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First Title value, for Searching Larnder, Derek Alexander (1922 - 2009)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon Dermatologist
Details Derek Larnder was a consultant in dermatology at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand. 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 Hunt, Thomas (1798 - 1879)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-02
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Occupation Dermatologist
Details Educated at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals. He first practised at Herne Bay, then, before 1850, returned to 26 Bedford Square, London, as a dermatologist. He was Lecturer on Diseases of the Skin at the Hunterian School of Medicine, and Surgeon to the Westminster Dispensary. He was also Medical Officer of Health of the St Giles' District. Later he removed to 23 Dorset Square, NW, acted as a Vice-President of the Medical Society, and was an active member of the Epidemiological Society. He died at Herne Bay on November 26th, 1879. Publications: Hunt's publications relate to diseases of the skin, and he is to be distinguished from Richard Hunt (qv)
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First Title value, for Searching Corsi, Henry (1893 - 1950)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation Dermatologist
Details Born in London on 23 November 1893, the eldest son of Cesare Corsi, an Italian provision merchant, and Alice Bertarelli, his wife. He was educated at Uppingham and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the natural sciences tripos part 1, 1916. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to Girling Ball. After serving as resident surgical officer at the Miller Hospital, Greenwich, he came under the influence of Dr H G Adamson in the skin department at St Bartholomew's and specialized as a dermatologist. He was chief assistant to Adamson and to Dr A C Roxburgh for sixteen years 1926-42, and then became assistant physician, retiring in 1945. He was also surgeon to the Lock Hospital, but gave most of his interest to his work as physician to St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, where also he was librarian from 1946 and chairman of the medical committee from 1948, and president of the St John's Dermatological Society from September 1948. He was interested in the application of new remedies and therapeutic methods, but not himself a research worker; and was a sound, helpful teacher and a sympathetic clinician He was secretary of the dermatology section at the British Medical Association annual meeting in 1934. Corsi was a man of wide cultivation, not only bilingual in English and Italian, but a good French and German scholar, a book collector, and a student of Dante. He was a prominent bridge player in "Our Whist Club" and a regular ski-er in Italy or Switzerland. He was a delightful and drily humorous after-dinner speaker. He was dogged by ill-health in his last years, following a car accident, and died suddenly in Switzerland on 1 January 1950, aged 56. Corsi married in 1924 Margaret Doyle, who survived him with a son and daughter. His house, 114 Harley Street, was destroyed by enemy action in the war of 1939-45 and he lost most of his possessions; he subsequently lived at 95 Harley Street. Publications:- Epithelioma of the skin: a review of treatment. *St Bart's Hosp J* 1938, 46, 28. Therapeutic uses of thorium x. *Lancet*, 1943, 2, 346.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Archibald Gordon (1898 - 1972)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation Dermatologist Venereologist
Details Archibald Gordon Smith was born at Gourock on 19 December 1898, and was educated at Greenock Academy and Glasgow University where he graduated MB ChB in 1920. During the first world war he interrupted his studies in 1917 and joined the Navy as a Surgeon Probationer. After graduation he became house surgeon to Sir William MacEwen, and then moved to Norwich where he was house surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, the first attachment to a hospital which later became the principal focus of his professional career. But after his junior hospital posts Smith was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital, and passed the FRCS in 1925. He then went out to Colombo as Professor of Anatomy for three years, after which he decided to return to clinical work in a partnership in Bombay where he developed an interest in dermatology. This led to a course of study in Paris and the MD Glasgow in 1934 after which he returned to Norwich to practice as a dermatologist. It was in this capacity that he was later appointed to the staff of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. In the second world war he joined the army as specialist in dermatology and venereology serving in the United Kingdom. In 1945 he was adviser in dermatology, stationed at Rawalpindi, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and in the following year he returned to Norwich, where he remained until his retirement in 1964. He was popular with his colleagues who admired his kindly good humour, and his interest in classical history and archaeology. He had been President of the Norfolk and Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society. He died at his home in Beccles on 2 January 1972, and was survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Hugh (1864 - 1930)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation Dermatologist Physician
Details Born in London, 29 July 1864, the third son of Hugh Smith of Darvel, Ayrshire, and younger brother of Sir George Smith, KCMG, Governor of Nyasaland, 1913-23. Hugh Smith was educated at the City of London School and at University College, London. He entered the London Hospital after gaining the entrance scholarship, and won the scholarship for the first and second years' men. He took first-class honours at the MB examination. He served as house physician to Dr Hughlings Jackson, acted as house surgeon, and was resident midwifery assistant. From 1891 to 1900 he practised at Englefield House, Highgate, N, and was assistant medical officer to the General Post Office. He then went into partnership with Sir Alfred Edward Thomson at Cape Town, and a few years later determined to specialize as a consulting physician, being amongst the first to do so in South Africa. He obtained a large consulting practice, which extended throughout the province, and from 1902 to 1919 was honorary physician and consulting dermatologist to the Somerset Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he acted as consulting physician to the Hospitals at Wynberg and Maitland. For many years he was lecturer on dermatology in the Medical Faculty of the University of Cape Town. He was an active member of the British Medical Association, and was president of the Cape of Good Hope branch in 1914. He was also president of the Medical Congress which met in Cape Town in 1921. He married in London on 3 June 1920 Francisca Helena Hampson, widow of Captain H T Whybrow, who survived him with two daughters. He died suddenly at his house in Hof Street, Cape Town, on 2 July 1930, and was buried in Maitland cemetery. Mrs Smith married in 1932 G A Daniel-Tyssen (d 1941), a distinguished London solicitor. Hugh Smith was the best type of physician, and did much good in South Africa by his strict observance of ethical rules. Kindly but firm, he dealt successfully with such difficult patients as the old Boer farmers; and General Botha once said of him: "That Dr Smith is different from you doctors; he's not the sort of fellow you can quarrel with." Publications: Cerebral tumour, operation, recovery. *Lancet*, 1906, 1, 1688. Intracranial tumour. *Ibid* 1912, 2, 994.
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First Title value, for Searching Solly, Ernest (1863 - 1950)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation Dermatologist General surgeon Physician
Details Born 12 April 1863, the third son of Arthur Isaac Solly, country gentleman and company director, and Georgina Reade, his wife. He was educated at Rugby School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he won many prizes, including the Solly gold medal for surgery, founded by his family. After qualifying in 1886 and taking honours at the London MB the next year, he served as resident accoucheur and surgical registrar at St Thomas's, and senior resident medical officer at the Royal Free Hospital. He took the Fellowship in 1888 at the earliest permitted age. In 1893 he settled at Harrogate, taking over the general practice of A G Russell, MD. At first he was a general physician and took particular interest in the development of the Spa at Harrogate, but later specialized in surgery. He was appointed surgeon to the Harrogate Infirmary in 1905, and was elected consulting surgeon on retirement in 1932; he was also consulting surgeon to the Yorkshire Home for Incurable and Chronic Diseases at Harrogate. Solly was a vice-president of the section of dermatology at the Toronto meeting of the British Medical Association in 1906, and afterwards president of the British Balneological and Climatological Society. He represented his branch in the Representative Meeting of the BMA on many occasions between 1905 and 1939, and served on the central ethical committee from 1932 to 1939. He, served as surgeon-captain in the Territorial Force and was awarded the Territorial Decoration. On the outbreak of war he was commissioned in the RAMC on 20 November 1914, promoted major 23 February 1915, and saw active service in France. He had served as mayor of Harrogate as early as 1898 and founded the Harrogate Rotary Club. He was a promoter of the Boy Scout movement. Solly married in 1893 Mary A Norbury, who died in 1932. They lived at Strathlea, Cold Bath Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire. He died on 26 July 1950 at a Harrogate nursing home, aged 87, survived by his son and three daughters; his other children had died before him. He was cremated, after a funeral service at St Peter's Church, Harrogate. Solly had many and varied interests, besides those of a public nature already mentioned; he was fond of cricket and carpentry, and collected stamps.
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First Title value, for Searching Tay, Waren (1843 - 1927)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-28
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Occupation Dermatologist General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Educated at the London Hospital, where he was appointed Assistant Surgeon and Ophthalmologist in 1869, Surgeon in 1876, and Consulting Surgeon in 1902. He practised for many years at 4 Finsbury Square, one of the fine old Georgian houses now replaced by blocks of offices. He was perhaps the last of the men in consulting practice in London who were first general surgeons, but with their general work combined the practice of ophthalmology. Tay was one of them; Jonathan Hutchinson was another. Tay and Hutchinson were close colleagues and collaborators both in clinical observation and in literary work. To this day 'Tay's choroiditis' is the term used for the fine yellowish spots which appear in the macular region of the fundus of the eye as one of the signs of senile degeneration; and the discovery of this characteristic lesion was but one of his observations. Tay was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1877, having served for some time previously as Clinical Assistant to Jonathan Hutchinson (qv). He became Surgeon on the resignation of Sir William Bowman (qv) in 1882 and resigned his appointment in 1904, when he was succeeded by Sir William T Lister. Besides being a distinguished authority on the eye, Waren Tay was well known as a skin specialist and he was also skilled in the diseases of children. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Moorfields Eye Hospital, to the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Blackfriars, and to the Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney Road. He retired from the staff of the London Hospital in 1902, and lived alone till his death at 61 Oakfield Road, West Croydon. He was unmarried, and died at Croydon on May 15th, 1927. The reputation of Waren Tay was somewhat overshadowed by his two great colleagues, Dr Hughlings Jackson and Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, for he was singularly modest and self-effacing. It was Tay's habit to consider every possibility when studying a case. He was incapable, therefore, of dogmatic teaching or of arriving rapidly at a conclusion. Publications: Translation of Hebra and Kaposi's *On Diseases of the Skin: the Exanthemata*, vols iii-v, 8vo, London (New Sydenham Society), 1866-80. "Statistical Reports on Year's Mortality" (with JONATHAN HUTCHINSON), *Lond Hosp Rep*, 1866-8, iii-iv. "Remarks on Case of Tetanus treated with Hydrate of Chloral." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1870, i, 329. "Case of Acute Tuberculosis following on Disease of the Hip." - *Ibid*, 1871, i, 222. "Changes in the Region of the Yellow Spot in Each Eye of an Infant." - *Trans Ophthalmol Soc*, 1880-1, i, 55; 1884, iv, 158; 1892, xii, 125. "Two Cases of Optic Neuritis without Impairment of Vision, after Injury to the Head." - *Ibid*, 1881-2, ii, 66.
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First Title value, for Searching Ockwell, Charles Melton (1883 - 1958)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation Dermatologist General surgeon Medical officer of health Venereologist
Details Born in 1883 son of Charles Ockwell of Cricklade, Wilts, he received his medical education at Guy's Hospital between the years 1901 and 1906, and while a surgical dresser to W H A Jacobson contracted septicaemia, for which Jacobson treated him during a long period of sickness. When qualified he went into practice first in Burgh, Lincolnshire for a few years and then in partnership with M W Renton at Dartford. During the war of 1914-18 he joined the RAMC and in 1915 was surgeon at a hospital in Fécamp and in 1916-18 was ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich and Paddington Military Hospital. In 1920, back in practice, he started a maternity and antenatal clinic at Crayford treating four hundred cases in a year, and from 1921 onwards was MOH of Crayford including in 1926 Swanscombe UDC and Dartford RDC. In 1927 he pioneered diphtheria immunisation and by 1929 seventy per cent of the children had been immunised. About this time he became full-time MOH and also venereologist to Kent County Council until 1947. In 1938 he organised the casualty services for North Kent and during 1939-45 was busy with casualty services and VD Clinics, but nevertheless found time for postgraduate study of dermatology at St John's and at Guy's Hospital. In 1924-25 he was chairman of the Dartford Division of the BMA and again in 1934-35, becoming President of the Kent Branch in 1937-38. In 1948 with the introduction of the National Health Service he became consultant dermatologist and venereologist, retiring in 1951. In that year he married Kathleen Keirle who had been his secretary-chauffeuse for twenty years, and built a house at Kemsing on the Pilgrim's Way, where he laid out a unique garden. A gracious, quiet and dignified man, he was always ready to be helpful as a locum tenens in an emergency. He died in Guy's Hospital on 17 October 1958.
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First Title value, for Searching Hartigan, Thomas Joseph Patrick (1861 - 1909)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation Dermatologist
Details The son of an Army officer stationed in India, his father and mother both being Irish. He began at the age of 17 to study medicine at Galway, then at Dublin, and in 1883 at Edinburgh. Having qualified, he became Resident Clinical Assistant at the Richmond Hospital, Dublin; next Resident Medical Officer at the Fever Hospital, Netherfield Road, Liverpool; he then went many voyages as surgeon on the P & O and other mail-boats, and began general practice in Shropshire. He afterwards moved to East Grinstead, Sussex, where he established a large connection and took a leading part in local politics. In 1894 he was appointed Medical Officer of the East Grinstead Workhouse and Urban District. Whilst studying for the FRCS he went up daily to St Bartholomew's, yet continuing his East Grinstead practice. Engaging in local politics, he was elected in 1899 to the East Grinstead District Council, and in 1901 he was its Chairman. He became also the member of the East Sussex County Council for East Grinstead, and of its Sanitary Committee. In 1903, after studying diseases of the skin in Vienna, he set up at 94 Harley Street as a dermatologist, and was appointed Pathologist and Medical Officer of the Light Department of the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Blackfriars Hospital, also Dermatologist at the Alexandra Hospital for Hip Disease, Queen Square. At the end of six years he was prospering, when his somewhat sudden death occurred on January 25th, 1909, in Devonshire Street, Portland Place, and he was buried at the cemetery of the Franciscan Monastery, Crawley, Sussex. He was survived by his widow and two young children. Publications:- Hartigan published dermatological papers concerning the use of radium and of ionization.
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First Title value, for Searching Lakin, Charles Ernest (1878 - 1972)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation Dermatologist Pathologist Physician
Details Charles Ernest Lakin was born in 1878, the son of a general practitioner who became the Mayor of Leicester. He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he was a First Entrance Scholar, and won Broderip and Freeman Scholarships, and qualified in 1901 with the Conjoint Diploma, and the degrees of London University in 1902, obtaining honours in medicine and obstetric medicine. In 1903 he proceeded to the degree of MD, and in 1908 he passed the examination for MRCP having been admitted as a Fellow of the College of Surgeons in 1905. At this period it was the custom for the physicians to undertake the post-mortem examinations and to teach pathology, and in this activity Lakin was outstanding as a teacher and expert opinion. During the first world war he served as pathologist at Addington Park War Hospital with a commission in the RAMC, although in civil life he held the appointment of consulting physician at the Middlesex Hospital. He was also on the staff of the London Fever Hospital and had, therefore, a special interest in infectious diseases. He was, in addition, consulting physician to Golden Square Throat Hospital and to the West Suffolk Hospital and acted as medical referee for HM Treasury. In his earlier years he had been a demonstrator of anatomy and a clinical assistant in the dermatological department at the Middlesex Hospital. For a time he was a clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. At the College of Physicians he was Lumleian Lecturer in 1932, Harveian Orator, and in 1947 Senior Censor. One time President of the Medical Society of London, he was also honorary librarian and delivered the Lettsomian Lecture in 1934. As a teacher he was outstanding with his wide field of knowledge of general medicine, infectious fevers, dermatology, children's diseases and, in particular, of pathology. Coronary thrombosis was no novelty to him as early as 1920. A bachelor, he was a genial host with many friends, a lover of music and a keen student of history. At the time of his death he was the most senior Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He died at his house, West Stow Hall, Bury St Edmunds, on 2 May 1972, aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Willmott Henderson (1859 - 1938)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-29
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Occupation Dermatologist General surgeon
Details Born at 2 Beech Street, Barbican, London, EC, on 23 August 1859, third son of Evan Evans, MD, and Elizabeth Ann Tuke his wife. His father was appointed surgeon in the Royal Navy in 1842, and on his retirement settled in general practice in Cripplegate. His great grandfather had been surgeon to the French prisoners at Plymouth Dock during the Napoleonic wars at the beginning of the nineteenth century. His mother was a member of the Tuke family, who were well known as alienists. W H Evans was educated at University College School, at University College, and at University College Hospital. He graduated with honours at London University in 1885, and was appointed resident medical officer at the Royal Free Hospital in Gray's Inn Road in 1889. He was in succession surgical registrar 1891-95; casualty officer 1893; assistant surgeon 1903-19; lecturer on surgery 1912-19; and consulting surgeon 1919-38. During part of the time he acted as surgeon in charge of the department for the treatment of diseases of the skin. From 1909 to 1933 he was surgeon to the Blackfriars Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, and during the war of 1914-18 he was surgeon to King George's Hospital and to the officers' ward at the Royal Free Hospital. In 1907 he delivered the Erasmus Wilson lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, taking as his subject "Leucoderma and analogous changes in the pigmentation of the skin". He restricted himself to the aetiology of the disease, attributing it to a toxin derived from the alimentary canal assisted by local injury and the action of light, the more general view being that it was of neurotic origin. He married on 17 July 1895 Ann Frances, daughter of the Rev G Piercy, a pioneer Methodist missionary of Canton, China. She, herself a graduate in medicine, survived him with three sons and two daughters, and died on 6 March 1940. Evans died at Cranford, Sidcup, Kent, on 7 September 1938. He was a man of encyclopaedic knowledge, a good linguist, an excellent teacher of students, and an ardent advocate for the admission of women to the medical profession. Publications:- *The diseases of the skin*. London, 1913. *Diseases of the breast*. London, 1923. A lavishly illustrated handbook. *The prevention of disease*. Translation of Nobiling and Jankau's *Handbuch der Prophylaxe*, 1900-01. London, 1902.
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First Title value, for Searching Haldin-Davis, Haldinstein David (1881 - 1949)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-26
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Occupation Dermatologist
Details Born 9 May 1881, the eldest child of Richard Abraham Davis, merchant, and his wife, a daughter of Philip Haldinstein of Norwich. He was educated at Charterhouse and at Balliol College, Oxford, of which he was a scholar, and took first class honours in physiology. He was president of the University Junior Science Club. He had his clinical training at St Bartholomew's, intending to be a surgeon. He held various house appointments, and was for a time an assistant at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. Under the influence of H S Adamson he became interested in skin diseases, and was appointed chief assistant in the skin department at St Bartholomew's. He was then appointed to the staff of the dermatological department at the Royal Free Hospital, and devoted himself particularly to the Blackfriars Hospital for Diseases of the Skin. He was also visiting dermatologist to the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green. Haldin-Davis was a pioneer of the x-ray treatment of ringworm, and for many years conducted a successful clinic under the Willesden Borough Council. During the first world war he served in the RAMC in Palestine, and on demobilization was appointed dermatologist to the Ministry of Pensions. Subsequently he was a medical referee under the Home Office, and from 1948 under the newly created Ministry of National Insurance. Haldin-Davis was secretary of the dermatological section at the British Medical Association's annual meeting in 1922 and a vice-president in 1927 and 1929. He was president of the dermatological section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1937-39. He had no aptitude for research, but was a skilled clinician and lecturer, and an acute critic in demand as a reviewer. He practised at 52 Harley Street, and as he took an interest in civic affairs, particularly in housing and town planning, and was a good man of business he was elected a Borough Councillor of St Marylebone. After his retirement he lived at Greens End, Forest Row, Sussex, and served on the local hospital committees at East Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells. Haldin-Davis married in 1924 Lily, widow of Frank Samuel. He died on 2 February 1949, aged 67, at his home in the country, survived by his wife and step-daughter. He was a popular man of ready wit and generous hospitality, familiarly known as "Hal", and was a member of the Johnsonian Club. Publications:- *Skin diseases in general practice*. Oxford University Press, 1913; 3rd edition, 1937. *Modern skin therapy*. London: Cape, 1930. He gives here detailed descriptions of technique, and records his method of x-ray treatment for tinea tonsurans.
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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, Charles Frederic (1864 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30 2022-09-28
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Occupation Dermatologist
Details Born at Birmingham, 13 February 1864, the fifth son and youngest child of William Prime Marshall, a civil engineer, and Laura Stark, his wife, who was a niece of James Stark, the artist. His father was for many years secretary of the Institute of Civil Engineers and was an enthusiastic naturalist. His elder brother Arthur Milnes Marshall (1852-93), who was killed accidentally whilst climbing in the Lake district, was a brilliant pupil of Francis Balfour at Cambridge. He did much to advance the study of embryology, more especially in connection with the development of the nervous system in the chick. There is a notice of his life and work in the *Dictionary of National Biography* Supplement, vol 3, 1901. Charles Frederic Marshall was educated at Owens College and at the Victoria University, Manchester, where he was Dauntes medical scholar, Platt physiological scholar, Dalton natural history prizeman, and senior physiological exhibitioner. He came to London and acted as house surgeon at the North Eastern Hospital for Children, and in 1893 was surgical registrar to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. He then practised for a time at Edgbaston, Birmingham, but soon returned to London as resident medical officer at the London Lock Hospital and afterwards surgeon to the British Skin Hospital in the Euston Road, which closed in 1905. During 1908-14 he was surgeon to the Blackfriars Hospital for Diseases of the Skin. In the war of 1914-18 he acted as a civilian medical officer attached as dermatologist to the RAMC, a position he continued to hold for two years after the armistice. For some years before his death he was interested in John Beard's theory that cancer was of embryonic origin and was not a local disease. He published an account of his views in two parts in 1932. The first dealt with a method of diagnosing cancer through the blood, using polarized light in precancerous conditions and in cases with a strong family history of the disease. Part 2 dealt with the danger of radium in its present form and with a method of sterilization in order to produce helium, which he considered to be an essential factor in the cure of cancer by eradication and neutralization of the blood. Five years later he was using thorium sulphate in place of radium, with injections of ferric chloride. His views met with considerable criticism, but he was not deterred from continuing his work. He married in 1908 Blanche, elder daughter of W H Emmet; she survived him with one son. He died on 22 May 1940 at 69 The Drive, Golders Green, NW11. Marshall began life brilliantly but never shone like his more brilliant brother. He was better fitted for the life of a scientific than that of a medical man. He was perhaps dominated by the artistic inheritance which came through his mother. Publications: Some investigations on the physiology of the nervous system of the lobster. *Stud Biol Lab Owens Col Manchester*, 1886, 1, 313. Observations on the structure and distribution of striped and unstriped muscle in the animal kingdom, and a theory of muscular contraction. *Quart J microsc Sci* 1888, 28, 75; 1890, 31, 65. The thyro-glossal duct or "canal of His". *J Anat Physiol* 1892, 26, 94. Variations in the form of the thyroid gland in man.*Ibid* 1895, 29, 234. An analysis of thirty-seven cases of excision of the hip, with Bilton Pollard. *Lancet*, 1892, 2, 186; 254; 302. *Syphilis and gonorrhoea*. London, 1904. *Syphilology and venereal disease*, with E G ffrench. London, 1906; 4th edition: *Syphilis and venereal diseases*, 1921. *A new theory of cancer and its treatment* Bristol, part 1, March 1932; part 2, September 1932. New treatment of cancer. *Med World*, 1939, 50, 292. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 2 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Sequeira, James Harry (1865 - 1948)

2024-05-04T11:48:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Dermatologist
Details Born in London on 2 October 1865, the eldest son of Dr James Scott Sequeira and Maria Rosina Rackwitz, his wife. He belonged to the sixth medical generation of his family in direct paternal descent. His great-grandfather, in the third medical generation, Isaac Henrique Sequeira, MD Leyden 1758, LRCP London 1771, was physician to the Prince Regent of Portugal in exile in London during the Napoleonic wars (see *Munk's Roll of the RCP* 2, 291). J H Sequeira was educated at King's College School and the London Hospital, which he entered with a scholarship in 1884; he took honours in materia medica at the intermediate examination in 1887 and in medicine and obstetric medicine at the MB 1890; he won the Hutchinson prize in 1893. He served as demonstrator of anatomy to Arthur Keith and Frederic Wood Jones, and was medical registrar and medical tutor for two years each. He had intended to practise surgery and took the Fellowship in 1893, but as there was no immediate surgical vacancy he developed his interest in dermatology, which began while he was house physician to Sir Stephen Mackenzie. He became MD 1891 and MRCP 1893, and further equipped himself by working with Leopold Freund and Eduard Schiff in Vienna, and with Niels Finsen at Copenhagen in 1900. He was appointed the first physician in charge of a special skin department at the London Hospital, being allowed one bed in each medical ward. He translated Finsen's book *Phototherapy* in 1901, and through the munificence of Queen Alexandra, herself a princess of Denmark, the first Finsen lamp in England was set up in Sequeira's department that year. He established and developed a complete skin and phototherapy department in the hospital, and was elected consulting physician to it on his retirement in 1927. He was a pioneer of X-rays and radium, advocating as early as 1905 the use of radium in the treatment of malignant disease, and was a lifelong sufferer from the effects of irradiation. He introduced X-ray epilation for ring-worm, and the carbon arc-light bath in the treatment of lupus. He was a skilled clinical photographer; and his Thursday morning teaching clinics were renowned. During the first world war Sequeira was a consultant in dermatology to military hospitals in London. He took a leading share in the scientific work of professional and public bodies. He was president of the dermatological section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1925-27, and a Councillor of the Royal College of Physicians 1927, having been elected FRCP in 1905. He was chairman of the executive committee of the Society for the Prevention of Venereal Disease, and a member of Lord Trevethin's Committee on Venereal Disease. It was largely through his advice to Sir Arthur Newsholme that the Ministry of Health established venereal disease clinics throughout the country. He was a corresponding member of the Danish, French, and Japanese dermatological societies. Sequeira retired from all his London activities in 1927, when he was 62, and settled at N'Gong in Kenya, British East Africa, where he at once took on a new range of medical and public work. He was president of the Kenya branch of the British Medical Association in 1930-31 and 1933-34. He drew attention to the bad health conditions in the native reserves; he made a special study of leprosy; and he criticized the unification of the colonial services, which had led to the transfer of officers from one environment to another, in every respect divergent, where their previous experience was useless. During the war of 1939-45 he served as honorary consultant in dermatology to the East African forces. Sequeira's diminutive but dynamic personality was remarkable in dignity and kindliness; his short square figure carried a leonine head, with thick white hair and wide blue eyes. He was an amateur of music. Sequeira married in 1903 Helen Adams; there were no children of the marriage. He died in Kenya on 24 November 1948, aged 83, survived by his wife and their two adopted children. His brother, W H S Sequeira, MRCS, LRCP was succeeded by his son P J L Sequeira, MB BS, who carried the medical tradition to the seventh generation. Publications: *Phototherapy*, by Niels Finsen, translated and edited, London, 1901. Use of radium in the treatment of malignant disease. *International Congress of Surgery*, 1905. Tuberculosis of the skin. Allbutt's *System of medicine*, 1911. *Diseases of the skin*, with J T Ingram and R T Brain. London, 1911; 5th edition, 1947; Spanish translation, 1926. Public health in the tropics, especially Kenya, Chadwick lecture. *E Afr med J* 1932, 9, 59-78. Editor of the *British Journal of Dermatology*, 1911-15, and of the *East African medical Journal*.
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First Title value, for Searching Galloway, Sir James (1862 - 1922)

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Publication Date 2012-02-01
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Occupation Dermatologist
Details Born at Calcutta on October 10th, 1862. His father was James Galloway, of Scots descent, his mother was Jane Hermina de Villeneuve. He was educated at the Chanonry School, Aberdeen, and afterwards at the University, graduating MA in 1883 with honours in Natural Science, taking the MB CM and the MD both with the highest honours. He passed the examinations for the Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons consecutively, not a very common feat. On coming to England he attached himself to the London Hospital Medical School as Demonstrator of Pharmacy, and by the advice of Sir Stephen Mackenzie devoted himself to the study of diseases of the skin. He was appointed Assistant Physician and Pathologist to the Great Northern Hospital in 1890, and Physician to the Skin Department at Charing Cross Hospital in 1894, a post he held until 1914. He was elected Assistant Physician to the Hospital in 1901, becoming full Physician in 1906, retiring with the rank of Consulting Physician in 1922. He held the appointment of Consulting Physician for Skin Diseases to the Metropolitan Asylums Board; was President of the Section of Dermatology at the Birmingham Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1911, and edited the *British Journal of Dermatology* from 1896-1904. He was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians of London from 1916-1918, was elected a Censor in 1920, and was serving as Second Censor at the time of his death in 1922. He married in 1898 Jessie Hermina Sawers, and by her had two sons and two daughters. He died after a short illness on Oct 18th, 1922. Galloway had much wider interests than the ordinary routine of general medicine and dermatology. He had essentially a judicial mind, which, combined with an urbane manner, much tact, and an unlimited capacity for work, made him the great administrator which he became during the War of 1914-1918. One of the first indications of this side of his character appeared when he became a member of the Advisory Board of the Army Medical Service. The Board was formed in 1902 to reorganize, in the light of experience gained in the Boer War, the scheme of education of the officers holding commissions in the Royal Army Medical Corps. The changes introduced on the recommendation of the Board fundamentally altered the character of the RAMC, and were the bases of the successful organization which proved of such great value during the Great War a few years afterwards. When the War broke out Galloway was chiefly responsible for the foundation and successful organization of the Central Medical War Committee. From him came the proposal, at a Council Meeting of the British Medical Association in January, 1915, that a tribunal should be set up to determine what medical men should be retained for the service of the civilian population and who should be allowed to serve in the army. A war emergency committee for England and Wales was formed in July, 1915, Galloway was appointed a member, and acted with great success as a liaison officer between the Medical Department at the War Office and the British Medical Association. He was appointed Consulting Physician with the Armies in France early in 1916, serving first with the First and Second Armies, then with the Second Army alone, his rank being that of Colonel, AMS. He was recalled at the end of 1917 to fill the important post of Chief Commissioner of Medical Services in the Ministry of National Service. In this position it fell to him to deal with the new and manifold problems connected with recruiting and conscription. For his services he was decorated CB. The Ministry of National Service began its duties on Nov 18th 1917, and Galloway drafted with much care "Instructions to Medical Boards" which determined the method of grading recruits. He introduced, too, the sectional system by which each recruit was examined by two or three medical men with a chairman who could be called in to give an opinion in cases of special difficulty. The system worked well and the recruits felt for the most part that there was no favouritism. He received from the King the newly-established Order of the British Empire, being invested KBE in the military division in 1918, whilst the University of Aberdeen honoured him with the degree of LLD. The War being ended, Galloway at once became immersed with Sir Robert Morant in medical politics, more especially in regard to insurance and the relation of the State to general hospitals. He was Chairman of the Conferences of Representatives of the Medical Staffs of Voluntary Hospitals, and in this position rendered important services to the profession in the years 1920, 1921, and 1922. Galloway was dignified in presence, courteous, and at the same time genial and kindly in his judgement of others. He took an immense personal interest in colleagues, students, and patients. He had a great power of expressing his opinion logically, and the moderation of his counsels at a meeting tended to produce an atmosphere of peace when feelings ran high. He was keenly interested in many subjects outside his profession, He loved the field sciences, botany, zoology, and geology. He was a good archaeologist, no mean historian of medicine, and a pianist of considerable ability. He practised at 54 Harley Street. Publications: Galloway wrote, in addition to various papers on diseases of the skin: *The Parasitism of Protozoa in Carcinoma*, being the Morton Lecture on Cancer at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1893. Privately printed, 8vo, illustrated, 1893. *The Story of Saint Mary Roncevall*, 8vo, plates, London, 1907. *Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, and the Monuments erected to her Memory*, 4to, 9 plates and bibliography, London, 1909.
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First Title value, for Searching Gray, Sir Archibald Montague Henry (1880 - 1967)

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Occupation Dermatologist
Details Archibald Gray was born at Ottery St Mary, Devon, the son of Frederick Archibald Gray MRCS (1872) in practice there; he was educated at Cheltenham College and then at University College and Hospital London. He graduated with honours in 1903 and proceeded to the MD with the University Gold Medal in 1905. After holding resident posts at his own hospital which included house surgeon to Horsley and house physician to Rose Bradford and at the Hospital for Women in Soho Square, he early acquired a local fame as an able surgeon. He then proceeded to Vienna for a year in order to train as a dermatologist and on his return was appointed to the dermatological department at the University College Hospital, becoming ultimately consulting physician to that Hospital and to the Hospital for Sick Children. The reason for this strange change may be traced to the fact that no forseeable vacancy in the gynaecological department presented, and this, at a time when the London teaching hospitals were more inbred than they now are, virtually debarred Gray from following up his surgical promise in his chosen field. At this juncture the department of dermatology at University College Hospital became vacant on the death of the famous Henry Radcliffe Crocker FRCP (1845-1909). It was generally believed at the hospital that Gray's ability and character persuaded some of his future colleagues to suggest to him that there could be a future for him at his old hospital. In any event he returned from Vienna well equipped to carry the dermatological department (1909) and his later success in this new field justified the change and kept for University College Hospital a man who became one of its most loyal and devoted sons; and who served it in many ways including a period as Dean of the Medical School. From the outset of his career Gray showed that medicine was not his only field of activity for he displayed administrative gifts and interests which were widely spread over all his professional life. He joined the Officers Training Corps (RAMC) and commanded the University College section. At the beginning of the first world war he was attached to the Medical Director-General's staff of the War Office with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and in 1918 was appointed consulting dermatologist to the BEF for the remainder of the war. He later became consultant adviser to the RAF, the Ministry of Health and to certain special hospitals of the LCC. London University was the object of his prolonged interest and service. He was a member of the Senate for many years, being Deputy Vice-Chancellor (1938-39) and Dean of the Medical Faculty (1932-36). He also represented the University on the General Medical Council and served on several Government committees; including the committee on the medical service of the Navy, Army and Air Force (1931-33), on the Goodenough Committee (1942-44) and on a Ministry of Health survey of the Medical Schools of London (1945-46). From 1948-1962 he was adviser to the Ministry on dermatology. Particularly fruitful were his years of activity on the King Edward Seventh Hospital Fund. His war work was rewarded by the CBE; he was knighted in 1946 and created KCVO for his work on the King Edward Seventh Hospital Fund in 1959. His eminence as a dermatologist also received recognition here and abroad, in honorary membership of numerous American dermatological societies and he was chosen Harveian Orator to the Royal College of Physicians in 1951. At the Royal Society of Medicine he was one of the honorary secretaries (1920-24), then honorary treasurer and lastly President (1940-43). Gray was secretary of the section of dermatology at the last general International Congress of Medicine (1913), a Vice-President of the 8th Congress of Dermatology (1930) and President of the 10th Congress in London (1952). He was for some years editor of the *British journal of dermatology* and a contributor to various textbooks. The writer first knew Gray when he was regarded as a budding gynaecological surgeon and the sudden change in the direction of his work was a nine day wonder at the University College Hospital and its medical school. However he slipped into dermatology with characteristic competence and eagerness, habits which set the pattern for the rest of his life. He was easy in his relations, occasionally curt with the vague and the indecisive, but never hurtful, for he was without malice. Gray was a man of small stature, his quiet face frequently lit up by a charming smile. He was kind to his patients and was prepared to take endless trouble for them for he remained a good physician despite his contacts with the world of administration. Gray married in 1907 the daughter of F B Cooper of Newcastle, Staffs., and they had a son and a daughter. The disability of his last years was grievous for a man who remained actively intelligent, but he bore it with dignity, finally dying at his home, 7 Alvanley Gardens, NW6, after a long illness at the age of 87, on 13 October 1967. He was survived by his wife and children. A memorial service was held at the Vincent Church, Gordon Square, on 14 November 1967.
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First Title value, for Searching Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan (1828 - 1913)

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Publication Date 2006-05-04 2012-03-22
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Occupation Dermatologist Ophthalmologist Pathologist Venereologist
Details Born on July 23rd, 1828, the second son of Jonathan Hutchinson and Elizabeth Massey, both members of the Society of Friends, at Selby, Yorkshire. Hutchinson continued throughout life to exhibit some of the external characteristics of a Quaker. After an education at Selby, he was early apprenticed to Caleb Williams (q.v.), Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the York School of Medicine, and he attended the York Hospital. At this very small York School of Medicine he received individual instruction from Dr. Thomas Laycock - later Professor of Medicine in Edinburgh - which made a life-long impression, on the importance of heredity, and of physiognomy in diagnosis. He passed on to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where Sir James Page's influence was dominant; he studied under him, including the subject of syphilis, and qualified M.R.C.S. in 1850. He then pursued the post-graduate study of which he became afterwards such a strong advocate. He acted as Assistant Physician at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest; Surgeon to the Metropolitan Free Hospital; Surgeon to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields (1862-1878), where he had Edward Nettleship (q.v.) as Assistant; Surgeon to the Blackfriars Hospital for Diseases of the Skin; and Assistant Surgeon to the Lock Hospital for a while from 1862. He continued Surgeon to the Moorfields and Blackfriars Hospitals for many years. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the London Hospital in 1860; and after passing the F.R.C.S. examination in 1862 became Surgeon until 1883, then Consulting Surgeon. From 1862 he lectured on the principles and practice of surgery, from 1863 on medical ophthalmology, and in that year gained the Guy's Hospital Astley Cooper Prize for his essay "On Injuries of the Head". After 1883 he gave an annual course of lectures as Emeritus Professor of Surgery. A Triennial Prize for an essay was instituted to commemorate his services and teaching. He was an active member of various London medical societies and served as the President of five of the most important. At the meeting called to wind up the old Sydenham Society he proposed a continuation as the New Sydenham Society, of which he was Secretary from 1859-1907. The translations from the chief writings of Continental authorities constitute an extraordinarily well-selected collection. The publications especially due to him in the New Sydenham Society were the *Atlas of Skin Diseases* and *The Atlas of Drug Eruptions.* At the Royal College of Surgeons he was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology, 1879-1883; Member of Council, 1879-1895; Member of the Court of Examiners, 1880-1887; Bradshaw Lecturer, 1888; President, 1889 (returning to the previous custom of holding office for one year, broken by the four years' tenure of his predecessor, W. S. Savory); Hunterian Orator, 1891; Trustee of the Hunterian Collection, 1897. He sat on the Royal Commission on Small-pox and Fever Hospitals, 1881, and that on Vaccination, 1890-1896; his demonstration of vaccino-syphilis as a possible consequent of arm-to-arm vaccination put a stop to that method of vaccinating. As Hunterian Professor he gave six lectures on "Neuropathogenesis, chiefly with reference to Diseases of the Eye, Skin, Joints, etc.", four lectures "On Some of the Surgical Aspects of Gout and Rheumatism", and two lectures "On the Etiology of True Leprosy". His Bradshaw Lecture dealt with "Museums in reference to Medical Education and the Advance of Knowledge". Jonathan Hutchinson, as a clinical diagnostician by naked-eye observations, was one of the great medical geniuses of his time, and there is no one superior in the history of medicine, whether in the diagnosis of cases in surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, or syphilology. This was conjoined with a peculiar strain of philosophy. He was a colleague of another extraordinary genius in neurology and philosophy - Hughlings Jackson - and the interest of the two met over the ophthalmic side of neurology, and the general use of the ophthalmoscope as an instrument of diagnosis. His remarkable talent was exhibited in the discovery of syndromes; his audience supposed he was exhibiting a rare case, but after listening to him they discovered that they were able to recognize such cases, and his syndromes have now become commonplaces in the text-books. Examples are his 'triad' in inherited syphilis - deformity and notching of the teeth, labyrinthine deafness, and interstitial keratitis; defects in children's teeth, associated with infantile convulsion and lamellar cataract; the peculiar physiognomy in ophthalmoplegia and tabes dorsalis; the inequality of the pupils in cerebral compression; gout and haemorrhages; tobacco amblyopia; and idiosyncrasies of many kinds. He had, too, a remarkable fund of illustration and simple comparison - the 'apple-jelly' appearance of some forms of lupus; the imitative characteristics of the superficial appearances of syphilis. He had a slow and precise delivery, with eyes turned to the ground. An endless series of cases were stored in his memory, recalled by the initial of the patient's name and the outstanding feature presented. His broad-minded philosophy made him hold, as to his rare cases, that they afforded clues to the pathology of the class, links between some one already recognized group and another. His crowded audiences listened intently as he passed, by some ingenious connection, from one subject to another - a custom defended by him on the plea that, for the attention of his audience, a 'mixed diet' was needed. At the hospital one lecture had as title, "On Fairy Rings and Allied Phenomena". From fairy rings in fields, he passed on to ringworms and herpes, phenomena he held to be allied. One lecture at Haslemere commenced with the earth's crust, passed to elephants, and ended on John Wesley; another, on whales, tailed off to Wordsworth's poetry, and then to social questions relating to tuberculosis and leprosy. No one of his colleagues equalled him in a 'spotting diagnosis', for he was nearly always right, very exceptionally wrong. A young surgeon who had married and was beginning surgery broke out into a rash all over, which rapidly became nodular. Several who saw him murmured, "Syphilis, however acquired", until 'Jonathan' at once said, "General sarcomatosis", and this was confirmed in a few weeks. In another case, however, he diagnosed syphilis, in spite of the patient's protests that he had not undergone exposure, and in a couple of days small-pox was evident. His genius in diagnosis and his philosophy were remarkably combined in all he wrote and said on syphilis. At the discussions on the pathology of syphilis at the London Pathological Society in 1876 (*Pathol. Soc. Trans.*, 1876, xxvii, 341) he held that the condition was due to a specific and living microbe, contagious and transmissible only so long as the microbe retained its vitality. "Someone will see it one day, for it is beyond doubt that it must be there" (p. 446). With this should be compared Moxon's sarcasms whilst avoiding question of causation (pp. 403-410), the gibe by Gull - "Well, I think syphilis is a flesh and blood disease" (p. 415). He taught the treatment of early syphilis by long persistence in the administration of metallic mercury by the mouth, very finely divided as 'grey powder', the course being interrupted at increasing intervals, for two to three years, but always short of salivation. He made but little use of arsenic, for he was impressed by it as a cause of cancer. In 1855 he began to observe cases of leprosy from the East End in the London Hospital, and thus called attention to a number of instances wandering about and mixing with the general populace in many cities of the world. He took up the view that in Norway and elsewhere lepers persisted owing to the custom of eating stale fish. Until he stirred up inquiry the subject leprosy was in a state of stagnation. After the discovery of the bacillus he made further observations in South Africa and India, in which he grafted to his first theory the transference of the bacillus by contact and contamination of food - but it continued until the end of his life a non-proven thesis. In 1868 he suggested that a museum illustrating the progress of medicine and surgery during the past year should be instituted at the Annual Meetings of the British Medical Association; this came into force. His houses at Nos. 14 and 4 in Finsbury Circus and in Cavendish Square, one after the other, became filled by a vast collection of specimens, coloured drawings, and charts used by him for his clinical lectures and demonstrations, until he collected them in the clinical museum attached to his son's house, 1 Park Crescent, Regent's Park. For years he was making provision for post-graduate instruction, and in 1899 he instituted a Medical Graduates' College and Policlinic at 22 Chenies Street, of which he was at once the life, the soul and the financier. He made exhibitions for short periods of illustrations he had collected on various subjects, and, through his persuasion, lectures and demonstrations were given by a great number of members of staff of hospitals, and by special practitioners. The history of Hutchinson's Policlinic will form an important chapter when systematic post-graduate instruction becomes definitely established in London; it came to an end after his death and the outbreak of the War. All that is of special and permanent value has been collected and preserved in the Museum of the College of Surgeons, including MSS., such as his research on the arthritic diathesis. The abundance of his collections was so great that duplicates of illustrative material were dispersed and in part taken over to the United States. There was yet another remarkable endeavour. At his country house at Haslemere, Surrey, he set up an educational museum and library, a miniature of the Natural History Museum in London, and a library providing an outline of history, for the benefit of the population of the locality. The museum displayed rocks, fossils, plants, flowers, preserved as well as freshly gathered, birds' eggs, an aviary and vivarium exhibiting natural objects of the neighbourhood, including the common viper. The library contained charts of figures tabulating events from antiquity to the present day. King Edward VII knew of him as the surgeon who had a hospital for animals on his farm. Lectures and addresses were given - including Sunday afternoon addresses - on the potato, tuberculosis, poetry, the inner life, and new birth. This 'home university' published a monthly journal, which includes features of a school book, encyclopaedia, and a journal of science and literature. After his death the executors handed it over, pruned of its diffuseness, to Haslemere. Hutchinson also started a somewhat similar museum at his birthplace, Selby, but that did not excite so much local interest. The object of the museum was to establish evolution as a motive for right living in place of personal immortality as usually taught. Throughout his life he jealously retained his membership of the Society of Friends, although he accepted 'evolution' as a renaissance of religion. Hutchinson was a good walker, fond of shooting and riding; he swam in a cold-water pool in his grounds until nearly the end of his life. He died at his house, The Library, Inval, Haslemere, on June 23rd, 1913, and was buried at Haslemere. By his orders there was inscribed on his gravestone, "A Man of Hope and Forward Looking Mind". Portraits accompany his obituary notices, and there are several in the College Collection. He figures in the Jamyn Brookes portrait group of the Council, 1884. His wife died in 1886; their family included six sons and four daughters. One son, Jonathan, F.R.C.S., followed his father as Surgeon to the London Hospital; another, Proctor, a laryngologist, died early ; Roger Jackson was in practice at Haselemere; and H. Hutchinson became an architect. PUBLICATIONS: - Hutchinson's publications were very numerous; the chief works are: - *The Archives of Surgery*, 10 vols., 1889-1900. His archives include what Hutchinson deemed of importance from among his previous publications, together with notes and additions. "Syphilis, the Discussion at the London Pathological Society, 1876." - *Trans. Path. Soc.*, 1876, xxvii, 341. *Notes about Syphilis*, 1887; new. ed., 1909. The introduction to the *System of Syphilis*, by D'Arcy Power and J. Keogh Murphy, in 6 vols., 1908, pp. xvii-xxxv. Hutchinson Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. Illustrations, notes and MSS.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Sir William James Erasmus (1809 - 1884)

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Occupation Dermatologist
Details William James Erasmus Wilson, generally known as Erasmus Wilson, was the son of William Wilson, a native of Aberdeen, who had been a Surgeon in the Navy and had settled as a parish surgeon at Dartford and Greenhithe in Kent. He afterwards opened a private asylum at Denham in Buckinghamshire. Erasmus was born on November 25th, 1809, in High Street, Marylebone, the house of his maternal grandfather, Erasmus Bransdorph, a Norwegian. He was educated at the Dartford Grammar School and afterwards at Swanscombe in Kent, but was soon called upon to help in his father's practice. At the age of 16 he became a resident pupil with George Langstaff (qv), Surgeon to the Cripplegate Dispensary, and began to attend the anatomical lectures given by John Abernathy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. At his master's house he became acquainted with Jones Quain, Sir William Lawrence, and Thomas Wakley, whilst his skill in drawing and his neat dissections soon attracted general attention. Wilson was one of the first students at the Aldersgate School of Medicine, and won prizes for surgery and midwifery in the session 1829-1830. In 1831 he was asked by Jones Quain, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the London University, to become his Assistant. He accepted the post and was soon afterwards appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy. He filled this post until Jones Quain retired from the London University in 1836, when Wilson established a School of Anatomy, called Sydenham College, which proved unsuccessful. In 1840 he lectured upon anatomy and physiology at Middlesex Hospital, and in the same year he became assistant editor of the *Lancet* under Thomas Wakley, whose son, Thomas Henry Wakley (qv), he had 'coached'. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the St. Pancras Infirmary, and on Feb 20th, 1845, he was elected FRS. Erasmus Wilson began to devote himself more particularly to dermatology about 1840, largely, it is said, at the suggestion of Thomas Wakley, who advised him to link himself so closely with skins that when he entered a room the company would scratch themselves. He did so with such success that he left a fortune of £200,000. At the Royal College of Surgeons Erasmus Wilson sat on the Council from 1870-1884, was Vice-President in 1879 and 1880, and President in 1881. In 1870, at an expense of £5,000, he founded the Chair of Dermatology, of which he was the occupant till 1878. The Trust was varied in 1879, in 1881, and in 1908. The Professorship has now become the "Erasmus Wilson Lectureship". In 1870 he presented to the Museum his very extensive and valuable collection of drawings and models illustrative of diseases of the skin. In 1883 he gave to the Museum a valuable collection of anatomical specimens. The College marked its appreciation of these benefactions by presenting him with the Honorary Medal, which has only been bestowed thirteen times since it was instituted in 1802. Wilson was particularly fond of foreign travel. He visited the East to study leprosy, Switzerland and the Vallais to examine goitre, and Italy to become more closely acquainted with tinea pellagra and other diseases of the skin in the underfed and dirty vegetarian peasantry. He became particularly interested in the study of Egyptian antiquities, and in 1877 he paid the cost (about £10,000) of the transport of 'Cleopatra's Needle' to London. He was President of the Biblical Archæological Society and was President of the Medical Society of London in 1878 after he had given the Oration in 1876. One of the most notable incidents of Wilson's career occurred on the occasion of an inquest taking place at Hounslow upon the body of a soldier who had died from the effects of a regimental flogging. Owing greatly to Wilson's evidence a final verdict was returned by the jury, after ten adjournments, to the effect that the man had really died of his injuries. The coroner on this occasion was Wakley, and the result of the inquest was a Parliamentary inquiry, which led to the abolition of flogging in the army. He married Miss Doherty in 1841. She survived him, but there were no children. He died on August 7th, 1884, at Westgate-on-Sea, after two years of ill health. Erasmus Wilson ranks as one of the first and best of English specialists in diseases of the skin. He found the field of dermatology almost virgin. To his teaching we owe in a great measure the use of the bath which has since become a conspicuous feature in the life of our upper and middle classes, and to his advocacy is to be attributed the spread of the Turkish bath in England. Skillful investments in the shares of gas and railway companies made him a rich man, and he devoted his wealth to various charitable objects, for he was a prominent Freemason. He restored Swanscombe Church; he founded a scholarship at the Royal College of Music; and was a large subscriber to the Royal Medical Benevolent College at Epsom, where he built a house for the head master at his own expense. At a cost of nearly £30,000 he built a new wing and chapel at the Sea-Bathing Hospital at Margate, where diseases of the skin were extensively treated, and in 1881 he founded the Erasmus Wilson Professorship of Pathology at the University of Aberdeen in memory of his father. The bulk of his fortune reverted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1884 on the death of Lady Wilson. A bust by Thomas Brock, RA, stands in the Library of the College. It was ordered by the College on May 14th, 1885. A three-quarter-length portrait in oils in the robes of a Lecturer at the College of Surgeons is in the possession of the Medical Society of London. The Silver Medal presented to him by the Royal Humane Society is in the possession of the College. It was awarded for saving the life of Olivia Green, who attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the Regent's Park Canal on April 22nd, 1857. Publications: It is unquestionable that Wilson knew more about skin diseases than any man of his time. He identified the dermatological terms used by Celsus (vi, i-v) and thereby showed himself to be a learned as well as a practical physician. Hs works on dermatology, though they met with pretty searching criticism at the time of their appearance, have nearly all maintained their position as text-books. These works were: - *Diseases of the Skin*, 1842; 4th ed., Philadelphia, 1857. *On the Management of the Skin as a Means of Promoting and Preserving Health. Ringworm*, 8vo, London, 1847. *Atlas of Portraits of Diseases of the Skin*, folio, London, 1848-55. *The Anatomist's Vade Mecum*, 8vo, London; 2nd ed, 1842; 11th ed, 1892. "Skin" in Cooper's famous *Surgical Dictionary*. He also prepared elaborate anatomical plates in conjunction with Jones Quain, and published various articles and reports in the scientific journals. *History of the Middlesex Hospital during the First Century of its Existence*, 8vo, London, 1845. In 1867 he established the *Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Diseases of the Skin*, and acted as editor until 1870.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000207
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format Obituary
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