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First Title value, for Searching Hussein, Mohamed Kamel (1901 - 1977)

2024-09-22T08:29:00Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-21 2014-11-25
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Writer
Details Mohamed Kamel Hussein was professor of orthopaedic surgery at Kasr El Ainy Medical School, Cairo, and was known in Egypt as the 'father of orthopaedics'. He was born in Cairo on 20 March 1901, the third child of Mohamed Aly Hussein, a school teacher. After his parents died, Hussein was brought up by his older brother. He studied medicine in Cairo, where he was always top of his class, and qualified MB BS in 1923. He was then picked to travel to England for postgraduate studies and gained his FRCS in 1928. Back in Cairo, he was appointed to the teaching staff of Kasr El Ainy Medical School. He was then once again chosen to study in the UK: he studied orthopaedics in Liverpool and obtained his MCh. On returning to Cairo, he began an orthopaedic training programme at the Kasr El Ainy Hospital, Fouad I University, now known as Cairo University. He also founded the Egyptian Red Crescent Hospital and began an accident and emergency service, the first of its kind in Egypt and the Middle East. He was the founder of the Egyptian Orthopaedic Association and was elected as its first president. He served in this role from 1948 to 1967. He was also chief editor of its scientific journal. He was also an accomplished and prolific writer. He studied Arabic in depth and published many poems and short stories, along with studies of linguistics and grammar. His best-known book *City of wrong -a Friday in Jerusalem* (Geoffrey Bles, 1959), translated into English and six other languages, won a prestigious national prize in literature. He was also interested in medical history, particularly the history of Arabic medicine, and wrote about the great Arabic polymath Al-Razi. He also published a translation of the Edwin Smith Papyrus on ancient Egyptian traumatology. He was unmarried, but he shared a home with his sister, whose husband had died young, and her children. Mohamed Kamel Hussain died in 1977.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001808
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format Obituary
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First Title value, for Searching Le Vay, Abraham David (1915 - 2001)

2024-09-22T08:29:00Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13 2015-12-16
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Occupation Historian Orthopaedic surgeon Writer
Details David Le Vay was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Woolwich Brook Memorial Hospital, and a writer and linguist. He was born in London on 14 May 1915, the son of Montague Le Vay, a retailer, and Eva née Goldstein. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School, in Hampstead, from which he entered University College London as the Bucknill scholar. After qualifying, he completed junior posts at the Royal Free Hospital, demonstrated anatomy at Cambridge, and was a registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He entered the RAMC as an orthopaedic specialist and, on demobilisation, was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Woolwich Brook Memorial Hospital. In 1960, he was seconded for a year to the World Health Organization in Geneva, and in 1973 spent a year as Visiting Professor of Surgery at the Pahlavi University Medical School in Shiraz, Iran. After retirement, he continued to work for long spells in Australia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Ireland. He was a talented linguist and had a parallel career as a medical author, biographer and historian. He wrote *A history of orthopaedic surgery* (Carnforth, Parthenon, 1990), biographies of Hugh Owen Thomas and Alexis Carrel, and numerous textbooks, including the popular *Human anatomy and physiology*, part of the Teach Yourself series (London, English Universities Press, 1974), which continued to be in demand for more than half a century. He translated innumerable medical textbooks into and from German, Latin, Spanish and French, as well as the novels of Colette and Joseph Roth. His publisher, Hodder and Stoughton, arranged a dinner to celebrate David being their longest continually published author. He married Marjorie Cole in 1940, and, in 1957, Sonja Hansen. From these two marriages he had two daughters and nine sons, one of whom became a research neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School. He was married four times in all. He died on 16 July 2001.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008735
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format Obituary
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