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First Title value, for Searching Ogilvy, Ian Howard ( - 1980)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Ian Howard Ogilvy was resident junior medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1943 and progressed to senior medical officer and then to assistant surgeon in 1952. He was honorary surgeon to the Austin Hospital and the Footscray and District Hospital from 1952 to 1957, assistant surgeon at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne 1952-57 and the Royal Children's Hospital 1953-58, and from 1957 to 1972 honorary surgeon to outpatients at the Alfred Hospital. During this time he held various posts at the University of Melbourne, becoming clinical supervisor 1948-50, lecturer in pathology in 1952 and demonstrator in surgery. He served in the RAAF in the second world war with the rank of Flight Lieutenant. He was Gordon Craig Research Scholar of the RACS in 1950 and was a member of the AMA. He died on 19 August 1980 at Melbourne.
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First Title value, for Searching Hobbs, John James Barclay ( - 1972)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details John James Barclay Hobbs was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1949, graduating with the London MB, BS, the same year. After holding the post of orthopaedic and casualty house surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital he did his national service as a Flying Officer in the RAF medical branch. In 1955 Hobbs was a surgical registrar at the Hertford County Hospital and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He had also held the post of resident assistant pathologist at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. He then gained further experience as a surgical registrar at the Central Middlesex Hospital before emigrating to Australia where he worked in Perth for some years, but by 1965 he was back in Britain serving as a Squadron-Leader in the RAF medical branch. In 1967 he was awarded the MBE. He died suddenly on 20 July 1972 at the RAF Hospital, Broughton.
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First Title value, for Searching Bull, George Coulson Robins (1858 - 1952)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

First Title value, for Searching Wimberger, Wilfred Emeric (1907 - 1965)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Wimberger was born in England in 1907 and graduated at the University of Birmingham in 1930. After holding various house appointments, he was Medical Superintendent for twenty years, 1937-57, and senior surgeon to Hallam Hospital, West Bromwich. His services during this period of heavy air raids in 1940-41 was recognised with gratitude by the County Borough Council. After the war he was active in developing his hospital to take its full share of work and leadership under the new West Regional Hospital Board. Wimberger emigrated in 1957 to Kapuskasing, Ontario, a lumber town four hundred miles north-west of Toronto and nearly half way from Lake Huron to Hudson Bay. He was consulting surgeon to the Sensenbrenner Hospital there which he greatly developed, and under the Ontario Provincial Government Queen's Pathologist for the Cochrane district, he performed the necessary forensic autopsies, and collaborated closely with his friend the Provincial Coroner, Dr Bruce Feaver. He was a public-spirited man keen to serve his community and often performed surgical operations without charge for patients in the remote settlements of northern Ontario where his help was welcomed by Catholic French Canadians though he was an active Anglican churchman. 'Bill' Wimberger had many outside interests, loving his garden and his piano, supporting the Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford, Ontario, and enjoying the good things of life. He studied the history of medicine and for his holidays explored the remote West Indian islands, away from tourist centres. There he contracted the uncommon disease, periarteritis nodosum, from which he died in Hamilton General Hospital, Ontario on 23 April 1965, aged fifty-eight.
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First Title value, for Searching Walton, Herbert James (1869 - 1938)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

First Title value, for Searching Debono, Peter Paul (1890 - 1958)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Pathologist
Details Born in Malta 29 June 1890 the eldest of three brothers who distinguished themselves in the small medical school of the ancient Royal University of Malta: Emanuele (MD 1922) became an ophthalmologist in New York, Joseph Edward (MD 1925) became Professor of Medicine at Malta, FRCP and CBE; two members of the next generation also practised in Malta, Francis (MD 1949) and Anthony Hugh (MD 1955). Peter Paul graduated in 1910 and then came to London for a year's postgraduate work. He taught anatomy and pathology at Malta 1912-14, and served as pathologist to the RNMS and the RAMC 1914-18. He was medical officer of health for Malta 1918-19. He gained the Fellowship at the end of 1920 after working at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and worked in Manchester till 1922. During the war he had come under the inspiring influence of Sir Charles Ballance FRCS in treating the wounded from Gallipoli at Malta, and decided to take up surgery rather than pursue pathology and bacteriology in which he would have made his mark. Returning to Malta he was appointed surgeon to the Central Hospital, and was Professor of Surgery 1926-51. He was created OBE in 1944 for his services during the war of 1939-45, when Malta suffered intense air-bombardment. He was nominated to the Executive Council of the Island for 1936-39, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1947. He served as Minister of Health, and was finally Speaker of the Assembly. He was assistant secretary of the Malta branch of the British Medical Association 1919-23, Secretary 1923-30, and president in 1935-37 and 1942-43. He married in 1918 L Briffa, who survived him with their two daughters; he died in Malta on 3 June 1958 aged 67.
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First Title value, for Searching Trinca, Alfred John (1884 - 1981)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Few records are available of the early years of this distinguished surgeon and pathologist. He trained as an undergraduate at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and held his first postgraduate posts there, but his life-long work as a surgeon was at the Alfred Hospital. He was Beaney Scholar and demonstrator in pathology from 1910 to 1911 before being appointed there as pathologist, a position which he held until 1927, after which he became curator of the pathology museum until 1946. In 1914 he joined the Royal Australian Navy and served in the Grantala at the capture of Rabaul. In 1915 he joined the BEF and served as a Captain with the RAMC in France from 1915 to 1918. In 1919 he took the FRCS in England, where he was surgical registrar and senior demonstrator in anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital from 1919 to 1920. On returning to Australia he was appointed to the surgical staff of the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, in 1921 and honorary surgeon, 1924-46, consultant pathologist to the Baker Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, 1930-47, lecturer in surgery to dental students in 1942 and finally consultant surgeon to the Alfred Hospital from 1947 onwards. He is remembered as a teacher for his puckish sense of humour. He was a most gifted surgeon, always dexterous and gentle. With his background in pathology he wrote several articles concerning tumours, but is best remembered for his two papers, first advocating frozen section tissue diagnosis in 1911 and secondly the abuse of peritoneal lavage and drainage tubes in 1933. Such views were well ahead of his time. Always a clear thinker he was never frightened to express his opinions. He maintained his mental faculties throughout his rich and fruitful life, dying in Melbourne on 5 August 1981 at the age of 97. He left three sons, John, Gordon and Allan, respectively a physician, a surgeon and an anaesthetist.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnstone, James (1862 - 1953)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born at Sydney, Australia on 27 September 1862, the eldest of four children and only son of the Rev William Johnstone and Margaret King, his wife, who lived to be 100, he grew up in New Zealand where his father was Presbyterian minister at Port Chalmers, and was educated at Otago Boys High School, Dunedin, graduated in arts at the University and began his medical studies at the Otago Medical School. Coming home to Scotland, he qualified with honours in medicine, surgery and public health, and won the George Thomson travelling fellowship at Aberdeen University. This enabled him to make postgraduate studies at Berlin, Munich, Vienna, and Paris. After serving as house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, he was clinical assistant and pathologist there under Sir William Macewen. He then came to London, took the Fellowship in 1891, and settled in general practice at Richmond, Surrey, where his career was spent, first at 26 Sheen Road and later at Tudor House, King's Road. He was for a time pathologist to the London Homeopathic Hospital and served on the Council of the British Homeopathic Society. Besides building up a large and successful practice during forty-five years, Johnstone took a leading part in local affairs. He served on the education committee of the borough council, was chairman of the juvenile employment committee, and was a founder of the local Council of Social Service. He lectured in medicine at the Wesleyan College, Richmond. He was an active freemason, a member of the Richmond lodge, and past assistant grand director of ceremonies in the Grand Lodge of England, and past standard bearer of supreme grand chapter; he was a member of the old Richmond Lodge of Harmony, and compiled its history; he was also a member of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, and was at work on the history of freemasonry in his last years. He was a founder-member of the Richmond Rotary Club, and its second president. He was a keen amateur of botany, geology, and archaeology, was active in preserving local historical monuments, and took a prominent share in the cultural activities of the Richmond Athenaeum. He became a magistrate in 1932. He married in 1892 Ethel Rose Hudson, who was created MBE for her work at home and in France in the war of 1914-18. Mrs Johnstone died in April 1952 two days before their diamond wedding; she had been a borough councillor at Richmond. He died in the West London Hospital on 14 February 1953, aged 90, survived by four sons and a daughter. Publication: Transfusion subcutaneous and intravenous in gynaecological practice, with George Burford. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1905, 7, 445.
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First Title value, for Searching Welch, Francis Henry (1839 - 1910)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born at Stansted, Essex, on May 27th, 1839; studied at the London Hospital, where in 1860 he won a Gold Medal. Entered the Army Medical Service on April 1st, 1861, as Assistant Surgeon on the Staff; was attached to the 22nd Foot in 1863; was promoted Surgeon Major on March 19th, 1876; Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel on February 24th, 1887; and Surgeon Colonel on April 5th, 1892. From 1871-1876 he was Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Army School, Netley. In the Egyptian War of 1882 he saw active service at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir and was awarded the Medal with Clasps, also the Khedive's Star; he served later with the Hazara Field Force in 1888. In 1873 he gained the Alexander Memorial Prize and Gold Medal for his essay on "Pulmonary Consumption among Soldiers", and again in 1892 on "Enteric Fever in the Army". Sir William Osier, in a lecture on aneurysm, directed attention to Welch as the first to have proved that syphilis is the chief cause of aneurysm. Welch retired on May 1st, 1895, and died at Southborough on October 25th, 1910. Publications: *The Nature and Varieties of Destructive Lung Disease included under the term Pulmonary Consumption, its Prevalence, etc, as seen among Soldiers*, 8vo, 1872. "On Aortic Aneurism in the Army and the Conditions Associated with it." - *Proc Roy Med-Chir Soc*, 1875-80, viii, 22. This important paper was never printed in the *Transactions*. Thirty-four fatal cases were examined by Francis H Welch, who was then Assistant Professor of Pathology in the Army Medical School, Netley, and the results were communicated to the Society on Nov 23rd, 1875. The average age at death was thirty-two years; the average period of service performed by the soldier twelve years; the average duration of the lesion 13 months. In five instances the dilatation of the vessel was multiple. He points out that endarteritis of the aorta is one of the most frequent internal lesions of syphilis and one of the earliest produced. There is consequently a comparative absence of gummata in the viscera in cases of advanced aortic disease because the aneurysm kills before the tertiary lesions have had time to develop. The treatment of syphilis was in a very unsatisfactory condition at the time these observations were made. *Enteric Fever: as illustrated by Army Data*, 8vo, Philadelphia, 1883.
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First Title value, for Searching Daniel, Peter Lewis (1871 - 1952)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born at Carmarthen in 1871, he was educated there and at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Llewellyn scholar. He qualified in 1898, served as house physician and house surgeon at Charing Cross, and was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school. After postgraduate study in Vienna he took the Fellowship in 1899, and was appointed surgical registrar at his hospital. He also filled the posts of pathologist and curator of the museum, assistant in the electrical department, and lecturer and tutor in surgery. He was elected assistant surgeon in 1905, later became surgeon, and was appointed consulting surgeon in 1931. During the war of 1939-45 he rejoined the surgical staff of the evacuated hospital at Ashridge. Daniel was also consulting surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital, the Gordon Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum, the Willesden Hospital, and the cottage hospitals at Sutton and Hampton and Molesey. He was at one time pathologist to the hospital of Saints John and Elizabeth. He was a medical referee of the Cremation Society, and for some years secretary of the Harveian Society. Daniel was an unassuming and modest man, who exerted a great influence for good. He was universally friendly and of great kindness and consideration. Conscientious and disliking publicity, he had very sound judgement. His practical common-sense was always at the service of those who sought his advice, and he was an excellent teacher and chairman. Daniel was a keen freemason. He helped to found the Chère Reine lodge at Charing Cross Hospital, and after serving as chairman was its treasurer for twenty years. He was always open to new ideas, and with William Hunter, CB, MD, FRCP (1861-1937) he directed attention to the dangers of oral sepsis in relation to arthritis. Daniel practised at 1A Upper Wimpole Street, and retired to Gilcroft, Checkendon, Oxford, where he died suddenly on 28 July 1950, aged 79, survived by his wife and only son. This son Peter Maxwell Daniel, MB, MRCS was awarded the triennial prize and John Hunter medal of the College in 1948, for his share in the discovery of afferent nerves and muscle spindles in the external ocular muscles, and for his contributions to the discovery of the shunt in the renal circulation, while working at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Mrs Daniel died on 25 February 1952. Publications:- *Arthritis, a study of the inflammatory diseases of joints*, edited by James Cantlie. London: Bale, 1911. 515 pages. Colotomy and some misconceptions of its results. *Lancet*, 1911, 2, 1390. Some points in abdominal diagnosis. *Brit med J*. 1921, 2, 470.
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First Title value, for Searching Merrington, William Robert (1912 - 1997)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details 'Tim' Merrington was an accomplished surgeon whose career was blighted but whose spirit was undimmed by multiple sclerosis. Within four years of becoming consultant surgeon to University College Hospital, an appointment for which his earlier achievements had long marked him out, he developed the first signs of the disease and was forced to retire. Yet, despite considerable handicap, he continued to maintain an active interest in surgical pathology, wrote the definitive history of University College Hospital and its medical school, and lived on into old age with his intellect unimpaired. Tim was born in Haslemere, Surrey, on 10 January 1912, the son of Robert John Merrington, a builder's manager and his wife, Alice Maud née Fagent. Of his three brothers, one was a naval architect, one a consulting engineer and one a physicist. A scholarship took him to Guildford Junior Technical School and on to University College, where he won the gold medal for physiology. In the medical school he was again awarded a gold medal for medicine, but after qualifying in 1935 and a house job with Wilfred Trotter he set his career on surgery. Having gained practical experience at the West Middlesex and passed his FRCS, he went back to the UCH surgical unit, where he was made a surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service at the outbreak of the war. In 1942, he joined the RAMC and served as Lieutenant Colonel with the First and Eighth Army in Africa and Italy. On return, after a spell as John Marshall fellow, he was appointed surgeon to UCH, in 1949, and was given an opportunity to study at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The first signs of multiple sclerosis appeared in 1953; he had to give up surgery, but maintained his interest in pathology as curator of the museum and as senior lecturer in pathology. He could no longer enjoy sport, but was able to play the violin with considerable ability, often together with his wife and the late Richard Asher. His book *University College Hospital and its medical school: a history* (London, Heinneman, 1976), which still stands out as one of the best hospital histories, was published when he was coming up to retirement. He had great difficulty in getting about but he continued to be active until his death on 16 June 1997. He had married Maxine Venables, a statistician at UCH, in 1939, and she cared for him through long and difficult years. His daughter, Judith, was born in 1943 and is now a community psychiatrist. His son, Oliver, is an IT scientist at the Scott Polar Research Unit, Cambridge.
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First Title value, for Searching Edmunds, Walter (1850 - 1930)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and at Addenbrooke's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He graduated BA at Cambridge after he had been placed in the second class of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1872, and then entered St Thomas's Hospital, where he acted as resident accoucheur and house physician in 1877. He took part in the Turco- Russian war as a surgeon, and upon his return to England was appointed the first resident medical officer at the St Thomas's Home for paying patients. In July 1898 he was elected surgeon to out-patients at the Evelina Hospital for Children and resigned the post in 1903. In 1901 he was appointed surgeon to the Prince of Wales' General Hospital at Tottenham and held office until 1910 when he was appointed consulting surgeon. During these nine years he was the representative of the medical staff on the Board of Management and remained as a governor after his retirement. He presented the hospital with an X-ray equipment when radiography was still in its infancy. He died unmarried at Worthing on 23 September 1930. Being relieved of the necessity of earning a living by the practice of surgery, for he inherited a competence from an uncle, and being also of a retiring disposition Edmunds devoted his life to experimental research in surgical pathology. His first essay in 1885 began in the pathological laboratory at the University of Leipzig, then under the control of Professor Birch Hirschfeld where, collaborating with Charles Ballance and aided by the advice of Dr Hueber, a series of experiments were carried out to ascertain the best method of ligaturing the large arteries in their continuity under the newly-introduced Listerian methods. The first results were published in 1886 in a paper read before the Royal Medico-chirurgical Society, but the experiments were continued under Victor Horsley at the Brown Institute and in the pathological laboratory at St Thomas's Hospital under Charles Sherrington until the final results appeared in a classical work issued in 1891 entitled A treatise on the ligature of the great arteries in continuity; the conclusion arrived at being that, in opposition to the teaching of previous surgeons, a large artery should be tied with a round absorbable ligature without injury to its walls. Edmunds then turned his attention to the thyroid and, again working at the Brown Institute in the Wandsworth Road, was amongst the first to produce myxoedema experimentally in a monkey by extirpation of the gland. He also proved that it was possible to save dogs from the immediate effects of complete removal of the thyroid and parathyroids by the liberal use of milk and the injection of calcium salts. In connexion with the thyroid experiments he at one time kept a herd of goats which had been deprived of the thyroid gland, and the milk from these goats was sent daily to St Thomas's Hospital for the use of patients suffering from exophthalmic goitre. The goats were kept on a farm in Sussex belonging to William Arthur Brailey, then ophthalmic surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital. Edmunds was always a steady supporter of the Invalid Children's Aid Association. He took much trouble in selecting sites for the homes of children suffering from rheumatic disease of the heart, and established a convalescent home for them at Worthing. Apart from surgery he was much interested in music and had made a fine collection of gramophone records; he was also well-known as an amateur in colour photography and as freemason he was Worshipful Master of the King's College Lodge No 2993. Publications:- Ligation of the great arteries in continuity, with C A Ballance. *Med-chir Trans*. 1886, 69, 443. *A treatise on the ligature of the great arteries in continuity with observations on the nature, progress and treatment of aneurism*, with C A Ballance. London, 1891. 568 pp. Experiments on the thyroid and parathyroid glands. *Proc Physiol Soc*. 1895, p xxx. Observations and experiments on the pathology of Graves' disease. *J Path Bact*. 1896, 3, 488. *The Erasmus Wilson lectures on the pathology and diseases of the thyroid gland*. Edinburgh, 1901. *Sound and rhythm*. London, 1906. *Exophthalmic goitre*. London, 1921; 2nd edition, 1922.
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First Title value, for Searching Carter, Robert Markham (1875 - 1961)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation Curator General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born on 18 October 1875, son of Captain Arthur William Markham Carter of the 25th Native Infantry and Rosalie Edmunds Bradley, Robert Markham Carter was educated at Epsom where he played in the fifteen. He then studied medicine at St George's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals and in Paris. He took the MRCS and LRCP in 1901 and entered the Indian Medical Service on 29 January 1902 as medical officer to the 1st Bombay Lancers. From 1903 to 1904 he was attached to the Anglo-Turkish Boundary Commission in the Aden interior. During leave in Britain in 1904 he carried out research work in several laboratories. On his return to India, then a Captain, he was posted to the North-West Frontier, where in the Zakka Khel expedition of 1908 he was severely wounded. He was awarded the medal with clasp. After this Carter was transferred to the civil side of the Service and his first posting was at the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli where his previous research experience was useful, but he wished to devote his life to clinical work so in 1911 he went to St George's Hospital, Bombay as resident surgeon. He obtained the FRCS in 1912 and was appointed Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy at the Grant Medical College in that year. In 1913 Carter became Second Presidency Surgeon, and 2nd Physician at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital, Bombay, and the following year he was appointed Third Presidency Surgeon, Professor of Pathology and Morbid Anatomy, and Curator of the Museum of the Grant Medical College, Bombay. With the outbreak of the first world war Carter was recalled to military duty and placed in medical charge of the Varela. This hospital ship was sent to Basra to evacuate casualties from the defeat at Ctesiphon. The many sick and wounded were transported in barges along the tortuous river Tigris; Carter was profoundly shocked by their condition on arrival and said so. This criticism led to a succession of stormy interviews in which Carter was accused of being meddlesome and interfering, but he was not intimidated by threats of arrest and loss of his career. He insisted on a personal interview with the Commander-in-Chief, General Sir John Nixon. The result is recorded in the report of the Mesopotamian Commission, which contains these words: "Carter by his persistence brought to the notice of his superiors the terrible condition of the wounded when they arrived at Basra after Ctesiphon, and in other ways he revealed shortcomings which might have been ignored and left unremedied. His sense of duty seems to be most commendable, and he was fertile and resourceful in suggesting remedies." In April 1916 Carter was sent to the India Office in Whitehall to organise medical equipment for the Mesopotamian expedition; when the War Office took over the operations Carter was transferred there and was made responsible for the complete fitting out of the hospital ships. He organised a river hospital fleet, a water-post system and purification plant, an ice-making fleet and refrigerator barges. He was thrice mentioned in dispatches, and given the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 26 April 1916. In 1918 Carter was appointed CB and placed on special duty under the Controller-General of Merchant Shipping. He did valuable work for the Admiralty as medical supervisor of labour and housing. After the war he returned to his civil career in Bombay, as first Physician at the JJ Hospital and Professor at the Grant Medical College. In 1925 he was appointed First Presidency Surgeon, and consulting physician to the European General Hospital, Bombay. He retired in 1927 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He married Kate Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Michie Saunderson; they had one son and three daughters. He died on 13 March 1961 at his home, Paddock Cottage, Ascot, Berkshire at the age of 85. Mrs Carter died there on 30 April 1965 aged 86.
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First Title value, for Searching Warwick, William Turner (1888 - 1949)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-04
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born on 1 March 1888, the son of W G Warwick, of Hatfield, Yorkshire, he was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a sizar in I906. He won his "blue" in the university athletic team in 1907, and was placed as a junior optime in part I of the Mathematical Tripos, 1909. From 1909 to 1911 he was a schoolmaster at Bedales School. Warwick won an entrance scholarship to Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1911, and in 1915, when he took the Conjoint qualification, he was Broderip scholar. He served in the RAMC during the remainder of the war of 1914-18, and graduated in medicine and surgery at Cambridge in 1918. Warwick was house physician and obstetric and gynaecological registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, and house surgeon to Victor Bonney. He was at first chiefly interested in the surgery of the alimentary tract, and served in 1919 as resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum, followed by a period as resident surgical officer at the General Infirmary at Leeds, when Moynihan was at the height of his fame there, and he also worked there under Harry Littlewood. Warwick returned to the Middlesex Hospital in 1921 as surgical pathological registrar. He was deeply influenced by James McIntosh, professor of pathology in the Bland-Sutton Institute at the hospital. Warwick continued to work regularly at the Institute, and his surgery was based on profound pathological knowledge combined with a natural flair for diagnosis. Under the influence of W Sampson Handley he became increasingly concerned with the surgery of cancer. He edited the *Cancer Review*, 1926-32, and became an authority on the correlation of surgery with other methods of treating malignant disease, such as radio-therapy. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the hospital in 1923. Warwick kept up his interest in rectal surgery, and was vice-president of the sub-section of proctology at the Royal Society of Medicine, besides serving for many years on the society's council. He examined in surgery for London University, and was consulting surgeon to the London County Council. During the war of 1939-45 he was senior surgeon for the Middlesex sector of the emergency medical service set up by the Ministry of Health. At the College he was a Hunterian professor in 1942, lecturing on the growth of long bones. At the time of his death he had been senior surgeon since 1945, and was surgeon in charge of the rectal clinic at his hospital. He was consulting surgeon to Peterborough War Memorial Hospital and to the British Legion, and director of the Bournemouth Cancer Clinic. His small book on the *Rational treatment of varicose veins*, published in 1931, remained for many years the authority on the subject. Warwick was a painstaking and sympathetic consultant, and as a surgeon consistently obtained excellent results though not technically brilliant. He was a successful and influential trainer of assistants, but not fond of teaching undergraduates. His intellect was logical and fertile; big of stature, he was shy but pleasant of manner, and of great depth of character. Warwick married in 1921 Dr Joan Harris, MRCS, daughter of Theodore Harris, of Limpsfield, Surrey, who survived him with three sons and a daughter. The eldest son was, like Warwick himself, a Cambridge athletic "blue" and a Broderip scholar. Warwick practised at 18 Harley Street, and lived at Fitzroy Farm Cottage, Highgate. He died in the Middlesex Hospital on 21 August 1949, aged 61. Publications: A new technique, combining the use of surgery and radium in the treatment of cancer of the breast. *Lancet*, 1930, 1, 1341. *The rational treatment of varicose veins and varicocele*. London, Faber, 1931. Colostomy and its inherent difficulties, a suggested operative technique. *Lancet*, 1935, 2, 298.
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First Title value, for Searching Lee, Henry (1817 - 1898)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

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Publication Date 2012-06-21
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details The son of Captain Pincke Lee, of Woolley Firs, Maidenhead Thicket. He entered King's College, London, as a student in 1833, but transferred to St George's Hospital in 1834, where he became one of the first, if not the first, Surgical Registrar, and later Curator of the Museum and Lecturer in Physiology. Seeing that promotion was slow at St George's Hospital, he gladly took the opportunity of connecting himself with the newly-founded King's College Hospital, where he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in 1847. About the same time he also became Surgeon to the Lock Hospital, and laid the foundation for his reputation as a syphilologist. In 1861 there were two vacancies on the staff at St George's Hospital, caused by the simultaneous resignation of Caesar Hawkins (qv) and E Cutler (qv). Henry Gray (qv) proposed to stand, but died from confluent small-pox. Lee consented then to transfer back to St George's Hospital, and he and Timothy Holmes (qv) were elected. Two years later, in 1863, Lee became full Surgeon and retired in 1878, at the age of 60, to make way for junior men, his immediate successor being T Pickering Pick (qv). Lee's connection with the Royal College of Surgeons was long and honourable. He was awarded the Jacksonian Prize in 1849 with a dissertation "On the Causes, Consequences and Treatment of Purulent Deposits"; he was a Member of Council 1870-1878, and in 1875 delivered the Museum Lectures on Surgery and Pathology as Hunterian Professor, his subject being "Syphilis and Local Diseases affecting principally the Organs of Generation". Lee is to be remembered as a pathologist, a syphilologist, and a surgeon. He was a disciple of Brodie, and an ardent admirer and follower of the teaching of John Hunter. His contemporary and old friend, Holmes, who wrote his obituary notice in the *Lancet*, was of the opinion that his works most likely to stand the test of time were his treatise on practical pathology, his lectures on syphilis at the Royal College of Surgeons, and his treatise on venereal diseases in Holmes's *System of Surgery*. In addition to these he was the author of many works and contributions to scientific journals. He was always interested in the diseases of veins, and revived one of the most successful of the palliative operations which were in use for the treatment of varicocele and varicose veins in the period before the introduction of antiseptic surgery enabled surgeons to use the methods of excision and injection. This method consisted in blocking the circulation in the vein in two places by pins thrust under its course with a figure-of-eight ligature wound about each, and then dividing the vein subcutaneously between the pins. In 1856 he read a paper at the Medico-Chirurgical Society on "Calomel Fumigation in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Syphilis", which was claimed as a real and important improvement on the current practice of the administration of mercury. Lee retired in 1878, living for twenty years afterwards. He died at his residence, 61 Queensborough Terrace, Hyde Park, on June 11th, 1898. He was twice married, and was survived by his widow and by daughters of both marriages; his only son predeceased him. A fine portrait of Lee, by James Sant, RA, hangs in the Secretary's room of the Royal College of Surgeons, and his bust by Brock is in the Hall. Publications: *On Diseases of the Veins, Haemorrhoidal Tumours, and other Affections of the Rectum*, 8vo, 2nd ed, London, 1846. "Statistical Analysis of One Hundred and Sixty-six Cases of Secondary Syphilis observed at the Lock Hospital, 1838-9," 8vo, London, 1849; reprinted from *Lond Jour of Med*. *On the Origin of Inflammation of the Veins, and on the Causes, Consequences and Treatment of Purulent Deposits*, Jacksonian Prize Essay, 1849, 8vo, plate, London, 1850. The original MS of this essay is in the Royal College of Surgeons' Library. *Pathological and Surgical Observations, including a Short Course of Lectures delivered at the Lock Hospital, and an Essay on the Surgical Treatment of Haemorrhoidal Tumours*, 8vo, 2 plates, London, 1854. *An Essay on the Surgical Treatment of Haemorrhoidal Tumours; read before the Medical Society of London*, Feb 11th, 1854, 8vo, London, 1854. *On the Radical Cure of Varicocele by Subcutaneous Incision*, 8vo, London, 1860. *On General Principles in Medicine: an Introductory Address, delivered at St George's Hospital*, 1863, 8vo, London, 1863. *Lectures on Syphilitic and Vaccino-syphilitic Inoculations: their Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment*, 2nd ed, 8vo, 5 plates, London, 1863; translated into French by EMILE BAUDOT, 1865, and into Portuguese by MARQUES, 1863. *Lectures on some Subjects connected with Practical Pathology and Surgery*, 2 vols, 3rd ed, 8vo, London, 1870. *Lectures on Syphilis, and on some Forms of Local Disease affecting principally the Organs of Generation*, 8vo, London, 1875. *On Syphilitic Inoculation*, 1862. "Syphilis" and "Gonorrhoea" in Holmes's *Surgery*, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions; also "Venereal Diseases" in 3rd edition. "Phlebitis" and "Diseases of the Veins" in Cooper's *Surgical Dictionary*. *Phlebitis*, 1850. "Secondary Deposits and Mortification from Diseases of the Arteries." - *Brit and For Med-Chir Rev*, 1857, xx, 214. "Mercurial Fumigation in the Treatment of Syphilis." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1856, xxxix, 339. "Abscesses and Purulent Infiltration of Bone." - *Lond Jour of Med*, 1851-2. "On Repair after Injuries to Arteries and Veins" (with L S BEALE). - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1867, 1, 477. "On the Tapetum Lucidum and the Functions of the Fourth Pair of Nerves," 8vo, London, 1887; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1886, lxix, 239, and *Lancet*, 1886, i, 203.
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First Title value, for Searching King, Edgar Samuel John (1900 - 1966)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

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Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Edgar King was born at Mosgiel in New Zealand on 10 June 1900, but went over to Melbourne to the High School and remained for the rest of his life in that city. His undergraduate career was outstanding, and after graduation in 1923, he remained on the junior staff of the Alfred Hospital until he departed for London to work for the Fellowship. He did the Primary course at the Middlesex, and the Final course at Guy's, and passed the examination in 1927. On his return to Melbourne he was appointed a lecturer in pathology and devoted a great deal of his time to research, and proceeded to win the Jacksonian Prize in 1930 for his essay on the pathology of ovarian cysts; in 1933 on localized rarefying changes in bones; and in 1938 on the surgery of the heart, this third subject being the outcome of his appointment in 1931 as surgeon to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He was a prodigious worker, but that alone could not account for this phenomenal achievement. At the outbreak of war in 1939 King at once joined the Army Medical Service and was posted to the Middle East where he made a special contribution to the development of chest surgery. Later he returned to Australia and devoted his energies to the organization of the new military hospital of Heidelberg, and when this was well established he completed military duty in New Guinea. On demobilization it was discovered that he had extensive pulmonary disease which necessitated six months treatment in hospital and ultimately the abandonment of his surgical career. In 1947 he became pathologist to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and in 1951 Professor of Pathology in the University of Melbourne, an appointment which he held with great distinction till his retirement shortly before his death in January 1966. Though he was forced to abandon the practice of surgery he was able to devote himself to pathology with enthusiasm because he regarded it as the foundation of sound surgical treatment, and his administrative ability enabled him to establish a first-rate department in spite of financial stringency. The encouragement he gave to the many excellent young men, clinicians as well as pathologists, who became his assistants, made them his willing slaves, and enhanced the reputation of the department, as well as gaining for many of them their coveted PhDs. He was a superb teacher, at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level. In addition to his university duties he also undertook to serve on the Council of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, of which he was Treasurer from 1951 to 1958. He was on the editorial committee of the Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery from 1939 to 1959, and its Chairman from 1950 to 1959. In 1930 he married Leonora Shaw, and thereafter enjoyed the domestic security of a very happy home. His wife and their four daughters survived him. His favourite hobby was stamp-collecting, and he also derived great pleasure from his extensive library which reflected his wide range of interests apart from medicine - education, history, art, science, psychology, and detective fiction. He was the author of some hundred papers on pathology and surgery, and of a textbook of surgical pathology which he began to write while he was a patient in Heidelberg Hospital after the war. In December 1965 his students past and present combined to make up a volume of their papers as a tribute to him on his retirement; and his portrait, painted by William Dargie in 1960, hangs in the University department of pathology.
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First Title value, for Searching Hayden, Arthur Falconer (1877 - 1940)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

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Publication Date 2013-07-03 2022-11-03
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon Pathologist Military surgeon Bacteriologist
Details Born 24 August 1877 at Frogmoor House, High Wycombe, Bucks, in the house where his grandfather, William Hayden, LSA 1837, MRCS 1856, and his father, William Gallimore Hayden, MRCS 1863, had successively practised medicine. His mother was Elizabeth Matilda, daughter of William Falconer, who founded the Union Castle line to South Africa, and he was the fourth child of the marriage. Educated at the Grammar School, High Wycombe, when George Peachell was headmaster, he entered St Mary's Hospital, London, with the entrance scholarship and acted as a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. He served as house surgeon and assistant anaesthetist at St Mary's Hospital and as pathologist at the County Asylum, Winwick, Lancashire. He was gazetted lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 1 September 1905, and during his course in the Army Medical School won the Montefiore medal for military surgery and the Martin gold medal. Proceeding to India he was promoted captain on 1 September 1908, but was placed on temporary half pay on 23 January 1910 after an attack of poliomyelitis, which obliged him ever afterwards to use a mechanical chair for locomotion. He retired on 23 January 1912. Returning to England he undertook work at St Mary's Hospital as pathologist to the venereal disease department and as an assistant in the inoculation department. He married Ruth Lacey on 14 April 1912; she survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died on 8 March 1940 at 4 Graham Road, Hendon, NW4. Publications:- An inquiry into the influence of the constituents of a bacterial emulsion on the opsonic index. *Proc Roy Soc Lond*. 1911, B, 84, 320. Relative value of human and guinea pig complement in the Wassermann reaction. *Brit J exper Path*. 1922, 3, 151. **See below for an expanded 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** Arthur Falconer Hayden was a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service who, after contracting polio, later joined the inoculation department at St Mary’s Hospital, London, where he worked under the influential immunologist Sir Almroth Wright. Hayden was born on 24 August 1877 at Frogmoor House in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Both his father, William Gallimore Hayden, and paternal grandfather, William Henry Hayden, were doctors. William Gallimore Hayden trained at Charing Cross Hospital, qualified in 1863, and became the medical officer at the Little Marlow District and Workhouse Wycombe Union. William Henry Hayden was a medical officer for the 12th District Wycombe Union. Hayden’s mother was Elizabeth Matilda Hayden née Falconer. Hayden was educated locally in High Wycombe and then studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School with an entrance scholarship. He was a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1900, and subsequently gained a MB degree with honours in materia medica and forensic medicine, and a BS in 1904. He was an assistant demonstrator of anatomy, chemistry and pathology and a prosector in anatomy at St Mary’s, and went on to become a house surgeon at Newport and Monmouthshire Hospital and an assistant medical officer and pathologist at the County Asylum, Winwick. He was subsequently an assistant anaesthetist and house surgeon back at St Mary’s. He joined the Indian Medical Service on 1 September 1905 as a lieutenant. During his studies at the Army Medical School he won the Montefiore medal and prize for military surgery and the Martin gold medal for tropical medicine. He gained his FRCS in 1906 and became a specialist in advanced operative surgery. On 1 September 1908 he was promoted to captain. His military career came to end when he caught poliomyelitis. He was placed on half pay on 23 January 1910 and retired from the Indian Medical Service two years later. He returned to St Mary’s, where he was recommended for a job in the inoculation department by his friend Alexander Fleming. In 1917 Hayden became a pathologist in the newly opened venereal diseases department at St Mary’s, taking over from Fleming who had returned to military service. Hayden wrote ‘An inquiry into the influence of the constituents of a bacterial emulsion on the opsonic index’ *Proc Roy Soc Lond* 1911 B 84 320 and ‘Relative value of human and guinea pig complement in the Wassermann reaction’ *Brit J Exper Path* 1922 3 151. In 1939 he wrote ‘Acute conjunctivitis caused by a gram-negative diplococcus resembling the gonococcus’ *Brit J Vener Dis* 1939 Jan; 15(1):45-54 with his son. Hayden died on 8 March 1940 in Hendon, Middlesex. He was 62. He was survived by his widow Ruth Campbell Hayden née Lacey, originally from New Jersey, whom he had married in 1912, and their sons Arthur Falconer and Roger Keith, who both qualified as doctors. Hayden and his wife also had a son, William John, who died in 1916 aged just one month. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Pannett, Charles Aubrey (1884 - 1969)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

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Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon Pathologist
Details Charles Aubrey Pannett, born in Shepherd's Bush, London, on 21 September 1884, was the only son of Charles Yeatman Pannett, an ironmonger, and Louisa (née Sealey). An elder son had died in infancy. There were three daughters in the family. The family was poor, so from his youth Pannett had accustomed himself to hard work, allowing little time for social activities. He went to the Westminster City School under Mr Goffin. About the age of fourteen, against his father's wish, he decided to become a doctor. With this in mind, after matriculating, he took the Intermediate Examination for BSc, in botany, zoology, chemistry and physics, which gained him entrance to St Mary's Hospital where, in his first year, he obtained a scholarship. Those were vintage years at St Mary's: in 1902 Alexander Fleming, E H Kettle, C W Vining and Pannett were all successful in gaining scholarships. Throughout their medical course Pannett and Fleming were close rivals, sharing between them all the medical school prizes and the distinctions at London University examinations. Pannett qualified in the autumn of 1906. In 1907 he obtained his MD, with a gold medal, and his FRCS in 1910. Surgery was his aim. "But if I were to be a surgeon," he wrote, "I wanted to enter this life from an angle not then usually considered. In those days the road to surgery was through the anatomy department. A man would spend years as a demonstrator of anatomy while waiting for a surgical appointment. As a student I was deeply struck by seeing operations performed which so obviously must be a severe strain on the normal adaptability of the body. Surgery, I perceived, in many cases profoundly disturbed the physiology of the man. It was clear to me that it was upon this which attention needed focusing if progress was to be made. So I determined to know more of the processes of disease and their effects upon normal physiology." He decided to graduate in pathology, and obtained a post as junior assistant with a salary of £100 a year in the department of pathology under Almroth Wright. The influence of Wright was great and beneficial in shaping Pannett's outlook on life. But the work was arduous and, coming so soon after years of hard study and evening coaching, it told on a constitution which had never been robust. He developed tuberculosis and was obliged to spend the next four years, first in a sanatorium, then as house surgeon in a mental hospital at Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol. Here the work was light, so he was able to read for his MD in pathology, which he took with a gold medal. In 1911 he became house surgeon at Plymouth, where he met his first wife, who was nursing there. That same year he had a chance of getting on the staff of St Mary's, but lost the job to Zachary Cope. Deciding to wait until he was accepted he became resident anaesthetist. At this time he was also assistant surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital. At length, in 1914, he became registrar at St Mary's and, with a more assured future, married Nora Kathleen Moon from Dublin. His first war service was as surgeon on the luxury yacht *Liberty*, converted by Lord Tredegar into a naval hospital. In 1915 Pannett wrote an article on the role of the hospital ship. In 1916 he volunteered to go to Mesopotamia and was given the rank of Major. There he contracted typhoid and was invalided to Secunderabad where he did some surgery. After the war Pannett returned to St Mary's and to private practice, living first in Maida Vale and then in St John's Wood. In 1922 he became assistant director to Clayton Green. When Clayton Green gave up to do more private practice, the newly formed Surgical Unit at St Mary's Hospital needed a full-time Professor of Surgery and Pannett was elected to the post, which he held for twenty-eight years. On this appointment he resigned his post at the Royal Free. "At that time," wrote Sir Zachary Cope in 1950, "there was considerable discussion and criticism as to the wisdom of appointing such professors in London medical schools and in some cases the criticism was justified, but the most exacting critic was silenced when one pointed to the way in which Pannett filled the chair. Gradually he became an institution at St Mary's and round him a strong surgical department was built up which provided a source of inspiration and stimulation alike to students and staff." "Pannett was best known for his consummate skill in doing partial gastrectomies," wrote Dickson Wright, "with removal of the ulcerated portion of the duodenum, and in 1929 he astonished the surgical world by announcing a sequence of a hundred of these operations without a death at a time when surgeons as a whole were losing twenty patients in every hundred operations." Unlike some professors Pannett always did his own lectures. He also spent much time in the post mortem room watching his friend Professor Newcomb, the pathologist, at his work. After a hurried lunch they would adjourn to the PM room and have friendly arguments. Pannett always asserted that cancer was due to a virus to which Newcomb disagreed. Each would be on the lookout for evidence to support his theory to the discredit of the other, to the huge delight and education of the crowds of students who attended these informal and unrehearsed debates. Pannett had a bench in the Wright-Fleming laboratory and was continually working on some problem concerning cancer. Later Arthur Compton worked with him in the physiology laboratory. Pannett was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1922 and 1929. During the late 1930s and early 1940s he acquired a reputation for being the most dreaded of examiners amongst Final FRCS candidates. During the second world war Lord Moran, as Sector Officer, sent Pannett down to Basingstoke to make surgical arrangements at Park Prewett Mental Hospital which was converted into an Emergency Medical Service Hospital. Later in the war he worked at St Mary's, sleeping in a small room in the Wright-Fleming Institute. During an air raid in March, 1944, Miss Diana Stanley, living in Radnor Place, was wounded while on fire-watching duty, and was taken into St Mary's and to Pannett's theatre. Ten years later, after his first wife had died, Pannett married Miss Stanley. In 1950 Pannett retired from St Mary's and surgery. Although he had many interests outside medicine - painting, carving and clock-making - his heart and mind was still very much on his work, not as a surgeon, but as a research scientist. And so it seemed a stroke of good fortune when, in the early 1950s, he met Mr Frederick Pearson, the American millionaire and philanthropist, who lived at Liphook and was a patient of Pannett's brother-in-law, Dr Corry. Immediately these two men were drawn together in the common interest of the cancer problem and, until his death in 1958, Pearson helped to finance Pannett's work at St Mary's, giving him an X-ray apparatus. But changes in the Wright-Fleming Institute in the late 1950s made it impossible for Pannett to stay on there, and in 1962, thanks to Sir Arthur Porritt, his former assistant and colleague at St Mary's, who was then President of the Royal College of Surgeons, facilities were given him in the Biochemistry Department to continue his research work. Thus, with the help and friendliness of Professor Cyril Long and many others there, began a new and exceedingly happy chapter in Pannett's long career, marred only by his inability to get consistent results in his research experiments. At this time Pannett also found time and energy to sit in committees of the Regional Hospital Board in Winchester. Illness overtook Pannett in 1964. With a highly-strung, sensitive nature, he had always had a tendency to abdominal complaints and much back-ache in his youth. He developed a duodenal ulcer, admitting wryly that all doctors eventually get the disease they are best known for curing. But he did not allow either pain or fatigue to stand in his way and carried on with his work. Early in July 1969 he suffered a heart attack at the College, but told no one about this, continuing to go up to London until two days before he died, on 29 July at his home, after two coronary attacks, the second releasing him from a long, full, arduous, and very worthwhile life. As already noted he was twice married, first in 1914 to Nora Kathleen, daughter of John Moon of Dublin, who died in 1952; and in 1954 he married Diana Margaret Stanley, who survived him. There were no children of either marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Simon, Sir John (1816 - 1904)

2024-05-30T12:41:39Z

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Publication Date 2006-03-01 2012-03-09
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Occupation Chief Medical Officer General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born in London on Oct. 10th, 1816, the sixth of the fourteen children of Louis Michael Simon (1782-1879) by his second wife, Mathilde Nonnet (1787-1882). His father, who had been a shipbroker and served on the Committee of the Stock Exchange from 1837-1868, was the son of an Englishman who had married a French wife, whilst his mother was the daughter of a Frenchman who had married an English wife. John Simon was christened at St. Olave's, Hart Street, E.C. - Pepys' church - and began his education at Pentonville, after which he was for seven and a half years at Greenwich under the Rev. Dr. Charles Parr Burney, son of Dr. Charles Burney and grandson of Johnson's friend, where he had John Birkett (q.v.) as a schoolfellow. He then lived with Leonard Molly, a pastor, for a year at Hohensolms, near Wetzler, in Rhenish Prussia, and acquired a good knowledge of German. He was apprenticed, on his return to England in the autumn of 1833, to Joseph Henry Green (q.v.) for the usual fee of 500 guineas. Green was Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital and Professor of Surgery at the newly founded King's College, and his pupil attended both institutions. In 1838, a year before the end of his apprenticeship, Green allowed Simon to obtain the M.R.C.S. that he might be appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at King's College, having Francis Thomas MacDougall (q.v.) as his colleague, and in 1840 he was elected the senior of two Assistant Surgeons appointed on the opening of the Hospital founded in connection with King's College. The junior Assistant Surgeon was William Bowman (q.v.), with whom Simon formed an intimate friendship and from whom he learnt to work on scientific lines. The outcome was a paper read before the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society on June 8th, 1847, on "Subacute Inflammation of the Kidney" (*Trans. Roy. Med-Chir. Soc.*, 1847, xxx, 141) which is illustrated with a plate showing the microscopic appearances described. In 1844 Simon gained the Astley Cooper Prize with a "Physiological Essay on the Thymus Gland" (4to, London, 1845), and contributed to the Royal Society "The Comparative Anatomy of the Thyroid Gland" (*Phil. Trans.*, 1844, cxxxiv, 295). He was elected F.R.S. on Jan. 9th, 1845, and was afterwards a Vice-President. Simon was invited in 1847 to accept the newly created Lectureship on Anatomical Pathology at St. Thomas's Hospital with charge of beds, and he thereupon resigned his demonstratorship of King's College, but retained the Assistant Surgeoncy. Green resigned his office of Surgeon, and on July 20th, 1853, Le Gros Clark (q.v.) and John Simon were elected "to do out-patients". Simon then severed all connection with King's College, and on July 6th, 1863, became full Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital in succession to G.W. Macmurdo (q.v.). He resigned his lectureship in 1871 and the office of Surgeon in 1876. As a surgeon Simon was not brilliant, for he was neither rapid nor graceful, but every operation he performed was carefully planned and prepared for. He was in the habit of going frequently to the dead-house and there performing every kind of operation, endeavouring to make improvements on old methods and to learn the exact landmarks and lines of section to be made in novel or unusual operations, particularly where bones were concerned. He repeated Syme's amputation in this manner many times before he performed it on the living patient, and he was the first surgeon in this country to undertake Pirogoff's method of removing the foot. He was particularly apt in the diagnosis of abscesses within bones, which he located with great accuracy. He was equally good in the treatment of difficult strictures of the urethra, and in passing a catheter he almost seemed to confer intelligence on the instrument. He was the first to open the membranous part of the urethra by the same route as was afterwards followed by Edward Cock (q.v.). Simon devised and practised the operation before Cock published his results and substantiated his claim to priority in the *St. Thomas's Hospital Reports* (1879, x, 139). A proof of the paper with Simon's corrections is in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons. As a pupil of Joseph Henry Green he was an expert lithotomist, using a pointed and extremely stout knife, and a grooved staff. Simon was a great power in the Medical School at St. Thomas's, and it was in some measure due to his incisive and satirical pen that St. Thomas's Hospital was not converted into a country convalescent hospital at the time it was compelled to move from its old site at the foot of London Bridge. Without respect of persons he was active in removing abuses, in introducing reforms, and in extending the area and efficiency of instruction. In particular he was especially active in securing suitable accommodation for the treatment of diseases of the eye when Richard Liebreich (1829-1916) was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon. At the Royal College of Surgeons Simon was a Member of the Council from 1868-1880, a Vice-President in 1876 and 1877, and President in 1878. Throughout his life Simon was interested in pathology. He was an original member of the Pathological Society in 1846, contributed several papers to its *Transactions*, and was elected President in 1867. The best exposition of his aims and methods in pathological teaching is to be found in his Inaugural Address delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1847, which was afterwards published in his *General Pathology as Conducive to the Establishment of Rational Principles for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease,* 1850. Simon said of the latter work that as a result of its publication he woke up to find himself famous - not as a surgeon, but as a sanitary reformer. The judgement proved true; few now think of Simon as a surgeon, all know him as the maker of modern sanitary science in England. Simon was one of the illustrious figures in Victorian medicine. When he began his labours in the field of public health it was not thought to be the duty of the State to seek out and prevent the causes of disease and death in its citizens. There was no administrative authority in the country, central or local, that had any medical officer or medical adviser for sanitary purposes: the development of a science and practice of preventive medicine was quite unknown. In 1848 Simon was appointed the first Medical Officer of Health of the City of London. He was the first and for many years the only Medical Officer of Health in London. He was the head of the Medical Department of the Government from the years of its creation in 1855 to his retirement in 1876, and must be considered the founder and in some directions its creator. Simon's record of ability and industry was marvellous, whilst his imaginative faculty was of a very high quality. Cultivated as a linguist, as a student of Oriental literature, and as the friend of artists, poets, and philosophers, he was able to think grandly, to project his mind into the future, to discern the real meaning of social evils as well as their probable developments, and so to devise schemes of prevention and amelioration which could never have occurred to move plodding, if equally industrious, minds. One can scarcely estimate the importance to civilization and humanity of Simon's work. It may be briefly stated that he drained the city and rendered it healthy, abolished the pernicious system of central cesspools under houses, intramural slaughter-houses, and other malodorous trade establishments, and conducted an active crusade against smoke, intramural graveyards, Thames pollution, impure water, and overcrowded dwellings. To enumerate the full details of Sir John Simon's official career would be to write a history of hygienic reform. For many years after the close of his official life in 1876 as Chief Medical Officer to the Privy Council and afterwards to the Local Government Board, Simon occupied himself with public work and was a Crown Representative on the General Medical Council. In the latter part of his life he gradually and completely lost his sight. He married on July 22nd, 1848, Jane O'Meara, daughter of Matthew Delaval O'Meara, who had been Commissary-General in the Peninsular War. They had no children and she died on Aug. 19th, 1901. Lady Simon was a close friend of Ruskin, who used to call her "dear P.R.S." (Pre-Raphaelite sister and Sibyl). Simon died at his house, 40 Kensington Square, where he lived since 1867, on July 23rd, 1904, and was buried at Lewisham Cemetery, Ladywell. A bust by his friend Thomas Woolner, R.A., was presented to the College by the subscribers to the Simon Testimonial Frund on Dec. 14th, 1876. It is a remarkable presentation of a remarkable head. A photograph in late middle life faces pages 187 in MacCormac's *Address of Welcome*. An excellent likeness in extreme old age is appended to the obituary notice in the *Lancet* (1904, ii, 308) and is reproduced in the *St. Thomas's Hospital Reports* (1905, xxxiii, facing page 393). Sir John Simon was remarkable for the extent of his knowledge. The influence of Joseph Henry Green, to whom he had been articled, coupled perhaps with his early education in Germany, gave a philosophical basis to his thoughts and actions through life. In 1865 he edited the *Spiritual Philosophy* of his old master. He was widely read in the classics and in English literature and became an excellent writer of English prose. In youth he pursued a course of reading in metaphysics and in Oriental languages, and his general culture allowed him to value and to appreciate the friendship of such literary and artistic friends as Thackeray, Tennyson, Rossetti, Alfred Elmore, R.A., Sir George Bowyer, George Henry Lewis, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Tom Taylor, Ruskin, Sir Arthur Helps, Thomas Woolner, R.A., and Robert Lowe, afterwards Lord Sherbrooke. He was mainly responsible with J. A. Kingdon (q.v.) for the establishment by the Grocer's Company of scholarships for the promotion of sanitary science. Considering his eminence Sir John Simon received little public recognition during his lifetime. He was decorated C.B., the ordinary reward of a faithful public servant, on his retirement in 1876, but it was not till Queen Victoria's Jubilee that he was promoted K.C.B. The Harben Medal of the Royal Institute of Public Health was awarded him in 1896, and the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society in November, 1897. Publications: Simon's chief reports and writings on sanitary objects were issued collectively by subscription by the Sanitary Institution of Great Britain in two volumes in 1875. *English Sanitary Institutions Reviewed in their Course of Development and in Some of their Political and Social Relations,* 8vo, London, 1890. A charmingly written and fair-minded account of the development of public health in England from the earliest times. It appears now to be somewhat difficult to obtain. *Personal Recollections of Sir John Simon, K.C.B.* This was privately printed in 1898. It consists of 34 pages printed by Wiltons Ltd., 21 & 22 Garlick Hill, E.C., and is dated Oct. 4th, 1894. It was revised on Dec. 2nd, 1903, "in blindness and infirmity". The Library of the Royal College of Surgeons possesses a copy enriched by the author's corrections. Bibliography in the *Catalogues of the Surgeon General's Library,* series i and ii.
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First Title value, for Searching Gant, Frederick James (1825 - 1905)

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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born in Acton Place, Kingsland Road, NE, in December, 1825, and, as he has set on record in his *Autobiography*, "two months before I was due." His father was Lieut-Colonel John Castle Gant, of the King's Own 2nd Light Infantry. Young Gant, an only child, was puny and weakly, and as a little boy was sent to Eastbourne, where there were as yet only two houses, and then to Hastings, where he acquired a deep love of nature, and eventually more than average strength. He was educated at King's College School, London, was for a time assistant to a chemist in Shoreditch, and received his professional training at University College, where, in the medical department, he was entered as house pupil to Richard Quain. He took honours in several of the classes, and was then appointed Assistant Curator of the Museum of Anatomy and Pathology under Professor William Sharpey. After qualifying Gant was for a time in straightened circumstances owing to the financial failure of his father, but as his prospects brightened he took rooms at 13 Old Cavendish Street and in 1852 began to practise as a consulting surgeon. He lectured on physiology, and then on anatomy, in the Hunterian School of Medicine, Bedford Square. When this institution was closed he migrated with the students to the Royal Free Hospital, which was at first unable to obtain recognition as a teaching school from the Royal College of Surgeons, owing to the ill equipment of its museum, The students therefore, about fifty in number, were transferred to the Middlesex Hospital in 1854, and Gant remained as Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, having been appointed Assistant Surgeon in 1853. During the last year of the Crimean War he was a Civil Staff Surgeon to Military Hospitals and served both in the Crimea and at Scutari, returning home via Athens and Rome in May, 1856. For his services he received the Crimean Medal and Clasp. In the following year he was struck with the sights of monstrous obesity tending to suffocation at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show. He purchased at various butchers' shambles, where the prize beasts were subsequently slaughtered, their hearts, livers, etc., demonstrated that the tissues had largely undergone fatty degeneration, and showed that the prizes were given for bulk and weight of fat, and not according to the quality of the meat. For this report he received letters of thanks from the Prince Consort, the Duke of Richmond, and other leading exhibitors and breeders. Gant was actively connected with the Royal Free Hospital for some thirty-seven years, and took an important part in its development. The museum grew under his hands and he acted as the Pathologist. In 1878 the London School of Medicine for Women became associated with the Royal Free Hospital for clinical instruction, and from that date till his retirement Gant lectured to the students on clinical surgery. In 1890 he resigned his position as Senior Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, and among the addresses presented to him was a very cordial one from the women students, whose higher medical education he had not originally advocated. He was President of the Medical Society of London in 1881, having been Orator in 1872 and Lettsomian Lecturer on "Excisional Surgery of the Joints" in 1871. He was at one time Vice-President and Member of Council of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, and was a member of the Harveian and Clinical Societies. A man of most varied interests, Gant became associated with two famous pedestrians. These were E Payson Weston, the Canadian, who in 1876 walked 500, 550, and once even 600 miles in six days; and William Gale, from Wales, who, walking a quarter of a mile in every ten minutes or quarter of an hour during successive days and nights, covered 1000, 1500, or even more miles on different occasions in 1877 and 1881. He looked after these athletes during their performances. "Whenever asked by 'ped' or 'patron' I readily gave my professional services," he says in his *Autobiography*, "or when symptoms of a breakdown might occur, about the third day in a long-distance walk, or the patient got into foot difficulties." Gale, a man of 50, smaller than Weston in stature, performed in the open air at Lillie Bridge, and Gant often accompanied him for one or two hours at night, when a lantern was carried alongside the walkers. Gale was a bookbinder and presented Gant with a bound copy of Thomas à Kempis, whose austere teaching possibly appealed to the man of endurance. At the College Gant was to the last a well-known figure in his long old-fashioned coat of some blue material, and yellow or light-coloured widely-opened waistcoat and trousers of the same hue. He wore the thick whiskers and short-cut moustache of the old Crimean officers, and his manners were of the agreeable old-world order. Gant obtained leave from Sir William Fergusson, the President in 1870, to attend the oral examinations in surgery for the Membership and Fellowship of the College. He noted the questions asked and the pathological specimens shown, and in 1874 published a *Guide to the Examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons of England*. In this *Guide* he gave the full College Museum descriptions of the specimens which students were expected to identify, with a detailed account of the questions asked during the examinations. Professor Flower, then Conservator of the Museum, wrote to the medical papers pointing out that Gant's *Guide* gave more information than was desirable. The method of examination was modified and the *Guide* is now of historical value, as it shows the scope of surgical knowledge expected of a student at the time it was published. Incidentally it did not render Gant a *persona grata* with the College authorities. No mention of this episode is made by Gant in his *Autobiography*, though his numerous works, various interests, and romantic beginnings from the day when he was beaten with a vine stick at a dancing school are entertainingly discussed in this ill-written but fascinating little book, which *longo intervallo* reminds one of *David Copperfield*. Gant possessed the poet's temperament, though he wrote no poetry. His prose is melancholy, but his book is arresting, if only because it lays bare the workings of a strangely vivid and passionate spirit - prone to take offence and to misunderstand, but evidently keenly sensitive and affectionate. He was a bitter enemy of the Council and mishandled College History to his heart's content whenever possible, especially as it touched the Fellows. He was an early supporter of the Association of Members, and a Member of its Committee. During the last decade of his life Gant was a great sufferer, and declared in his *Autobiography*, "I generate uric acid as fast as Arabian trees their medicinal gum." He underwent lithotrity when very old. His death occurred at his residence, 16 Connaught Square, W, on June 6th, 1905. He was buried in the cemetery at Richmond, Surrey, on June 10th, in the same grave as his wife (d.1899). On the tombstone he had some years before obtained leave to have inscribed these words: "To the unspeakable distress of her husband, his age and bodily affliction debar him from ever visiting her grave, at a distance of 10 miles from London." He married in 1859 Matilda, the sixth daughter of Richard Crawshay, of Ottershaw Park, Surrey. The story of his marriage is romantically told in his *Perfect Womanhood*, where his wife appears as the bride (Mabel Vernon) of a struggling young practitioner. In his *Autobiography* he describes how he first met her in the house of her uncle, George Crawshay, of the Manor House, Colney Hatch, after the latter gentleman had offered him a lift in his carriage and taken him home to dine. Crawshay, indeed, became his first patient to the tune of £300, which enabled him to start in consulting practice. He retained his affection for his childless wife, and as an old man he would visit his friends late at night to talk of her physical charms. The lettering on the tombstone was not, therefore, a mere form of words. He was an innocent, garrulous old person of no great judgement. It is more than probable that the College incident proceeded from a real desire to help the medical student to pass his examination, and was without any ulterior motive. The College possesses good portraits of Gant, including photographs in the Council and Fellows' Albums. He bequeathed £500 to the Royal Society of Medicine for the purchase of books. He also left a sum of money to the Medical Society of London, the interest to be spent in rebinding books in the Library. It is known as 'The Gant Bequest'. Publications: "What has Pathological Anatomy done for Medicine and Surgery?" - *Lancet*, 1857, ii, 239, etc., a series of ten papers; republished as *The Principles of Surgery, Clinical, Medical and Operative: an Original Analysis of Pathology systematically conducted, and a Critical Exposition of its Guidance at the Bedside and in Operations*, 8vo, London, 1864. *Evil Results of Over-feeding Cattle: a New Enquiry, illustrated by coloured engravings of the Hearts, Lungs, etc., of Diseased Prize Cattle*, 8vo, plates, London, 1858. *The Irritable Bladder, its Causes and Curative Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1859. *The Science and Practice of Surgery*, 8vo, woodcuts, London, 1871; 3rd ed., 2 vols., 1886. This was a very popular students' handbook, and was used to supplement Erichsen's *Science and Art of Surgery*; it contains perhaps the earliest account in a text-book of the then new Listerian methods. Gant's precepts in the matter of antiseptics are said to have been better than his practice - at any rate in those early years - 1871. *Modern Surgery as a Science and Art*. The Lettsomian Oration delivered before the Medical Society of London, 8vo, London, 1872. *Mock-Nurses of the Latest Fashion, A.D. 1900, Professional Experiences, in Short Stories, and the Nursing Question*, 8vo, London, 1900. *Modern Natural Theology with the Testimony of Christian Evidences*, 8vo, London, 1901. *Autobiography*, 12mo, London, 1905. A good portrait forms the frontispiece. *Guide to the Examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons of England*, 12mo, London, 1874; 6th ed., *A Guide to the Examinations by the Conjoint Board in England: and for the Diploma of Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons*, 12mo, London, 1889; 7th ed., revised by WILLMOTT H. EVANS, 1899. *Diseases of the Bladder, Prostate Gland and Urethra: including a Practical View of Urinary Diseases, Deposits and Calculi*, 8vo, illustrated, 5th ed., London, 1884. This is the 5th ed. Of the *Irritable Bladder*. *The Students' Surgery: A Multum in Parvo*, 8vo, London, 1890; American edition, 12mo, Philadelphia, 1890. "Excisions of the Joints, especially Knee, Hip and Elbow; 20 Typical Cases and Results." - *Med.-Chir. Trans.*, lvi, 213, and lxiii, 303. "Pelvic and Parietal Tumour of Abdomen - Removal by Operation - Recovery." - *Proc. Med.-Chir. Soc.*, 1884, N.S. I, 247. "Excisional Surgery of the Joints," Lettsomian Lectures, *Lancet*, 1871, I, 638, 736. "Lithotrity and Lithotomy." - *Ibid.*, 1887, I, 1220. "Infra-Trochanteric Osteotomy in Anchylosis of the Hip-joint, with Malposition of the Limb." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1879, ii, 320, 606. "Buccal Operation for Extirpating the Tongue." - *Trans. Clin. Soc.*, 1884, xvii, 168. *The Lord of Humanity: or the Testimony of Human Consciousness*, 12mo, London, 1889; 2nd ed., with Supplement on the "Mystery of Suffering", London, 1891. *From our Dead Selves to Higher Things*, 12mo, London, 1893; 2nd ed., 1895; 3rd ed., 1904. *Perfect Womanhood: A Story of the Times*, 2nd ed., 8vo, London, 1896. *Its Sequel, the Latest Fruit is the Ripest*, 1897; 2nd ed., 1898.
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First Title value, for Searching Doran, Alban Henry Griffith (1849 - 1927)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born in Pembroke Square, Kensington, the only son of Dr John Doran (*Dict. Nat. Biog.*) by his marriage with Emma, daughter of Captain Gilbert, RN, and was the grandson of John Doran, of Drogheda. John Doran, Alban Doran's father, lived in the very centre of Victorian literary and artist society. He was intimate with Douglas Jerrold, with Thackeray, with Frith the painter, and a host of others. And of these great men he had many stories to tell. He was editor of the *Athenaeum* for a time and of *Notes and Queries*, and is best known for his standard book on the actors -*His Majesty's Servants*. Alban Doran received his early education at a school in Barnes. When he was 18 he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won many prizes. He served as House Surgeon to Luther Holden, as House Physician, and as Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. He gave up teaching in a year's time, and being a skilled and delicate dissector, he became in 1873 Assistant in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons under Sir William Flower. Thus began his life-long connection with the Hunterian Museum. Soon afterwards Flower fell ill, and Doran acted as his Museum Secretary, thus establishing relations with such eminent men as Owen and Huxley, whom he always remembered with enthusiasm. It was during this period possibly that he showed Alfred Tennyson over the Museum, the poet taking the utmost interest in all he saw and thus somewhat belying the assertion of anti-vivisectionists, who rank him from the evidence of one of his poems as anti-surgical and therefore one of themselves - and this although he disclaimed any anti-vivisectionist bias. On the return to duty of Sir William Flower, Doran helped him in his work as a craniometrist. His attention was drawn to the middle ear in mammals, and he took up the subject enthusiastically, exploring the large stores of mammalian skulls in the Museum and finding a great number of auditory ossicula, which he mounted on glass. It only then came to his knowledge that Professor Hyrtl had written a monograph on the subject, based on a considerable number of specimens. At that time the College received very frequently the bodies of animals which had died in the Zoological Gardens, and these furnished him with additional materials. With the help of Mr Ockenden, for many years an assistant in the Gardens, he dissected out the auditory ossicles of an elephant. The collection of ossicula thus acquired was displayed, as they may still be seen, in wide shallow boxes. The ossicula auditus were exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Society, and a little later a monograph on the subject was published, with engravings by C Berjeau, in the *Transactions of the Linnean Society*. Doran looked back on his early period in the Museum with much fondness. His collection of ear bones is still regarded as a standard one. His Linnean Society paper was elaborate, and in the evening of his life nothing pleased him so much as a reference by a present-day authority to his early monograph. Even as he lay on what proved to be his deathbed, his interest was at once aroused when a friend mentioned to him that the accuracy of his description of the ear bones of the golden mole had been highly commended in a monograph just communicated to the Royal Society, and thereafter he relapsed into the lament that there were two important gaps in his collection of auditory ossicles in the Museum of the College he had never succeeded in filling up. Such an instance is characteristic of Doran's attitude to the world; it was knowledge, not money, that he thought of. Doran was not exclusively devoted to anatomy; he became well known as a pathologist. For some years he held the appointment of Pathological Assistant at the College of Surgeons, and for eight years he laboured with Sir James Paget and Sir James Goodhart in the compilation of a catalogue of the pathological specimens in the Museum. In 1877 he was elected an Assistant Surgeon to the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women, where he had Sir Spencer Wells, Dr Bantock, and Knowsley Thornton for colleagues, and took part in that development of gynaecology with which their names, as well as his own, will always be associated. At the Samaritan he came under the direct influence of Spencer Wells, who perhaps more than any other man can be called the originator of modern abdominal surgery. Doran became well known as an ovariotomist at the Samaritan. He was attached to the Hospital for over thirty years, and established there his claim to be a fine operator and an individual thinker. Before operating, he was said by Leslie Ward, who refers to him at some length in his memoirs, to have been the picture of nervousness, but the moment the operation began he was masterly. Owing to failing eyesight, Doran retired from private practice in 1909. After his father's death he had lived with his mother - to whom he was devoted - in Granville Place, and continued there after her decease, till he moved to a flat in Palace Mansions, West Kensington. On his retirement he returned as a volunteer officer to the Hunterian Museum, and joined with Shattock (qv) in re-arranging the obstetrical and gynaecological collections, and with Dr. John Davis Barris, he mounted a small instructive group of normal and deformed pelves. He had been elected President of the Obstetrical Society in 1899 and had held office for many years. When the Society was merged in the Royal Society of Medicine, he was active in promoting the transfer of its museum as a loan collection to the College. From 1912 onwards his energies were largely devoted to the compilation of a descriptive catalogue of the obstetrical and other instruments in the Museum, to which Sir Rickman Godlee added the appliances and instruments used by Lister. This catalogue has been of great service to those interested in the subjects above indicated. His second task was the preparation of a descriptive catalogue of the great collection of obstetrical instruments presented to the College by the old Obstetrical Society. This undertaking involved Doran in a laborious and prolonged historical inquiry into the evolution of obstetrical instruments, and nowhere is his accuracy and breadth of scholarship so apparent as in this catalogue - in reality a text-book of reference. Having finished this task, he then proceeded to prepare a new catalogue, one for which there was great need, of the great collection of surgical instruments and appliances preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. His memory for fact or the written word was prodigious, and to the very last he could give a correct reference to an obscure fact or passage in a long-forgotten periodical. He was a veritable encyclopaedia of knowledge. His last visit to the College was in June, 1927, when he arrived attended by a nurse. His sight had nearly gone, but in the Instrument Room, to which he was guided, he brightened up and gave lucid and instructive accounts of such objects as W R Beaumont's (qv) palatal sewing-machine, which he was very dimly able to distinguish with his remaining eye, the other being obscured by cataract. His had been a long race with bodily affliction, and while still visiting the College about once a week, he had repeatedly exclaimed: "I hope to finish my Catalogue before I have to give up altogether." That he did finish it in time was a vast satisfaction to him, and to all who loved him seemed a triumph. Some days before his death, Doran was taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital to be operated on for glaucoma. He fainted during, or just after, the operation, and died on August 23rd, 1927, in the Ophthalmic Ward of his old hospital. He never married. The College Collections possess many portraits of this remarkable man. Doran's bibliography is truly enormous, one of the longest in our Library Catalogue. It contains some 130 separate titles, and must be left to some future bibliographer to compile. Throughout his life he was a keen Shakespearean scholar. Doran joined the salaried staff of the *British Medical Journal* as sub-editor in the early eighties and did admirable work. He was the first editor of the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire*, in which many biographical notices appear often from his pen. Publications: "Morphology of the Mammalian Ossicula Auditus." - *Trans. Linnean Soc.*, London, 1875-9, 2nd ser., i (Zool.), 371, with plates lviii-lxiv. *See also Jour. Linnean Soc*. (Zool.) xiii, 185; and *Proc. Roy. Soc.*, xxv, 101. *Clinical and Pathological Observations on Tumours of Ovary, Fallopian Tube, and Broad Ligament*, 1884, 8vo, London. *Handbook of Gynaecological Operations*, 8vo, London, 1887. (For an account of this important work, see the author's obituary in *Lancet*, 1927, ii, 529.) "Guide to Gynaecological Specimens, Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, England." "Medicine," Chapter 14, *Shakespeare's England*, 1916. Articles on "Diseases of Fallopian Tubes" in Allbutt and Playfair's *System of Gynaecology*, 1906, and *Encyclopaedia of Medicine*, iii. "Subtotal Hysterectomy for Fibromyoma Uteri: 40 Additional Histories." - *Proc. Roy. Soc. Med*., 1911. "Osteomalacia - the Broughton Pelvis in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons." - *Jour. Obst. and Gyncaecol*, 1912, xxi, 65. "Dusée: his Forceps and his Contemporaries," 8vo, 2 plates, London, 1912; reprinted from *Jour. Obst. and Gynaecol.*, 1912, xxii, 117. "Dusée, De Wind, and Smellie: an Addendum," 8vo, London, 1912; reprinted from *Jour. Obst. and Gynaecol.*, 1912, xxii, 203. "A Demonstration of some Eighteenth Century Obstetric Forceps," 8vo, plates, 1913; reprinted from *Proc. Roy. Soc. Med*. (Sect. History), 1913, vi, 54, 76. "Burton ('Dr Slop'): his Forceps and his Foes," 8vo, plates, London, 1913 ; reprinted from *Jour. Obst. and Gynaecol.*, 1913, xxiii, 3, 65. "The Speculum Matricis," 8vo, plates, London, 1914; reprinted from *Jour. Obst. and Gynaecol.*, 1914, xxvi, 133.
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