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First Title value, for Searching Messent, Arthur David (1915 - 1985)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation General practitioner Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Arthur Messent obtained an open exhibition to Mill Hill School and proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Brackenbury Prize in surgery and anatomy. He qualified in 1938 and after a short spell in general practice he joined the Royal Air Force and served in Coastal Command both in the Faroe Islands and the Middle East where he was mentioned in despatches. After the war he continued his surgical training, passed the FRCS examination in 1948, and held senior registrar appointments in Norwich, Reading and Hammersmith before his appointment as consultant in vascular and genito-urinary surgery to the Brentwood Group of Hospitals in 1955. In 1940 he married Margaret, a doctor's daughter and medical secretary at St Bartholomew's Hospital where one of their daughters eventually trained as a nurse. Their second daughter trained as a physiotherapist at the London Hospital. He enjoyed gardening, reading, entertaining and being entertained. He was kind, courteous and ready to help those in need, and it was sad for him and his family when he was struck by a long illness. He retired in 1980 to Nantgaredig in Carmarthen, his wife's birthplace, hoping to enjoy the countryside he loved and he died on 2 August 1985 survived by his wife and daughters, Rosemary and Ann.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007502
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First Title value, for Searching Wardle, Derek Basil James (1924 - 1997)

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by Deborah Wardle
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2017-05-17
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Derek Wardle was a general surgeon and general practitioner in New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Herefordshire to Harold Wardle and Elsie Wardle née Clarkeson. As a boy, he loved working on local farms, developing a love of agricultural work that played out later in his life in Australia, when he purchased a small property at Torryburn, East Gresford, in the Hunter Valley. Here he raised Hereford cattle, as a link to his childhood. He had an older sister, Margaret, who married French pilot, Rene Jonchier, and lived with their three daughters in French colonies and Paris. Derek was a keen sportsman, excelling at rowing, cricket and football during his university years. He studied at Cambridge and then King's College Hospital Medical School. Derek married Jacqueline Payne in London 1948 and, against his parents' wishes, he converted to Catholicism at Jacqueline's request. They courted through the end phases of their medical training. A family tale is told of them in a training session on eyes. Students were asked to turn the eyelid of the person next to them. Derek turned to Jacqueline, folded her eyelid back, and that, as they say, was that. They worked in the mid 1950's at the Royal Infirmary in Cardiff, Wales. From there they made the decision to move to Australia, following some colleagues and friends, the Coulthards and the Withercoms. Derek flew to Australia in 1957 to set up a home and work. Originally, he considered working in Kalgoorlie, but decided on a practice in the western suburbs of Newcastle, New South Wales. They had by then four children; Penelope, Timothy, Rebecca and Deborah, who was born after Derek had flown to Australia. Jacqueline followed with the four children, on an eight-week boat trip through the Suez Canal to Australia. The family lived initially in Wallsend, then set up home on ten acres at Cardiff, New South Wales. They had two more children, Nicholas and Felicity. The family took annual holidays to Narrabri Pony Camp for over 30 years, where Derek was the camp doctor, patching up children after falls from their horses. Derek worked at the Mater Hospital and Wallsend Hospital, and in general practice in both Glendale and in Wallsend. Derek and Jacqueline often worked together in general practice. When Derek completed his studies to become a surgeon, he established a surgery in Watt Street, Newcastle. He specialised in vascular surgery and, through private research, developed a successful alternative to general anaesthetic and vein stripping. The method of vein compression with bandages in the treatment of varicose veins was a day procedure, which involved injecting saline for small, spider veins and tetradecyl sulphate diluted into larger veins. He also did some vein stripping and was a pioneer with sclerotherapy when it started. Patients with bandaged legs were required to walk regularly to ensure circulatory rehabilitation. He was a respected senior surgeon in Newcastle, New South Wales and much-loved by his patients for his compassion and generosity. He was a doctor who often surpassed the constrictions of medico-legal or political correctness. Derek was appointed as an anatomy teacher at the newly-established medical school at Newcastle University in the 1980's. His kind rapport with students made him an excellent and popular teacher. Derek practised surgery until his late sixties. Derek and Jacqueline retired to Kilaben Bay, on Lake Macquarie and remained strongly involved in the Catholic parish at Toronto. In retirement Derek had more time for his much-loved fishing on Lake Macquarie and growing vegetables. He also practised woodturning and amateur furniture making. Each of the children had a garden bench made for them, along with numerous bowls, cigarette trays and three-legged stools, which became known as the 'child-killers', for all the tumbles that the grandchildren took from them. Derek was a loving and engaged father and grandfather. His passions, including Australian history, reading, the bush, fishing and amateur construction, have been passed on. He built sheds, stables and a tree house, among his many practical endeavours on the 10-acre block. He kept a cow and, for some years, a pig, an expression of his childhood love of farming. Jacqueline died in April 1997, and his six children knew that he would not last long after the death of the love of his life. Derek was a man of strong integrity and had a great sense of humour. He died from peripheral arterial disease and septicaemia, following a stubbed toe. 'At least the smoking didn't get me', was one of his parting quips. He and the children refused lower-leg amputation. Derek Wardle died on 28 August 2007. He was 82. He lived a full life, fostered principles of love in his family, and held the respect and admiration of friends and colleagues.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009344
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Peter Guy Cutlack (1908 - 1986)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Born in Yorkshire in 1908, the son of a civil engineer, Peter Martin was educated at Malvern College, before studying medicine at Queen's College, Cambridge (1925-28), and Manchester, qualifying in 1932. In the next four years he held a series of junior appointments in the Manchester area, in these years being particularly influenced by Professor E D Telford and Professor John Morley. In 1936 he obtained his Edinburgh Fellowship, and in the following year, in which he married, he settled in general practice in Chelmsford with an appointment as surgeon to Chelmsford Hospital. A keen member of the RNVR, he was called up in 1939, serving as surgical specialist in the Middle East, in England. and latterly in the Far East. He was demobilised in 1945 with the rank of Surgeon-Commander. On returning to civilian life he gave up general practice, but continued his appointment as a surgeon on the staff of Chelmsford Hospital, and it was there, in 1946 that he performed one of the first successful replacements of a segment of artery with a segment of autologous vein, in a young man with an injury to his popliteal artery. Prior to this success Peter was already interested in vascular surgery, at that time a relatively new specialty, principally concerned with the place of sympathectomy in various conditions, in particular intermittent claudication, and in 1947 he was appointed as a part-time senior lecturer in the department of surgery at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, entrusted by Professor Ian Aird with the responsibility of forming a vascular surgery unit. Later on he was appointed as consultant in vascular surgery to Manor House Hospital, but it was the former hospitals, Chelmsford and Hammersmith, which formed the core of his surgical life. A general surgeon with wide interests, as evidenced by his development of the Martin pump, for a period widely used in blood-transfusion, Peter played a full role in the surgical work at Chelmsford, where he was held in great esteem not only for his surgical skills, but also for his kindness and wise judgement. But increasingly vascular surgery became his predominant interest. He was one of the major figures in the development of vascular surgery in the United Kingdom. From his unit at Hammersmith came important papers establishing the association of aortic aneurysm with certain blood groups and with peptic ulceration, but Peter's main contributions were not in such academic aspects of surgery. A capable operator, who preferred simple to complex techniques, essentially practical in his outlook, with an intuitive rather than analytical approach to surgical problems, he made valuable contributions to the operative treatment of aortic aneurysms, but without doubt his most significant contribution was his establishment of the value of the restoration of the flow in the deep femoral vessels by the operation of profundaplasty. Though not a prolific writer, in addition to a number of important papers Peter edited and largely contributed to two widely read books on vascular surgery. Together with Sol Cohen, the first President, Frank Cockett and James Gillespie he was closely concerned with the foundation, in 1967, of the Vascular Society, of which he was the second President. He attracted both to Hammersmith and to Chelmsford not only many international visitors, but also a succession of able young registrars, especially from Australia. An outstanding ambassador for British surgery, he was frequently invited to lecture abroad in America, Australia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He was an honorary member of surgical societies in many countries, received an honorary Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and in 1980 he was invited to deliver the Le Riche Memorial Lecture in Heidelberg. A man of splendid physique, Peter was in all senses of the word a large man. Unfailingly gentle and courteous, imperturbable, a tower of strength in all difficulties, capable, whether in the operating theatre or the cockpit of his yacht, of imparting his own self-confidence to others, a man with an enormous gusto for life, Peter had a host of friends in many countries and from all walks of life. It is a reflection of the affection in which he was held by his juniors that following his retirement the Australian surgeons who had worked with him in this country invited, at their expense, him and his wife to visit Australia. Following his retirement in 1973 Peter spent several months teaching in Northern India and Iraq, but with increasing leisure he had more time to devote to his favourite pastime, sailing. An amateur sailor of great ability and resource, over the years he owned a series of yachts which he kept at Burnham-on-Crouch, where he was well-known, and from where he cruised widely to South Brittany, Eire and the Baltic. In his later years he moved to Felsted, where he died on 18 October 1986 predeceased by his wife, Mimosa, by some months. He was survived by his two sons and his grandchildren.
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