appointed Inspector of Civil Hospitals. At the Renkioi Hospital, where he now acted, his colleagues were Sir Spencer Wells (qv), William Robertson, and Holmes Coote (qv), under the superintendence of Edmund Parkes. On his return to England after the war, he realized an early project and built himself a house from his own designs on one of the finest sites in southern England, overlooking the Avon Valley near Bristol. Here he spent many happy and laborious years as County Magistrate, Visitor of County Lunatic Asylums, Reformatories, and Industrial Schools. He was for many years Captain of the Bristol Rifles, a Director of the Avonmouth Docks and Port and Pier Railway, and President, after 1870, of the Bristol Boarding-out Society, in the principles of which he took a strong interest. He died after a short illness on June 17th, 1884. Publications:- *Hints for the General Management of Children in India in the Absence of Professional Advice. This went through seven editions and was very popular with Anglo-Indian mothers in more or less remote stations* (2nd ed, Calcutta, 1844). The 8th edition of the Hints was brought out in 1886 by EDWARD A BIRCH (8vo, Calcutta) under an altered title. *General Introductory Lecture addressed to the Students of the Calcutta Medical College at the opening of the Session*, 15th June, 1848. As joint Secretary with W B O'Shaughnessy of the Calcutta Medical and Physical Society he edited the six volumes of the Quarterly Journal of that Society which appeared in 1837-8.
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First Title value, for Searching Keene, Mary Frances Lucas (1885 - 1977)

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Occupation Anatomist
Details Mary Frances Lucas was born on 15 August 1885, in Gravesend, the daughter of George John Lucas, who was a dental surgeon. She attended Rochester Grammar School for Girls and Eversley School, Folkestone. She entered the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women in the 1904/5 session and graduated MB BS in 1911, having been an able student and at the centre of activity in social, dramatic and athletic clubs. After a brief but much enjoyed and well remembered clinical career, she returned to the School of Medicine in 1914 to teach anatomy as the assistant to the first full-time Professor, Frederic Wood Jones. With the outbreak of hostilities, the Professor's frequent absences on duty as a Royal Army Medical Corps Officer at Shepherd's Bush Hospital, gave her responsibility as an organiser and teacher. When he left to take the Chair of Anatomy in Manchester in 1919, she was appointed lecturer in charge of the department and in 1924 she was the first woman to be appointed to a Chair of Anatomy in the United Kingdom. She was also one of the first women appointed to examine for the Primary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the first to be a member of the Council of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and to be elected to its Presidency, an office she graced from 1949 to 1951. She was a long-standing member of the University's board of studies in human anatomy and morphology. Her personal qualities made her an admirable chairman and she served as a member of Council and later Vice-President of the Medical Protection Society. She was a staunch supporter of the Medical Women's Federation. As President from 1946 to 1948 she steered it through the difficult negotiations at the inception of the National Health Service. Her lectures were comprehensive, beautifully prepared and illustrated on the blackboard, but she was a shy woman and her slightly monotonous delivery was surprising for an actress and delightfully witty after-dinner speaker. She was indefatigable in supporting the School of Medicine and the Royal Free Hospital. From 1926 to 1929 she was Vice-Dean and in the arduous years from 1939 to 1943 she was acting Dean in charge of pre-clinical students and staff. Skilled administration and her calm and dignified good humour did much to preserve the excellent morale of staff and students who were first evacuated from London to Aberdeen, returned to London, to leave it once more and go to Exeter. On their final return to London a V2 rocket shattered the anatomy department, but within four days the Dean, and Professor Keene had been able to find a place of work for every student at Guy's and St Mary's Hospital Medical Schools. Professor Lucas Keene played an unobtrusive but important part in post-war repair and extension of the School of Medicine. She campaigned firmly for permanent building and scrutinised the plans with the skill of a printer's proof reader. After her retirement she returned as part-time teacher and Emeritus Professor. During this period she returned to research on the pattern of innervation of intrinsic muscles of the human larynx. For many years she presided over the Committee of Licensed Teachers of Anatomy of London and insisted upon the proper care of the subjects. Her collaboration with Dr Evelyn Hewer was a happy one and she contributed sections to the *Manual of practical dissection* by 'Six Teachers' and was co-author with James Willis in a general textbook, *Anatomy for dental students*. In addition to the very heavy academic responsibilities and achievements she went home to Kent each weekend to help her husband Richard Keene, whom she had married in 1916, on their farm and in their garden. She was also an outstandingly good athlete, dancer and bridge player. Her beauty was striking and enhanced by age. As a shy person she tended to strike people as aloof and forbidding at first, but she was a patient and generous trainer of her juniors. Unfortunately, the financial constraints under which the Medical School suffered until the inception of the University Grants Committee, meant that she had few full-time members of staff until the end of her term of office. Those who were fortunate enough to serve under her direction have a debt that can never be repaid. The Times rightly described her as 'the Grand Old Lady of British Anatomy' and those who were taught by her remember her as a teacher who was always glad to learn and to teach. She died on 8 May 1977, aged 91, her husband having predeceased her.
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First Title value, for Searching Hilton, John (1805 - 1878)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at Sible Hedingham, a small village on the River Colne in the heart of Essex, on September 22nd, 1805, the first son of John and Hannah Hilton. His parents were in humble circumstances when he was born, but his father afterwards made money in the straw-plaiting industry, became the owner of some brickfields, and built the house in Swan Street which is still called Hilton House. In addition to John, the Hilton family consisted of a brother, Charles, who inherited his father's property, and two sisters, one of whom, Anne, married Charles Fagge on December 27th, 1836. Hilton was educated at Chelmsford and afterwards at Boulogne, and became a student at Guy's Hospital about 1824. Guy's separated from St. Thomas's during his student career, and he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy under Bransby Cooper (q.v.), his fellow-demonstrator being Edward Cock (q.v.), in 1828. The two demonstrators worked together in friendly rivalry, and when Sir Astley Cooper proposed that they should investigate the origin and distribution of the superior laryngeal nerve, Cock undertook the comparative and Hilton the human anatomy side of the question. The results were largely instrumental in causing his election as F.R.S. in 1839. From 1828 Hilton devoted himself so assiduously to the dissecting-room as to acquire the sobriquet 'Anatomical John'. When he was not dissecting or teaching he was making post-mortem examinations, and after sixteen years of this work he had gained an unrivalled knowledge of the anatomy of the human body and had become a first-rate teacher and lecturer. About 1838 he was engaged in making those dissections which, modelled in wax by Joseph Towne, still remain as gems in the Museum of Guy's Hospital. For this purpose Hilton spent an hour or two every morning in making a most careful dissection of some very small part of the body - usually not more than an inch or two. He then left, and Towne copied the dissection in wax. Towne worked alone in a locked room, and the secrets of his art died with him. Hilton was elected Lecturer on Anatomy in 1845 and resigned in 1853. As a lecturer and teacher he was admirable, for he had the power of interesting students by putting the trite and oft-told facts of anatomy in a totally new light, the result of his own observation and experience. He combined, too, elementary physiology with anatomy, for the two subjects had not then been separated. He was, however, a confirmed teleologist and tried to prove that anatomical distribution was due to design rather than to development. He had neither the education nor the inclination to appreciate anatomy in its scientific aspects. Hilton was elected Assistant Surgeon to Guy's Hospital in 1844, Thomas Callaway and Edward Cock being his colleagues, whilst John Morgan, Aston Key, and Bransby Cooper were full Surgeons. He thus had the distinction of being the first surgeon at one of the large London hospitals who was appointed without having served an apprenticeship either to the hospital or to one of its Surgeons. In 1847 James Paget was elected to a similar position at St. Bartholomew's Hospital without either of these qualifications, and the rule previously looked upon as inviolate soon became more honoured in the breach than in the observance. Hilton's period of probation in the out-patient room was of short duration. Aston Key (q.v.) died of cholera after an illness of twenty hours in 1849, and Hilton as the Senior Assistant Surgeon was promoted to fill his place. The ordeal was trying, for he had been an anatomist all his life and had never had charge of beds, but he came well through it. He did not acquire the brilliancy or expertness of the older surgeons, but the very exactness of his anatomical knowledge made him a careful operator. His caution is still remembered by that method of opening deeply-seated abscesses with a probe and dressing forceps after making an incision through the skin, which is known as 'Hilton's method'. He shone especially in clinical lectures, where he brought out the importance of every detail in a case, and so linked them together as to form a continuous chain which interested even the idlest student. He attracted to himself the best type of men, and to be a dresser to Hilton was considered a blue ribbon at the hospital. Yet he was no easy master to serve, for he was rough in speech and was prone to indulge in personalities designed to hurt the *amour propre* of those to whom they were addressed. At the Royal College of Surgeons Hilton was chosen a life-member of the Council in 1854. He lectured as Hunterian Professor of Human Anatomy and Surgery from 1859-1862, but it was not until 1865 that he became a Member of the Court of Examiners, a post he held for ten years. He served as Vice-President during the years 1865 and 1866, and was elected President in 1867, the year in which he delivered the Hunterian Oration. He resigned the Lectureship on Surgery at Guy's Hospital in 1870, though he continued to practise at 10 New Broad Street, E.C. In 1871 he was appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, and in the same year he was President of the Pathological Society. He married twice, and his children survived him. He died at Clapham of cancer of the stomach on September 14th, 1878. Hilton's claim to remembrance rests upon his essay "On the Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Disease and the Diagnostic Value of Pain". The essay was delivered as his course of Arris and Gale Lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862, with the title "Pain and Therapeutic Influences of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Surgical Diseases and Accidents". It was published as an octavo volume in 1863; the second edition, with the shortened title *On Rest and Pain*, edited by W. H. A. Jacobson (q.v.), appeared in 1877; the third in 1880; the fourth in 1887; and the fifth in 1892. All the issues except the first are duodecimos; the third, fourth, and fifth contain no material changes. *Rest and Pain* is interesting historically as showing the state of surgery in a large general hospital when its practice was based entirely upon anatomy and was devoid of the assistance it now derives from histology, bacteriology, and anaesthetics. It bears perhaps the same relation to modern surgery as Chambers's *Vestiges of Creation* bears to modern geology and biology. There is much morbid anatomy, and great common sense mingled with very crude speculation. It remains a fascinating work, written by one who, though a master of one side of his subject, was unable to see the whole, partly because he was insufficiently acquainted with advances of his contemporaries, and partly because the means for developing the scientific aspects of surgery were not in existence. The particular points upon which Hilton laid stress in his lectures were the blocking of the foramen of Magendie in some cases of internal hydrocephalus; the cautious opening of deep abscesses; the pain referred to the knee by patients with hip disease and its anatomical explanation; the cause of triple displacement in chronic tuberculous disease of the knee; and the importance of the early diagnosis and treatment of hip disease. All this and many other things which are now the commonplaces of surgery, Hilton set out in *Rest and Pain*, in which the naïve description of his cases and their treatment is by no means the least attractive feature. It was said that no one looking at Hilton would have taken him for a great surgeon: he appeared much more like a prosperous City man. Short, rather stout, and plodding in his walk; dapper in a plain frock-coat with a faultless shirt front, a black stock or bow-tie, a fancy waistcoat festooned with a long gold chain which was hung from the neck; always in boots irreproachably blackened at a time when Warren's and Day & Martn's blackings were at the height of their vogue - such was the picture of Hilton as he sat on the bed of a patient in one of his wards examining an inflamed ulcer with a probe to determine the position of any exposed nerve. A life-size half-length oval portrait of Hilton by Henry Barraud (1811-1874) hangs in the Conservator's room at the College. It was presented by Mrs. Hilton in 1879. There is a photograph in the New Sydenham Society's "Portraits by President" portfolio; and a medallion given by Mrs. Oldham to C. H. A. Golding-Bird, F.R.C.S., in 1894 hangs in the Librarian's room at the College.
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First Title value, for Searching Rivington, Walter (1835 - 1897)

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Occupation Anatomist ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Highgate in December, 1835, the son of George Rivington, a member of the well-known firm of publishers. His mother had been Miss Ann Finlay. He was educated under Dr G A Jacob at Sheffield Collegiate School, was afterwards apprenticed to a practitioner in Stepney and entered as a student at the London Hospital, where his cousin, Thomas Blizard Curling (qv), was Surgeon. He shared rooms with Morell Mackenzie, whom he especially numbered among his friends. Both young men were frequent speakers at the London Hospital Debating Society. Rivington was an exceptionally brilliant student at the Hospital, and at the same time he gained high honours at the University of London. On taking the Membership in 1859 he was appointed House Surgeon at the London Hospital. He served for a brief period as Surgeon with the P&O Steam Navigation Company, and in 1863 was elected to the Assistant Surgeoncy and Demonstratorship of Anatomy at the London Hospital on the promotion of Jonathan Hutchinson (qv) to the full staff. He showed great energy in these positions, and his teaching was so much appreciated by the students that they presented him with a testimonial. In 1865 he became associated with John Adams (qv) as Lecturer on Anatomy, and held this post till 1884, John Adams having long ago retired. In 1884 he gave up the lectureship and succeeded James Adams (qv) as Lecturer on Surgery, retaining office till 1890, when he retired from the active staff. He was also teacher of operative surgery. He had become full Surgeon in 1870, and, retiring under the twenty years rule, was appointed Consulting Surgeon. He devoted himself at one period to the study of aural surgery, and was the first Surgeon to the Aural Department of the London Hospital, but gradually gave up the study of diseases of the ear and resigned his appointment. For a time he lectured on comparative as well as on human anatomy. For some thirty years up to the time of his death he was the Secretary of the London Hospital Club in succession to John Adams. He was the moving spirit of the club, and a link between successive generations of students, ever keeping alive tradition and esprit de corps. He was, in fact, very much of the family at the London Hospital, where two former Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons, Sir William Blizard and Thomas Blizard Curling (qv), were his kinsmen. He was Dean of the Medical School for several years, and as such made great efforts in behalf of entrance scholarships, successfully initiating a movement for their establishment. He was devoted to the School and Hospital in all its aspects, and this was recognized at a dinner given in his honour a few years before his death, when he was presented with a handsome service of plate. As a lecturer he was able, impressive, and humorous, and exceedingly popular with the students. He was gifted with an extraordinary memory, and upon several occasions - notably that of his introductory address at the opening of the Medical College and his Oration at the Hunterian Society - he committed his addresses to memory, after carefully writing them out, and delivered the whole from beginning to end without hesitation. The former oration was remembered as one of the best so far delivered. As an operating surgeon it must be allowed that Rivington made no decided mark, though he could on occasion be very brilliant; and a certain absent-mindedness, which was characteristic, caused him to be an uneven teacher at the bedside. His enormous experience made him most instructive when his interest was aroused, but there were times when he did not seem called upon to exert his undoubtedly high gifts of exposition and lucid description. From 1878-1883 he was an Examiner in Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1891 was elected to the Council in the interest of the 'Reform Party'. As a Member of the Council he was faithful to his pledges, his voice and vote being immediately exercised towards obtaining for Members of the College a share in the management of their own collegiate affairs. Had he been familiar with the internal government of the ancient Universities, he would have known that, at Oxford at least, none share therein save the 'Regent Masters', who are a moiety of the Masters of Arts, while the great majority of members of the University (ie, Masters, Bachelors, and, of course, all undergraduates) are without votes. In 1896 he offered himself as a candidate for a seat upon the General Medical Council as a direct representative of the profession. In his election address he maintained that Members of the Council of the College of Surgeons were not directly representative of the profession in that Members had not shared in their election; but, presumably, forgot to add that he was in a precisely similar position on the Council of the College so far as regarded his own election thereto. He was not elected. The cause of R B Anderson (qv) was ardently espoused by him as put forth by the Civil Rights Defence Committee, on which Rivington represented the College of Surgeons. Anderson's rights, professional and civil, were held to have been invaded, and Rivington was bringing forward a motion before the College Council in Anderson's behalf when cut off by his last illness. For some three or four years before his death Rivington was a Member of the Standing Committee of the Convocation of the University of London, and consistently opposed the scheme for altering the constitution of the University as recommended by Lord Cowper's Commission. He held that by this scheme the real governing body would be a small academic council; that the powers of Convocation would be altogether taken away; that there was danger that the standard of examinations would be lowered and that the Imperial character of the University would be forfeited. In June, 1896, he was nominated for the Fellowship of the University in opposition to Sir Joseph Lister (qv), who strongly supported the scheme for the reconstitution of the University into a teaching body. Rivington was elected by 963 votes against 846. A man of marked character and singular determination, Rivington in his devotion to reform was quite untainted by selfishness, although at times he appeared too pertinacious. He was deeply aware of the necessity for the amelioration of many of the conditions now existent in the professional life of his poorer brethren, and he spared himself no trouble to make his beliefs shared by others. His death occurred, after a short illness, at his country house at Epping - his address in London being 95 Wimpole Street, W - on the evening of Saturday, May 8th, 1897. He had suffered a great loss by the death of Mrs Rivington some years previously, and he was survived by a family of eight children. His friend, Timothy Holmes (qv), writing of him in terms of eloquent eulogy in the *British Medical Journal* very shortly after his death, speaks of him as the mainstay of the Association of Fellows. His death followed closely on that of George D Pollock (qv), its Chairman, to whom he did not yield in his devotion to the interests of the Association. His was an uphill battle at the College, avers his friend, but in its "utter sincerity and manliness" it conciliated even those who most differed from him. At the time of his death, in addition to his other appointments, he was Surgeon to the London Dispensary, Spitalfields. Publications: *Address delivered at the London Hospital Medical College, at the Commencement of the Winter Session*, 1865, 12mo, London, 1865. *Remarks on the Necessity for a Revision of the Medical Curriculum made at the Medical Teachers' Association*, 8vo, London, 1868. *Remarks on Dislocations of the First and Second Pieces of the Sternum*, 8vo, London, 1874. "A Case of Pulsating Tumour of the Left Orbit, consequent upon a Fracture of the Base of the Skull, Cured by Ligature of the Left Common Carotid Artery: with a Résumé of Recorded Cases of Intra-orbital Aneurism," 8vo, London, 1875; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1875, lviii, 183. A classic paper. "A Case of Rupture of the Internal and Middle Coats of the Popliteal Artery, and Complete Rupture of the Popliteal Vein, for which Primary Amputation of the Thigh was Successfully Performed: with Remarks," 8vo, London, 1878; reprinted from *Brit Med Jour*, 1878, i, 47. This is his chief contribution to the literature of surgery. *Medical Education and Medical Organization. Oration before the Hunterian Society*, 8vo, London, 1879. (He was President of the Society in 1883.) *The Medical Profession*, being the essay to which was awarded the first Carmichael Prize of £200 by the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, 1879, 8vo, Dublin, 1879. *The Medical Profession of the United Kingdom*. First Carmichael Prize revised 1887, 8vo, Dublin, 1888. These two exhaustive treatises were the best standard accounts of the Profession when they were written. *Rupture of the Urinary Bladder, based on the Records of more than 300 Cases of the Affection*, 8vo, London, 1884. "A Case of Encysted Vesical Calculus of Unusually Large Size removed by Supra-pubic Cystotomy," 8vo, London, 1886; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1886, lxix, 361. "A Case of Ligature of the Left Common Carotid Artery Wounded by a Fish-bone which had Penetrated the Pharynx: with Appendix of Forty-five Cases of Wounds of Blood-vessels by Foreign Bodies," 8vo, London, 1886; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1886, lxix, 63. *Neuroma of the Median Nerve removed by Operation*, 12mo, nd. "Account of a Peculiar Variety of Encysted Hydrocele of the Spermatic Cord combined with Inguinal Hernia." - *Lond Hosp Rep*, 1865, ii, 371. "Valves in the Renal Veins." - *Jour Anat and Physiol* 1873, vii, 163. "Clinical Lectures on Varieties of Psoas Abscess." - *Lancet*, 1874, ii, 407, etc. "Cases of Diseases of the Testis for which Castration was Performed." - *Ibid*, 1877, i, 489, 526.
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First Title value, for Searching Frazer, John Ernest Sullivan (1870 - 1946)

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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born in London, 30 January 1870, second son of Joseph Frazer and his wife Frances E Mahony. He was educated at Dulwich and St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1891 at the age of 21. He intended to become a surgeon, held various hospital posts in London and the country, and took the Fellowship in 1898. But his career was cut short by after-results of severe septicaemia arising from an accidental wound at a post-mortem examination. Frazer now turned to anatomy for his livelihood. He became demonstrator of anatomy at St George's Hospital, transferred to King's College as senior demonstrator under Peter Thompson (1871-1921) in 1905, and to St Mary's as lecturer in 1911. He was promoted University of London professor of anatomy at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1914. During the 1914-18 war he served as surgeon to out-patients at the hospital. Frazer retained his professorship till March 1940, and during this long term of office proved himself an original anatomist, among the foremost osteologists and embryologists of his day, and a brilliant and inspiring teacher. He was created emeritus professor in 1942. He had been succeeded in the chair by James Hugo Gray, an Australian of outstanding promise, who died untimely on 20 December 1941, aged 32 (*Journal of Anatomy* 1941-42, 76, 319-21, with portrait and bibliography). At the College, Frazer was a Hunterian professor 1915-16 and examined for the primary Fellowship 1919. He also examined for Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and London universities. He was secretary of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1915-19, for many years a member of its council, and president 1935-37. He was secretary of the section of anatomy and physiology of the British Medical Association at the Birmingham meeting 1911, and Harveian lecturer of the Harveian Society of London in 1924. Frazer was widely known by his publications, especially his *Anatomy of the human Skeleton* and his *Manual of Embryology*, with his own drawings. In his lectures, which he illustrated with excellent coloured-chalk drawings, he stressed the surgical aspects of anatomy. He formed a fine collection of wax models of developing organs and embryos. Frazer married in 1910 Violet Lowder Jacques, daughter of John T Jacques, MRCS 1865, of Leicester; Mrs Frazer survived him with a son. He lived at various addresses in Kensington: 2 Pembridge Crescent, 8 Clydesdale Road, and finally 53 Cathcart Road, SW10, where he died after nine years of illness on 15 April 1946, aged 76. He was buried at the City of Westminster cemetery, Hanwell. In early years Frazer was a fine athlete and a champion hammer-thrower. He was a large, strong muscular man, but capable of deft manipulations in the laboratory, and an accomplished draughtsman. In middle life he enjoyed golf and "the less violent forms of exercise". He was a staunch conservative, of equable, humorous, and kindly temperament. Publications:- Anomaly of omo-hyoid. *J Anat*. 1900-01, 35, 494. The lower cervical fasciae. *Ibid*. 1903-04, 38, 52-64. The insertion of the pyriformis and obturator intemus and formation of posterior circular capsular fibres and upper retinaculum of Weitbrecht. *Ibid* 1903-04, 38, 170-185. On some minor markings on bones. *Ibid*. 1905-06, 40, 267-281. Derivation of the human hypothenar muscles. *Ibid*. 1907-08, 42, 326-334. Development of the larynx. *Ibid*. 1909-10, 44, 156-191. Persistent canal of His. *Ibid*. 1909-10, 44, 395. Pharyngeal end of Rathke's pouch. *Ibid*. 1910-11, 45, 190-196. Formation of the nasal cavities. *Ibid*. 1910-11, 45, 347-356, and further] communication 1911-12, 46, 416-433. Second visceral arch and groove in the tubo-tympanic region. *Ibid*. 1913-14, 48,' 391-408. On the factors concerned in causing rotation of the intestine in man, with R H Robbins. *Ibid*. 1915-16, 50, 75-110. Formation of the pars membranacea septi. *Ibid*. 1916-17, 51, 19-29. Formation of the duodenal curve. *Ibid*. 1918-19, 53, 292-297. Functions of the liver in the embryo. *Ibid*. 1919-20, 54, 116-124. Report on an anencephalic embryo. *Ibid*. 1921-22, 56, 12-19. Early formations of the middle ear and Eustachian tube: a criticism. *Ibid*. 1922-23, 57, 18-30. Disappearance of the precervical sinus. *Ibid*. 1926-27, 61, 132-143. Note on R H Hunter's paper on development of the duodenum (*J Anat*. 1926-27, 61, 206-212). *Ibid*. 1926-27, 61, 356-9. Development of lower end of vagina, with A Bloomfield. *Ibid*. 1927-28, 62, 9-32. Development of the region of the isthmus rhombencephali. *Ibid*. 1928-29,63, 7-18. The terminal part of the Wolffian duct. *Ibid*. 1934-35, 69, 455-468. A curious abnormal human brain. *Ibid*. p. 526-7. There are also numerous shorter communications in the *Proceedings of the. Anatomical Society*, published as supplementary matter in the *Journal of Anatomy*. *The Anatomy of the human Skeleton*. London, Churchill 1914; 2nd edition, 1920; 3rd edition, 1933; 4th edition, 1940. Development, opening chapter in *Queen Charlotte's Textbook of Obstetrics*. London, Churchill, 1st to 6th editions, 1927-43. *A Manual of Embryology*. London, Bailliere, 1931; 2nd edition, 1940. *Buchanan's Dissection guide*, with E Barclay-Smith and R H Robbins. London, Bailliere, 1930. *Buchanan's Manual of Anatomy including Embryology*, 6th edition, London,. Bailliere, 1937. The two foregoing are revisions of the work of A M Buchanan (1844-1915). *Manual of practical Anatomy*, with R H Robbins. London, Bailliere 1937.
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Joseph Henry (1791 - 1863)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at 11 London Wall on Nov. 1st, 1791, the only child of Joseph Green, a wealthy London merchant, head of the firm of Green & Ross, of Martin Lane, Cannon Street, E.C., and afterwards of London Wall, his mother being Frances, sister to Henry Cline, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital. A delicate boy, he was educated at Ramsgate and at Hammersmith until, at the age of 15, he accompanied his mother to Germany, where he spent three years, partly in Berlin and partly in Hanover. He was apprenticed to his uncle, Henry Cline, in 1809; and on May 25th, 1813 - the rule against the marriage of apprentices having just been rescinded - he married Anne Elizabeth Hammond, daughter of a surgeon at Southgate and the sister of one of Cline's dressers. Mrs. Green outlived her husband, but there were no children. For the next two years he lived at 6 Martin Lane, E.C., where his father was in business, and during this time he acted as Cline's anatomical prosector and gave a regular course of demonstrations on practical anatomy. He began to practise in 1816, first at 22 and afterwards at 46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, then the fashionable neighbourhood for surgeons. In the same year he was formally appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital, and in this position was called upon to perform many of the duties which now devolve upon a Resident Medical Officer. The summer of 1817 was spent with his wife in Germany reading philosophy with Professor Solger at Berlin. He was elected Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology jointly with Astley Cooper in 1818, and on June 14th, 1820, he was chosen Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital in the place of his cousin, Henry Cline the younger, who had died of phthisis at the age of 39. Shortly after his appointment as Surgeon he undertook the Lectureship on Surgery and Pathology in the United Schools of St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, again conjointly with Astley Cooper. From 1824-1828 Green gave a series of lectures on comparative anatomy as Hunterian Professor at the College of Surgeons, in which he dealt for the first time in England with the whole of the animal sub-kingdoms. Richard Owen wrote of these lectures that they "combined the totality with the unity of the higher philosophy of the science illustrated by such a series of enlarged and coloured diagrams as had never before been seen. The vast array of facts was linked by references to the underlying unity, as it had been advocated by Oken and Carus." In 1825 he was elected F.R.S., and in the same year he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, a position he held until 1852. In the same year, too, came the unfortunate episode which led to the separation of the United Borough Hospitals. Sir Astley Cooper on his retirement wished to assign his share of the lectureship he then held to his nephews, Aston C. Key (q.v.) and Bransby Cooper (q.v.). Green, who had paid £1000 for his own half-share, agreed, but the hospital authorities declined to sanction the arrangement. Sir Astley Cooper thereupon began to lecture at Guy's on his own account, and a quarrel ensued. Green, true to his principles, behaved as a gentleman, protested, left the way open for reconciliation, and finally accepted an apology from Cooper. When King's College was founded in 1830 Green was nominated Professor of Surgery and held the post until 1836. He continued in office as Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, resigning in 1853. He was co-opted to the Council of the College of Surgeons in 1835 to fill the place of William Lynn, Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, and became a Member of the Court of Examiners in 1840 in the place of Sir Benjamin Brodie - both appointments being made for life. He was elected President in 1849 and again in 1858, having given the Hunterian Oration in 1840 and 1847. He succeeded Sir Benjamin Brodie as President of the General Medical Council in 1860. There is no means of knowing when or how Green became acquainted with S. T. Coleridge, the poet metaphysician, but they were on terms of intimacy as early as 1817, and from 1824 Green contrived to spend many hours every week with him at the Gillmans' house. Coleridge died in 1834, and Green made the post-mortem examination. He was left literary executor and trustee for the children, and spent the rest of his life in carrying out the duties thus imposed upon him. Green's father died in 1834, and left him so considerable a fortune that he retired to Hadley, near Barnet, keeping only a consulting-room in London. At Hadley he wrestled for thirty years with Coleridge's philosophy, teaching himself Greek, Hebrew, and Sanscrit in the process. He published as a result of his labours *The Literary Remains, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit* (1849), *Religio Laici*, and prepared two volumes of *Spiritual Philosophy*, an endeavour to systematize the teaching of Coleridge. They appeared posthumously in 1865 under the editorship of Sir John Simon (q.v.), his apprentice and friend. Coleridge's influence appears markedly in Green's two Hunterian Orations. The first deals with "Vital Dynamics", the second with "Mental Dynamics or Groundwork of a Professional Education". In "Vital Dynamics" Green discusses the mental faculties and processes concerned in scientific discovery, and especially insists upon the importance of pure reason as the light by which nature is to be understood. He continues the same line of argument in "Mental Dynamics", and in both eulogizes John Hunter. Green died at The Mount, Hadley, on Dec. 13th, 1863, and was buried at Highgate. Sir John Simon gives a wonderful account of his death in the following words: - "I would show that not even the last sudden agony of death ruffled his serenity of mind, or rendered him unthoughtful of others. No terrors, no selfish regrets, no reproachful memories, were there. The few tender parting words which he had yet to speak, he spoke. And to the servants who had gathered grieving round him, he said, 'While I have breath, let me thank you all for your kindness and attention to me'. Next, to his doctor, who quickly entered - his neighbour and old pupil, Mr. Carter - he significantly, and pointing to the region of his heart, said - 'congestion'. After which, he in silence set his finger to his wrist, and visibly noted to himself the successive feeble pulses which were but just between him and death. Presently he said - 'stopped'. And this was the very end. It was as if even to die were an act of his own grand self-government. For at once, with the warning word still scarce beyond his lips, suddenly the stately head drooped aside, passive and defunct for ever. And then, to the loving eyes that watched him, 'his face was again all young and beautiful'. The bodily heart, it is true, had become more pulseless clay; broken was the pitcher at the fountain, broken at the cistern the wheel; but, for yet a moment amid the nightfall, the pure spiritual life could be discerned, moulding for the last time into conformity with itself the features which thenceforth were for the tomb." Green's reputation as a surgeon stood very high, especially in lithotomy, in which he always used the gorget of his uncle, Henry Cline. In appearance he was tall with a languid air, but he impressed his patients by his polished and benignant manners. There is a bust by H. Weekes, R.A., in the College, and an oil-painting hangs in the Grand Committee Room at St. Thomas's Hospital. Of this portrait it was said by a critic when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy: "There is no face in the whole collection, whether in manly beauty or in its expression of intellectual superiority, to be compared with the portrait of Joseph Henry Green, although there be statesmen, great soldiers, and philosophers around." Emerson was introduced to Green by the late Dr. Garth Wilkinson, and remarked on his typical 'surgeon's mouth', with its close-shut lips and air of restraint and firmness. The bust illustrates both these observations.
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First Title value, for Searching Power, Henry (1829 - 1911)

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Occupation Anatomist Ophthalmic surgeon Physiologist
Details Born on September 3rd, 1829, the son of John Francis Power, a Captain in the 35th (Royal) Sussex Regiment, by his second wife, Hannah, the youngest daughter of Henry Simpson, a banker at Whitby, Yorkshire. His father, who received his commission at the age of 14, had served through the Peninsular and Baltic campaigns as a Cornet in the 3rd Dragoons, King's German Legion, and is mentioned in the regimental history as having been beaten black and blue with sabres at the Sahagun skirmish in 1808. He was also present at Waterloo as a Lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of Hussars in the King's German Legion. Henry Power was born at Nantes when the service companies of the 35th Regiment were under orders for Barbadoes, and narrowly escaped death in the great West Indian hurricane of August 11th, 1881, when two sergeants and five privates were killed, the baby being buried unhurt in its cradle. The same hurricane nearly killed Haynes Walton (qv), who afterwards became Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital. Captain Power retired on half-pay as a Major in 1833, and led a wandering life in England until he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the depot of the British Foreign Legion at Shorncliffe in August, 1855. Henry Power, therefore, had a desultory education at several schools, amongst others at Cheltenham College, which he entered as a day-boy at Easter, 1842, the College having been opened at Bays Hill Terrace with 100 boys on July 29th, 1841. There he remained until he was apprenticed in 1844 to Thomas Lowe Wheeler, the son of Thomas Wheeler (1754-1847), Apothecary to St Bartholomew's Hospital and one of the great field botanists of his generation. Henry Power learned nothing from his master, who soon died, when he was transferred to his son Thomas Rivington Wheeler, but formed a boyish friendship with "Thomas Wheeler the old gentleman", then aged 90. From him he learnt some Latin and Greek and the field botany which enabled him to win the Galen and Linnean Silver Medals at the Society of Apothecaries in 1851. Power seems to have drifted into medicine by accident. His father, his father's father, and his great-grandfather had all been in the Army, and they knew of only two classes of doctors, the regimental surgeon and the man who kept an open shop. There was, at any rate, no money to buy a commission, and Major Power had not sufficient influence to obtain one for his son as had been done in his own case. In October, 1844, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital and soon became intimate with William Scovell Savory (qv), who like himself was a friendless lad without introductions. At Savory's instigation Power was induced to matriculate at the University of London. He was, however, under pledge to return to his master's house as soon as the early morning lecture was finished, and consequently never saw much of the clinical side of the hospital work. He spent his spare time in reading Shakespeare and such poets as were on the shelves of the Wheelers' library. He married on December 21st, 1854, his first cousin and playmate Ann Simpson, the youngest daughter of Thomas Simpson, of Meadowfield, Whitby, Yorkshire, on the strength of becoming a Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Westminster Hospital. The marriage proved a great success, and with his wife he survived to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the wedding. A living was made at 3 Grosvenor Terrace (now 56 Belgrave Road), SW, by coaching and taking resident pupils, and the London University Scholarships which produced £100 for two years "were a godsend". The hard work and strain led to a severe attack of pleurisy in 1855, for which he was nursed at Shorncliffe Camp under the supervision of William S Savory, who sent him to convalesce at St Helier's in Jersey. In June, 1855, he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, where he came under the notice of G J Guthrie (qv), who dissuaded him from accepting the post of assistant in the anatomical department of the University of Edinburgh, which was subsequently filled by Sir William Turner. He retired from the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital in 1889 and was then elected Consulting Surgeon and a member of the Board of Management. In 1857 he became Assistant Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, where he lectured for ten years, first on comparative anatomy and afterwards on human anatomy and on physiology. His teaching was appreciated by the students, who presented him with an address and a silver salver at the end of the session 1859-1860. He remained an Assistant Surgeon until 1867, by which time he had determined to devote himself entirely to ophthalmology. He was elected Ophthalmic Surgeon to St George's Hospital in 1867, and on July 27th, 1870, he was appointed to the newly made post of Ophthalmic Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, with Bowater J Vernon (qv) as his junior. The two colleagues worked together in the greatest harmony for twenty-four years and raised the department to a state of high efficiency. During the whole of this time they had but one Ward Sister - Miss Mary Davies - known to many generations of house surgeons and students as 'Sister Eyes'. Power also acted for twelve years as Ophthalmic Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Chatham, leaving London every Wednesday at two o'clock and returning by the boat train at six - visits which he enjoyed because he always made friends with his fellow-passengers on the journey, many of whom were returning from service abroad. An original member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, Power was Vice-President from 1882-1885, Bowman Lecturer in 1887, and President from 1890-1893. He also served as one of the Vice-Presidents of the Section of Ophthalmology at the Seventh International Congress of Medicine held in London in 1881. At the Royal College of Surgeons Power was a member of the Board of Examiners in Anatomy and Physiology from 1875-1880, again from 1881-1884, and as an Examiner in Physiology from 1884-1886. He was a Member of Council from 1879-1890 and Vice-President in 1885. He delivered the Arris and Gale Lectures on anatomy and physiology in 1882-1883; was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology, 1885-1887; Bradshaw Lecturer in, and, like Paget, Savory, Butlin, and Moynihan, delivered the Hunterian Oration without a note in 1889. He was active as an examiner in physiology at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Durham, having as his colleagues Rolleston, Michael Foster, Huxley, and Hare Philipson, with all of whom he long maintained the most friendly relations. At the Royal Veterinary College in Camden Town he served as Professor of Physiology from 1881-1904, and the students treated him as a trusted friend and adviser. His former pupils in England presented him with a testimonial on his retirement, whilst those practising in South Africa sent him a handsome silver lamp. At the Harveian Society of London he was elected for two consecutive terms of office as President in 1880 and 1881. He was a Vice-President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1892-1893, and was several times a Member of the Council and of the Library Committee. At the British Medical Association he was President of the Home Counties Branch, and held office as Secretary, Vice-President, or President of the Sections of Ophthalmology, Physiology, and the combined Section of Ophthalmology and Otology at various periods between 1869 and 1895. He was also President of the Society for employing the blind as masseurs, Surgeon to the Linen and Woollen Drapers' Benevolent Fund and to the Artists' Benevolent Fund. Power was engaged in literary work throughout his life. With a competent knowledge of German derived from his father and from his grandmother, who was a Dutch woman, he did much for the New Sydenham Society. He translated *The Aural Surgery of the Present Day*, by Wilhelm Kramer, in 1863; in 1870 he translated Stricker's *Manual of Human and Comparative Histology*, and from 1865-1874 he was co-editor for the Society of *A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery, etc*. From 1879-1899 he carried out in conjunction with Dr Leonard Sedgwick *The Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences based on Mayne's Lexicon*. It was planned on too large a scale and the editors only finished to the letter O, the rest of the alphabet being completed by George Parker, a son of Professor William Kitchin Parker, FRS. Power also translated in 1876 Professor Erb's article "On Disease of the Peripheral Cerebrospinal Nerves" for Ziemssen's *Cyclopoedia of the Practice of Medicine* - a particularly difficult piece of work as it was written in involved and provincial German. From 1864-1876 he edited the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth editions of Carpenter's *Principles of Human Physiology* - a perfect mine of information. Each edition had to be literally rewritten, as physiology was then leaving the traditional lines and was becoming a new experimental science. The book was finally displaced by the text-books of Michael Foster and Herman translated by Arthur Gamgee. He also published in 1884 a small but useful *Elements of Human Physiology* which had a widespread popularity and ran through several editions. Having considerable talent as a painter in water-colours, he made many drawings of the interesting ophthalmic cases which presented themselves in the Out-patient Department of the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. These were embodied in his *Illustrations of Some of the Principal Diseases of the Eye* published in 1867. The book was one of the first English text-books containing coloured drawings of the fundus of the eye as seen with the ophthalmoscope. They were reproduced by chromolithography, which did not do justice to the original drawings, and are now preserved at St Bartholomew's Hospital. From 1881 onwards he busied himself in reconstructing Bagdale Hall, Whitby, a house built about 1540, which had long been in the possession of his wife's family. Here he spent his holidays, and here, in 1898, happened the tragedy which threw a shadow over the rest of his life. Whilst watching a summer storm on the unprotected east pier, his artist daughter and a grandchild were swept by a wave into the sea at a time when no boat could leave the harbour. The two girls were drowned though both were expert swimmers, and he himself escaped with the greatest difficulty. He left London shortly afterwards and retired to Whitby, where he cultivated friendships and gave popular lectures to the townspeople on a variety of subjects. In November, 1910, he strained his heart one Sunday morning whilst mounting the 199 steps to the parish church, which is situated on the edge of the cliff close to the Abbey. The effects never passed off, he suffered many distressing attacks of dyspnoea, and died at Bagdale Hall on January 18th, 1911, survived by his wife, four sons, and three daughters out of a total family of eleven children. He was buried in the cemetery which lies between the sea and the high moors, the town showing its sympathy by closing the shops, although it was market day. Henry Power was a good instance of heredity. His versatility, friendliness, and courtesy showed his South Irish ancestry; his dogged perseverance in the production of such monumental undertakings as Carpenter's *Physiology and the Lexicon of Medical Terms* was derived from the Dutch and Quaker strain; his agnosticism - for he neither affirmed nor denied - his carelessness of money, and his want of business aptitude were the outcome of several generations of military forbears, who, being always on active service, lived from hand to mouth and accumulated nothing. The business capacity derived from the long line of bankers on his mother's side missed him indeed, but appeared in the person of one of his grandchildren, Mr F D'Arcy Cooper - who became the successful Chairman of Levers, a soap company dealing with many millions of capital. His artistic ability - derived entirely from his father - was markedly transmitted to two of his daughters, one of whom was an excellent portrait painter, the other a beautiful bookbinder. As an ophthalmic surgeon Henry Power was a younger member of the band who made ophthalmic practice a specialty, having first been trained in general surgery like Bowman and Critchett. He was a good and careful operator, more especially in the extraction of cataract; as a clinical teacher painstaking, and as a lecturer fluent and interesting. There are two oil paintings by his daughter Lucy Beatrice Power, both of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy. The earlier one is at Melbourne, Victoria, in the possession of his grandchildren; the other, three-quarter-length, seated with a perimeter, belongs to Sir D'Arcy Power, KBE, FRCS. It was painted by subscription and was engraved. Both are excellent likenesses in a characteristic attitude. A speaking likeness is reproduced in the Centenary number of the *Lancet* (1923, ii, 751), for it reflects the kindliness he always showed to students. Power also appears in Jamyn Brookes's portrait group of the Council in 1884, and the *Brief Sketch* also contains a portrait reproduced by Emery Walker.
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First Title value, for Searching Hewett, Sir Prescott Gardner (1812 - 1891)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born on July 3rd, 1812, the son of William N. W. Hewett, of Bilham House, near Doncaster, by his second wife. His father was a country gentleman whose fortune suffered from his love of horse-racing. Prescott Hewett received a good education and passed some years in Paris, where he acquired a perfect mastery of French, and learnt to paint in the studios, having at first intended to become a professional artist - a notion which he relinquished on becoming intimate with the son of an eminent French surgeon. He thus became inspired with a love for the surgical profession, and remained always an admirer of the French school of surgery. He never abandoned the practice of art, and his "delightful and exquisitely elaborate drawings" were exhibited, shortly before his death, in the Board Room at St. George's Hospital, "where one of these charming pictures now hangs near Ouless's portrait of its painter". He learned anatomy in Paris and became thoroughly grounded in the principles of French surgery. On his return to England he entered at St. George's, where he had family influence, his half-brother, Dr. Cornwallis Hewett, having been Physician to the hospital from 1825-1833. The excellence of his dissections recommended him to Sir Benjamin Brodie, and he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy and Curator of the St. George's Hospital Museum when he was on the point of accepting a commission in the service of the H.E.I.C. He became Curator of the Museum about 1840, the first record in his handwriting being dated Jan. 1st, 1841. Here he began in 1844 the series of post-mortem records which have been continued on the same pattern ever since, and constitute a series of valuable pathological material which for duration and completedness is perhaps unmatched. Many of Brodie's preparations in the Museum of St. George's were put up by Hewett. He was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy in 1845 and Assistant Surgeon on Feb. 4th, 1848, becoming full surgeon on June 21st, 1861, in succession to Caesar H. Hawkins (q.v.), and Consulting Surgeon on Feb. 12th, 1875. He was elected President of the Pathological Society of London in 1863, and ten years later occupied the Presidential Chair of the Clinical Society. He was admitted F.R.S. on June 4th, 1874. He was appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria in 1867, Sergeant-Surgeon Extraordinary in 1877 on the death of Sir William Fergusson (q.v.)., and Sergeant-Surgeon in 1884 in succession to Caesar Hawkins (q.v.). He also held from 1867 the appointment of Surgeon to the Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII, and on Aug. 6th, 1883, he was created a baronet. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was Arris and Gale Professor of Human Anatomy and Physiology from 1854-1859, a Member of the Council from 1867-1883, Chairman of the Board of Examiners in Midwifery in 1875, Vice-President in 1874 and 1875, and President in 1876. Prescott Hewett married on Sept. 13th, 1849, Sarah, eldest daughter of the Rev. Joseph Cowell, of Todmorden, Lancashire, by whom he had one son, who only survived his father a few weeks, and two daughters. He died on June 19th, 1891, at Horsham, to which place he had retired on being created a baronet. As a teacher Hewett was admirable, for he could make his pencil explain his work. Gradually - for he was of a shy and retiring disposition - he became known first in professional circles as a first-rate anatomist and one of the best lecturers in London, then as an organizer of rare energy and power; lastly, as a most accomplished surgeon and an admirable operator. He was equally skilful in diagnosis, and his stores of experience could furnish cases in point in all medical discussions. Hewett, when Professor at the College of Surgeons, delivered a course of lectures on "Surgical Affections of the Head" which attracted the universal admiration of all surgeons; their author could never be persuaded to publish them, though when his friend and pupil Timothy Holmes (q.v.), afterwards edited a *System of Surgery*, Hewett embodied their contents in the exhaustive treatise on "Injuries of the Head" which forms part of that work. His fastidious taste made him shrink form authorship, as indeed he shrank from all forms of personal display, for he had much professional learning which was always ready at command, and an easy lucid style. Lecturing he loved, and few lectured better. "He was," said one who knew him, "one of the fittest men in the world to instruct students, for he had all the clearness of expression which is required to impart knowledge of subjects teeming with difficulties of detail, his ready pencil would illustrate the most complicated anatomical descriptions, and his stores of experience could furnish cases in point in all discussions; the clinical instruction which he was wont to give in the wards was equally admirable. He was one of the most trustworthy of consultants, never failing to point out any error in diagnosis, yet with such perfect courtesy and delicacy that it was a pleasure to be corrected by him." He presided over the Clinical and Pathological Societies, but his increasing engagements prevented him from allowing himself to be nominated for the Presidency of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, though he was deeply interested in its work, and had enriched its *Transactions* with some papers which became standard authorities on their respective subjects. Hewett started life as a poor man, and had every reason to feel the truth of the line, "Slow rises worth by poverty opprest". But he did rise gradually to eminence and distinction among the surgeons of London, and few men were more beloved by those who were connected with him in practice, whether as pupils or patients. "The reason", as one of his old pupils said, "was that he was emphatically a gentleman - a man who would not merely scorn a base action, but with whom anything base would be inconceivable." Hewett's collection of water-colour sketches was presented to the nation after his death, and were exhibited at the South Kensington Museum at the beginning of 1891. A half-length subscription portrait painted by W.W. Ouless, R.A., hangs in the Board Room at St. George's Hospital, and there is a photograph in the Council Album.
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Details Born on July 20th, 1804, the younger son of Richard Owen, a West India merchant, by his wife, Catherine, a daughter of Robert Parrin, organist of the Parish Church of Lancaster. He was educated at the Lancaster Grammar School, where he made a lasting friendship with William Whewell, who became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was apprenticed in 1820 to Mr Dickson, surgeon and apothecary, at Lancaster; his master died in 1822 and he was turned over to Joseph Seed, and in 1823 to James Stockdale Harrison, as Seed had become a Naval Surgeon. Harrison was Surgeon to the County Gaol, and Owen became interested in anatomy through the post-mortem examinations on the prisoners. He matriculated at Edinburgh in 1824, and attended the extramural lectures of Dr John Barclay which dealt with comparative as well as human anatomy. He did not graduate in the University, but travelled to London in the spring of 1825 with a letter of introduction to John Abernethy, who at once appointed him prosector for his surgical lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital. As soon as he had obtained the diploma of the College of Surgeons, Owen set up in private practice at 11 Cook's Court, Carey Street, Chancery Lane; but the results do not seem to have fulfilled his expectations, for in 1829 he became Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at a nominal salary in the Medical School attached to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1830 he made some efforts to obtain the office of House Surgeon at the Birmingham General Hospital, but did not persist in his candidature as he was already becoming engrossed in comparative anatomy. By the influence of Abernethy, in March, 1827, he had been appointed an Assistant in the Hunterian Museum at the College of Surgeons at a salary of £30 a quarter. The Conservator was William Clift, and from him Owen learnt the unbounded respect which he always showed for the works and memory of John Hunter. Clift's son, the Assistant Conservator, was killed in a cab accident and Owen was appointed to fill his place in 1832. In 1836 Owen appears as Conservator jointly with Clift, and in 1842 he came into residence at the College when Clift was allowed to live outside. Clift died in 1849, and Owen then continued as Conservator until 1856, J T Quekett being associated with him in the post from 1852. In 1830 he made the acquaintance of Cuvier, at whose invitation he paid a visit to Paris, attended the lectures of Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and worked in the dissecting-rooms and public galleries of the Jardin des Plantes. In 1832 he published his *Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus*, which placed him at once in the front rank of comparative anatomists and led to his election as FRS in 1834. He started the *Zoological Magazine* in January, 1833, but sold it and resigned the editorship in the following July. For seven years he had been engaged to Caroline Amelia Clift, the only daughter of William Clift, and he married her on July 20th, 1835. In April, 1836, he was appointed Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the College of Surgeons, and annually until 1855 he delivered the twenty-four lectures illustrating the Hunterian Collection. These lectures were given under Clause 2 of the Terms and Conditions on which the Hunterian Collection was delivered to the Company of Surgeons, which provided "that one Course of Lectures, not less than twenty-four in number, on Comparative Anatomy and other subjects illustrated by the preparations, shall be given every year by some Member of the Company." The lectures were of a high character and formed the nucleus of the volumes on the *Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrates* which he published afterwards. By them and by his writings he became widely known, even to the public, as one of the leading scientific men of the day. In 1842 Sir Robert Peel obtained a Civil List Pension for him of £200 a year, but Owen shortly afterwards declined the offer of knighthood. In 1852 Queen Victoria gave him the cottage called Sheen Lodge in Richmond Park, and here he lived until his death, the grant being continued to his daughter-in-law. He had lived from 1842 in the uncomfortable rooms allotted to the Conservator which had direct access to the College premises. He revisited Paris in 1853 and 1855, and on the second occasion was decorated a Knight of the Legion of Honour by Napoleon III. Advancing years and perhaps a somewhat overpowering sense of his own importance made him difficult. Having failed to persuade the Council of the College of Surgeons to convert their Collection into a National Museum, he resigned the office of Conservator in 1856 and undertook to act as Keeper of the Natural History Collection at the British Museum. Here he was under the control of the principal Librarian, and the second period of his life began. Hitherto he had been in charge of a localized, well arranged, and, largely owing to his own exertions, well catalogued museum; he now became the head of a vast national collection under the care of Chiefs who considered themselves responsible to the Trustees alone, whilst the treasures were poorly housed, badly described, and insufficiently displayed. His first business was to overhaul the specimens, with the result that he published a series of masterly papers dealing more especially with osteology and paleontology. The outcome of his work appeared in the three great volumes on *The Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrates*, which were published between 1866 and 1868. As early as 1859 he urged on the Government the necessity for forming a National Museum of Natural History independent of the British Museum, but it was not until 1873 that the building of such a museum was actually begun at South Kensington, nor until 1881 that it was opened to the public. The provision of such a building was greatly helped by Mr W E Gladstone, who no doubt was influenced by his friend Sir Henry Acland, the protagonist in the fight for the New Museums at Oxford. Owen resigned his post two years later - in 1883 - having overcome some of the difficulties and having supervised the transfer of the specimens from Bloomsbury to South Kensington. He was gazetted KCB on January 5th, 1884, and his Civil List Pension was increased to £300 a year. He died peacefully of old age at Sheen Lodge, Richmond, on December 18th, 1892, and was buried in the churchyard at Ham Common, Surrey. His wife died on May 7th, 1873, and his only son in 1886, leaving a widow and seven children who lived with Owen at Sheen Lodge during his latter years. One of these children, the Rev Richard Owen, published a life of his grandfather. Richard Owen was *facile princeps* the chief British comparative anatomist of his age and is comparable with his great contemporary Baron Cuvier. By his careful dissections and unwearied labours in early life he did much to elucidate the work of John Hunter. In middle life he built up a system of transcendental anatomy based on the philosophy of Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) which was founded upon an unproved hypothesis of a vertebrate archetype. In later life he was unable to accept Darwin's generalizations, proved himself somewhat of an obstructionist, and drew upon himself the wrath of Huxley and the younger biologists. He was an indefatigable worker and his literary output was enormous. In spite of this, he found time for several hobbies. He was a great reader of poetry and romance, and in extreme old age could recite whole pages of his favourite authors. He was enthusiastic in his love of music, and it is said that he was present thirty nights in succession when Weber's "Oberon" was first produced in London. He was himself a vocalist and no mean performer on the flute and the violoncello; he was also an expert player of chess. In person he was tall and in figure ungainly, with a massive head, lofty forehead, curiously round, prominent, and expressive eyes, high cheek-bones, large mouth, and projecting chin, long, lank dark hair, a very florld complexion, and throughout the greater part of his life he was clean-shaven. The acrimony with which Owen pursued quarrels and a certain inaptitude for ordinary business matters prevented him from filling the many high official positions to which his scientific pre-eminence might otherwise have entitled him. Nevertheless he obtained innumerable rewards. He received the Royal and the Copley Medals of the Royal Society; the Prix Cuvier of the French Academy; the Prussian order 'Pour le Mérite'; the cross of the French Legion of Honour the Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus of Italy; the Order of Leopold of Belgium; and the Order of the Rose of Brazil. He was one of the eight foreign associates of the Institut de France, and was enrolled as an honorary member of nearly all the scientific societies in Europe. The Royal College of Physicians of London conferred upon him the Baly Medal for physiology, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1883 made him one of the few recipients of its honorary Gold Medal. HRH the Prince Consort became interested in his work; in April, 1860, he was called upon to lecture to the Royal children at Buckingham Palace, and in March and April, 1864, he lectured to them at Windsor in the presence of Queen Victoria and Leopold, King of the Belgians. The number of portraits, photographs, and engravings of Sir Richard Owen is very large. Chief amongst them is the bronze bust on a large scale by Alfred Gilbert, MVO, RA, which is of extraordinary excellence. It is unsigned and is in the Osteological Room (iv) in the Museum, and was executed to the order of the council in 1895 in recognition of his outstanding merit as well as of his services to the College. There is also a plaster cast of an unsigned bust, which appears to have been made from the marble bust by E H Bailey, RA. The marble bust is dated 1845 and is in the Hall of the College. It was left by Mrs Owen, the daughter-in-law, in 1920. The College possesses a large collection of other portraits of Owen, among which may be mentioned: (i) A proof engraving by W Walker after the portrait by Henry William Pickersgill. This engraving is dated London, Jan 1st, 1852 ; it is signed 'Richard Owen'. (ii) A miniature portrait in water-colour by W Etty, RA, which hangs in the Conservators' room, shows Owen at the age of 48. (iii) A fine portrait which appeared in *Nature*, engraved by Jeens from a photograph (the date is 1880). (iv) A portrait by J H Maguire, 1850, printed by Hanhart and engraved by D J Pund after a portrait by Watkins. There are also engravings (1) showing Owen bearded and apparently lecturing in extreme old age; (2) a small engraving in which Owen is holding an enormous femur. He wears the old gown of the Hunterian Professors. The gown, when falling into holes, was sent by the Rev Richard Owen to the College, with the wish that it might be preserved in a glass case. The Linnean Society, of which Owen was elected a Fellow in 1836, possesses a lithograph by J H Maguire (Ipswich Series); a photo-engraving from a photograph by Elliott and Fry, and an engraving from the painting by H I Thaddeus. Among caricatures of Owen may be cited 'Old Bones', possibly by 'Ape' or 'Spy', which appeared in *Vanity Fair*, March 1st, 1873, and one by H I Thaddeus showing Owen in extreme old age (bearded), signing proof engravings of his portrait. (Both of these are in the College Collections.) There are two remarkable photographs of Owen in the Council Album, and another by Miss Acland, daughter of Sir Henry Acland, after a drawing by Richmond. A caricature of Owen presiding over a dinner-party of wild animals and palaeontological monsters at the 1847 meeting of the Palaeontographical Society was presented by Sir John Bland-Sutton. It is an admirable drawing and portrait; the artist is unknown. A portrait painted by Holman Hunt was exhibited in the Grosvenor Gallery in 1881, and in the same year Hamo Thornycroft, RA, showed a bust at the Royal Academy. A posthumous full-length bronze statue by Charles Brock, RA, was executed for the hall of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington.
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First Title value, for Searching Keith, Sir Arthur (1866 - 1955)

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Occupation Anatomist Anthropologist Conservator of the Hunterian Museum
Details Born at Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, fourth son and sixth of the ten children of John Keith, a farmer, and Jessie Macpherson his wife. He was educated at Gordon's College and Aberdeen University (Marischal College), where he graduated with first-class honours in 1888. After postgraduate study at Leipzig, he spent three years in Siam as physician to a rubber company with a commission to collect botanical specimens for Kew, and he also made extensive study of the muscles of catarrhine monkeys. The thesis based on this research earned him the MD at Aberdeen, with the Struthers anatomy medal. He took the Fellowship the same year while working under G D Thane at University College, London, and in 1895 was appointed to teach anatomy at the London Hospital Medical College, where he worked with marked success till 1908. He was an extremely popular and efficient teacher, wrote his famous textbook on *Human Embryology* (1898, 6th edition 1948), and began extensive research in teratology, particularly on the anatomy and malformations of the heart. In the course of this work he was the first to describe, with his pupil Martin Flack, the sino-atrial node or pace-maker of the human heart (*Lancet*1906, 2, 359; *Journal of Anatomy* 1907, 41, 172). Keith was appointed Conservator of the Hunterian Museum at the College in 1908, and began to revive the somewhat somnolent scientific side of the College's work by his brilliant lectures and popular scientific writings, and by attracting surgeons, anatomists and anthropologists to work with him for shorter or longer periods in the Museum and its laboratories. During the 1920s he became a one-man "court of appeal" for physical anthropologists from all over the world, while his journalism made his name familiar among the lay public, for he was one of the last and greatest of the Victorian popularisers of science in the tradition of Huxley. His efforts received warm encouragement from Lord Moynihan, who became President in 1926. With the financial support of Sir Buckston Browne FRCS, Lord Moynihan founded at Keith's instigation the College's Research Institute at Downe, where Keith and Browne had already persuaded the British Association to form the Darwin Museum at Charles Darwin's former home, Down House. Keith retired from the Conservatorship in 1933 and was appointed first Master of the Buckston Browne Farm, as the new Institute was named at his wish. Keith was elected FRS in 1913 in recognition of his anatomical researches, but the last forty years of his life were devoted to anthropology. He published *The Antiquity of Man* in 1915, with an enlarged edition in 1925 and a supplementary volume of *New Discoveries* in 1931. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1914-17 and of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1927, and Rector of Aberdeen University 1930-33. He was also active in the Royal Institution as Fullerian Professor, honorary secretary, and a Manager. His children's lectures there formed a popular book on *Engines of the Human Body* (1919, 2nd edition 1925), while another course of semi-popular lectures, given at the College in 1917-18, was published as *Menders of the Maimed* (1919, reprinted 1952), this comprises a history and critique of the development of orthopaedic surgery. Keith married on 21 December 1899 Celia Caroline daughter of Thomas Gray, a painter; Keith and his wife formed a small collection of watercolours by leading artists, which he bequeathed among his friends. There were no children, and Lady Keith died at Downe on 13 October 1934, soon after they had settled there. They had formerly lived at 17 Aubert Park, Highbury in North London, renting a country cottage in Kent (See *St Thomas's Hospital Gazette* 1957, 55, 199-201 with a photograph of Keith's cottage, Mann's Place). During his years at Downe (1934-55), besides supervising and helping the young men engaged on surgical research at the Buckston Browne Farm, Keith continued active, writing many semi-popular articles and several substantial books, mostly on Darwinism and evolution. He also compiled a long and very interesting *Autobiography* (1950) from the diaries which he subsequently bequeathed to the College Library. Keith received many academic honours, including LLD Aberdeen 1911, DSc Durham 1921, Manchester 1923, LLD Birmingham 1924, DSc Oxford 1930, FRS Edinburgh 1930, FRS New Zealand 1939, and was an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Surgeons, the Medical Society of London, the US National Academy of Sciences, the New York Academy of Science, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. He was knighted in 1921. The College, under the presidency of Lord Brock, held a special meeting to celebrate the centenary of Keith's birth in 1966. Keith died at Downe on 7 January 1955 aged 88. Besides books, papers and some fine silver bequeathed to the College, he left £500 for the upkeep of Down House. Keith's *Autobiography* provides the fullest account of his life. A bibliography of his voluminous writings, including much of his journalism, is available in the College Library; the more important items selected from it are listed in the two fullest memoirs: (1) by Sir Wilfrid LeGros Clark in *Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society* 1955, 1, 145-162, and (2) by J C Brash and A J E Cave in *Journal of Anatomy* 1955, 89, 403-418. Keith's portraits are described in the *Catalogue* (1960) of the Portraits at the College, and photographs at various ages are reproduced in his *Autobiography*. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 3 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Sir Arthur Keith was a distinguished anatomist and physical anthropologist who was the conservator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1908 to 1933 and then master of the Buckston Browne Research Institute at Darwin’s former home at Downe, Kent. Keith also lectured and wrote popular works on evolution and anthropology for the general public, promoting ideas on nationalism which were controversial even at the time of publication. His ideas on race have since been wholly discredited and shown to be erroneous. He was born on 5 February 1866 in Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, the sixth of ten children of John Keith, a farmer, and Jessie Keith née Macpherson. Keith initially left school at the age of 16 intending to farm, but, after being inspired by a young undergraduate lodger, decided to return to school and follow an academic career. He was sent to Gordon’s College and, in 1884, entered Marischal College in Aberdeen as a medical student. At Aberdeen he was influenced by James Trail, professor of botany, and John Struthers, the anatomy professor. He qualified in 1888 with first class honours. He was briefly an assistant at the Murray Asylum in Perth, a relief general practitioner in the Vale of Fyvie and a GP assistant in Mansfield. At Mansfield he received a letter from Trail, asking if he would be interested in a position as a medical officer to a mining company in Siam; Trail had been asked by Sir Joseph Hooker to find a suitable candidate. Keith jumped at the opportunity and sailed to Asia. He spent three years in Siam; in addition to his medical duties he collected 500 specimens of flora and studied the anatomy of the local gibbons and monkeys. While in Asia he decided his future was in anatomy and, using savings he had accumulated while in Siam, studied for an MD and for his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England – both awarded in 1894. While waiting for a suitable post as an anatomist, he briefly studied embryology in Leipzig under Wilhelm His. In 1895 he was appointed to join the staff of the anatomy department at the London Hospital. He had written his first paper in 1891 in the *Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society* on the anatomy of Malay apes, and in the mid 1890s contributed several other papers to journals on the comparative anatomy of primates. He also made a detailed study of more than 200 skulls of anthropoid apes in the British Museum and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, filling 20 large notebooks with measurements and observations. In 1901 he revised Treves’ *Surgical applied anatomy* (Cassell; continuing as a co-editor until the seventh edition in 1918), and a year later produced a textbook, *Human embryology and morphology* (London, Edward Arnold). With his colleague Leonard Hill, a lecturer in physiology, Keith studied problems of respiration function, particularly the mechanisms of the diaphragm and thoracic musculature. He also focused on the anatomy of the heart, and, with Martin Flack, was the first to describe the sino-atrial node or the pacemaker of the human heart. In 1908 he was appointed as the conservator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. During his tenure he did much to increase the scientific prestige of the College by giving lectures and attracting surgeons, anatomists and anthropologists to work with him in the museum and laboratories. He continued his research, arguing for the greater antiquity of homo sapiens, a thesis he outlined in his Hunterian lectures and in *Ancient types of man* (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1911). He became, according to the anatomist Sir Wilfred Le Gros Clark in his Royal Society biography of Keith, ‘recognised as one of the foremost authorities on fossil man’. In 1912 a skull was presented to a meeting of the Geological Society of London by Arthur Smith Woodward, keeper of geology at the Natural History Museum. Found in a gravel bed in Piltdown, Sussex, the skull was declared to be of a previously unknown early hominid – long-anticipated evidence of the supposed European origins of humans. It wasn’t until 1953 that the remains of ‘Piltdown Man’ were shown to be a forgery – someone had put together a medieval homo sapian cranium and a 500-year-old orangutan lower jaw and had filed and stained the bones to make them look far older. Keith spotted that the skull as presented to the Geological Society had been wrongly re-constructed, making it look more simian than human, but did not detect the forgery and continued to believe in the authenticity of the skull. During the First World War Keith wrote and lectured on anatomy related to war injuries. Some of his lectures were collected in a book, *Menders of the maimed. The principles underlying the treatment of injuries to muscles, nerves and bones and joints* (London, Henry Frowde, 1919). From 1913 to 1916 he was president of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1913 and was knighted in 1921. From 1918 to 1923 he was the Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution. In 1927 Keith was president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; at the annual general meeting at Leeds he appealed for the preservation of Darwin’s home at Downe in Kent. The retired surgeon Sir George Buckston Browne came forward to purchase the house on behalf of the British Association and paid for the restoration and for an endowment. In 1931, Buckston Browne gave the Royal College of Surgeons of England land adjacent to Down House, as well as an endowment fund to establish a surgical research farm. In 1933 Keith retired from his post as conservator at the Hunterian Museum and became the master of the Buckston Browne Research Institute at Downe. Here he continued his research on anatomy, studying the remains of palaeolithic humans from Mount Carmel in Palestine. He also wrote an account of Darwin’s life at Downe (*Darwin revalued* Watts & Co, 1955). During his career Keith investigated the purported scientific basis of race. In his autobiography (*An autobiography* Watts & Co), published in 1955 when he was 84, he described his theory that hormones contribute to the differentiation of racial characteristics. He also recalled, in 1906, dissecting a still-born African pygmy baby and, four years later, receiving ‘Lady Adelaide’, the embalmed body of an Australian aboriginal woman. In the book he also outlined his conclusions about race, that ‘…modern races had arisen from types which were already separate early in the Pleistocene period’. Aborigines, he believed, were descended ‘from the earliest types of Java (Pithecanthropus)’, the Bushmen in South Africa from a ‘primitive Rhodesian type’, while ancient Palestinians ‘the earliest known representatives of the White, or Caucasian, race’ could be ‘traced back to an ancestry of the Neanderthal type’. At some point, he wrote ‘…the races of mankind must have converged’. Keith also wrote prolifically for the general public, including on evolution and nationalism. In 1930 he was appointed rector of Aberdeen University and, in his rectoral address, outlined his thesis on the role of the nation in the process of evolution, a position summarised by Le Gros Clark: ‘…that the spirit of nationalism to-day is a potent factor in the evolutionary differentiation of human races, and that modern war itself constitutes the selective machinery for promoting this differentiation’. Keith, who described war as ‘nature’s pruning hook’, and equated race with nation, concluded that ‘Under the control of reason, prejudice has to be given a place in the regulation of human affairs.’ In 1948 Keith expanded his ideas in *A new theory of human evolution* (London, Watts & Co). Keith’s theories were disputed at the time; he was publicly criticised by the writer H G Wells, who did much promote the idea of the League of Nations and the ideal of nations coming together to avoid war. Keith died on 7 January 1955 aged 88. He was predeceased by his wife Cecilia Caroline (known as Celia) née Gray, the daughter of the painter Tom Gray, whom he married in 1899. They had no children. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Doran, Alban Henry Griffith (1849 - 1927)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born in Pembroke Square, Kensington, the only son of Dr John Doran (*Dict. Nat. Biog.*) by his marriage with Emma, daughter of Captain Gilbert, RN, and was the grandson of John Doran, of Drogheda. John Doran, Alban Doran's father, lived in the very centre of Victorian literary and artist society. He was intimate with Douglas Jerrold, with Thackeray, with Frith the painter, and a host of others. And of these great men he had many stories to tell. He was editor of the *Athenaeum* for a time and of *Notes and Queries*, and is best known for his standard book on the actors -*His Majesty's Servants*. Alban Doran received his early education at a school in Barnes. When he was 18 he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won many prizes. He served as House Surgeon to Luther Holden, as House Physician, and as Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. He gave up teaching in a year's time, and being a skilled and delicate dissector, he became in 1873 Assistant in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons under Sir William Flower. Thus began his life-long connection with the Hunterian Museum. Soon afterwards Flower fell ill, and Doran acted as his Museum Secretary, thus establishing relations with such eminent men as Owen and Huxley, whom he always remembered with enthusiasm. It was during this period possibly that he showed Alfred Tennyson over the Museum, the poet taking the utmost interest in all he saw and thus somewhat belying the assertion of anti-vivisectionists, who rank him from the evidence of one of his poems as anti-surgical and therefore one of themselves - and this although he disclaimed any anti-vivisectionist bias. On the return to duty of Sir William Flower, Doran helped him in his work as a craniometrist. His attention was drawn to the middle ear in mammals, and he took up the subject enthusiastically, exploring the large stores of mammalian skulls in the Museum and finding a great number of auditory ossicula, which he mounted on glass. It only then came to his knowledge that Professor Hyrtl had written a monograph on the subject, based on a considerable number of specimens. At that time the College received very frequently the bodies of animals which had died in the Zoological Gardens, and these furnished him with additional materials. With the help of Mr Ockenden, for many years an assistant in the Gardens, he dissected out the auditory ossicles of an elephant. The collection of ossicula thus acquired was displayed, as they may still be seen, in wide shallow boxes. The ossicula auditus were exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Society, and a little later a monograph on the subject was published, with engravings by C Berjeau, in the *Transactions of the Linnean Society*. Doran looked back on his early period in the Museum with much fondness. His collection of ear bones is still regarded as a standard one. His Linnean Society paper was elaborate, and in the evening of his life nothing pleased him so much as a reference by a present-day authority to his early monograph. Even as he lay on what proved to be his deathbed, his interest was at once aroused when a friend mentioned to him that the accuracy of his description of the ear bones of the golden mole had been highly commended in a monograph just communicated to the Royal Society, and thereafter he relapsed into the lament that there were two important gaps in his collection of auditory ossicles in the Museum of the College he had never succeeded in filling up. Such an instance is characteristic of Doran's attitude to the world; it was knowledge, not money, that he thought of. Doran was not exclusively devoted to anatomy; he became well known as a pathologist. For some years he held the appointment of Pathological Assistant at the College of Surgeons, and for eight years he laboured with Sir James Paget and Sir James Goodhart in the compilation of a catalogue of the pathological specimens in the Museum. In 1877 he was elected an Assistant Surgeon to the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women, where he had Sir Spencer Wells, Dr Bantock, and Knowsley Thornton for colleagues, and took part in that development of gynaecology with which their names, as well as his own, will always be associated. At the Samaritan he came under the direct influence of Spencer Wells, who perhaps more than any other man can be called the originator of modern abdominal surgery. Doran became well known as an ovariotomist at the Samaritan. He was attached to the Hospital for over thirty years, and established there his claim to be a fine operator and an individual thinker. Before operating, he was said by Leslie Ward, who refers to him at some length in his memoirs, to have been the picture of nervousness, but the moment the operation began he was masterly. Owing to failing eyesight, Doran retired from private practice in 1909. After his father's death he had lived with his mother - to whom he was devoted - in Granville Place, and continued there after her decease, till he moved to a flat in Palace Mansions, West Kensington. On his retirement he returned as a volunteer officer to the Hunterian Museum, and joined with Shattock (qv) in re-arranging the obstetrical and gynaecological collections, and with Dr. John Davis Barris, he mounted a small instructive group of normal and deformed pelves. He had been elected President of the Obstetrical Society in 1899 and had held office for many years. When the Society was merged in the Royal Society of Medicine, he was active in promoting the transfer of its museum as a loan collection to the College. From 1912 onwards his energies were largely devoted to the compilation of a descriptive catalogue of the obstetrical and other instruments in the Museum, to which Sir Rickman Godlee added the appliances and instruments used by Lister. This catalogue has been of great service to those interested in the subjects above indicated. His second task was the preparation of a descriptive catalogue of the great collection of obstetrical instruments presented to the College by the old Obstetrical Society. This undertaking involved Doran in a laborious and prolonged historical inquiry into the evolution of obstetrical instruments, and nowhere is his accuracy and breadth of scholarship so apparent as in this catalogue - in reality a text-book of reference. Having finished this task, he then proceeded to prepare a new catalogue, one for which there was great need, of the great collection of surgical instruments and appliances preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. His memory for fact or the written word was prodigious, and to the very last he could give a correct reference to an obscure fact or passage in a long-forgotten periodical. He was a veritable encyclopaedia of knowledge. His last visit to the College was in June, 1927, when he arrived attended by a nurse. His sight had nearly gone, but in the Instrument Room, to which he was guided, he brightened up and gave lucid and instructive accounts of such objects as W R Beaumont's (qv) palatal sewing-machine, which he was very dimly able to distinguish with his remaining eye, the other being obscured by cataract. His had been a long race with bodily affliction, and while still visiting the College about once a week, he had repeatedly exclaimed: "I hope to finish my Catalogue before I have to give up altogether." That he did finish it in time was a vast satisfaction to him, and to all who loved him seemed a triumph. Some days before his death, Doran was taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital to be operated on for glaucoma. He fainted during, or just after, the operation, and died on August 23rd, 1927, in the Ophthalmic Ward of his old hospital. He never married. The College Collections possess many portraits of this remarkable man. Doran's bibliography is truly enormous, one of the longest in our Library Catalogue. It contains some 130 separate titles, and must be left to some future bibliographer to compile. Throughout his life he was a keen Shakespearean scholar. Doran joined the salaried staff of the *British Medical Journal* as sub-editor in the early eighties and did admirable work. He was the first editor of the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire*, in which many biographical notices appear often from his pen. Publications: "Morphology of the Mammalian Ossicula Auditus." - *Trans. Linnean Soc.*, London, 1875-9, 2nd ser., i (Zool.), 371, with plates lviii-lxiv. *See also Jour. Linnean Soc*. (Zool.) xiii, 185; and *Proc. Roy. Soc.*, xxv, 101. *Clinical and Pathological Observations on Tumours of Ovary, Fallopian Tube, and Broad Ligament*, 1884, 8vo, London. *Handbook of Gynaecological Operations*, 8vo, London, 1887. (For an account of this important work, see the author's obituary in *Lancet*, 1927, ii, 529.) "Guide to Gynaecological Specimens, Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, England." "Medicine," Chapter 14, *Shakespeare's England*, 1916. Articles on "Diseases of Fallopian Tubes" in Allbutt and Playfair's *System of Gynaecology*, 1906, and *Encyclopaedia of Medicine*, iii. "Subtotal Hysterectomy for Fibromyoma Uteri: 40 Additional Histories." - *Proc. Roy. Soc. Med*., 1911. "Osteomalacia - the Broughton Pelvis in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons." - *Jour. Obst. and Gyncaecol*, 1912, xxi, 65. "Dusée: his Forceps and his Contemporaries," 8vo, 2 plates, London, 1912; reprinted from *Jour. Obst. and Gynaecol.*, 1912, xxii, 117. "Dusée, De Wind, and Smellie: an Addendum," 8vo, London, 1912; reprinted from *Jour. Obst. and Gynaecol.*, 1912, xxii, 203. "A Demonstration of some Eighteenth Century Obstetric Forceps," 8vo, plates, 1913; reprinted from *Proc. Roy. Soc. Med*. (Sect. History), 1913, vi, 54, 76. "Burton ('Dr Slop'): his Forceps and his Foes," 8vo, plates, London, 1913 ; reprinted from *Jour. Obst. and Gynaecol.*, 1913, xxiii, 3, 65. "The Speculum Matricis," 8vo, plates, London, 1914; reprinted from *Jour. Obst. and Gynaecol.*, 1914, xxvi, 133.
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First Title value, for Searching Humphry, Sir George Murray (1820 - 1896)

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Details Born at Sudbury, in Suffolk, on July 18th, 1820, the third son of William Wood Humphry, barrister-at-law and distributor of stamps for the county of Suffolk. One of his brothers became a barrister; the second, the Rev W G Humphry, was for many years Vicar of St Martin's-in-the-Fields. G M Humphry was educated at the grammar schools of Sudbury and Dedham, and was apprenticed in 1836 to J G Crosse, Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Crosse did his duty faithfully by his apprentices. They lived in his house and he taught them by example and precept, lectured to them, and made them attend the hospital with him on his regular rounds. Humphry left Norwich in 1839 and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, where he came under the influence of Dr Peter Mere Latham, Sir William Lawrence, and Sir James Paget. He passed the 1st MB examination at the University of London, winning the Gold Medal in Anatomy and Physiology, but never presented himself for the final examination. He was admitted a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons on November 19th, 1841, and on May 12th, 1842, he became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, which was then looked upon as the superior and indispensable qualification by all public bodies. Three of the surgeons to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, resigned their offices in 1842, and on October 31st 'Mr Humphry' was placed third out of the six candidates who applied for election in their place. This appointment made Humphry the youngest hospital surgeon in England. He immediately began to use the hospital to the best advantage, with the deliberate design of making a school of Medicine in Cambridge. Small as was the material - 70 in-patients and, about 120, out-patients per annum - he yet contrived to give three clinical lectures a week and some bedside teaching for all who chose to attend. This teaching he continued until 1841, when he was invited to act as deputy for the Rev Dr William Clark, who had been appointed Professor of Anatomy in 1817. He accepted the invitation and gave lectures and demonstrations upon human anatomy from 1847-1866. Dr Clark retired in 1866 and Humphry was elected Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy in his place. He held the office until 1883, when he resigned it for the newly founded, but unpaid, Professorship of Surgery. Humphry made himself a member of the University of Cambridge by matriculating as a fellow commoner from Downing College in 1847, graduating MB in 1852 and MD in 1859. In 1849 he added to his anatomical duties a course of twenty-eight lectures on surgery which were published in the *Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal* for 1849 and 1850. Both in these lectures and in his anatomical demonstrations he was helped by the specimens which the university had bought in 1836 from James Macartney (1770-1843), Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery in the University of Dublin, for an annuity of £100 for ten years. The museum was sent by sailing vessel to London and thence by waggons to Cambridge, and was so well packed that not a single jar was broken. In 1869 Humphry succeeded Sir George Paget as the representative of the University of Cambridge on the General Medical Council. He delivered the Rede Lecture before the university in 1880, taking "Man - Past, Present, and Future" as his subject. He served on the Council of the Senate, was an honorary Fellow of Downing, and in 1884 was elected a professorial Fellow of King's College. The election gave him very great pleasure, and it was his delight to take his numerous week-end visitors to service in the Chapel. At the Royal College of Surgeons he filled all the offices which his physical strength and his devotion to the University of Cambridge permitted. Elected a Fellow on August 26th, 1844, when he was still a year below the statutory age, he served as a Member of the Council from 1864-1884; was Arris and Gale Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology from 1872-1873; a member of the Court of Examiners from 1877-1887; and Hunterian Orator in 1879. He declined to allow himself to be nominated for the offices of Vice-President or President. As Arris and Gale Lecturer he dealt with "Human Myology" in the first course, and the "Varieties in the Muscles of Man" in his second course. He was elected FRS in 1859 and served on the Council of the Society from 1870-1871. He was long a member of the British Medical Association, acting first as Secretary and afterwards as President of the Huntingdon Branch. He delivered the Address on Surgery at the annual meeting at Cambridge in 1856, presided over the Section of Anatomy and Physiology at the Worcester Meeting in 1882, and was President of the whole Association at the Cambridge Meeting in 1881. He presided over the physiological section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1867, and in 1879 he gave six lectures on the architecture of the human body as a part of the Fullerian course at the Royal Institution of London. He took an active part in the formation of the Cambridge Medical Society and for some time was President. He presided at the annual meeting of the Sanitary Society of Great Britain held in London in 1882 and in Glasgow in 1883. In 1887 he was the first President of the newly-formed Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and he served as President of the Pathological Society of London during the years 1891-1893. He received the honour of knighthood in 1891. He married in September, 1849, Mary, daughter of Daniel Robert McNab, surgeon, of Epping, by whom he had a daughter and a son, Alfred Paget Humphry, Senior Esquire Bedell of the University of Cambridge and Queen's Prizeman at Wimbledon in 1871. Sir George Humphry died at his residence, Grove Lodge, Cambridge, on September 24th, 1896, and was buried at the Mill Road Cemetery. A terra-cotta bust by H R Hope-Pinker, RA, is in the College. A bust by Wiles was presented to Addenbrooke's Hospital by the Vice-Chancellor of the University. A portrait by W W Ouless, RA, hangs in the Fitzwilliam Museum and has been engraved. A portrait by Miss K M Humphry, painted on the occasion of Humphry's enrolment as freeman of his native town, is in the public hall at Sudbury, Suffolk. There is a small engraving in the College collection. Beginning as a general practitioner without an introduction, poor, and with no influence, Humphry became one of the most remarkable persons in the University of Cambridge, and converted the insignificant Medical School of 1866 into one which is world-renowned. Before all things he was a scientific man and a collector. Additions to the University Museum of Anatomy and Surgical Pathology were so constantly in his thoughts that many of his holidays were spent in journeys designed expressly to secure specimens to fill its shelves. As an anatomist he was one of the earliest workers to bring human anatomy into line with the growing science of morphology. He was a good and successful surgeon, widely consulted in East Anglia. He treated wounds by what he called the open method - just covering them with a piece of gauze. He was the first in England to remove successfully a tumour from the male bladder, and one of the first to advocate the advantages of the suprapubic route. He had no amusements and was so sparing in all that concerned his own comfort, that when domestic servants were plentiful he acquiesced readily in his wife's using his kitchen as a home for the training of servants, which resulted in a weekly change of cooks in the making. In all matters of hospitality he was most liberal, and in large matters profusely generous. Having begun poor he ended rich. He was full of research and resource and generally succeeded in getting his own way, but his aims were unselfish and were always directed to the improvement of the medical profession. In person he was of medium height with brilliant and expressive eyes, and soft in voice; never physically strong, not well dressed, and looking ill, it is no matter of surprise that a candidate at the College of Surgeons once took him by the beard as he sat resting in the outer hall and shook him saying, "What's the matter with you, my man?" Publications: *A Treatise on the Human Skeleton, including the Joints*, 8vo, Cambridge, 1858. An important work containing the results of original research in several directions. The excellent plates by which the book is illustrated were drawn by Mrs Humphry. *On the Coagulation of the Blood in the Venous System during Life*, 8vo, Cambridge, 1859. Of this subject the author had painful personal experience, for he suffered on several occasions from severe attacks of phlebitis, and his only son died of a pulmonary embolus. *The Human Foot and the Human Hand*, 12mo, Cambridge and London, 1861. *Observations in Myology*, 8vo, Cambridge and London, 1872. *Cambridge, the Town, University and Colleges*, 12mo, Cambridge, 1850: a very excellent little guide-book. *Old Age*: the results of information received respecting nearly nine hundred persons who had attained the age of eighty years, including seventy-four centenarians. Humphry started with the supposition that no one survived for a hundred years. The results of his inquiry converted him and he came to the conclusion that centenarians were for the most part of small and slender build, with good digestions. He is widely remembered as founder and, in conjunction with Sir William Turner, editor of the *Journal of Anatomy and Physiology* (Cambridge and London, 1866), which afterwards became the *Journal of Anatomy*.
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First Title value, for Searching Bland-Sutton, Sir John (1855 - 1936)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Enfield Highway on 21 April 1855, eldest son and second of the nine children of Charles William Sutton, who had a farm where he fattened stock, killed it and sold it in Formosa Street, Maida Hill. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Wadsworth, a Northamptonshire farmer. Bland-Sutton says that he learnt from his father to stuff birds, beasts, and fishes, to charm warts and to pull teeth; from his mother an intimate knowledge of the Bible. Educated at the local school, he acted there for two years as pupil teacher with the intention of becoming a schoolmaster, but being a biologist at heart he determined to become a doctor as soon as he had the money necessary to pay the fees. He attached himself therefore to the private school of anatomy kept by Thomas Cooke, F.R.C.S., which then occupied a tin shed in a disused churchyard in Handel Street, just off Mecklenburgh Square. Here he learnt anatomy, and taught it to lazy and backward medical students until he had earned enough to pay the fees at the Middlesex Hospital. He entered there as a student in October 1878 and was immediately appointed prosector of anatomy, (Sir) Henry Morris being lecturer on the subject. In 1879 he was advanced to be junior demonstrator, became senior demonstrator in 1883 and lecturer 1886-96. In 1884 he was Murchison scholar at the Royal College of Physicians. Two years later he was elected assistant surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, with the proviso that he should remain in London during the months of August and September, when the senior surgeons were accustomed to take their annual holiday. He performed his duties thoroughly, and devoted himself especially to pelvic operations upon women. In 1886 he became assistant surgeon to the hospital for women, then a small institution in the Fulham Road, and was promoted surgeon six months later with charge of fifteen beds. Here he soon acquired fame as an operating surgeon, and disarmed criticism by welcoming professional men and women to the operating theatre and by publishing his results widely in the medical papers. In 1889 he changed his name by deed pool from J. B. Sutton to John Bland-Sutton. In 1905 he became surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and filled the post until 1920, when he resigned and was made consulting surgeon. During his tenure of office he was a most liberal supporter of the hospital. In 1913 he presented to it the Institute of Pathology, which was built on the site of the museum, of which he had been curator from 1883 to 1886. To the hospital chapel he gave a beautiful ambry, a piscina, and a font, and made considerable contributions towards the cost of the mosaic pavement in the baptistry. He also assisted largely in the purchase of a playing field for the students of the medical school. At the Royal College of Surgeons he won the Jacksonian prize in 1892 with his essay on diseases of the ovaries and the uterine appendages, their pathology, diagnosis and treatment. In 1885, 1886, 1887 and 1889-91 he gave the Erasmus Wilson lectures on the evolution of pathology. He was elected a member of the Pathological Society in 1882, and served on the council of the society from 1887 to 1890 but held no other office. He was an examiner in anatomy for the Fellowship in 1895. He was a Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology for the years 1888-89 and gave a lecture again as Hunterian professor in 1916; was Bradshaw lecturer in 1917; and Hunterian orator in 1923. Elected to the Council in 1910, he was vice-president in 1918, 1919, and 1920, and was President for the years 1923, 1924, and 1925, being preceded by Sir Anthony Bowlby and succeeded by Lord Moynihan. In 1927 he was elected a trustee of the Hunterian collection. During the war he was gazetted major, R.A.M.C.(T.) on 16 September 1916 and was attached to the 3rd London General Hospital at Denmark Hill. The surroundings and discipline of a military hospital proved uncongenial, and in 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, placed upon an appeal board, and directed to collect he specimens of gunshot wounds which formed a unique display in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, till they were destroyed by the bombing of 1941. Always interested in animals, their habits and diseases, Bland-Sutton became a prosector at the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park in 1881 whilst he was still a student at the Middlesex Hospital. He retained his interest in the gardens throughout his life, and in 1928 was made vice-president of the Zoological Society of London. In 1891-92 he lectured on comparative pathology at the Royal Veterinary College in Camden Town in succession to Prof. John Penberthy, F.R.C.V.S. He was president of the Medical Society of London 1914; president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland 1929; president of the Royal Society of Medicine 1929; president of the International Cancer Conference held in London in 1928. He was, too, a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem from 1924. He married: (1) in 1886 Agnes Hobbs of Didcot, who died in 1898; and (2) in 1899 Edith, the younger daughter of Henry Heather Bigg. She survived him but there were no children by either wife. Lady Bland-Sutton died in 1943 and was by her will a most generous benefactress to the College. She founded a research scholarship in memory of her husband, and also bequeathed a suite of Chippendale furniture for the president's room, and the silver table ornaments made for the dining hall at 47 Brook Street, mentioned below, as well as much other furniture. Bland-Sutton died after a short period of failing powers at 29 Hertford Street, Mayfair on Sunday, 20 December 1936. His body was cremated, and memorial services were held in the chapel at the Middlesex Hospital on the 23rd and in Westminster Abbey on 29 December. *Portraits*: Three-quarter length, sitting, in presidential robes, by the Hon. John Collier, R.A., hangs in the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It is a good likeness and is well reproduced in black and white in Sir A. E. Webb-Johnson's eulogy in the *Middlesex Hospital Journal*, 1937, 37, 4, and in the *Annals* of the College, 1950, 6, 362. An earlier portrait by Collier is at the Royal Society of Medicine. The Middlesex Hospital has a marble bust by Sir George Frampton, and a drawing by George Belcher. Bland-Sutton's professional life was typical of his generation. Born into a large middle-class family where money was not too abundant, he had to rely entirely upon himself. This he did, as was then usual amongst the younger men who aspired to the staff of a teaching hospital, by coaching. Some did this by taking a house, marrying, and securing as many resident pupils as possible, each of whom paid an inclusive fee of £126 a year. The less fortunate, like Bland-Sutton, had to content themselves with private classes at £8 to £10 a head, for a three months' course of tuition. The direct way to promotion was through the dissecting room, for as yet pathology was little more than morbid anatomy. Sutton was a first-rate teacher and soon made enough money to travel as far as Vienna. He climbed the ladder by the ordinary steps, slowly at first as a junior demonstrator of anatomy, then as curator of the hospital museum, next as assistant surgeon to a small special hospital, finally as assistant surgeon, surgeon, and consulting surgeon to his own hospital, the Middlesex. He had to fight every step of the way, for there was plenty of competition and continuous opposition, but he had good health, a constant fund of humour, was a loyal friend, and was generous in giving both publicly and in private. He had hobbies, too, which sustained him: a love of travel, a curiosity about animal life and a certain artistic sense. Throughout his life he was a general surgeon, more especially skilled in abdominal operations. Of slight physique and with very small and bright eyes, he had a curious bird-like habit of rapidly cocking his head sideways when he wished to emphasize a joke or a witty remark. A fluent writer and an entertaining after-dinner speaker, he retained and perhaps cultivated his native and marked cockney accent. He lived at 22 Gordon Street, Gordon Square, from 1883 to 1890; at 48 Queen Anne Street, 1890 to 1902, and thereafter at 47 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square. Here he built in 1905, at the back of the house, a copy, reduced by one-third, of the Apodama or audience chamber at Susa or Shushan (in Persia) where it is recorded in the Book of Esther that Ahasuerus gave the great feast and afterwards invited Vashti to show her beauty to the assembled princes and people. In the reduced copy of this splendid hall Bland-Sutton and his gifted wife delighted to exercise a generous hospitality; Rudyard Kipling, and old and intimate friend, was a frequent guest. The house and the hall were pulled down for an extension of Claridge's Hotel, and Bland-Sutton moved finally to 29 Hertford Street, Mayfair. *Publications*: Comparative dental pathology, in J. Walker *Valedictory address*, Odontological Society, 1884. *A descriptive catalogue of the pathological museum of the Middlesex Hospital*, with J. K. Fowler. London, 1884. *An introduction to general pathology*, founded on lectures at R.C.S. London, 1886. *Ligaments, their nature and morphology*. London, 1887; 4th ed. 1920. *Dermoids*. London, 1889. *Surgical diseases of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes*. London, 1891. *Evolution and disease*. London, 1890. *Tumours innocent and malignant*. London, 1893; 7th ed. 1922. Osteology in H. Morris *Treatise of anatomy*, 1893. Tumours, and Diseases of the jaws in Sir F. Treves *System of surgery*, 1895, 1. *The diseases of women*, with A. E. Giles. London, 1897, 8th ed. 1926. Tumours in Warren and Gould *International textbook of surgery*, 1899, 1. *Essays on Hysterectomy*. London, 1904. *Gall-stones and diseases of the bile-ducts*. London, 1907; 2nd ed. 1910. Tumours in W. W. Keen *Surgery*, 1907, 1 and 1913, 6. *Cancer clinically considered*. London, 1909. *Essays on the position of abdominal hysterectomy in London*. London, 1909; 2nd ed. 1910. *Fibroids of the uterus*. London, 1913. *Misplaced and missing organs* (Bradshaw lecture R.C.S.). London, 1917. *Selected lectures and essays*. London, 1920. *John Hunter, his affairs, habits and opinions (the Hunterian Oration)*. London, 1923. *Orations and addresses*. London, 1924. *The story of a surgeon*. London, 1930. *On faith and science in surgery*. London, 1930. *Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia*. London, 1911. *Men and creatures in Uganda*. London, 1933.
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First Title value, for Searching Clark, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros (1895 - 1971)

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Details Born on 5 June at Hemel Hempstead the second of the three sons of the Rev Travers Clark, he was a grandson of Frederick Le Gros Clark, President of the College in 1874, member of Council from 1864 to 1879 and surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital. For his education Le Gros Clark went to Blundell's School, Tiverton, proceeding to St Thomas's Hospital in 1912 where he gained an Entrance Scholarship, the William Tite Scholarship and the Musgrove Scholarship. Qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in July 1917, he entered the RAMC immediately and without serving a house appointment, as was the usual pattern at the time. He served in France until the end of the war, an experience which affected his outlook profoundly, as it did that of many of his contemporaries. On demobilisation he returned to St Thomas's to take up an appointment as a house surgeon to Sir Cuthbert Wallace, during which period he passed the Final examination and was admitted a Fellow. Intending to take up a career in experimental anatomy, he decided first to gain experience as a practising surgeon and, with this end in view, obtained the post of Principal Medical Officer in Sarawak, Borneo, at that time governed by Rajah Brooke, an appointment which offered opportunities for both practical surgery in the most general sense and for the investigation of the anatomy of the primates of that country in particular the rare Spectral Tarsier and the tree shrew, a research stimulated by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith FRS, then Professor of Anatomy at University College, as shedding light on the evolution of the more primitive primates. Shortly after his arrival one of his native dressers developed a perforated duodenal ulcer and, the patient willingly consenting, he operated in spite of the tearful entreaties of the relatives to stay his hand. A speedy and uninterrupted convalescence followed and this so impressed the natives as in every respect miraculous that from then on he could do no wrong. As a mark of their esteem his shoulders were tattooed with the insignia of the Sea Dyaks. Writing in 1961 in retrospect he described this period as probably the best three years of his life culminating in the meeting with his future wife who, with her mother, was on a visit to Sarawak. On his return to England he became for a short time a demonstrator of anatomy at St Thomas's under Professor F G Parsons FRCS, before proceeding to St Bartholomew's in 1924 as reader in anatomy, the post being elevated to that of a professorship in 1927. In 1929 he again returned to his old school, St Thomas's, succeeding Parsons as professor, and in 1934 he accepted an invitation to fill the chair of Dr Lee's Professorship in Oxford which position he held until his retirement in 1962. While in Oxford he was elected a Fellow of Hertford College. On his return to England in 1923 he had continued his work on primate evolution, publishing a series of papers in the *Proceedings of the Zoological Society* which were summarised in the book *Early forerunners of man* published in 1934. As a result he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1934. His early work on the tree shrews led him to the opinion that they should be classified as primates rather than as insectivores, and a survey of the anatomy of the brain caused him to investigate the relationship of the thalamus to the cerebral cortex, tracing the paths of visual stimulation to cortical areas. A further study of the anatomy of the hypothalamus followed from this, as did that of the anatomy of colour vision with the publication in 1936 of *Morphological aspects of the hypothalamus*. His interest in primate evolution was again stimulated at the end of the second war by the discoveries of fossil primate remains in South and East Africa by Professor Dart and Dr Brown, and Le Gros Clark went out to determine the importance of the finds at first hand. In 1955 his book *The fossil evidence of human evolution* was published, the British Museum having produced his *The history of the primates* in 1949. After the discoveries of Dr Leakey in Africa in 1959 a further more comprehensive book *The anatomy of man* was published. He was also intimately concerned in the unmasking of the 'Piltdown Man' fraud in 1953. As a teacher of anatomy Le Gros Clark was outstanding and influenced profoundly the status of his subject, changing it from the routine repetition of the minutiae of topographical anatomy to a study of function and its relevance to cell biology and embryology. His book *The tissues of the body*, published in 1939 and his contribution to a reformed textbook, Cunningham, edition of 1943, had a useful influence on anatomical teaching. As he and his wife had together sponsored causes directed to world peace, he was greatly distressed by the outbreak of the second world war, but nevertheless he helped to organise a team of young men for research work connected with the war effort. After the war he bent all his efforts to the creation of a new and modern Department of Anatomy at Oxford, and in 1950 was president of the first post-war International Anatomical Conference held at Oxford. The new department was finally opened in 1959 and formed an occasion for the presentation to him of his bust by Epstein. In 1968 he published his autobiography *Chant of pleasant exploration*. He was a member of the Livery of the Salters Company, of which he was Master in 1954, and for which a portrait of him by Anna Zinkeisen was commissioned. The portrait shows him holding in his hand a book by an early English traveller to Borneo, opened at the title page *A voyage to Borneo*. He was knighted in 1955 and in 1961 was elected President of the British Association. For the College he was Arris and Gale lecturer in 1932, received its Triennial Prize in 1947, was Hunterian Professor in 1934 and 1945, and was an examiner in his subject, as he was also for the Universities of London, Durham, Wales and Bristol. He was for a time a member of the Medical Research Council, and editor of the *Journal of anatomy*, and was an honorary member of several foreign scientific societies. His first wife Freda, née Giddey, died in 1963 leaving him with two daughters. In 1964 he married Violet, widow of Dr Leonard Brown, an old friend. He was an unaffected, simple, sincere man, always ready to help and advise the young. A very characteristic manner of rather hesitant speech in no way detracted from his brilliance as a lecturer. He died quite suddenly on 28 June 1971 while on a visit to the home of a lifelong friend from his student days. Publications: Books mentioned above and numerous papers in *Phil Trans Roy Soc* and other scientific journals on neurology, anatomy, anthropology and palaeontology.
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First Title value, for Searching Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins (1783 - 1862)

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Details Was the fourth child of the Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, Rector of Winterslow, Wilts, by Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Collins, Banker and printer, of Milford, near Salisbury. The Brodies were originally a Morayshire clan, and the family was fortunate in relations. Dr. Denman, then the accoucheur, had married Brodie's aunt; Sir Richard Goff ['Goff' is crossed out, and the following added: Croft (Lady Croft & Mrs Baillie were Dr Denman's daughters)] had married a cousin; and Dr. Baillie, nephew of William and John Hunter, had married another cousin. Dr. Denman's son afterwards became Lord Chief Justice, and was well known as one of the advocates at the trial of Queen Caroline, whilst Peter Brodie, Benjamin's eldest brother, held a high position as a conveyancer. In 1797 Brodie and his brothers raised a company of volunteers at a time when a French invasion was much dreaded. He was privately educated by his father, and at the age of eighteen went up to London, devoting himself from the first to the study of anatomy. Brodie joined the medical profession without any special liking or bent for it, and in after-days he said he thought those best succeeded in professions who joined them, not from any irresistible prepossession, but rather from some accidental circumstance inducing them to persevere in their selected course either as a matter of duty or because they had nothing better to do. He rose to be the first surgeon in England, holding for many years a position similar to that once occupied by Sir Astley Cooper. Brodie had always a philosophical turn of mind. He learnt much at first from Abernethy, who arrested his pupils' attention so that it never flagged, and what he told them in his emphatic way never could be forgotten. Brodie used to say "that he had always kept in mind the saying of William Scott [afterwards Lord Stowell] to his brother John [subsequently Lord Eldon], 'John, always keep the Lord Chancellorship in view, and you will be sure to get it in the end.'" And a similar aim and distinction were Brodie's. In 1801 and 1802 he attended the lectures of James Wilson at the Hunterian School in Great Windmill Street, where he worked hard at dissection. It was about this time that he formed what proved a lifelong friendship with William Lawrence (q.v.). In 1803 Brodie became a pupil of Sir Everard Home at St. George's Hospital, and was successively appointed House Surgeon and Demonstrator to the Anatomical School, after which he was Home's assistant in his private operations and researches in comparative anatomy, and he did much work for him at the College Museum. "The latter employment," says Mr. Timothy Holmes (q.v.) in his *Life of Brodie*, "was of critical importance for Brodie in several ways - chiefly because it obliged him to work on scientific subjects, and thus prevented a too exclusive devotion to the pursuit of practical surgery. We cannot be wrong in attributing to this cause mainly his connection with the Royal Society, and the many-sidedness of his intellectual activities." At the College he came into contact with Clift, and, through Home, became an intimate in the learned coterie of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, and the chief link between distinguished men of science of two centuries. Brodie still diligently pursued his anatomical studies at the Windmill Street School, where he first demonstrated for, and then lectured conjointly with, James Wilson until 1812. In 1808, before he was twenty-five, he was elected Assistant Surgeon at St. George's, thus relieving Home of some part of his duties. Brodie remained in this position fourteen years, and his "regular attendance at the hospital was an immense improvement, in the interests both of the patients and the students, on the practice obtaining in the metropolitan hospitals of that day". All through life Brodie was consumed with the rage for work which his father had originally instilled into him. So devoted was he to every phase of his duties that he found no time to travel, only once visiting France for a month and often going without a summer holiday. His very recreations were arduously intellectual. Thus he took a leading part in the life of various learned societies - the Academical Society, banished to London from Oxford in the French revolutionary epoch, the Society for the Promotion of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge, the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, of which he was President in 1839 and 1840. He contributed several valuable papers to the last-named society, and at its meetings he stimulated discussion, and had always something of interest to say. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1810, he soon communicated a paper "On the Influence of the Brain on the Action of the Heart and the Generation of Animal Heat", and another "On the Effects produced by certain Vegetable Poisons (Alcohol, Tobacco, Woorara)". The first paper, the subject of which he doubtless derived from John Hunter, formed the Croonian Lecture: the two papers taken together won him the Copley Medal in 1811, an honour never before bestowed on so young a man. In 1809 Brodie entered upon private practice, and in 1822 became full Surgeon at St. George's Hospital, from which time forward his career was one of ever-increasing success. He became a Member in 1805, a Fellow in 1843, and from 1819 to 1823 he was Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery at the College. He lectured upon the Organs of Digestion, Respiration, and Circulation, and on the Nervous System, the most interesting of his discourses being upon "Death from Drowning", a subject which Hunter had investigated without hitting upon the scientific explanation of that form of asphyxia eventually brought out by Brodie. While Professor at the College, Brodie was summoned to attend George IV, and with Sir Astley Cooper, who was the operator, and a formidable array of medical men of that time, assisted at an operation for the removal of a small sebaceous cyst from the king's scalp. He became Surgeon to George IV, and attended him during his last illness, when he went every night to Windsor, slept there, and returned to London in the morning. "His habit", says Mr. Timothy Holmes, "was to go into the king's room at about six o'clock, and sit talking with him for an hour or two before leaving for town." The king became warmly attached to him. He was Surgeon to William IV, and in 1834, when he was made a Baronet, he was appointed Serjeant-Surgeon. In this capacity he became examiner by prescriptive right in the College, a privilege abolished by the Charter of 1843, which Brodie was largely instrumental in obtaining. He was a Member of Council from 1829-1862, Hunterian Orator in 1837, Vice-President in 1842 and 1843, and President in 1844. He retired from St. George's Hospital in 1840, but for some time continued his activity at the College, which owes to him the institution of the Order of Fellows. The object of this institution, he maintained, was to ensure the introduction into the profession of a certain number of young men who might be qualified to maintain its scientific character, and would be fully equal to its higher duties as hospital surgeons, teachers, and improvers of physiological, pathological, and surgical science afterwards. The Fellowship may be said to have been largely instrumental in raising the college to what it now is - "the exemplar of surgical education to the whole kingdom". Brodie was the first President of the General Medical Council, having been elected in 1858. Within a week after receiving this honour he became President of the Royal Society, an office which he filled with great dignity and wisdom till 1861. He died, nearly blind following double cataract for the relief of which he had been operated upon by Sir William Bowman (q.v.), at Broome Park, Betchworth, Surrey, on Oct. 21st, 1862. Of the immediate cause of his death, Holmes says: "It seems that nearly thirty years [see BLOXHAM, THOMAS] previously he had suffered from a dislocation of the right shoulder. I am not aware that he ever made any complaint of the part after the dislocation had been reduced, but it was in this same joint that in July he began to complain of pain accompanied by much prostration; and this was succeeded in September by the appearance of a tumour, doubtless of a malignant nature, in the neighbourhood of the shoulder." It thus happened that he who had spent his life treating diseased joints died of a joint disease. He married in 1816 Anne, the third daughter of Serjeant Sellon by his wife Charlotte Dickinson, his brother-in-law being Monsieur Regnault, the French physicist. Three children survived to maturity: Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie F.R.S. (1817-1880), who became Professor of Chemistry at Oxford; a daughter who married the Rev. E. Hoare; and another son, the Rev. W. Brodie. [His granddaughter Mary Isabel married Sir Herbert Warren K.C.V.O. President of Magdalen College Oxford - 1885-1928] Brodie was distinguished as a surgeon with the bent of a physician. He was not a great operating surgeon, nor did he regard operations as the highest aim of surgery. His power of diagnosis was great, and he was a distinguished teacher with an elegant and clear deliverance. He attained high success by the legitimate influence of a lofty order of intellect, by his great stores of surgical knowledge, and the sound decided opinions he based upon them. He was single-minded and upright in character and free from all affectations. He knew his duty and did it well. He lived for a great end, the lessening of human suffering, and for that he felt no labour was too great, no patience too long. As a scientific man his object was truth pursued for its own sake, and without regard to future reward. He recognized the great traditions of wisdom, benevolence, and self-denial as the everlasting bases on which true medicine and surgery rest, and he was in truth a master of medicine. Of Brodie's manner as a lecturer, Sir Henry Acland says: "None who heard him can forget the graphic yet artless manner in which, sitting at his ease, he used to describe minutely what he had himself seen and done under circumstances of difficulty, and what under like circumstances he would again do or would avoid. His instruction was illustrated by the valuable pathological dissections which during many years he had amassed, and which he gave during his lifetime to his hospital." Mr. Timothy Holmes says: "It was Brodie who popularized the method of lithotrity in England, and by so doing chiefly contributed to the ready reception of an operation which has robbed what was one of the deadliest diseases that afflict humanity of nearly all its terror. This will remain to all time one of Brodie's greatest claims to public gratitude." Brodie used to tell that he once prescribed for a fat butler, suffering from too much good living and lack of exercise. Sir Benjamin told him "he must be very moderate in what he ate and drank, careful not to eat much at a time or late at night. Above all, no spirituous liquors could be allowed, malt liquor especially being poison to his complaint." Whilst these directions were being given the butler's face grew longer and longer, and at the end he exclaimed, "And pray, Sir Benjamin, who is going to compensate me for the loss of all these things?" Brodie's personal appearance is admirably portrayed in the picture by Watts. He was not, perhaps, strictly handsome, but no one can deny that the features are striking. A fine forehead, keen grey eyes, a mobile and sensitive mouth, and facial muscles which followed all the movements of one of the most active minds, lent to the countenance a charm and an expressiveness to which no stranger could be insensible. His frame was slight and small; but there was nothing of weakness about it. Those who knew him only as a public man would little suspect the playful humour which sparkled by his fireside - the fund of anecdotes, the harmless wit, the simple pleasures of his country walk. The following is a list of portraits of Brodie: (1) A bust by H. Weekes, R.A., in the Royal College of Surgeons. (2) A portrait in middle life, which appeared in the Medical Circular (1852, I, 817). The copy in the College is accompanied by a strikingly picturesque and vivid appreciation of Brodie as a teacher making his round of the wards. (3) A half-length by G. F. Watts, R.A., painted in 1860, which is reproduced in Timothy Holmes's *Life of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie*, 1897. (4) A medal presented to Sir Benjamin Brodie in 1840 when he retired from office as Surgeon to St. George's Hospital. There is a bronze replica in the Board Room at St. George's Hospital, and an illustration of it in the *British Journal of Surgery* (1918-19, vi, facing p.158). PUBLICATIONS: - As an author Brodie achieved fame by his treatise on *Diseases of the Joints*, 1818, which went through five editions and was translated into foreign languages. He wrote also on local nervous affections, diseases of the urinary organs, the surgery of the breast, lighting-stroke, besides an important work, published anonymously in 1854, under the title of *Psychological Enquiries* [Times 21 Jan 1938. BRODIE - On Jan. 20, 1938. at Brockham Warren, Betchworth, Surrey, of pneumonia, SIR BENJAMIN VINCENT SELLON BRODIE, Bt., M.A. (Oxon), D.L., J.P., aged 75. Funeral at Betchworth Church, 3 p.m. Monday, Jan. 24. SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE. Sir Benjamin Vincent Sellon Brodie, Bt.,. died at his home, Brockham Warren, Dorking, yesterday at the age of 75. He succeeded as third baronet on the death of his father in 1880. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and a barrister at Lincoln's Inn, he was a county councillor and then a county alderman for Surrey, High Sheriff in 1912, and a member of the Surrey Education Committee. He owned about 1,000 acres in Surrey. Sir Benjamin married in 1887 Caroline, daughter of the late Captain J. R. Woodriff, R.N., his Majesty's Serjeant-at-Arms, and they had one son and two daughters. Lady Brodie died in 1895. The heir is Captain Benjamin Colin (amended to Collins) Brodie, who was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He served throughout the War with the Surrey Yeomanry and the 4th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders, winning the M.C. and bar. Later he became a captain in the Army Educational Corps. He is married and has two sons and one daughter.] [SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE Captain Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, MC, the fourth baronet, died on Monday. He served with the Surrey Yeomanry at Gallipoli, with the Gordon Highlanders and the 1st Highland Brigade, British Army of the Rhine, in the First World War. He was joint headmaster of Holyrood School, Bognor Regis, from 1927 to 1940. He was twice chairman of the governors of Tonbridge School; and from 1945 to 1960 of Judd School, Tonbridge. He was twice Master of the Skinners' Company. Brodie succeeded his father in 1938 and the heir to the baronetcy is Brodie's son, Benjamin David Ross Brodie.]
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Details Born 19 June 1869 at Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, son of Robert Addison, a farmer, and Susan Fanthorpe his wife. He was educated at Trinity College, Harrogate, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was later demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy. He qualified in 1891 and took the Fellowship in 1895. He was professor of anatomy at University College, Sheffield, 1895-1901, and edited the *Quarterly Medical Journal for Yorkshire and adjoining counties*. He came back to London in 1901 on his appointment as lecturer in anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital and served also as dean of the medical school. He edited G V Ellis's *Demonstrations of Anatomy*, 12th edition, in 1905. In 1907 he went back to his old hospital, St Bartholomew's, as lecturer in anatomy, and held the post till 1913 although he had entered active political life in 1910. He was an examiner in anatomy for the Fellowship from 1903 to 1908, with (Sir) Arthur Keith, FRCS as his colleague. It was about the turn of the century that the medical schools of London began to provide specialized teaching in anatomy, in place of the instruction formerly given by the hospital surgeons. Addison was among the able men first chosen for these whole-time posts; Keith in the same period was making his mark at the London Hospital. Each had taken the Fellowship, not with the intention of practising surgery, but as an indication of proficiency to teach surgical students. Addison's main contribution to anatomy is recorded in an exhaustive paper, running through three volumes of the *Journal of Anatomy*, 1899-1901, "On the topographical anatomy of the abdominal viscera in man". The substance of this research was given as Hunterian lectures at the College in 1901, and Addison made further contributions to the subject in subsequent years (see the bibliography below). Keith has pointed out, in an authoritative survey of Addison's anatomical work in the *British Journal of Surgery*, 1952, that this three-dimensional mapping of the abdomen was based on some 10,000 measurements made on forty bodies, and that it provided for the first time a precise guide to the range of size and position of the contents of the abdomen. Addison himself pointed out that this had its immediate clinical value for the surgeon, at that time when operative intervention in the abdomen was being rapidly developed. The work is remembered today through "Addison's transpyloric plane", the imagined plane of section to which he related his measurements. Addison had entered St Bartholomew's Hospital as a student in 1886 and was taught anatomy by C B Lockwood, FRCS with James Berry, FRCS as demonstrator. The other teachers of anatomy at Bart's during his student years (1886-89) were John Langton, F Howard Marsh, W Bruce Clarke, W H H Jessop, E W Roughton, Edgar W Willett, all Fellows of the College, and W P Herringham, FRCP. Lockwood had recently founded the Anatomical Society, which Addison joined in 1895; be became its honorary secretary in 1904-06, and was elected an honorary member in 1926. Addison had long been interested in the political aspect of social and economic questions, and entered active political life at the time of the Liberal party's triumph. He was elected MP for the Hoxton division of Shoreditch in 1910, and his able support of Lloyd George, when the national insurance scheme was being passed through Parliament in 1911, marked him for office. He was parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education when war broke out in 1914. Lloyd George, on becoming Minister of Munitions, brought Addison to his side as under-secretary. His skilful administration, especially in matters of costing, won high praise, and when Lloyd George became Premier he succeeded to the Ministry of Munitions (1917) and was made a Privy Councillor. Later, as Minister for Reconstruction and as the first Minister of Health from 1918 to 1921, he promoted an ambitious programme of state-assisted housing. Addison by now was more radical than his leader and when he failed to win Lloyd George's support for his scheme, he resigned from the government, and soon made known his whole-hearted conversion to the Labour party. At the general election of 1929 he was elected Labour member for Swindon, and in Ramsay MacDonald's government he became Minister of Agriculture (1930-31) and sponsored the first Agricultural Marketing Acts. Agriculture was, next to medicine, his chief personal interest. He was the son of a farmer, and in later life successfully farmed his own land in Buckinghamshire. He lost his seat at the general election of 1931, and was an outspoken critic of the "National" coalition government. He was re-elected for Swindon in 1934, but lost the seat at the next general election in 1935. At the coronation of King George VI (1937) he was raised to the peerage as Baron Addison of Stallingborough, County Lincoln, and he became Dominions Secretary when the Labour party came again to office in 1945. He made his greatest mark however as leader of the House of Lords, when he had to press the government's nationalization schemes in face of a very strong opposition, and did so with urbane ability. He was advanced to the rank of a Viscount in 1945, and was awarded on 3 December 1946 the rare distinction of a Knighthood of the Garter. As leader of his party in the House of Lords he won "the respect and abiding affection of all with whom he had to do, whatever their political views". Formal tributes were paid to his memory in the House on 30 January 1952, and a memorial service was held the same day in Westminster Abbey. Addison was of solid build and middle height. His thick hair was raven- black in youth and snow-white in age. His colleagues celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday in 1946 by a complimentary luncheon at the House of Lords, and his eightieth birthday was also marked (*British Medical Journal*, 1946, 1, 993 and 1949, 1, 1132). Addison married twice: (1) in 1902 Isobel, daughter of Archibald Gray; Mrs Addison died on 22 August 1934, at Peterley Farm, Great Missenden, leaving two sons and two daughters; (2) in 1937 Dorothy, daughter of J P Low, who survived him. He died at Radnage, near High Wycombe, on 11 December 1951, aged 82, and was succeeded in the peerage by his elder son. There was a private funeral at Radnage Church, and a memorial service in Westminster Abbey. Publications: On the topographical anatomy of the abdominal viscera in man, especially the gastro-intestinal canal (Hunterian lectures, Royal College of Surgeons). *Journal of Anatomy*, 1899, 33, 565; 1900, 34, 427; 1901, 35, 166 and 277. Also *Lancet*, 1901, 1, 759, 911, and 1059; and, as a book: Edinburgh, Neill and Co. 1901, 116 pp. Discussion on same subject. *Journal of Anatomy*, 1904, 38, Proceedings pages xxx-xlv. A discussion on the topographical anatomy of the thoracic and abdominal viscera from a systematic and clinical standpoint (British Medical Association, annual scientific meeting, Cheltenham, 1901). *Brit med J.* 1901, 2, 1065. Cervical ribs. *Journal of Anatomy*, 1902, 36, Proceedings pages lxxiv-lxxvi. *Demonstrations of anatomy* by G V Ellis, 12th edition by C Addison. London, 1905. On the future of the medical services (speech at dinner of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 2 October 1937). *Brit med J*. 1937, 2, 766. *The betrayal of the slums*. London: Jenkins, 1922. *Politics from within, 1911-18*. Preface by Lord Carson. Jenkins, 1924. 2 vols. *Practical socialism*. Labour Publishing Co. 1926. 2 vols. *The nation and its food*. Benn, 1929. *Religion and politics*. Epworth Press, 1931. *Problems of a socialist government*. Preface by Stafford Cripps. Gollancz, 1933. *Four and a half years* (a personal diary from June 1914 to January 1919). Hutchinson, 1934. 2 vols.
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