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First Title value, for Searching Heatherley, Francis (1862 - 1932)

2024-05-08T01:05:31Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation Cardiologist Public health officer
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was house physician and obstetric resident officer in 1888, and was clinical assistant at the Evelina Hospital for Children. He then went to Birkenhead and acted as medical officer to the soap works at Port Sunlight, afterwards moving to Audenshaw, Manchester. During the war he received a commission as captain, RAMC, dated 10 July 1918, and subsequently became superintendent of the Manchester Heart Clinic, and cardiologist employed by the Ministry of Pensions. He died on 5 April 1932 at Ashville, Audenshaw, Manchester.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004184
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First Title value, for Searching Gilder, Manchersha Dhanjibhai (1882 - 1979)

2024-05-08T01:05:31Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08 2019-11-04
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Occupation Cardiologist
Details Manchersha Gilder was an eminent cardiologist in India who switched to the political field to hold important ministerial posts, twice to face imprisonment and to become Mahatma Gandhi's personal physician and cardiologist. He was born in Bombay on 5 November 1882, one of the five children of Dhanjibhai Dorabji, a school teacher and President of the All-India Temperance Association, and Navazbai Bharucha. He was educated at St Xavier's College and the Grant Medical College, Bombay, where he distinguished himself as prizeman and medallist. Coming to London he studied medicine at University College Hospital, qualifying in 1910, enjoying two house posts and then working with Sir Thomas Lewis. He achieved the double distinction of passing the FRCS and the MD in the same year (the first Parsi to do so). He was unable to practice surgery owing to a juvenile cataract and embarked on cardiology and research on the human electrocardiogram with Sir Thomas Lewis, contributing with publications on these and on the pulse. Returning to India in 1912 he was the first to start cardiological practice and own a cardiograph (this machine recorded on glass slides and is preserved in the cardiology museum of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Bombay). He held many staff and teaching appointments in Bombay and was active in the development of the King Edward VII Hospital, and became President of the Bombay Medical Union and President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Other interests included public health and a special interest in Alcoholics Anonymous, being personally responsible for the treatment of patients in six free beds in St George's Hospital, Bombay. He had a considerable library which he bequeathed to this hospital. His political life began in 1926, first as a Member of Congress, then as Minister of Health 1936-1939, and again in 1945-1952. He first met Gandhi in 1932, attending the fast at Yeravda jail. He himself was arrested in 1939, released after eight months and re-arrested during the 'Quit India' movement 1942-44, again attending a Gandhi fast, and was released on the same day as the Mahatma. He was elected Mayor of Bombay in 1943 - the only Mayor to be elected but never to occupy office because of imprisonment. From 1952 to 1960 he became a Member of Rajya Sabha, Delhi. He died on 20 May 1979, his wife Dr Bai Hirabai Manchersha Nanavati, obstetrician and gynaecologist, having predeceased him by 10 years. He was survived by his only daughter Dr Ketayun Machersha Gilder, who studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, London, before qualifying in Bombay.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006519
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First Title value, for Searching Gardner, Dame Frances Violet (1913 - 1989)

2024-05-08T01:05:31Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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Occupation Cardiologist Physician
Details Frances Violet Gardner, the youngest of three daughters and the fourth child of Sir Eric, farmer and Conservative MP for East Berkshire, and Lady Gardner, was born on 28 February 1913. She was educated at Headington School, Oxford, Westfield College, London, and the Royal Free Hospital Medical School. On qualifying in 1940, with distinction in three subjects, she did a number of resident jobs and was then appointed medical registrar at the Royal Free Hospital in 1943. Two years later she became clinical assistant in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford. After a travelling fellowship at Harvard Medical School she was appointed to the consultant staff of the Royal Free Hospital as general physician and cardiologist in 1946. She also held appointments at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and the Mothers' Hospital. Frances was a dedicated clinician and a gifted teacher who was uncompromising in her pursuit of the highest standards. It was not easy to see the vulnerable and generous woman behind the defensive shield of intense reserve and the often abrupt public manner. Some were intimidated, others antagonised; but her students, however overawed, were quick to perceive her innate honesty and strong sense of justice. During the second world war she remained in London and did much for the calm organisation of casualty reception. She and George Qvist, whom she subsequently married, fortified the morale of students and nursing staff during those difficult years. After the war she was appointed Dean of the Royal Free Hospital Medical School from 1962 to 1973. She actively supported the establishment of the academic department of medicine, giving up beds in order to ensure the required complement for Sheila Sherlock, the first Professor. In 1958 she eventually married George Qvist and, although they were two fiercely independent, strong-minded and somewhat eccentric characters, this was a marriage of true minds and great affection: at work they lived separate and independent lives; at home they shared leisure and pleasures. Both separately and together they gave tremendous help, often financial, to many a student in distress. Having no children of their own their students became something of an extended family. Outside her professional life Frances was a keen gardener and she also maintained a fine allotment near her home on Highgate Hill and was a familiar sight on her electric milk float there. Equally familiar in central London, when not driving her Rolls Royce, was her small electric car. Her husband's death from multiple myelomatosis in 1981, after a long illness, was a crushing blow. But Frances, in his memory, became a most generous benefactor of the Royal College of Surgeons, funding the curatorship of the Hunterian Museum (now the George Qvist Curator), and also the regular George Qvist evenings, to which groups of students from the London teaching hospitals are invited to anatomical and clinical demonstrations, followed by an excellent meal. In 1983 she became FRCS by election in recognition of her unfailing support for George and the College throughout his illness. During her last years she gave notable backing to the Royal Free Medical School both as a member of Council and as its President, and she continued in consulting practice until shortly before her death on 10 July 1989. At her funeral, on 19 July, the oration at St Anne's Church, Highgate, was given by Professor Ruth Bowden, OBE.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007275
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