First Title value, for Searching Greeves, Reginald Affleck (1878 - 1966)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-05
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Occupation Curator General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon Pathologist
Details Born at Springtown, Co Down, on 23 August 1878, youngest of the eleven children of Thomas M. Greeves whose family, at first Quakers and later Plymouth Brethren, had been settled in Northern Ireland since the mid-seventeenth century. Affleck Greeves was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, where he won an exhibition, and at University College Hospital and Guy's, graduating MB London in 1903 and BS with honours in 1906, when he also took the Conjoint Diploma in the summer and the Fellowship in December. For the next two years he was in general practice in the Transvaal, South Africa, where he married, in 1908, Sarah, daughter of Leonard Acutt of Natal. Returning to London he was appointed surgical tutor and registrar at Guy's, but decided to specialise in ophthalmology. After serving as pathologist and curator of the museum at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields), he was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1914 and to Moorfields in 1915. He became a consultant surgeon to both these hospitals, retiring from Moorfields at the sixty-year age limit in 1938, but from the Middlesex only in 1946. He had also been on the staff at Paddington Green Children's Hospital and at St Saviour's Hospital, had lectured on ophthalmology at Oxford, and was a Conjoint Board examiner for the DOMS. Though somewhat nervous and reserved, Greeves was a brilliant diagnostician, achieved excellent results as a surgeon, and proved a first-class teacher, particularly in clinical work with graduate students. He became an authority on lesions of the fundus, whose opinion was sought and valued by colleagues and former students long after his retirement. He published influential papers on ocular pathology and many case histories, particularly in the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society*, of which he was a member for fifty-five years, becoming President for 1941-42. He was Montgomery Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1935. Greeves carried on a large private practice at 23 Wimpole Street long after giving up his hospital work, finally retiring in 1960 when he was eighty-two. His country home was at Crapstone, near Yelverton, in Devonshire. His wife had died in 1954, and he died on 4 October 1966 aged eighty-eight, survived by his daughter and two sons, the elder of whom was also an ophthalmic surgeon. Though brought up in a narrowly puritanical home, Greeves was a man of wide cultivation, a traveller and linguist, a pianist and trained musician, with a keen appreciation of painting and drawing. His students and patients became his lifelong friends.
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First Title value, for Searching Eve, Sir Frederick Samuel (1853 - 1916)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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Occupation Curator General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Son of William Eve, The Manor, North Orthendon, Essex; entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1872, and was House Surgeon to Luther Holden (qv) in 1876-1877. After that he studied surgery at Leipzig, and becoming FRCS, was appointed Curator of the St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum in 1879. In conjunction with Anthony A Bowlby (qv) he compiled in 1882 a catalogue of the Museum, and meanwhile made several communications to the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Reports*. In 1881, with the support of Paget, Flower, and others, a pathological curatorship in the Museum of the College was instituted, and Eve was appointed; he held the post until 1890. In the *Transactions* of the Pathological Society are some sixty papers by Eve, with descriptions of pathological specimens. As Erasmus Wilson Lecturer (1882-1884) he gave his first description of cystic tumours of the jaw (distinguishing the unilocular from the multilocular) and the connection with disturbed enamel formation. A revised account "On Cystic and Encysted Solid Tumours of the Jaws" appeared in the *Transactions* of the Odontological Society, 1886. Eve dwelt in particular upon tumours and cysts, adding the microscopic appearances to the clinical ones. Among descriptions of museum specimens may be noted: those relating to diseases of animals, rare tumours of the great omentum, renal tumours combining sarcomatous and embryonic muscle tissue, endotheliomata of the brain, cystic tumours of the testis, gigantism of the extremities, psorospermic cysts in the mucous membrane of the ureter; enlargement of lymphatic glands was demonstrated to be tuberculous although caseation was absent, and lupus was identified as a tuberculous disease. An appointment upon the staff of the London Hospital caused Eve to leave St Bartholomew's; he was at first Surgical Registrar, in 1884 Assistant Surgeon, Surgeon in 1888, Consulting Surgeon in 1914. He also acted as Ophthalmic Surgeon before a special department was instituted, and lectured on pathology. He served as Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital and was Surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children. He published many surgical observations, his surgery being infused with his pathological knowledge, microscopical as well as naked-eye - for example, in his cases of melanotic tumours following injury, and those of tumours at the base of the tongue. He was Secretary of the Section of Surgery at the Nottingham Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1892, Vice-President of the Section of Diseases of Children at Bristol in 1894, and President of the same Section at Cheltenham in 1901. He was a Member of the Court of Examiners of the College from 1902-1911, was elected to the Council in 1904, gave the Bradshaw Lectures on "Acute Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis" in 1914, and was Vice-President at the time of his death. He was knighted in 1911. At the outbreak of the War he became Major RAMC (TF), 2nd London General Hospital, and in December, 1914, he was appointed Surgeon to the Eastern Command with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. This post involved him in long journeys. In July, 1915, with the assistance of Dr A S Woods, he organized a special hospital at Croydon for Gunshot Injuries of Nerves. He was attacked by influenza, followed by pneumonia, and he died on December 15th, 1916. There was a memorial service at All Saints', Margaret Street. He was survived by Lady Eve, a daughter of H E Cox, of Jamaica, by a son then serving in France, and by a daughter.
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