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First Title value, for Searching Eisenhammer, Stephen (1907 - 1995)

2024-04-29T01:27:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist
Details Stephen Elsenhammer received his medical education in Cape Town and Edinburgh, qualifying MB ChB Edinburgh in 1930. He obtained his Fellowship in 1941 and specialised in proctology, holding house positions at St Mark's Hospital before returning to South Africa and practising in Johannesburg for many years. He died on 27 March 1995 at the age of 88 in East Surrey Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Laurence, Alberto Ernest ( - 2012)

2024-04-29T01:27:45Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-05-13 2019-04-25
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Occupation Coloproctologist Colorectal surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Alberto Laurence was a distinguished Argentinian coloproctologist. He was born in Buenos Aires on 17 July 1915, the son of Hector Ernesto Laurence, a dentist, and Dora Catalina Laurence née Small, who died when he was a child. The family had ties to the UK: his maternal great grandfather, Harry Wells, was a vice consul in Argentina and his father was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Laurence was educated at St George’s College in Quilmes, a province of Buenos Aires, and then at the National School Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. He went on to study medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, qualifying in 1941. He carried out his internship at the Ramos Mejia Hospital, Buenos Aires and then joined the staff of the British Hospital of Buenos Aires. He was an assistant surgeon at the hospital for 22 years, then chief of the surgical service for 16 years. For two years, he was a member of the committee of management. His initial interest was in vascular surgery; in 1949, he edited a textbook on varicose veins *Varices del miembro inferior* (Buenos Aires, El Ateneo), which ran to three editions. He later transferred to coloproctology and co-edited two colorectal textbooks, one on the cancer of the rectum and sigmoid colon with Allan Murray (1967) and one on diverticular disease of the colon with Edward Donnelly (1979). He was president of the Sociedad Argentina de Coloproctología in 1954 and of the Sociedad Argentina de Gastroenterología in 1965, of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Proctología in 1972, the Academia Argentina de Cirugía in 1978 and the Asociación Argentina de Cirugía in 1982. In 2011, he received the award of master of coloproctology from the Sociedad Argentina de Coloproctología. He was a founding member and, in 1986, vice president of the International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons. He was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1989. In Latin America, he received awards from Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Peru. In 1987, he edited a book on distinguished Argentinian surgeons *Grandes figuras de la cirugica Argentina* (Editorial LEA). In retirement, he wrote an autobiography *Recuerdos de un cirujano* (Buenos Aires, Ediciones Pasco, c.2003). He married Marta Maria Oucinde in 1943 and they had two children, Gloria and Alex, and grandchildren and great grandchildren. Alberto Laurence died on 16 January 2012 at the age of 96.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Lionel Evan (1910 - 2002)

2024-04-29T01:27:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist
Details Lionel Jones was born in London on 5 October 1910, the son of Harry Evan, an architect, and Louisa Ada, his wife. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, from which he followed his brother Bertram to St Thomas's Hospital with a Merchant Taylors' scholarship. He had an outstanding career as a student, winning the Musgrove and Tite scholarships. After junior posts at St Mark's under Naunton Morgan, Max Page, E T C Milligan and Lloyd Davies, he worked in Birmingham in the Emergency Medical Service, and then joined the RAF, reaching the rank of Squadron Leader. He was appointed consultant surgeon in Coventry and Rugby in 1948, retiring in 1976. His main interest was proctology. He married a Miss Cooper. They had one son, Brian, who became a doctor, and one daughter, a nurse. He was involved with his local church and had many interests including painting, golf and gardening. He died on 22 May 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Mogg, Geoffrey Alan Gerring (1947 - 1999)

2024-04-29T01:27:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation Coloproctologist Colorectal surgeon General surgeon
Details Geoffrey Mogg was a consultant general surgeon at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury. He was born in Cardiff and studied medicine at Cambridge. He went to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical training. After junior posts in surgery he emigrated to Brisbane, Australia, in 1980 to become a university lecturer, staff surgeon, and the director of surgery at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital. There he expanded his interest in coloproctology and began to study the management of postoperative pain by means of epidural anaesthesia. In 1990 he returned to England as a consultant at St Cross Hospital, Rugby, where he promoted a day surgery unit. In 1997 he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon to Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, where he set up a rectal bleeding clinic. Six months later, he was found to have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, from which he died on 28 September 1999. He left a wife, Joan, two daughters and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Cutait, Daher Elias (1913 - 2001)

2024-04-29T01:27:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22 2016-02-02
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Occupation Coloproctologist Colorectal surgeon General surgeon
Details Daher Cutait was nominated the 'Father of Latin-American Colo-Proctology' by the Latin-American Colo-Proctology Association. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1913, and was educated at the University of São Paulo. After graduating in 1939, he won a scholarship provided by the Institute of International Education of New York, and later by the Kellogg Foundation of Michigan and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau, to study in the United States. He worked with Green Carter and Whipple at Presbyterian Hospital, New York, and then moved to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor under Frederick Coller. Towards the end of his three years he visited the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Lahey Clinic, Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic. He returned to Brazil as an academic surgeon in the University of São Paulo-Hospital das Clínicas, becoming in 1947 head of colo-proctology, a post he retained until he retired in 1983. His service became one of the most prestigious in the world and he trained hundreds of surgeons from South America and elsewhere. He published three textbooks on surgery of the bowel and intensive care, and was much sought-after as a visiting professor all over the world. His most important contribution to the speciality was the 'pull-through' operation for cancer of the rectum and the megacolon caused by Chagas' disease, which he developed independently and at the same time as Rupert Turnbull. He was President of the Brazilian Society of Colo-Proctology, the Brazilian College of Surgeons, the Latin-American Surgical Federation, the International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons, and the Brazilian chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He presided over the World Congress of Colo-Proctology in 1986. He was awarded honorary fellowships of innumerable international medical societies. In Brazil an annual Cutait oration was founded in his honour. In the early 1960s he established and directed the Hospital Sirio Libanes, a not-for-profit institution that became a referral centre for complex cases. He married Yvonne in 1948, and had four children, one of whom followed him into surgery. There are ten grandchildren. His autobiography, *A doctor; a life*, was published in 2000. He died on 6 June 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Frederick Swinford (1853 - 1939)

2024-04-29T01:27:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist
Details Born on 17 January 1853 in Westbourne Terrace Road, London, W, the eldest son of Lewis Frederick Edwards, solicitor, and Frances Elizabeth, daughter of John Swinford of Minster Abbey, Isle of Thanet, his wife. His father came from Framlingham, Suffolk, lived at Mitcham, and practised in London. Swinford Edwards was educated at Dulwich College from June 1866 to September 1869, and on leaving school was sent for a short time to learn German at Leipzig and Stuttgart. He entered the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1871 and distinguished himself by his neatness in dissection, gaining the junior anatomical prize at the end of his first year and the senior prize in his second year. He was subsequently a house surgeon at the hospital, and assistant demonstrator of anatomy and teacher of operative surgery in the medical school. In 1880 he was elected assistant surgeon to the West London Hospital at Hammersmith, where he became in succession surgeon, consulting surgeon, and a member of the Board of Management. In 1881 he was appointed surgeon to the St Peter's Hospital for Stone, and in 1884 he became surgeon to St Mark's Hospital for Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum where he worked in conjunction with Sir Alfred Cooper, FRCS. He gradually abandoned general surgery and confined himself to the treatment of disease of the lower alimentary tract, which is now called proctology. He was amongst the first to treat piles by injection, instead of by the methods then in use of ligature, clamp and cautery, and excision. He served as president of the section of proctology at the Royal Society of Medicine, and was an honorary member of the French Association of Urology, the American Proctologic Society, and the Association internationale d'Urologie. He was also president of the West London Medico-chirurgical Society in the year 1902-3. Cheery, benevolent, and clubable he was always much interested in freemasonry, had passed the chair of the Cavendish Lodge, was a founding member of the Rahere Lodge of which he was the Worshipful Master in 1919, and was appointed Past Grand Deacon in the United Grand Lodge of England in 1926 and was Past Assistant Grand Sojourner in the same year. He married Constance Evelyn Jeannette Dudley Driver on 14 June 1890. She survived him with two daughters, the younger of whom served on the Board of Management of the West London Hospital and was a member of the Ladies Guild of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. He died at 68 Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Square, on 29 May 1939. Publications:- Examination of the bladder, and Clinical examination of the urethra, in Quain's *Dictionary of Medicine*, 3rd edition. London, 1902. Operations upon the rectum and anus. Burghard's *System of operative surgery*, 1909, 2, 633. *Diseases of the rectum, anus, and sigmoid colon*, by A. Cooper and F. S. Edwards. 3rd edition by Edwards. London, 1908.
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First Title value, for Searching Guerrier, Hugh Philip (1913 - 2002)

2024-04-29T01:27:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Hugh Guerrier was a consultant surgeon in Torbay. He was born in Muswell Hill, London, on 2 January 1913, the only son of Arthur Philip Guerrier, a solicitor, and his wife, Hilda Gwendolene née Davies, whose father was a general practitioner. Hugh was educated at Cambridge House School, Margate, and Highgate School. He first entered the insurance world, working for the Alliance Assurance Company, but in 1934 decided on a career switch to medicine. He studied at Guy's, where he proved himself to be a good tennis player. After qualifying in 1940, he continued in a wide variety of house appointments in and around London in the early war years. He was an outpatient officer at Guy's, then a resident obstetrician, house surgeon and physician at the Southern Hospital, Dartford, then an orthopaedic house surgeon at Lewisham. He finally took a post in Ipswich. He then joined the RAF as a Flight Lieutenant. On returning to civilian life, he gained his FRCS in 1947, and was a registrar at Guy's and then a senior registrar in the department of surgery, where he received training in the developing specialty of urology. In his formative years, he was influenced by Sir Heneage Ogilvie, F R Kilpatrick, W D Doherty and, during clinical assistant posts at St Peter's Hospital, by J Sandrey, and by W B Gabriel at St Mark's Hospital on the City Road. He was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at the Torbay Hospital, Torquay, in 1953, but he continued his specialist interests in urology and, to a lesser extent, proctology. He wrote articles on haematuria and haematospermia, contributed to the *Encyclopaedia for general practice* (edited by G F Abercombie and R M S McConaghey, London, Butterworths, 1963), and to the *Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine* on Paget's disease of the anus. He developed links with the established urology department in Bristol, with John Mitchell, Ashton Miller and Norman Slade, to keep this interest alive. It was in Torquay that he continued to enjoy tennis, also developing further outside interests in sailing, golf and gardening. He was an active member of many learned societies, including the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), of which he was an associate member, serving on it's council from 1970 to 1974. He hosted a successful annual meeting of BAUS in 1974 during his last year on council. Although separated from the metropolis, he was an active member of the sections of urology and proctology of the Royal Society of Medicine, rarely missing a meeting of either and serving on both councils. Many will remember him as a congenial and loyal colleague, whose quiet demeanour and whimsical sense of humour was welcoming. He married Shelagh Streatfeild, a doctor and an anaesthetic registrar at the Royal Free, in 1939. They had four sons, the eldest of whom became a consultant in ENT surgery in Winchester. He retired in 1977, and eventually moved to live in East Sussex, where he and his wife enjoyed gardening and some sailing. He found golf difficult in later years because of cardiac problems. Shelagh, his wife, died in 1988. Hugh continued to live in East Sussex, although his health gradually failed after a stroke. He died on 21 March 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008649
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First Title value, for Searching Lockhart-Mummery, John Percy (1875 - 1957)

2024-04-29T01:27:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25 2014-07-18
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Occupation Proctologist Coloproctologist
Details He was born at Hampstead on 14 February 1875, son of John Howard Mummery FRCS (1847-1926) and Mary Lily, his first wife, daughter of W Lockhart of Shanghai. John Howard Mummery (for a memoir of whom see *Plarr's Lives* 2, 81 and *British dental Journal* 1926, 47, 1023-7) was a prominent dental surgeon in London and had been President of the Odontological Society; he was elected a Fellow of the College in 1923 as a Member of 20 years' standing. His father, John R Mummery, had also been a dentist, but made his mark as an anthropologist. J P L Mummery's younger brother Stanley Parkes Mummery (1878-1945) MRCS also distinguished himself as a dental surgeon. John Percy Lockhart Mummery (in later life he hyphenated the double surname) was educated at the Leys School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the first part of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1897. He was appointed an assistant demonstrator of anatomy at Cambridge. Mummery took his clinical training at St George's Hospital, qualifying in 1899 and proceeding to the Fellowship in 1900 after holding resident posts at St George's, and winning the Thompson gold medal there. He also worked at the North Eastern (now Queen Elizabeth) Hospital for Children at Hackney and at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, but he really found his métier when he was appointed to the staff of St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum in 1903. He became senior surgeon on the retirement of Swinford Edwards in 1913 and was made emeritus surgeon when he himself retired in 1935; in 1940 he was appointed consulting surgeon and a vice-president. Lockhart-Mummery not only made a great career for himself, becoming probably the best-known proctologist in London, but he raised St Mark's from being a small institution into the front rank of special hospitals. His work is recorded in the *Collected Papers* published to celebrate the centenary of St Mark's in 1935. Lockhart-Mummery was a Hunterian professor at the College in 1904, lecturing on the physiology and treatment of surgical shock and collapse. The small book which he based on this lecture, *The after-treatment of operations* (1903), was extremely successful, running to four editions and being translated into several languages including Arabic. He won the Jacksonian Prize for 1908 with his essay on diseases of the colon, which he published and subsequently enlarged as *Diseases of the Rectum and Colon* 1923, second edition 1934. He was the first secretary and moving spirit of the British Proctological Society in 1913, and saw it become a section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1939, and became its President. He was also President of the section of proctology at the British Medical Association's annual meeting at Newcastle in 1921, and of the section of children's diseases in the Royal Society of Medicine. Lockhart-Mummery was one of the founders of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, first chairman of its executive committee, and active in its work till the end of his life. He was prominent in promoting the London International Cancer Conference of 1928, was much interested in heredity in cancer and a pioneer of the study of familial polyposis (1925). He published a semi-popular book on the *Origin of Cancer* in 1932, and two collections of fictional essays, *After us* 1936 and *Nothing new under the sun* 1947, the first of which contained an imaginary account of England in AD 2456. He devised an electric sigmoidoscope as early as 1904, while his operation for perineal excision of the rectum (1925) became classical. Lockhart-Mummery was a man of many interests, fond of fishing and a regular player of golf in spite of the handicap of losing a leg while a young man, and, in his old age, of bowls. He was also a keen dog racer, winning the Dog Derby with one of his greyhounds. He married twice: (1) in 1915 Cynthia daughter of R A Gibbons; of the two sons of this marriage, one Hugh Evelyn Lockhart-Mummery FRCS succeeded him at St Mark's Hospital; (2) in 1932 Georgette, daughter of H Polak of Paris. He had practised at 149 Harley Street, but after retirement lived at Hove, where he died on 24 April 1957, aged 82. A Bibliography of his writings is included in the *Collected Papers of St Mark's Hospital* 1935, pages 417-423.
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First Title value, for Searching Goligher, John Cedric (1922 - 1998)

2024-04-29T01:27:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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Occupation Coloproctologist Colorectal surgeon General surgeon
Details John Goligher was an outstanding surgeon who made an immense contribution to the clinical science of coloproctology. He won a national and international reputation and was always in demand for second opinions and as a lecturer. His writings, especially his textbook, were marked by their thoroughness and honesty and were essential reading. John Cedric Goligher was born on 13 March 1912 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, where he was educated at Foyle College. His father was John Hunter Goligher, a businessman, and his mother was Henrietta neé Monteith. He chose the University of Edinburgh for his medical studies and graduated MB ChB in 1934. He was appointed to house officer posts at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh and gained a Fellowship in both the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England in 1938. In 1947 he became a Master of Surgery of Edinburgh University. In the early years of the Second World War, he chose to work at a small postgraduate hospital, specialising in diseases of the rectum and colon, just one mile from the centre of the City of London. His appointment to St Mark's Hospital (now located at Northwick Park in Harrow), first as house surgeon and then as resident surgical officer, was to shape his career. Although there was great difficulty in maintaining the hospital's specialist work during the war, he came under the influence of the three great St Mark's surgeons, William Gabriel, Clifford Naunton Morgan and Oswald Lloyd-Davies, and the pathologist Cuthbert Dukes, all of whom worked tirelessly to maintain the clinical service at the hospital. In 1941, Goligher began a five year tour in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was a surgical specialist and, being a paratrooper, was an officer in charge of an airborne surgical team serving in both Greece and Italy. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After his military service, Goligher had a short spell as a senior registrar at St Mary's Hospital, gaining inspiration from that hospital's first professor of surgery, Charles Pannett and the well-known Arthur Dickson Wright. In 1947, he was appointed honorary assistant surgeon to St Mark's and St Mary's Hospitals. (One year later, at the formation of the National Health Service, he became a consultant surgeon.) At St Mark's the appointing panel could not decide between Goligher and Henry Thompson who had also been in the RAMC. In the event, both were appointed. He was thus able to develop his interest in colo-rectal surgery. In 1955, having established himself firmly in London surgical practice, he caused some surprise when he made the unconventional move to become professor of surgery and chairman of the university department of surgery at the General Infirmary at Leeds. His former colleagues at St Mark's, recognising his ability, made him a consulting (later emeritus) surgeon, a position he held for 43 years. In Leeds, Goligher had a spectacular career as a clinical academic, as a writer and, above all, as a thoughtful and very hard-working surgeon. John Goligher was always at pains to critically evaluate the outcome of his clinical work, which was methodically audited. He enriched academic surgery by his analytic skills and his scrupulous honesty of reporting. He also pioneered the randomised control trial to investigate many of the operations undertaken in his department. Perhaps the most significant of these trials was that carried out in Leeds and York to assess the various operations that were then used to treat patients with peptic ulcer (now usually treated with medicines) with special reference to the long-term outcome. This seminal work and many other projects in the colo-rectal field resulted in the publication of many papers and contributions to surgical meetings at home and overseas. Goligher was in great demand as a visiting professor, delivering over 20 named lectures in Europe, North America and at home. In 1961 the textbook *Surgery of the anus, rectum and colon* (London, Bailliere Tindall) appeared on the bookshelves. This volume, extensively researched and written (except for one chapter) by Goligher, who intended it for surgeons in training and young consultants, was the first comprehensive account of coloproctology. Running to five editions (the last published in 1984) most of which were reprinted twice and with Spanish and Italian translations, this reference book was essential to those involved in the care of patients with intestinal problems. In the preface to the first edition, Goligher described precisely how this piece of writing and much of his other written work was perceived by others: "I believe I have reported the views of other writers fairly but I have naturally assessed the significance of their work in the light of my own personal experience and have, moreover, felt it my duty to state my own opinion even when equivocal, on all controversial matters." It was as a clinician that he really shone and his clinical activity underpinned all that he did in other areas. He dispensed the highest standards of care and rightly expected the same from those around him and had amazing stamina, operating for long periods. Affectionately known as 'Prof' by his staff and patients, he always respected and valued his fellow men. Whilst he was a shy, quiet and somewhat self-effacing person, he was loved by his patients who were overwhelmed by his kindness to them. His humanity was exemplified when he was looking after a chronically ill young boy - he went out at lunchtime to purchase books for him. Even in retirement he continued to care for patients, establishing a most successful private practice. Goligher served on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for 12 years (1968 to 1980), was President of the Royal Society of Medicine section of proctology (1962), President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (1974) and President of the British Society of Gastroenterology (1975). He was an honorary Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Brazilian College of Surgeons, and received honorary doctorates from universities in Belfast, Goteborg and Uruguay and an honorary doctorate of science from his own university of Leeds. His interests outside surgery included reading, classical music and, appropriately for an intestinal specialist, gastronomy and oenology. He was a committed family man. In 1952 he married Nancy Williams from Melbourne, Australia, whom he met when she was an almoner on his ward at St Mary's Hospital. She survives him, as do their three children, Susan, Jane (a consultant radiologist) and Michael. There are three grandchildren. He died on 18 January 1998. Perhaps his last ward sister could have the final word: "Prof was a very good doctor". There could be no finer accolade.
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