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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Thomas (1814 - 1892)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-28
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Occupation Chemist General surgeon
Details Practised for a time at 9 New Bridge Street, EC, where he was Surgeon to the Western City Dispensary. Retiring from this post and also from general practice, he went to live at 4 Vere Street, Cavendish Square, and was appointed Lecturer on Chemistry at the Middlesex Hospital, a position which he held for many years. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical, Astronomical, and Chemical Societies. Taylor was connected with the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons as early as 1838, when he was employed on the *Catalogue of the Calculi, or Concretions*. In February, 1845, he was paid £100 honorarium for this work, and in October of the same year received a further honorarium of £100. *The Catalogue of Concretions in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons*, as he afterwards called it, being now completed, he wrote a farewell letter to the Museum Committee. His name does not appear in the lists of College Officers, but in February, 1844, we find him reporting to the Museum Committee on certain experiments he had made on the preservation of specimens put up under a high pressure. The full title of Taylor's catalogue is: *A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Calculi and other Animal Concretions contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London* (2 vols, 4th, coloured plates, London, 1842 and 1845). Taylor died at his residence, Warwick House, Warwick Place, Grove End Road, NW, on March 6th, 1892.
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First Title value, for Searching Fitzsimons, Robert Allen (1892 - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation Chemist General practitioner General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Robert Allen Fitzsimons was born on 16 March 1892 at Maugherow, County Sligo, Ireland, and educated there at Summerhill College. He entered the Customs and Excise branch of the Civil Service by competitive examination in 1911 and in 1912 was transferred from Ireland to the Custom House at Billingsgate, London, where he rose to the position of Government Analyst. Although he loved his work as a chemist he decided on a career in medicine. He studied in the evenings at Birkbeck College and took the BSc in physics, chemistry and zoology in 1920. He was offered a scholarship to Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and resigned from the Civil Service in 1921. After further distinctions and prizes he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1926 and took the MB BS with distinction in surgery in 1930. After a post as house surgeon at Charing Cross he was in general practice at Brixton. He then moved to a practice in Cardiff and, while there, held part-time posts as a demonstrator in anatomy at the Welsh National School of Medicine and as a clinical assistant at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. In 1931 he became surgical registrar at Charing Cross. He took the FRCS in 1932 and the following year was appointed to the consultant staff. After a part-time appointment as surgical registrar to the National Orthopaedic Hospital he became in 1936 surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital. His interest in fractures continued throughout his surgical career. He started a fracture clinic at Charing Cross and held this on two mornings a week, as well as a general surgical out-patient clinic, until his retirement in 1957. His research was on the healing of fractures and his clinical interest surgery of the thyroid and breast. During the second world war he was surgeon with charge of air-raid casualties at Charing Cross and he also worked at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, and the Metropolitan. He was a loyal friend and colleague with a keen sense of humour. His memory was phenomenal which might be attributed to his mother's custom of teaching him poetry to recite as they walked over the hills to and from school. He read poetry all his life and delighted his family and friends with his recitations. His other interests included music, art and drawing and his sketches during ward rounds and teaching sessions in his clinics were very fine. He loved using his hands and restored many works of art. Photography was another of his interests and he was also a keen gardener and rose-grower. In April 1927 he married Dr Mary Patricia McKelvey, a Westminster graduate whom he met at Charing Cross Hospital, which at that time was providing clinical facilities for students from the Westminster while it was being rebuilt. Their son, James Thomas, qualified as a doctor and became reader in physiology at Cambridge University and their daughter, Judith Mary, specialised as a paediatric neurologist. He died on 2 May 1978 aged 86 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Mouat, Frederic John (1816 - 1897)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-22
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Occupation Chemist General surgeon
Details Born at Maidstone on May 18th, 1816, the second son of Surgeon James Mouat, King's Hussars, 13th Light Infantry, and 15th Dragoons. Surgeon General Sir James Mouat, VC, KCB, FRCS his elder brother (qv) survived him for about a year. Frederic John Mouat studied in Paris with the intention of entering the Army, then turning to medicine he attended University College, London, and Edinburgh University, where he graduated MD in 1839. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Army on January 3rd, 1840, and was sent successively to the 21st Fusiliers at Fort William, to the 4th Bengal Native Infantry, and to the 1st Battery of Artillery at Dum Dum. He was for a year Deputy Apothecary and Assistant Opium Examiner to the Government, at the same time conducting experiments on some dye-yielding lichens. Having drawn up a detailed memorandum on Indian Industrial Products, he was appointed by Lord Auckland Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica, also Secretary and Treasurer of the New Bengal Medical College, in 1841. He was the Resident Principal Officer in control of the College from 1841-1853, and obtained for it recognition by the RCS and by the University of London. He remodelled the system of clinical teaching in the wards and rendered into Hindustani an Anatomy for the use of the medical class, also the London Pharmacopaeia. As Chemical Examiner to the Government he served on the Select Artillery Committee and experimented on percussion caps. In conjunction with Colonel Edward Ludlow he invented a waterproof glaze to prevent rapid deterioration of the caps in a tropical climate. Some of the percussion caps having failed at the Battle of Inkerman, Mouat investigated the cause, and on the Chinese Expedition the muskets of the Cameronians, the 49th and 65th Foot were supplied with percussion caps filled according to Mouat's instructions so as to be damp-proof. He and Colonel Ludlow also experimented in the laboratory of the Medical College on field rockets. Mouat also submitted rubber to chemical analysis. Appointed Secretary to the Council of Education of Bengal on April 12th, 1843, he produced in 1846 a scheme, on the lines of the University of London, for Indian Universities, and in 1854 Sir Charles Wood recommended what was essentially Mouat's scheme, which was adopted by the Council of Education and by the Indian Government. From the Professorship of Chemistry Mouat passed in 1845 to that of Medical Jurisprudence, and in 1849 to the Professorship of Medicine, including charge of the Medical Wards in the Hospital. He was gazetted Inspector-General of Jails in Bengal on December 18th, 1855, and advocated remunerative prison labour as a way to reform prisoners and make prisons self-supporting. The outbreak of the Mutiny caused Mouat to be made President of a Committee in November, 1857, to explore the Andaman Islands in search of a suitable site for a convict settlement; his report was published in 1859. In a fight with the Andamanese he was wounded in the mouth and had two ribs broken. A harbour was discovered on the west coast of the Great Andamans and named Port Mouat. He twice reported to the Government on coolie emigration and its dangers. He founded the Bethune Society of Calcutta, so named after John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, Indian Legislator (1801-1851). Mouat retired on December 3rd, 1870, and on this occasion the Mohammedan and Hindu communities presented addresses recapitulating the good work done by him as the developer of the idea of Indian education, which had been inaugurated by Lord Macaulay under Lord William Bentinck's administration. Although no Knighthood or Companionship of an Order recognized it, the name of Mouat stands alongside those of Macaulay and Bentinck, Wood and Canning, in the spread of English education and the origin of the Universities in India. Mouat was a fluent speaker in French and Hindustani, as well as in English, and he presented a valuable library to the Calcutta Medical College. On retirement he had the rank of Deputy Inspector-General. On his return to England he was appointed one of the Local Government Inspectors until 1887. He contributed much to the *Lancet*, also to Blue Books on Prison Reforms, Opium and Alcohol, Organization of Medical Relief, Hospital Construction and Management, and Repression of Crime. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1890-1892. He visited and reported on the Ambulances in the north of France in 1871. On November 9th, 1876, he was present, as the representative of the Local Government Board, in the Tower of London during the removal of the pavement in the chancel of the Church of St Peter ad Vincula when the skeletons of Anne Boleyn, the Duke of Monmouth, and others were found and identified. He founded and endowed a Scholarship for Medical Students at the University of Edinburgh. He died at 12 Durham Villas, Kensington, on January 12th, 1897, and was cremated at Woking. He married (1) in 1842 Mary Rennards Boyes, and (2) in 1889 Margaret Key, daughter of John Fawcus, JP, who survived him. A good portrait accompanies his biography in the *Medical Reporter* of Calcutta (1894, iii, 314), and a small reproduction is in the College Collection. His bust by H Thornycroft, RA, he left to University College, London. Publications:- *Observations on the Nosological Arrangement of the Bengal Medical Returns, with a few Cursory Remarks on Medical Topography and Military Hygiene*, 8vo, Calcutta, 1845. *Elements of Anatomy: compiled from the Most Recent Authorities and translated into Hindustani*, 8vo, illustrated, Calcutta, 1848. *An Atlas of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, with Descriptive Letterpress in English and Hindustani*, published by order of Government, fol, 50 coloured plates, Calcutta, 1849. *Reports on Jails Visited and Inspected in Bengal, Behar, and Arracan*, 8vo, 2 plans, Calcutta, 1856. *The Andaman Islands; with Notes on Barren Island* (Report of the Committee appointed Nov 20, 1857, to select a Site for the Establishment of a Penal Settlement), 8vo, 6 plates and a plan, Calcutta, 1859. *Selections from the Records of the Government of India (Home Dept)*, No XXV. *The British Soldier in India*, 8vo, London, 1859. *On Prison Statistics and Discipline in Lower Bengal*, 8vo, 1860? *Report on the Diet of Prisoners in the Jails of the Lower Provinces of the Bengal Presidency* (with Appendix No II, showing in detail the strength, admissions, deaths, dietary, and cubical space of the three quinquennial periods of 1839-1843, 1844-1848, and 1852-1856, in the Jails of the Lower Provinces, with Abstracts of the same), 4to, Calcutta, 1860. *Report on the Classified Dietary of 1862 for Prisoners in the Jails of the Lower Provinces of the Bengal Presidency* (with Appendix showing the results of the new dietary, as exhibited by the weights of the prisoners subjected to it, on admission and discharge; the sickness and mortality that prevailed among them; and the cost of the measure during the continuance of the experiment, viz, from the 1st of May to the 31st of October, 1862), 4to, Calcutta, 1863. *Adventures and Researches among the Andaman Islands*, 8vo, London, 1863. "Special Report on Wounds and Injuries received in Battle," 8vo, 1865?; reprinted from the *Medical and Surgical History of the New Zealand War*, by Sir James Mouat, VC (qv). *Memorandum on the Duties, etc, of Inspectors of Sanitary Arrangements*, fol, 1868. *A Visit to Some of the Battlefields and Ambulances of the North of France*, 8vo, London, 1871. "Medical Statistics, with Especial Reference to Cholera and Syphilis," 8vo, London, 1874; reprinted from *Trans Epidemiol Soc Lond*, 1866-73, iii, 376. *Note on the Statistics of Child-birth in the Lying-in Wards of the Workhouse Infirmaries of England and Wales for the Ten Years* 1871-80, 8vo, nd. *The Death Tribute of England to India*; being an examination of the deaths and invaliding of officers of HM British Forces serving in India, from 1861-1870 inclusive, considered with special reference to the question of the present value of European life in India, 8vo, London, 1875. *Repression of Crime; Address delivered before the Social Science Congress at Dublin*, Oct 4, 1881, 8vo, London, 1881. *Memorial to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for India, in Council*, 8vo, nd. *Hospital Construction and Management* (with H SAXON SNELL), 4to, 52 plates and map, London, 1883-4. He added a note on dry sewage to W R Gilbert Hickey's *The Carbonization or Dry Distillation System*, 8vo, Darjeeling, 1869. He published a Persian translation, with Appendix, of Spilsbury and Samachurn Dutt's *Hindustani Version of the London Pharmacopoeia*, ed 1836, 8vo, Calcutta, 1845. He wrote extensively on prisons and their discipline (*see* his *International Prison Statistics, International Prisons Congress*, 1890). *A History of the Statistical Society of London*, 1885. *Origin and Progress of Universities in India*, 1888. Much of his work in Blue Books, etc, had to do with the condition of the English poor. Lieut-Colonel Crawford, IMS, adds to the foregoing list (Crawford's *History of the Indian Medical Service*, 1914, especially vol ii, p. 177). *Rough Notes of a Trip to Mauritius, Réunion, and Ceylon*, 1853. *Value of European Life in India*, 1873.
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First Title value, for Searching Wellcome, Sir Henry Solomon (1853 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-04
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Occupation Archaeologist Chemist Collector Pharmacist Philanthropist
Details Born in a log cabin at Almond, Portage County, 125 miles from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on 21 August 1853, the son of the Rev S C Wellcome and Mary Curtis, his wife; his father was a missionary working amongst the Indian tribes. The son attended the schools on the frontier, including one which was held in a typical Western log hut schoolhouse. As a boy he was in the midst of the great Sioux Indian war in Minnesota, when more than a thousand whites were massacred. He was made captain of the boys whose duty it was to cast rifle bullets for the defence of the settlement, and actively assisted his uncle, a surgeon, in treating the wounded. He chose chemistry and pharmacy as his career, studied in Chicago, took his diploma in Philadelphia, and afterwards went to New York, where he wrote several articles for scientific journals. He then travelled widely in the United States and studied the native cinchona forests in South America. He came to London in 1880 and with S M Burroughs founded a business for making fine chemicals, alkaloids, and pharmaceutical products. The firm, as Burroughs and Wellcome, was amongst the first to take advantage of modern chemistry and machinery to supply pure drugs in a solid and compressed form. The drugs were sold under the registered name of "Tabloids", a term so convenient that it was soon adopted into the English language for anything compressed into a small form. The word was employed by other manufacturers until on 14 March 1884 the Court of Appeal determined that it could only be used by Messrs Burroughs and Wellcome. Burroughs died and Wellcome carried on the business alone, until in 1914 it was converted into the Wellcome Foundation, with Wellcome as the governing director. He took out letters of naturalization as a British subject on 28 October 1910. He married on 25 June 1901 Gwendoline Maude Syria, daughter of Dr Thomas John Barnardo, the founder of Barnardo's Home. She, after a divorce, became Mrs Somerset Morgan, leaving him with one son, who survived him. He died in London after an operation on 27 July 1936, leaving a very large fortune, which he had placed in trust for the public benefit. Wellcome was a man of varied interests. Foremost came his business. From small beginnings he raised it to a world-wide concern, and being a practical man he preferred experiment to theory. He was not content to supply pure drugs, but he wished to know why they acted and how they could be put to the best use. For this purpose he founded in 1894 a physiological research laboratory first at Brockwell Hall, Herne Hill, and afterwards at Beckenham. In 1896 he opened a chemical research laboratory, in 1913 a medical research museum which included tropical medicine and hygiene with anthropology, and in 1915 an entomological field research centre at Claremont. Each of these laboratories was placed in charge of a highly skilled superintendent and much experimental work of great scientific value emanated from them. It became evident, however, that they were too widely separated and their work was co-ordinated in 1913 in a Bureau of Scientific Research, and in 1930 they were centralized at the Wellcome Research Institution, a fine building at the corner of the Euston Road and Gordon Street which was opened by Lord Moynihan on 25 November 1931. Tropical medicine interested him from the time he was amongst the first civilians to enter the Sudan after it had been recaptured in 1885. In 1900 he founded the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories in connexion with the Gordon Memorial College at Khartum, placed the laboratories in charge of Sir Andrew Balfour, and attached to them a floating research laboratory, which cruised through the waterways of the Nile and its tributaries in the Sudan. A few years later he gave great help in securing the foundation of the Gorgas Tropical Research Laboratories on the Panama Canal. Next in interest for Wellcome came his collection of an historical medical museum, comprising anthropological specimens, medical appliances, coins, pictures, statuary, books, and druggists' wares. It was for many years housed in inadequate premises in Wigmore Street, where it was too little known to the general public. It was mainly gathered together by C J S Thompson, afterwards keeper of the historical section at the Royal College of Surgeons' Museum, and was rearranged by his successor L G Malcolm, MA. As an archaeologist Wellcome began excavations in the Sudan in 1901 and continued them in 1910, making Gebel Moya his centre and being amongst the first to recognize the value of aerial photography in field exploration. He investigated more particularly various sites in the province of Sennar, and was especially interested in the excavations of the Bible city of Lachish. During the war of 1914-18 he instituted a special commission to secure improvements in the design of Army field ambulances. He also constructed and equipped a chemical and bacteriological motor field research laboratory, which was used in Palestine and Egypt. At different times he founded the Lady Stanley Maternity Hospital (1927), a medical hospital dispensary in Uganda, and (1908) placed a fund under the control of the China Medical Missionary Association to translate into Chinese the various medical, surgical, and chemical textbooks required by the native students, who were being educated on the lines of European medicine. Many honours came to him from various quarters. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1932, he was invested with the Cross of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France, 1934, he was admitted an LLD (1927) of the University of Edinburgh, and was elected FSA in 1913 and FRS in 1932. In New York he was awarded the Remington honour medal, the highest professional award in pharmacology, and in London (1885) he received the Royal Humane Society's medal for a gallant rescue from the Thames. Personally Wellcome was a quiet, reticent, and almost shy man, slightly below middle height, clean-shaven, alert, and quickly brightening up when he became interested in some topic of conversation. Generous and often lavish, he was not free from faults. He was a hard man, not easy to work with or to satisfy. He was arbitrary, and thought so little of those who had served him well and faithfully for many years that he would dismiss them almost at a moment's notice and seemingly without sufficient reason; in other words, he treated distinguished scientific men as though they were mere employees. A buyer of books on a large scale, he left them unsorted and uncatalogued. There was in him therefore something of the spirit of a miser. His great library was opened to the public after the second world war. In January 1924 the Wellcome Foundation Ltd was formed, to take over all the business activities of Burroughs Wellcome and Co. and the various institutions and museums founded by Wellcome, who held the whole of the share capital. By his will the shares of the Wellcome Foundation were vested in trustees for the maintenance of the Research Undertaking Charity and the Museum and Library Charity. (*Brit med J* 1937, 1, 242 and leading article at p 224.) In 1941 the Wellcome Foundation joined with other companies to form the Therapeutic Research Corporation of Great Britain. On 6 December 1937 the sale of his personal collections, including the contents of his house at Gloucester Gate, Regent's Park, was begun. The collections included some 700 chairs and settees by Chippendale and other masters, European and Oriental; weapons and fire-arms; portraits; porcelain, pottery, and glass; needlework and oriental textiles; and the largest known collection of models of boats (*The Times*, 2 December 1937, p 12e). Publications: *The story of Metlakhatala*, 1887 [The history of the Indian nation to which his father ministered]. Wellcome also wrote many chemical and Galenical reports.
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