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First Title value, for Searching Murray, Eric Taylor (1922 - 2001)

2024-05-18T13:05:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Eric Murray studied medicine in Aberdeen, qualifying in 1944. After junior posts, he did his National Service, and afterwards worked as a registrar on rotation at Luton and Dunstable, the Central Middlesex and the Royal Free Hospitals. In 1959, he was appointed consultant surgeon initially at Tilbury and Billericay, and then at Basildon, Orsett and Brentwood Nuffield Hospitals. In 1977, he suffered a major heart attack, and became a part-time radiologist at Basildon until he retired in 1983. He was a keen golfer, achieving a hole in one, for which his club awarded him a special tie. He married his wife Laurie, who predeceased him. They had three sons. There are four grandchildren. He died from left ventricular failure on 11 April 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Lomas, Alan Lionel (1917 - 1985)

2024-05-18T13:05:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Alan Lionel Lomas graduated from the medical school in the University of Otago in 1938 at the age of 21 and for part of 1939 was house surgeon at New Plymouth General Hospital before joining the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at the beginning of the war. He served in the Western Desert and was awarded the Military Cross in 1942, the first New Zealand medical officer to be so decorated in the second world war. He was also mentioned in despatches on three occasions while serving in the Western Desert, Greece and Crete. Returning to New Zealand at the end of hostilities he became surgical registrar at New Plymouth Hospital before coming to England in 1947 to take the FRCS. On his return home he became senior surgical registrar at Auckland Hospital until he was appointed visiting surgeon at Hamilton and Waikato Hospitals in 1952. His main interest was in the treatment of malignant disease and he soon built up a busy public and private surgical practice. He recognised however that the development of a cancer unit required radiotherapeutic and oncological expertise and therefore resigned his hospital appointments in order to spend two years at the Royal Marsden Hospital studying physics and radiotherapy as well as passing the DMRT. On his return to New Zealand he set up a high quality radiotherapy department recognised by his admission as a member of the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists in 1972 and election to the Fellowship in 1984. He died on 18 May 1985, aged 68, and is survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Blower, Alan Paske (1927 - 2010)

2024-05-18T13:05:45Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2012-08-29
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Alan Blower served in the medical branch of the RAF as a consultant surgeon for 17 years, but had to retire on health grounds in 1970. He retrained in radiology, and became a successful and popular consultant at Peterborough. He was born in Greenwich on 31 January 1927, the only son of Thomas Paske Blower, a property owner in Greenwich and Deptford, and his wife Ethel Mary (née Mosses), the widow of a First World War pilot. Alan went to Wellington House School, Westgate, from 1935 to 1940 and for a further five years to Charterhouse for his secondary education. At school he was a good athlete and ran in short-distance races. He studied natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he took up rowing, and won the 'freshers' sculls'. Proceeding to Guy's Hospital, he lodged with Sir John Conybeare, author of the eponymous *Textbook of medicine*. This time was not only useful to Blower in terms of training, but also enhanced his social graces. Alan was fortunate to gain house appointments at Guy's Hospital and was greatly influenced by Grant Massie and Sam Wass. He joined the RAF on 30 March 1953 and continued his surgical training, partly under the supervision of W James L Harries, and obtained the FRCS in 1960. The week of negotiating this 'hurdle' was a cause for double celebration: his only son was also born in the same week. He was one of the few RAF surgeons to have a master's degree in surgery. Sadly, he suffered a cerebro-vascular accident due to a vascular malformation: this resulted in some loss of use in his right hand. He was forced abandon any thought of a promising career in surgery and took up radiology, having gained the relevant diploma. He made a remarkable recovery from his stroke and took up windsurfing to keep himself fit. Alan Blower became a consultant radiologist in Peterborough, where he was welcomed with open arms by the clinicians, as he took on the task of modernising the department. He transformed the radiology department from a 'read film only' service to a very active one in the clinical arena. He introduced arteriography and supported his urologist colleague, Alan Turner, in the use of plain film and ultrasound instead of IVP (intravenous pyelogram) in the investigation of prostatic problems. Ultrasound in obstetrics was introduced, as were many other innovations in diagnostic radiology. When CT scans were required, he was part of a group setting up a local fund to secure the equipment and was personally responsible for getting a mobile breast screening unit into the area. He also installed equipment in his own home for use in private practice and was popular with GPs in the area because he had his own portable X-ray machine. Alan Blower underwent successful treatment of a bladder cancer and, after undergoing carotid endarterectomy in Peterborough, he surprised everyone by recuperating in Spain three weeks after surgery. Although he retired from the NHS in 1992, Alan Blower continued to work as a locum in Peterborough and other East Anglian areas for many years thereafter. Although he was very active in his hospital work and a loyal and approachable colleague to clinicians of many specialties and general practitioners, in his spare time he pursued many hobbies. He was a member of a shooting syndicate in Stapleford Park and with his family he sailed a fireball boat on Rutland water. Up to 2007, he and his wife fished in Scotland on many rivers. Alan also took up golf again when new courses opened in the Peterborough area. Although his mobility deteriorated over the years, he played down any disability by using a golf buggy. In more sedentary moments he was a competent watercolour artist. He was active up to two weeks before his death on 9 March 2010 and was survived his wife Jean née Brodie, a Guy's trained theatre nurse, whom he had married in 1953, their three daughters, Amanda, Susan and Charlotte, and son, David Charles, 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Howlett, Edward Henry (1856 - 1930)

2024-05-18T13:05:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details The third and youngest son of Sir Arthur Howlett, KCB, and Mary Presgrave, his wife, was born in India on 29 September 1856. He was educated at Cranbrook School and Eastbourne College, before entering the Medical School at King's College, London. He served as house surgeon at King's College Hospital in 1877, and was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at the London Hospital in 1879. From 1 October 1880 until 30 September 1882 he was resident surgical officer at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, after which he went for a few months to the Monsall Fever Hospital. He settled in Hull in 1883 and was elected assistant surgeon to the Hull Royal Infirmary in the vacancy caused by the death of Dr Kelburne King, but did not become surgeon until 1897; he was appointed consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1914. He always took an active interest in the affairs of the Infirmary, was for twenty-two years a member of the board of management, and was chairman of the standing medical committee. He was also medical officer at Hull to the General Post Office and to HM Prison, making himself so respected in the latter position that on his death the warders asked to be allowed to act bearers of the coffin. Howlett busied himself, from their first introduction, with X-rays, both experimentally and clinically. He was appointed the first radiologist to the Hull Infirmary and held office until 1922. He married on 3 January 1884 Amy Davinia, only daughter of the Rev Richard Masters Hutchins, MA, of Trinity College, Cambridge, who survived him with two sons: Lieutenant-Colonel E G Howlett, MC, of the 7th Rajput Regiment, and Arthur Stanley Howlett. He died on 8 September 1930. Howlett was at one time an enthusiastic football player; in later life he turned to painting and produced some good work in portraiture and seascape.
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Daniel Hugh (1914 - 1996)

2024-05-18T13:05:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Hugh Campbell was born in Kimberley, South Africa, on 8 January 1914, the son of Robert Hugh Campbell, an electrical engineer who was South African by birth, and Catherine, née Phillips, who was Welsh. The family left South Africa and settled in Britain when Campbell was six years old, and he subsequently obtained dual nationality. He was educated at Llanelly Grammar School and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1939. After house appointments at Willesden General Hospital he was appointed surgical registrar at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1940, and later served with the RAMC in India as surgical specialist with the rank of major from 1941 until the end of the war. In 1946 he was appointed senior surgical registrar at University College Hospital, but after a serious illness (later diagnosed as multiple sclerosis) he had to give up his intention of pursuing a surgical career. He was one of three doctors at the hospital presenting at the same time with acute transverse myelitis (one of whom, Tom Smith FRCS, died) and he was treated by Sir Francis Walsh, the well-known neurologist. Despite diminished sensation in his hands and feet, he was able to take up diagnostic radiology and was appointed registrar in that specialty at University College Hospital in 1952, later taking the DMRD in 1954. Between 1954 and 1974 his condition remained fairly stable and he served as consultant radiologist at King's College and Dulwich Hospitals until he retired at 60. Even after this he continued to do locum x-ray sessions for several years while living in Dorset, until loss of sensation in his feet made it impossible for him to drive a car safely. In 1941 he married Ruth Elisabeth Weeks, a nurse, who survived him. They had no children. His outside interests included portrait and landscape painting and classical music. After several TIA's he died from a stroke on 7 July 1996 in Dorset.
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First Title value, for Searching Monro, Robert Stephen (1915 - 1984)

2024-05-18T13:05:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born in Liverpool on 26 December 1915, to Henry Ramsay Monro and Marjorie (née Wace) Robert Monro claimed direct descent from the Monros of Foulis and London. No less than five generations of his family held the DM Oxon and FRCP London and served as physicians on the staff of the Bethlem Hospital, being descendants of Alexander Monro who was Principal of St Andrew's and Edinburgh Universities. Robert went to Uppingham School and Chillon College in Switzerland, before entering Cambridge in 1936. He obtained first class honours in 1940 and passing to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School he continued to win virtually every scholarship and prize available to him. His training posts were also at the Middlesex Hospital where he served as assistant to both Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson and Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. A spell of war service as a Major in the RAMC took him to Europe and India and he then was appointed as consultant surgeon to the Ipswich Group of Hospitals. Sadly in 1953 he developed muscular dystrophy and was seconded to the diagnostic radiology department where he made a distinguished contribution until retirement. In his youth he was a keen athlete and besides playing rugger, swimming and skiing, he was awarded a half blue for judo at Cambridge. He made many contributions to surgical literature including being joint author with Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor on two seminal articles on hindquarter amputation in 1952. He married a nurse, Gwendoline Ellen Roberts, on 7 June 1943 and they had a daughter, Penelope Susan and an adopted son, Andrew. On 26 May 1973 he married Phyllis Mary Newton who was a personnel manager and a headmistress. He died on 16 March 1984, survived by his wife, daughter and grandchildren Ben and Tamsin.
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First Title value, for Searching Berg, Derek Oliver (1926 - 2014)

2024-05-18T13:05:45Z

by Graeme Morgan
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2017-10-19
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Oncologist Radiologist
Details Derek Berg was born in 1926 in Hong Kong, where his father was a shipping broker and Norwegian Consul-General. His Australian mother Constance died of cerebral malaria just before his third birthday, and Derek was sent to live with his aunt in Adelaide. His father remarried and he returned to Hong Kong, travelling with his stepmother - who he was led to believe was his own mother. At the age of 10, Derek was sent to boarding school at St Giles British School in Tsingtao, China, and travelled there by cargo ship, taking up to 10 days. In 1939 the school closed due to the outbreak of World War II, and Derek returned to Australia to live with his step-uncle at Bundarra in northern NSW. He became a boarder at The Armidale School (TAS), where he excelled at athletics and was a member of the rugby First XV. It was here that he built up life-long friends, as, without a family, he spent most of his holidays at the homes and stations of families he never forgot. He was unhappy at TAS and was unaware of the fate of his parents. On mature reflection he would regret it, but he left school at 16 to stay with an aunt in Sydney. He tried to join the Navy. Despite stating that he was older in age, he was not accepted as he was found to be colour blind. He therefore instead joined the Bank of New South Wales (Westpac) in O'Connell Street, Sydney, and studied at night to pass the Leaving Certificate. In 1945 he joined the Army and became Private Berg (NX206272). One month later Germany surrendered, although Derek was sure there was no connection between the two events. In 1946 Derek was reunited with his father and step-mother in Sydney. In 1941 they had become prisoners of war. When Derek saw them for the first time in 7 years, they were painfully thin and their possessions consisted of two little bags. They had lost almost everything. Derek enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1947. While 600 students enrolled, only a group of 100, which included Derek, graduated in 1953. As a student, Derek was a boarder at St Andrew's College for several years and played rugby for the University reserve grade, as the First XV at that time had 13 players who had played for either the Wallabies or the All Blacks (selected from NZ students studying at the Sydney University Veterinary school, as veterinary studies were at the time not being offered in NZ). After graduating, Derek became a doctor at the Sydney Hospital, where he decided to become a surgeon. He travelled to England as a ship's surgeon on a cargo vessel and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1956. He then spent a year as a registrar at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, where his surgical skills were developed with operating lists taking up to 16 hours. On his return to Australia, Derek obtained a position as a GP/surgeon in Tamworth, where he later became a specialist surgeon. Derek built up contact with GPs in surrounding towns and often flew up to Collarenebri, Wee Waa or Walgett or drove to Quirindi, Walcha or Barraba for minor surgical procedures, with the local GP being the anaesthetist. He also spent time in Sydney at Royal Prince Alfred, St Vincent's and Prince Henry's Hospitals to assist and learn about thoracic surgery. Derek obtained the Australasian Fellowship in Surgery and later (after Vietnam) the American Fellowship in Surgery. In 1968, with Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, Derek volunteered for a 3-month period as a surgeon in Long Xuyen, in the Mekong delta 150 km south-west of Saigon. It was an exhilarating time for him professionally. Lighting and hot water were not always available in the operating theatres, but the doctors made do with torches and candles. The medical team was extremely busy, and Derek started operating the morning after his arrival and virtually never stopped for 3 months. The majority of cases were gunshot, shrapnel or mine injuries, but there were also perforated typhoid ulcers and complications of tuberculosis and diphtheria. In 1969 Derek returned home and resumed his practice in Tamworth. Soon to follow was the setting up of a consultative cancer clinic at the Tamworth Base Hospital by Professor Leicester Atkinson from the Radiotherapy Department at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. Derek was actively engaged with the clinic, and this was the catalyst that kindled his interest in the treatment of cancer by radiotherapy. In early 1971 Derek was appointed a senior surgeon in Papua New Guinea in Goroka in the highlands for the first 3 months and then at ANGAU Hospital in Lae. Surgical problems included injuries from arrows and spears, parasitic diseases and infections. Cancer of the mouth was very common and was attributed to the habit of chewing betel-nut. The Australian Head & Neck Oncology Group held their annual meeting in Lae in 1972, and Derek presented a paper on treatment of mouth cancers. St Vincent's Hospital Sydney subsequently arranged to send senior surgical registrars to Lae on a rotating basis for 3 to 6 months. Under the supervision of the Queensland Radium Institute (now Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital), a radiotherapy unit was established at ANGAU in 1972. A Cancer Workshop was held in Lae in 1974 and resulted in Derek and Dr John Niblett (founding director of radiotherapy at Lae) producing a booklet, *A Guide to Management of Malignant Disease in Papua New Guinea*. A third edition was published in 2006. Professor Leicester Atkinson from Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, was a frequent visitor to PNG and Lae and talked to Derek about a new career move, given his interest in treatment of cancer. In 1977, Derek joined Prince of Wales as a registrar and embarked on a four-year training course. At the time he was 50 years of age and had five children to support on a registrar's wage. … He subsequently became a staff specialist in radiotherapy at Prince of Wales, responsible for the St George Hospital 'peripheral' clinic. In 1982 Derek was appointed Director of Radiotherapy at St Vincent's Hospital. The department was at a crisis point when he took over, as not only was the department in decline, treating only 20 or so patients a day, but in late 1981 the Trinker Report on Radiotherapy in NSW had recommended that radiotherapy at St Vincent's should be closed or amalgamated with the nearby Prince of Wales Hospital. However, the Sisters of Charity averted this by meetings with the then NSW Health Minister (Mr Laurie Brereton), and a new cobalt machine was purchased with funds from the Curran Foundation. The St George Hospital clinic was also transferred to St Vincent's and provided an immediate supply of patients for treatment. St Vincent's was the beginning of an extraordinary happy, rewarding and successful time for Derek professionally. He had an immediate support base from surgical friends from his time at Tamworth and also from registrars (now consultants) whom he helped train at Lae. The Wagga Wagga Clinic - the oldest peripheral clinic of any discipline in NSW, established by Leicester Atkinson in 1954 - was expanded by Derek. In addition, Dr Graeme Morgan, who became a life-long friend and a partner in the new St Vincent's Clinic department, established a new clinic at Griffith Base Hospital. Consultative clinics in head & neck, haematological and lung cancers were continued, along with support for total body irradiation prior to bone marrow transplantation, and new clinical cooperation was developed in gynaecological and urological cancers. A gynaecological cancer clinic was established with Professor Neville Hacker at the nearby Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington. Here Derek helped develop a technique of small-field irradiation, rather than whole-pelvis treatment, to be given postoperatively to high-risk, node-negative Stage 1B cervix cancer patients. This approach has now become the standard of care for this group of patients. In urological cancer, Derek's visit to Perth to learn the new technique of permanent I-125 seed implantation for early carcinoma of the prostate resulted in the first treatment at St Vincent's Clinic of a patient with his disease in 1995. Around 1000 patients had been treated at the unit using this technique by the time Derek retired. In 1991, Derek and Graeme Morgan borrowed heavily to establish a radiotherapy department within the newly opened St Vincent's Clinic that provided a state-of-the-art facility to expand radiotherapy services at St Vincent's. Much to the delight of Sister Bernice and many others at St Vincent's, this initiative proved to be extremely successful. As a clinician, Derek was first-class, and his caring and supportive approach to patient care was well recognised by the colleagues, patients and families with whom he came into contact. He was always available to see a patient at any time and did not restrict his availability to standard hours of duty. With his gentle and unassuming but vibrant and energetic behaviour, Derek was a quiet achiever, leading the department from the front foot. He had the unique ability to make every member of the staff feel special, taking time to chat and to encourage and acknowledge the contributions each person was making. In 1998 Derek retired from St Vincent's and moved to Noosa, where he and Judy spent 13 fun-filled, relaxing years. During his time Derek wrote an autobiography, *My Paper Trail*, plus a biography of his father, *The Shipping Broker*, and was in the process of writing a third, *World Faiths*, about his concepts of the meaning of religion and life. Derek always maintained his love for St Vincent's Hospital, the Sisters of Charity, Sister Bernice and the medical staff. When he was found to have prostate cancer, he and Judy returned to Sydney to be closer to care at this hospital. Later through his illness, he went on to receive palliative radiotherapy for bony secondaries in the very department he had played a key role in establishing. Ironically, Derek died on World Cancer Day, 4 February 2014. We extend our deepest sympathies to Judy and the Minchin family, to Derek's children - Janet, Andrew, Michelle, Amanda and James - and their partners, and to his 10 grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Hey, Wilson Harold (1882 - 1956)

2024-05-18T13:05:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation General surgeon Mountaineer Radiologist
Details Born on 1 September 1882, son of Thomas Hey JP of Colne and his wife Martha Jane Tatham, whose father was a solicitor there, Wilson Hey was educated at Burnley Grammar School and the University of Manchester, winning scholarships and prizes. He took his clinical training at the London Hospital, and qualified in 1905. At the Royal Infirmary, Manchester he served as house surgeon and resident surgical officer, and was awarded the Tom Jones memorial fellowship. He was elected to the honorary staff early in 1914, but on the outbreak of war joined the RAMC and served as a surgical specialist in France, reaching the rank of Major. After the war he resumed his practice in Manchester, joined the Royal Infirmary again, and was appointed to the Staff of Ancoats, the Christie, and the Children's Hospitals, and the Hartley Hospital, Colne. He was a pioneer in using radium for treatment of cancer, and later devised an operation for prostatectomy which was widely accepted. He was a good teacher, enlivening his lectures with anecdotes. He lectured on clinical surgery at Manchester University and examined at Cambridge. He was the first president of the Manchester Medical Society when it was reconstituted in 1950 by the amalgamation of five societies, having already been president of the old Medical Society and of the Surgical and Pathological Societies. Wilson Hey was a skilled mountaineer; he served on the Council of the Alpine Club, and was founder and president of the Manchester University Mountaineering Club. As chairman of the Mountain Rescue Committee he organised rescue equipment posts, wherever rock climbing is practised in Great Britain. He insisted that morphine be kept at each post, in case of painful injury, but the Home Office refused permission for the drug to be available without control. Hey deliberately flouted their orders, and was summoned in 1949 for failing to notify the inspector about his stock of morphine. He was fined £10 but gained the necessary publicity to extort an agreed arrangement from the authorities. Hey married in 1916 Elsie Brown (MB ChB Manchester 1909), who survived him with two sons and two daughters, one a doctor. He died at his country house, Fernilee Hall, Whaley Bridge, near Stockport, on Sunday 15 January 1956, aged 73. He had practised at 16 St John Street, Manchester. He was of strong and cheerful personality with a quiet manner. Publications: Early closure of gunshot wounds. *Brit med J* 1917, 2, 445. Benign enlargement of the prostate. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1943/46, 64, 271. Asepsis in prostatectomy. *Brit J Surg* 1945, 33, 41. The catheter and the prostate. *Brit med J* 1946, 1, 757, and correspondence at p 997 and 2, 241 and 624. Prostatectomy, in H P Winsbury White's *Textbook of genito-urinary surgery*, Edinburgh 1948, pp 477-481, and Cancer of the prostate, in the same, pp 522-525.
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First Title value, for Searching Stowell, Thomas Edmund Alexander (1887 - 1970)

2024-05-18T13:05:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Radiologist
Details Thomas Edmund Alexander Stowell was born in 1887; he was educated at St Paul's School and St Thomas's Hospital where he was awarded the William Tite Scholarship for 1905-1906. As a postgraduate he studied at Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Zurich, Vienna and Harvard, holding clinical appointments at St Thomas's and the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. At different times he was honorary surgeon at the Victoria Infirmary Northwich, senior honorary surgeon and radiologist at the Mid-Cheshire Orthopaedic Clinic, Northwich, and a surgeon in the EMS. Possibly his longest and most important appointment was that of chief medical officer to Imperial Chemical Industries, and therefore he was one of the pioneers on the subject of industrial health. A member of the court of examiners for the diploma in industrial health, he was Chairman of the Council of Industrial Medicine and of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Industrial Welfare Society. Senior Vice-President of the Congrès International de Sauvetage et de Premier Secours en Cas d'Accidents, he was for many years interested in accident prevention and first aid instruction and was a lecturer and examiner for the St John Ambulance Association and the British Red Cross Society. A devoted churchman he was a member of the House of Laity of the Church Assembly and was chairman of the Childrens Committee of the London Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare. His surgical activities were seriously curtailed by his developing Dupuytren's contracture, necessitating the amputation of three fingers. At one period he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics, a member of the British Social Hygiene Council, a Member of the Ministry of Pensions Committee on Compensation for Injuries Sustained by Members of HM Forces and many other bodies connected with industrial health, with first aid and safety, and with public morality. A great interest was the solving of historical medical mysteries and he became involved in controversial arguments as to the identity of Jack the Ripper following an article he wrote in *The Criminologist*. He was a keen and distinguished Freemason. In 1913 he married Lilian, elder daughter of W Wagner of Hayle, Cornwall by whom he had a son, who became a doctor, and a daughter who was killed accidentally in 1958. He died on 8 November 1970 in Southampton.
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First Title value, for Searching Harmer, William Douglas (1873 - 1962)

2024-05-18T13:05:45Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born on 25 August 1873 in Norwich, son of F W Harmer cloth merchant and glacial geologist, and brother of Sir Sidney Harmer KCB, FRS, he was educated at Uppingham and King's College, Cambridge, proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualifying in 1898. After qualification and house appointments first at Great Ormond Street and then at St Bartholomew's he taught anatomy and operative surgery obtaining his mastership of surgery in 1901 and being the last graduate to be designated MC as opposed to MChir. He was appointed warden of the medical college in which capacity he prevented the pre-clinical school from being absorbed into that of University College, thereby preserving the complete entity of the medical school. In 1904 he was appointed assistant surgeon, but in 1906 he contracted a severe pulmonary infection and spent a year at Davos, Switzerland. It was here that he mastered the art of needlework and a piece of embroidery in petit point which he brought back was used as a firescreen in his London home. In 1907, returning fully recovered, he was persuaded by his colleagues to accept full responsibility for the throat department and to give up general surgery as it was thought this would be too arduous. At this period it had been the usual practice for one of the assistant surgeons to have charge of the throat department in addition to his general surgical duties, and Harmer had followed D'Arcy Power. It was also customary at this period for otology, if recognised as a specialty, to be treated in a different department to laryngology. Harmer, far from working less arduously, was busier than ever. In the 1914-18 war he served as Captain RAMC and made an important contribution to the study of wounds of the larynx, part of the time serving in Russia. He had already in 1913 begun research into the use of radiotherapy in disease of the throat, and after the war he became attached to the Radium Institute and was appointed honorary surgeon to Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood also. In 1931 he was appointed Semon lecturer to London University, and in 1932 he published a monograph on the use of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer of the upper air passages. To the end of his active career he treated cancer of the vocal cords by radium needles introduced through a window in the thyroid cartilage, which in his hands gave better results than other forms of treatment. He retired from St Bartholomew's at the age of 55 but continued working at the Radium Institute and Mount Vernon until 1948. Harmer made a gift to the rare book room of the College library in the shape of a handsome rosewood bookcase, and in 1963 a bequest under his will. A countryman and a keen sportsman with rod and gun, he also played golf at Cambridge down to a handicap of three, with wooden clubs of his own making, and was also a champion skater. He married in 1906 May, daughter of Dr John Hedley and sister of JP Hedley FRCS. She died suddenly while on holiday in New Zealand in 1954. She had been for many years prominent in the work of the Ladies Guild, the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. They had three sons, the second of whom, Michael FRCS, is a surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He died at his home at Littlestone, Kent on 24 October 1962 aged 89, and a memorial service was held at St Bartholomew's the Less on Wednesday 7 November.
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First Title value, for Searching Pinch, Albert Edwin Hayward (1868 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born 28 February 1868, the eldest son of Felix Pinch, civil servant on the Irish establishment, and his wife, *née* Hayward. He was educated at King Edward's School, Bath and at Bristol University College Medical School. After clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital he was admitted MRCS in 1894, and was elected to the Fellowship two years later. From 1894 to 1896 he was medical tutor and assistant lecturer in physiology at University College, Bristol. He was commissioned as surgeon-lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 29 July 1896, becoming captain in 1899. Pinch did brilliantly both at Bristol and the Army Medical School, Netley. He gained the first entrance scholarship, the Suple scholarship, and the Clarke scholarship in medicine, surgery, and obstetrics at the Bristol Medical School: the Fayrer prize in pathology the De Chaumont prize in hygiene, the Montefiore prize in surgery, and the Herbert scholarship at Netley. He served in the Bengal Presidency as one of the last officers commissioned on the special Bengal list, but contracted plague, and was invalided home with no hope of recovery. In fact he lived for nearly fifty years. He recovered sufficiently to become resident medical superintendent of the Medical Graduates' College and Policlinic at 22 Chenies Street, London, holding the post from 1899 to 1909 during which time he was also pathologist to the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Disease of the Hip, Queen Square, Bloomsbury. In 1908, after the King had been successfully treated by radium in Paris, Lord Iveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel presented a stock of radium for medical use in London. Sir Frederick Treves was appointed president of the Radium Institute in Riding House Street, Portland Place, established to administer this gift, and Pinch was chosen by him as resident medical superintendent and general director in March 1909. Pinch was sent on a tour of French, German, and Austrian radium institutes and clinics before taking up the post which he held till 1930. The Radium Institute was established for the treatment of patients by radium and to carry researches into the therapeutic and physical properties of radium and compounds. For this position Captain Pinch was admirably suited; urbane, tactful, and absolutely honest, he put the institute on a sound basis, which was satisfactory alike to the medical profession and to science. No patient was received until after arrangements had been made with the institute by the patient's medical attendant, while the results obtained were published annually. In these *Reports* Pinch included the cases where no benefit had been received as well as those which had been treated successfully, and pointed out the forms of disease which were most likely to be helped. The work of the Radium Institute was taken over by National Radium Commission in 1930, and Pinch was retired with the honorary status of consultant. Pinch gave up his work on radium, in which he had been deeply interested and retired to Westward Ho, North Devon, where he was able to enjoy his favourite recreation of golf. He usually spent a month every year salmon-fishing in Scotland. Through the long years of retirement he was frequently in ill-health as a result of his earlier illness and the effects his work with radium. He had a severe cerebral stroke in 1946, and died of cerebral haemorrhage in Bideford Hospital on 14 October 1948, aged 80. Hayward Pinch married in August 1896 Helen Nora Poole, who survived him, but without children. He left the remainder of his fortune, after his wife's life interest, to help necessitous students at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Bristol University Medical Faculty. Mrs Hayward Pinch died on 6 January 1953. Publications: *The Radium Institute, London; a clinical index of radium therapy*. London, 1925. *Manual of technique in radium therapy*. London, 1926. 40 plates. *Superficial radium therapy*. London, 1927. 50 plates. Radium therapy, in R Hutchison and H S Collier's *Index of treatment*, 1911, etc. Die Radiumtherapie der bösartigen Hautkrankheiten, in *Handbuch der gesamte Strahlenheilkunde*, 2nd edition, Munich, vol 2, part 2.
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First Title value, for Searching Stebbing, George French (1884 - 1947)

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Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born on 2 October 1884 at Hazlemere, Woodside Park, Finchley, the fifth child and third son of Alfred Charles Stebbing, merchant, and Elizabeth Elstob, his wife. He was educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth Common and at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and out-patients officer, after taking honours and distinction in surgery at the MB, BS examination. Stebbing felt no inclination for private practice, and failing to see an institutional opening of the kind that he wished, he took the advice of Sir Charters Symonds to make one for himself, and in 1908 joined the staff of Lambeth Infirmary, then under the medical superintendence of A L Baly, MRCS, who gave him every encouragement in establishing a surgical clinic there. Stebbing served as a naval surgeon during the war of 1914-1918, and on return to Lambeth became interested in the treatment of malignant disease by radium. He quickly realized that radium treatment ought not to be merely an item in the surgeon's armamentarium, but that for its full exploitation a new specialty of radio-therapy must develop in which surgeon and physicist should co-operate. The rest of his life was given up to a single-minded promotion of this project, while he continued his surgical work. He brought about an arrangement between the Ministry of Health and the Lambeth Board of Guardians for the supply of radium and establishment of deep X-ray plant at the Lambeth Hospital in 1929, and from then onwards till the end of his life was both surgical specialist and radio-therapist to the hospital. The same year, 1929, he was appointed to the newly formed National Radium Commission and served as its honorary medical secretary till 1947. He was responsible for the framing of its policy, which took shape in three stages: first, the formation of radiotherapy units with adequate equipment, technical as well as medical staff, space and beds enough for fully efficient working; second, the addition of facilities for all forms of cancer treatment; and finally, the centralizing of these units in the provincial university regions. Stebbing was a member of the Ministry of Health cancer subcommittee, and later of the Medical Research Council nuclear physics committee. He was chairman of council of the London and Counties Medical Protection Society; was a founder of the Society of Radio-therapists and became its president, and a founder of the London County Council clinical research committee, and the first chairman of the LCC Medical Society which developed from it. But for his last illness he would have been president of the section of radiology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was an original Fellow of the Faculty of Radiology (1939) and its honorary treasurer. He also served as clinician to the Radium Beam Therapy Research, 1934-38. Stebbing was an examiner for part 2 of the Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy of the Conjoint Board, and became a co-opted member of Council of the College under the 1947 Charter. His name appeared in the New Year's Honours List 1948, for award of the Companionship of the Order of the British Empire, ten days after his death. Stebbing married on 30 April 1919 Margaret Warburton McCroddall, who survived him with two sons, both medical students, and a married daughter. He died on 22 December 1947, aged 63, at Brigown, 38 Telford Avenue, Streatham, SW2. A memorial service was held at St Philip's, Kennington, on 12 January 1948. At the beginning of the war of 1939-45 he and his wife moved into residence at Lambeth Hospital, to give greater attention to the permanent inmates there. Stebbing was a man of integrity and moral courage, with a clear head and tireless energy. Though he was somewhat ruthless and uncompromising in the pursuit of his ideals, his charm and sincerity, combined with a cheerful sense of fun, won him innumerable friends. Publications: A case of ateleiosis, with F Parkes Weber, *Brit J Child Dis* 1916, 13, 200. The intravenous injection of oxygen gas as a therapeutic measure, with F W Tunnicliffe. *Lancet*, 1916, 2, 321. Fractures of metatarsal bones by indirect violence, with A G R Foulerton. *Lancet*, 1927, 2, 1225. Fractures of the upper end of the femur. *Brit J Surg* 1927, 15, 201. Chordotomy; section of the anterolateral tracts for the relief of pain, with notes of seventeen cases. *Lancet*, 1929, 1, 654. Sir Charters Symonds, an appreciation, with a portrait. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1933, 83, 259. Wavelength as a factor in radiotherapy. *Brit J Radiol* 1938, 11, 177. Modern methods in the treatment of cancer. *J Roy Sanit Inst* 1939-40, 60, 284. Radiotherapeutic education of the future. *Brit J Radial* 1942, 15, 294. Radiotherapy in carcinoma of kidney and bladder. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1945, 38, 250. Diagnosis of cancer in a National Medical Service. The Skinner lecture, Faculty of Radiologists. *Lancet*, 1945, 2, 65. Total war on cancer. *Brit med J* 1946, 2, 77.
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