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First Title value, for Searching Hollenberg, Charles (1930 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-10-27
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Occupation Physician
Details Charles Hollenberg was professor of medicine and chair of the department of medicine at the University of Toronto, and physician-in-chief of Toronto General Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
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First Title value, for Searching Powell, William ( - 1919)

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First Title value, for Searching Rogers, John Henry ( - 1879)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Studied at Middlesex Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, and in Paris. He settled in practice at East Grinstead and became Medical Officer and Physician to the Cottage Hospital, the Hartfield Dispensary, and the East Grinstead Dispensary; also to the Almshouse known as Sackville College, which figures in Fred Walker's picture, "A Haven of Rest". He died at East Grinstead on October 18th, 1879.
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First Title value, for Searching West, William Corner (1811 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Dudley, William Lewis (1821 - 1902)

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First Title value, for Searching Faircloth, John Marlborough Cowell ( - 1879)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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Occupation Physician
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital and at Northampton. He practised at Northampton, and at the time of his death was Senior Physician of the Northampton General Infirmary, and Hon Consulting Physician of the Northampton Royal Dispensary. He died at Billing Road, Northampton, on July 21st, 1879. Publication: "Puerperal Convulsions." - *Prov. Med. and Surg. Jour.*, 1844, 336.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Richard Lloyd (1792 - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, John Augustus ( - 1874)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-04
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Occupation Physician
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. He was the second son of Lieut-Colonel Herbert Lloyd, of Chelsea. Settling as a medical practitioner in Bath in 1829, he practised there for more than forty years, holding various medical appointments. At the time of his death, and for many years previously, he was Physician to an Institution for Diseases of the Chest and Cancer, at Bath. In 1870 he was appointed JP. His death occurred after a long illness at his residence, 17 Bennett Street, on April 29th, 1874.
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First Title value, for Searching Elliot, Norman Bruce ( - 1904)

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First Title value, for Searching Heale, James Newton (1811 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Perks, Robert Howell (1855 - 1929)

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First Title value, for Searching Kershaw, William Wayland (1822 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Woods, William James (1872 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-26
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Occupation Medical Officer Physician
Details Educated at Queen's College, Belfast, where he qualified in 1893, and at the London Hospital, he took the Fellowship within a month of taking the Conjoint diplomas in 1896. Settling in Natal, South Africa, he was appointed Physician to Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. He was also medical officer of health for that city, and took the DPH of Cape Town University in 1921. He died in 1944.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, James ( - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Richard Phillips ( - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Townley, James (1808 - 1888)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-21
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Educated at St George's Hospital. He practised at Kennington, first at Harley-ford Place, and then at 302 Kennington Park Road, SE. Up to the time of his death he was Hon Physician to the Royal Female Philanthropic Society. He was a Fellow of the Medical Society of London, of the Linnean and of the Meteorological Societies. He died on April 18th, 1888. Publications: Townley contributed to the *Lancet*, 1862, i, 538, a paper on "Parturition without Pain", which, in its republished form, *Parturition without Pain or Loss of Consciousness*, ran through three editions, 12mo, London; 2nd ed, 1862; 3rd ed, 1863.
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First Title value, for Searching Paley, William Edmund (1851 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-19
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital. He was for a time Resident Medical Officer, Registrar, and Chloroformist of the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children. He then settled at Peterborough, where at the time of his death he was Physician to the Infirmary and Medical Officer of Health of the Peterborough Rural and Urban Districts. He died on July 30th, 1895. Publications: "Successful Case of Tracheotomy in a Child 2 Years Old: New Form of Tube." - *Lancet*, 1875, ii, 834. "The Etiology of Scarlatina in Surgical Cases" (with J F Goodhart) - *Guy's Hosp Rep*, 1879, 3rd ser, xxiv, 287.
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First Title value, for Searching Worthington, Sidney (1859 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Hooper, John Harward (1840 - 1918)

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First Title value, for Searching Prowse, Arthur Bancks ( - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation Physician
Details The son of Dr William Prowse, and grandson of Dr James Prowse, who practised at Amersham, Bucks. He went to Amersham College, near Reading, then to the Liverpool School of Medicine, and after that to St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was Scholar in Anatomy. He was next House Surgeon at the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and then Resident Medical Officer at the London Fever Hospital. In 1883 he was appointed Assistant Physician, and in 1888 Physician, to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and retired as Consulting Physician in 1919. He lectured for seventeen years on pharmacy, pharmacology, and therapeutics in the Bristol Medical School; was Secretary to the Bristol Nature Society; Financial Secretary in the organization of the Bristol Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1894; and Officer in Command of the 2nd South General Hospital, Bristol, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC (T). He practised at 5 Lansdowne Place, Clifton, and died there on April 26th, 1925.
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First Title value, for Searching Marson, James Furness ( - 1877)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01
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Occupation Physician
Details Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and after qualifying was for forty years Resident Medical Officer to the Small-pox and Vaccination Hospital, Holloway, London, N, and was a Principal Vaccinator of the National Vaccine Establishment. From the time of the institution of educational vaccinating stations, he was in charge of that in Blackfriars Road. He became one of the highest authorities in this country on the subject of vaccination and small-pox, complicated by the prevalence of septic infection and of syphilis in the practice of the arm-to-arm method in cities, a complication which Jenner had escaped by practising in the country. He was a man of retiring habits, little known beyond his immediate circle, and was one of the oldest members of the Epidemiological Society, who several times refused the Presidency for reasons of health. Attacked by a painful malady whilst living in retirement at Liverpool Terrace, Worthing, he succumbed to it on November 15th, 1877. Publications: Marlon published many articles of importance at the time on vaccination and small-pox.
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First Title value, for Searching Fitzpatrick, John (1817 - 1872)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-12-14
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born on December 28th, 1817, and at the time of his death was the eldest surviving son of William FitzPatrick, of Castle Dunow, Queen's County. He passed the preliminary examination of the Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland when he was 15 years old, and was then apprenticed to Mr Fraser, a well-known general practitioner of Limerick. He pursued his professional studies at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, and qualified in London. On December 29th, 1840, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Madras Presidency, where he served in almost every station. He was promoted Surgeon on January 2nd, 1859, and Surgeon Major on December 29th, 1860. He retired on December 24th, 1862, and lived at Bath, where he was for a time Physician to the Eastern Dispensary. Later he moved to Lenham, Kent, where he died on July 1st, 1872. By his marriage in 1846 with Mary Ann Ulrica, only surviving daughter of Major-General Wharnell of the Madras Army, he had nine children, of whom eight, including four sons, were living at the time of his death.
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First Title value, for Searching Holland, Edmund (1836 - 1932)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-10
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Occupation Physician
Details He received his medical education at Queen's College, Birmingham, where he gained medals in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, midwifery, and materia medica, as well as the Radcliffe and Webster prizes. He then proceeded to University College, London, and won the Fellowes gold medal. At the University of London he graduated with honours in chemistry, anatomy, physiology, and materia medica. He visited Paris and obtained a certificate in operative surgery. In 1874 he was appointed assistant physician to the Hospital for Women in Soho Square, becoming physician in 1884, and consulting physician in 1900. He lived at 1 Titchfield Terrace, North Gate, Regent's Park, had a house, Hamley Lodge, at Rugely, Staffs, and died on 18 November 1932, aged 96, at Larkfields, Hallswelle Road, Hendon, NW. Publications:- *Health in the nursery*. 1871. *Essentials of vaccination*. London, 1871. Enucleation by electrolysis of a large uterine fibroid. *Brit gynaecol J* 1888, 3, 521. Annotations on 25 consecutive and successful abdominal operations. *Ibid* 1891, 7, 176. Two cases of puerperal convulsions treated by manual dilatation of the os uteri and instrumental delivery; recovery. *Lancet*, 1871, 2, 322. Protracted suspension of the moral and intellectual consciousness in epilepsy. *Brit med J* 1877, 1, 324. Fibrosis of stomach and peritoneum. *Med Pr and Circ* 1889, 99, 202.
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First Title value, for Searching Alhadeff, Robert (1923 - 1973)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Physician
Details Born on 22 August 1923 at Milan in Italy, the second son of Asher Alhadef, a tobacco merchant, and his wife Jeannette Franses. He was educated at Bromsgrove School, Birmingham, and at Worcester College (1942-47) and the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, qualifying in 1947. He held resident posts at Nottingham Hospital and the Royal Northern Hospital, London, and then served as a graded surgical specialist with the rank of Captain in the RAMC 1950-52. He took the Fellowship in 1952, after working under Ian Aird at the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital. He recalled with gratitude the teaching and influence of Gabriel Franklin, Hamilton Bailey and Selwyn Taylor, as well as Professor Aird. Alhadeff emigrated to South America, where he became medical officer to the British Embassy at Buenos Aires and personal physician to the British Ambassador to Argentina. He married in 1949 Miss Soriano, who survived him with their three sons. His recreations were yachting and painting; he also undertook astronomical calculations. Alhadeff died on 7 September 1973 aged fifty. Publications: Clinical aspects of filariasis. *J Trop Med Hyg* 1955, 58: 173-179. A clinico-pathological study of thyroid carcinoma. *Brit J Surg* 1956,43: 617.
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First Title value, for Searching Richards, Frederick William (1841 - 1871)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on June 12th, 1841, the son of John Richards, solicitor, of Charterhouse Square, and his wife, Fanny. He entered Merchant Taylors' School in March, 1849, was afterwards apprenticed to Fred John Butler at Winchester, and received his professional education at St Bartholomew's Hospital. At the matriculation examination of the London University in 1860 be took honours in mathematics, chemistry, and botany, at the first MB honours in physiology and materia medica, and in the Medical School of his hospital he obtained the First Year's Prize for general proficiency and practical anatomy; in the second year that for anatomy, physiology, and chemistry. After holding the post of Midwifery Assistant in 1866 he joined Dr Butler in partnership at Winchester, and was appointed Assistant Physician to the Hospital there. His promising career was cut short at the age of 29 by his death on February 23rd, 1871. He left a widow and two children.
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First Title value, for Searching Whishaw, Reginald Robert (1862 - 1908)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Percy Montague (1871 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Siegenberg, Joe (1927 - 2015)

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by Anne Siegenberg
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2019-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon Gastrointestinal surgeon Physician
Details Joe Siegenberg was a surgeon in British Columbia, Canada. He was born on 3 January 1927 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of Lewis (Lou) Siegenberg and Sarah Siegenberg née Bernstein. He was a self-starter, an individual who, even though he came from a challenging, difficult background, managed to become a charismatic, caring human being. Even though he lost his father at the age of seven and his mother had to put him and his brother in an orphanage so she could work, against all the odds he became a prefect at school and was the cantor at his school’s synagogue. Not only did Joe do well academically, he also excelled at many sports, including javelin throwing, soccer, tennis, cricket and squash, and later on at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg became a champion middleweight boxer whilst attending medical school there. Prior to medical school he went into the Army and was stationed in Italy and the Suez Canal. He met my mother, Myrna, at a musical evening one night in Johannesburg when she was 17 and he 22. It was mutual love at first sight, with my father falling for my mother’s quiet, sweet Titian beauty and my mother attracted to his disarming intelligence, blond hair and green eyes. Not long after they married, Joe, with his beloved ‘Emmy’ in tow, moved to London in 1955, where he pursued his FRCS and where his daughter, Anne (myself), was born a few years later. Following their time in the UK, Joe with his wife and daughter emigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. During his career, Joe was first and foremost a surgeon and a family physician. During his 33-year tenure, he performed hundreds of surgeries and trained hundreds of residents at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, where he specialised in gastrointestinal surgery. He was notorious among his surgical residents due to his insistence on them going for runs around the hospital between surgeries in order to remain fit and to prepare them for the tireless work required as an on-call surgeon. Despite his busy schedule, he also participated in medical research. His focus was on the responses of a variety of organs and tissues to surgery, with canines and golden hamsters as model organisms. In 1960, he published a paper on ‘Post-operative intussusception in the dog’ in the *Canadian Veterinary Journal* (1960 Oct;1[10]:452-6). Although intussusception is rare it affects 1 in 2,000 children and can be deadly if not diagnosed and treated correctly. In a paper published in the *Canadian Journal of Surgery* he studied the effects of tumours induced by methylcholanthrene in the gallbladder and liver of the golden hamster (‘Further studies on methylcholanthrene-induced tumours of the gallbladder and liver in the golden hamster.’ *Can J Surg*. 1963 Jul;6:367-71). He later published a case study on pancreatic pseudocysts (‘Unusual presentation of a pancreatic pseudocyst: a case report.’ *Can J Surg*. 1987 Jul;30[4]:281-2). Being the Renaissance man that he was, Joe was not content with just being a surgeon/physician, he was also widely read, particularly in the areas of English literature and history, spoke a number of foreign languages, and was responsible for bringing the game of squash to junior players in western Canada. He also took a great interest in Churchill, having crossed paths with him as an impressionable student on the streets of London, becoming president of the Winston Churchill Society for many years. My father was a great speech writer and orator, and our family would look forward every year to hearing his well-informed speeches about the people surrounding Churchill, who he would invite to speak to the society each year, including Churchill’s daughter, Lady Soames, and his biographer Martin Gilbert, who both knew my father personally. Joe was also an incredibly loving grandfather who doted on his grandsons. My father never viewed his grand parenting duties as a chore, but as an honour, an opportunity to spend quality time with his grandchildren, Zaccary and Aydan, and enjoy re-living his childhood through them. My father also enjoyed doing locums for some of the general practitioners in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, right up until the age of 80. Joe did not retire easily, and after a few years his health began to deteriorate and he was forced to deal with the challenges of cancer, a pacemaker and, later, developing a form of dementia. From the beginning, I remember my father Joe as always being a very happy, positive person with a great sense of humour. His loving encouragement in every interest and activity I pursued was palpable – from running the 100-yard dash in high school track and field, to patiently teaching me chemistry, to always being there for me during my piano competitions with a linen handkerchief in tow to dry my sweaty hands. What was incredible to me as his daughter, and I think was his greatest feat, was that, even though Joe suffered memory loss, the beautiful, caring person that he was always shone through, greeting people in the Steveston streets where they resided, whilst walking with my Mom, telling every woman she was beautiful. When Joe Siegenberg passed away on 13 June 2015 at the age of 88 he left his family a beautiful, inspiring legacy of love, deep caring for the suffering and pain of others, and of never giving up.
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First Title value, for Searching Gordon-Wilson, Alexander Gordon (1873 - 1952)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on 21 May 1873 second child and only son of Thomas Headland Gordon-Wilson and his wife née Kelly, he was educated at Highgate School, and won an entrance scholarship in science to the London Hospital. At his qualification he took honours in forensic medicine in 1897. He served as senior house surgeon at Poplar Hospital, and was resident acchoucheur and senior clinical assistant in the nose throat and ear department at the London Hospital. He then settled in practise in South Kensington, and became physician to the Kensington Dispensary and Children's Hospital. Gordon-Wilson married in 1918 Eve Smith, who survived him with their two sons Dr Clifford Gordon-Wilson MRCP and Mr Maurice Gordon-Wilson. He died at 51 Queen's Gate Gardens, London SW7 on 13 April 1952 aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Moses Thomas (1877 - 1950)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation Medical Officer Physician
Details Born at Beulah, Breconshire, 2 January 1877, the seventh child and only son of Moses Williams, and his wife Ann Jones. He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and the London Hospital. He won an entrance science scholarship to the Hospital's Medical College in 1897, and a scholarship in anatomy and physiology in 1900. After qualifying in 1902 he served as house surgeon at the Hospital and as clinical assistant in the medical out-patients, the ear, nose, and throat, and the skin departments. Williams practised throughout his career at 27 St George's Place, Canterbury, where he was medical officer to the Prison, and physician to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. He married in 1905, the year in which he took the Fellowship, Mabel Elizabeth Iredale, who survived him with two daughters and a son, Thomas Meurig Williams, FRCS 1936. He died on 25 March 1950 at 15 South Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth, where he had been living since his retirement, aged 73.
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First Title value, for Searching Greg, Arthur Hyde (1872 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation Physician
Details Born 30 January 1872 the second child and eldest son of Albert Greg, of Escowbeck Caton, and his wife,* née* Rowlands. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part 1, 1894. He received his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital, served as house surgeon and house physician there and was afterwards physician to the electrical and x-ray department. He was also medical officer to the x-ray department of the Brompton Hospital. During the first world war he was commissioned as a captain in the RAMC on 4 January 1916, and was created OBE for his services in 1919. Greg lived at West Halkin Street, SW, later at 26 Hyde Park Gate, SW, and finally at 19 St George's Court, SW7, before retiring to The Snab, Hornby, Lancaster. He moved later to Churchgates, Melling, Carnforth, Lancashire, where he died on 17 March 1947, survived by his sister Miss E M Greg; he was unmarried.
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First Title value, for Searching Hearne, Edwin (1820 - 1880)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-12
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born near Taunton, his father, a farmer on a large scale, being descended from an old Somerset family. He entered University College, London, as a medical student in 1840 and carried off many prizes. He was a favourite pupil of Liston, and acted as House Surgeon. After studying in Paris he settled in Southampton in 1845 and built up a large surgical practice. In 1864 he suffered from painful torticollis, for which injections of morphia were administered. He had been Surgeon to the Southampton Dispensary, but after his illness had to limit himself to the work of a Consulting Physician, Medical Inspector of Emigration, and Medical Officer of the London and South-Western Railway. During his active work he was a Liberal in politics, a member of the Borough Council, and a Justice of the Peace. He was a bold rider to hounds. "The White Doctor", as he was called, "was a hard man to beat" (*Bailey's Magazine*). He died at Southampton on October 22nd, 1880. Publications: "On Ether Inhalation." - *Lancet*, 1847, ii, 177. "On Ether Vapour." - *Ibid*, I, 533. "Operations Performed under the Influence of Ether." - *Ibid*, 1848, ii, 233. *Thoughts on Cholera*, 8vo, London, 1853, and *Cholera, Non-contagious, and the Absurdity of Quarantine Restrictions demonstrated*, 8vo, Southampton, 1866, are from a Medical Officer at a chief port.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002179
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First Title value, for Searching Rawes, William (1862 - 1917)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Occupation Alienist Psychiatrist Physician
Details Studied at the London Hospital, where he was Scholar in medicine, surgery, and obstetric medicine from 1882. In 1885 he became House Physician to Hughlings Jackson and to Stephen Mackenzie; then House Surgeon to John Couper; afterwards Demonstrator of Physiology. His first appointment was that of Medical Officer at the General Post Office. In July, 1891, he became Assistant Medical Officer, and on Dec 26th, 1898, was appointed Medical Superintendent to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in succession to George Mickley. There he devoted his life to a study of his patients, and published a short "History of St Luke's Hospital" in the *Journal of Mental Science*, 1904 (vol 1, 37). He became well known from his practical experience as an alienist, and for detached views, but did not interest himself in Continental literature on mental disease and criminal insanity. He was an excellent companion, beloved alike by his patients, fellow-workers, and friends. He had a fund of humour, travelled widely on holiday, read travels and history, was a Freemason, and Treasurer of the London Hospital Lodge No 2845. His work was brought to an end by the closing down of St Luke's Hospital, which was taken over in 1916 first by the Bank of England and then by the Post Office for official purposes. Rawes felt the termination keenly. He died at a nursing home in London on March 6th, 1917.
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First Title value, for Searching Reed, Frederick George (1818 - 1892)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Was an articled pupil of James Luke (qv), who in 1853 and again in 1862 was President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Reed studied at the London Hospital, then practised at Hertford and acted as Physician and Surgeon to the Hertfordshire County Infirmary from 1843-1856. Sir Benjamin Brodie and Sir William Fergusson were his friends; he had polished manners and an agreeable address. In 1857 he became a MRCP London and set up in Hertford Street, Mayfair. He was well known as a fellow and member of Medical Societies, and as a member of the Athenaeum and Union Clubs. He retired from practice some fifteen years before his death, which occurred, after a period of failing health, at his house in Hertford Street on March 11th, 1892. He married in 1866 and was survived by his widow, a son, who had already distinguished himself at Harrow and Cambridge, and a daughter. Publications: Reed published various papers in medical journals, including: "On Some Affections of the Caecal Portion of the Intestines with Cases." - *Med- Chin Trans*, 1862, xlv, 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Parkinson, John Porter (1863 - 1929)

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First Title value, for Searching Edgecombe, Wilfred (1871 - 1963)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born on 2 March 1871 at Huyton, he was educated at Liverpool University and University College Hospital graduating in 1893, after which he held house appointments at Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Later he became a demonstrator of anatomy and surgical tutor. He settled in Harrogate in 1894 and commenced general practice, being appointed to the staff of Harrogate Infirmary in 1905. While at University College Sharpey had fired his interest in physiological research, and in 1907 he passed the Membership examination of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1916 he became a consulting physician and gave up general practice. His whole professional career was centred on the Harrogate Infirmary; he was chairman of the building committee of the new hospital, of which he was deputy president till 1959 although he retired from the active staff in 1936. He was a town councillor of Harrogate 1919-22, president of the Yorkshire Branch of the BMA in 1918, and president of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society. A member of the Harrogate Medical Society from 1895, he was its president in 1905 and again in 1939. He was a devotee of winter sport at St Moritz, in particular of skating and curling, and in summer a keen golfer. He was twice married: his first wife died in 1939, leaving two sons and two daughters; one son was killed in the war of 1914-18 and the other is a doctor in the Royal Navy; one of his daughters also qualified in medicine. He married again in 1945, and died on 7 April 1963 at the age of 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Scowen, Sir Eric Frank (1910 - 2001)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation Physician
Details Eric Scowen was Professor of Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was born in London on 22 April 1910 and trained at Bart's. After being chief assistant at the Royal Chest Hospital, he returned to Bart's as assistant physician in 1937, being made physician in 1946. He was appointed as the Professor of Medicine in 1961 and served Bart's with great distinction until he retired in 1975. As Chairman of the Council of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, he promoted the establishment of chairs of medical oncology throughout the United Kingdom. He was Chairman of the Committee on Safety of Drugs (later Safety of Medicine) and was a member of the board of advisers at King's centre of medical law and ethics. He received many honours, including the Fellowship of our College, of the Royal College of Pathologists and of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He died after a prolonged illness on 23 November 2001, not long after receiving the honorary Fellowship of King's College, London.
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First Title value, for Searching Collum, Archie Tillyer (1868 - 1896)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-07 2012-03-22
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Physician
Details The fifth son of Robert Collum, MD, of the HEIC, who had been Staff Surgeon to Sir Charles Napier, and who afterwards practised as a physician in London. He retired first to Harmondsworth in Middlesex and then to Surbiton. A T Collum was educated at Epsom College, and entered Charing Cross Hospital as Scholar in 1885. He had a brilliant career as a student and was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in his second year. He served as House Surgeon and House Physician, and was elected Medical Registrar in 1892 and Assistant Surgeon in 1894, acting as Joint Demonstrator of Anatomy and Surgical Tutor. He died of septicaemia after a fortnight's illness in Charing Cross Hospital on February 12th, 1896, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Collum was a sound and practical teacher, with a gift for imparting his knowledge. He was genial, friendly, and scrupulously straightforward both on the football field and elsewhere. He was Treasurer of the Students' Club, and after his death there was a proposal to form an athletic ground in his memory. At the time of his death he held a commission as Surgeon Lieutenant in the Queen's Westminster Corps of Volunteers. Publications: "Malformation of the Alimentary Canal: Atresia at the Middle of the Duodenum." -*Trans. Pathol. Soc.*, 1895, xlvi, 60, 61. "Extrameningeal or Subcranial Haemorrhage, with Report of a Successful Operation." -*Lancet*, 1893, ii, 684.
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First Title value, for Searching Acheson, Sir Ernest Donald (1926 - 2010)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by John Blandy
Publication Date 2012-01-25 2012-08-29
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Occupation Chief Medical Officer Physician
Details Sir Donald Acheson was Chief Medical Officer for England from 1983 to 1991, a period that included the rise of HIV infection and the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis. He was born in Belfast on 17 September 1926, the son of Malcolm King Acheson, a doctor specialising in public health, and Dorothy Josephine Acheson née Rennoldson, the daughter of a Tyneside shipbuilder. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh and went on to Brasenose College, Oxford, and then Middlesex Hospital, where he completed his clinical training. His elder brother Roy was also at Brasenose and became professor of community medicine at Cambridge. After qualifying, Acheson joined the RAF medical branch, where he was an acting squadron leader from 1953 to 1955. He then returned to Oxford as a medical tutor at the Radcliffe Infirmary. There he organised the pioneering Oxford Record Linkage Study, and led the unit of clinical epidemiology, becoming May reader in 1965. When it was decided that there should be a new clinical school at Southampton, Acheson was initially approached for advice, and in 1968 he became professor of clinical epidemiology and foundation dean of the medical school. In the following years he was director of the Medical Research Council's (MRC) unit on environmental epidemiology (1979 to 1983), where his work on the health risks of asbestos led to the introduction of new safety standards and a ban on the importation of blue and brown asbestos. During this period he also sat on a number of committees and boards relating to public health. In 1983 he was appointed Chief Medical Officer. When the full threat of a possible AIDS epidemic became clear, he successfully lobbied the Conservative government for a public health campaign to attempt to change sexual behaviour. He also introduced tests to screen blood donors following early cases of haemophiliacs becoming HIV positive. After leaving office he held positions at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College London. In 1997 he was commissioned by the Labour government to chair an independent inquiry into inequalities in health, which became known as the *Acheson report* (*Independent inquiry into inequalities in health report*, London, Stationery Office, 1997). He became an honorary fellow of our College in 1988. He was a member of the General Medical Council from 1984 to 1991, was a past president of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of the British Medical Association (from 1996 to 1997). He held numerous lectureships across the UK and worked abroad on projects for the World Health Organization, which in 1994 awarded him the Leon Bernard Foundation prize for his contributions to social medicine. He married twice. His first wife was Barbara Mary Castle, a nurse at Middlesex Hospital, by whom he had a son and five daughters (one of whom predeceased him). He divorced in 2002. His second wife was Angela Judith Roberts, with whom he had one daughter. In 2007 he published his autobiography *One doctor's odyssey: the social lesion/the memoirs of Sir Donald Acheson* (Bury St Edmunds, Arima Publishing). Acheson died on 10 January 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Hugh Cameron (1883 - 1940)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Physician
Details Born at Edinburgh on 18 June 1883, the seventh child and fourth son of John Wilson, miller, and his wife, *née* Cameron. He was educated at Watson's School and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1905, proceeding MD with commendation in 1908 and in the same year taking the special certificate in diseases of tropical climates. He was house surgeon at the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green, and at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and senior house physician at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. He took the English Fellowship in 1911, not having previously taken the Membership, and in the same year became resident medical officer at the Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, London. In 1912 he settled in practice at Maidenhead, Berks, and became surgeon to the Ray Mead Children's Hospital and to the Maidenhead Hospital. During the war he was commissioned as temporary captain, RAMC on 26 July 1917, and was promoted major on 4 January 1918. He served as a surgical divisional officer in France. Wilson married on 3 October 1914 Kate Carter, who survived him with a daughter. After the war he resumed his private practice at Maidenhead, moving in 1931 to the neighbouring town of Cookham, where he died on 13 December 1940. Publication: Fatal case of delayed chloroform poisoning. *Lancet*, 1908, 1, 626.
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First Title value, for Searching Norton, Robert (1803 - 1876)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation Physician
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was apprenticed to Thomas Wheeler, Apothecary to the Hospital, and was House Surgeon to Abernethy, whose favourite pupil he became and with whom his friendship endured to the great surgeon's death. After qualifying Norton settled in London and soon gained a lucrative practice, but the results of a post-mortem wound compelled him to give up active work. He travelled for a time as medical attendant to the Earl of Sefton and his family and then settled in Uxbridge, where, though he kept up a practice, he was able to enjoy an open air life and to ride to hounds during the season. He again went to London in 1840, and, not seeking much work, contented himself with a small consulting practice in a West End suburb, where as a physician he secured a considerable reputation. He now did his life's work as an active and much-valued member of the Court of Examiners of the Society of Apothecaries, performing his duties with devotion during thirty-five years, a period when the Society was generally admitted to have furthered the cause of medical education in a high degree. Norton was scarcely ever absent from his post as Examiner and was held in high honour by his colleagues. He was for many years Chairman of the Court of Examiners at Apothecaries' Hall, and was also at one time Physician to the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children. He died of pleurisy at his residence, 42 Hereford Road, Westbourne Grove, on September 20th, 1876, his illness lasting only a few days. His second son was Arthur Trehern Norton (qv). His photograph is in the Fellows' Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Hitchman, John (1815 - 1893)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation Physician
Details Born at Northleach, Gloucestershire; after attending the local Grammar School, was apprenticed in 1832 to Mr Cornwall at Fairford until September, 1836, when he entered the Webb Street School under Richard Grainger. He also attended Guy's Hospital under Aston Key and the medical practice of St Thomas's Hospital. After qualifying he returned to Mr Cornwall as Assistant, but was soon appointed Medical Officer of Fairford Lunatic Asylum, known later as 'The Retreat'. After a few years he was appointed Resident Physician at the Sanatorium in Marylebone Road. In 1846 he obtained the post, after competition, of Resident Medical Officer of the Female Department of Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, the asylum for the County of Middlesex. By 1850 he had raised the department to such an efficient state that after a visit he was offered the post of Superintendent of the Mickleover Asylum then being built near Derby. There Hitchman remained until 1872, when frequent attacks of vertigo compelled him to resign. He was presented with a valuable service of plate by the Derby Agricultural Society, to which he was Vice-President, on the occasion of his resignation. His interest in agriculture chiefly related to the employment of sewage irrigation. He was President of the Psychological Association in 1856. He went first to live at Cheltenham, then returned to Fairford in 1875. He died at The Laurels, Fairford, on April 5th, 1893, his wife having died in 1884. Publications:- "Lectures on the Pathology of Insanity." - *Lancet*, 1847 ii, 564, etc; *Jour Psych Med*, 1850, iii, 228, etc; *Trans Prov Med and Surg Assoc*, 1851-3. *Suicide and Life Insurance*, 1848. "Epilepsy." - *Prov Med and Surg Jour*, 1852, 5. "Clinical Observations on the Diagnosis of General Paralysis of the Insane." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1871, ii, 493.
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First Title value, for Searching Littleton, Thomas (1824 - 1878)

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First Title value, for Searching Parkin, Alfred (1879 - 1933)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-11
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Occupation Physician
Details The fifth son and sixth child of George Parkin of Gateshead, jeweller, and Jane Owens, his wife, he was born in Wreckenton, Co Durham on 13 May 1879. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and at the Durham University College of Medicine. He graduated with first-class honours after gaining the Tulloch scholarship in 1898, and the Charlton and the Gibb scholarships in 1901. He then studied in Berlin and Vienna, after serving as house physician to Sir Thomas Oliver, MD, at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and as house surgeon to Rutherford Morison. He acted as assistant to W Mearns, MD Aberdeen, of Gateshead, and became resident medical officer to the Newcastle Dispensary, which was then situated in Nelson Street. He was elected a surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, but soon turned his attention to medicine and in 1908 was elected assistant physician to the Infirmary, afterwards becoming physician. At the University of Durham College of Medicine he was in succession assistant demonstrator of anatomy, assistant demonstrator of physiology, demonstrator of pathology, and lecturer in therapeutics. He married Elizabeth Fenwick on 29 April 1914, who survived him. There were no children. He died suddenly of a thrombosis of the coronary artery on 8 February 1933, and was buried in Jesmond old cemetery. Parkin was a great clinical teacher of medicine and was possessed of a logical mind and much skill in the understanding of the mentality of his patients. He wrote but little. Publications: Caisson disease. *Northumb Dur med J* 1905, 13, 96. Thesis for the M.D.; it was awarded the gold medal and was based on observations made during the building of the King Edward VII Bridge at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Ambroise Paré. *Univ Durh Coll Med Gaz* 1911-12, 12, 19.
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First Title value, for Searching Freeman, William Thomas ( - 1918)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-01-25
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Occupation Physician
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He then became House Surgeon of the Brighton and Hove Hospital for Women and Children and Lying-in-Hospital, afterwards going into practice at Pangbourne, where he was Medical Officer at Bradfield College. From 1890 onwards he practised at Reading, where he was Senior Assistant Physician and Physician for Diseases of the Skin, and then Full Physician, at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Medical Officer to the Prison, and Medical Referee to the Provident Life and other Assurance Companies. He practised at 30 Portland Place, Camden Road, Reading, and took an active part in the affairs of the local branch of the British Medical Association. In 1898-1899 he was President of the Reading Branch, and in 1912-1913 of the Oxford and Reading Branch. He was also Vice-President of the Reading Pathological Society. He was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC (T) on March 31st, 1908, in the Third Southern General Hospital, and served in that capacity at Oxford at the beginning of the Great War (1914-1919). When No 1 War Hospital was opened at Reading he was appointed officer in charge of the Medical Division, and took command of the Redlands War Hospital. He was also President of the Officers' Medical Board at the Reading War Hospitals. He died suddenly from heart failure at Reading on December 23rd, 1918, leaving a widow, a daughter, and one son in the Royal Air Force. Freeman was a keen sportsman and wrote several papers on shooting and fishing. He was joint editor of the *Transactions of the Dermatological Society of Great Britain* for 1897, 1899, and 1900. Publications: "Some Post-vaccinal Eruptions." - *Brit Jour Dermatol.*, 1902, xiv, 186. "Treatment of Psoriasis." - *Edin Med Jour*, 1903, n.s. xiii, 309. "Treatment of Enuresis and Polyuria by Epidural Injections." - *Brit Jour Child Dis*, 1905, ii, 352. "Uncommon Causes of Skin Irritation." - *St Bart's Hosp Jour*, 1896, iii, 85. "Eczema and Allied Diseases." - *Lancet*, 1900, ii, 398. "About a Separate Creation of Species." - *Westminster Review*, 1897.
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First Title value, for Searching Odell, William (1851 - 1925)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Educated at St Paul's School, Stony Stratford, and at Hertford Grammar School. He received his professional training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he acted as Registrar in the Ophthalmic Department. From 1873-1878 he was Hon Medical Officer and House Surgeon to the Hertford Hospital. He was in private practice in Hertford from 1878, and then went to Toronto, where he remained till 1889. Returning to England, he took up his residence in Torquay, where he practised and held many offices. At the time of his death he was Consulting Physician to the Torquay Western Hospital for Consumption; Consulting Surgeon to the Erith House Institute for Invalid Ladies; Physician to the Temple Lodge Home for Inebriates; Medical Referee to the Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumption; and had been President of the Torquay Medical Society and Torquay Natural History Society. He was elected a Member of the British Medical Association in 1874, was Representative of the Torquay Division in the Representative Body from 1904-1909, and was Chairman of the Division from 1906-1907. During the War (1914-1918) Odell was Physician to the Western Auxiliary Medical Hospital in Torquay. He was Hon Life Member of the St John Ambulance Association, and as a Local Secretary of the Epsom College Foundation devoted much time and energy to its support. He was a Corresponding Member of the Medical Society of Ontario. He died at Ferndale, his Torquay residence, on August 21st, 1925. Publications:- Odell's writings, which deal chiefly with tuberculosis, include:- *Scientific Aspect of Dr Koch's Remedy*, 8vo, London and Torquay, 1891. *Recreation*, 8vo, London and Torquay, 1893. *Torquay, a British Health Resort*. *Physique of the British Nation*, 12mo, Torquay, 1903. *Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis with Ichthyol*, 8vo, Torquay, 1909. *Further Evidence of the Value of the Foregoing Treatment*. "Injury to the Spine." - *Lancet*, 1874, ii, 450. "Case of Hydrophobia: Chloroform: Death." - *Ibid*, 1876, ii, 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Paul (or Paull), John Hayball (1816 - 1899)

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First Title value, for Searching Higgins, Charles Hayes (1811 - 1898)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born on board the flagship of Admiral Hayes, off the island of Java, the eldest son of Colonel Charles Thomas Higgins of the HEIC, then on shore at the time, leading his regiment in the storming of Batavia when it was taken from the French. Hence his second name Hayes. After a succession of schools he studied medicine at Bristol, Edinburgh, Paris, and Guy's Hospital. He first practised at Taunton, where he was Surgeon to the Taunton and Somerset Hospital. In 1850 he moved to Birkenhead, where he was Surgeon to the Hospital, Consulting Physician to the Wirral Children's Hospital, to the Birkenhead Eye and Ear Hospital and Dispensary, and Surgeon Major in the 1st Cheshire Engineer Volunteers. A paper of his published in the *Monthly Journal of Medical Science* (1848-9, ix, 889), on a "Case of Inversio Uteri induced by Polypus in which Extirpation was Successfully Performed with the Knife," excited the interest of Sir James Y Simpson, and through him Higgins was elected FRS Edin and a Fellow of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. He was twice President of the Birkenhead Medical Association, as well as twice of the Birkenhead Literary and Scientific Society, for he had marked literary interests. As a devoted student of Shakespeare he refuted the Baconian theory in a way which drew a favourable notice from Gladstone. For half a century he was a familiar and respected figure in Birkenhead, and at his death was the senior medical man there. His health failed for some time before his death on January 14th, 1898.
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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, John Lloyd (1863 - 1932)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-23
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Occupation Anatomist Physician
Details Born at Llanrwst, North Wales, on 23 January 1863, the eldest son of Lloyd Roberts, corn merchant, and Jane Pierce, his wife. He was educated at Llanrwst Grammar School, at Wesley College, Sheffield, and at Guy's Hospital. At the University of London he obtained honours in medicine, obstetric medicine, physiology, physics, and organic and inorganic chemistry in 1888, and at Guy's Hospital he was president of the Physical Society, house physician, resident obstetric officer, and clinical editor of the *Guy's Hospital Gazette*. Settling in Liverpool he became physician to the Stanley Hospital and to the Royal Southern Hospital, 1 January 1904, and lecturer and examiner in clinical medicine and lecturer in medical applied anatomy in the University. When the Territorial medical service was established he accepted a commission as captain in July 1908, and when war began in August 1914 he was called up with the rank of major to serve with the First Western General Hospital, afterwards being placed in charge of the neurological section of the Alderhey Special Military Hospital. He married in 1893 Maude Rose Watts, who survived him with one daughter. He died on 3 September 1932, having retired from active practice in 1924. Publications: Pericolitis sinistra. *Lpool med-chir J* 1908, 28, 279. Case of tetanus. *Ibid* 1909, 29, 323. Rupture of aortic aneurysm into superior vena cava. *Ibid* 1910, 30, 96. Ankylostomiasis. *Med Press*, 1906, 133, 355. Early symptoms of mediastinal tumours. *Lancet*, 1912, 2, 1714.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, John Macdonald (1857 - 1935)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Dunfermline in 1857, he was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he held a Grierson bursary, and afterwards at the London Hospital. As lecturer on anatomy at Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh he soon made a name for himself. It is said that he had an extraordinary power of imparting knowledge. Armed with a few coloured chalks and a blackboard he expounded the details of human anatomy with clearness and precision. He confined himself to the essentials and developed a method, which for examination purposes had no rival. Although his incisive style and powerful voice were often reminiscent of the drill-sergeant, he always held the attention of the students and his results, as proved at the examination table, were most successful. Coming to London he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Northwest London Hospital in 1896 and was physician to the Navy, Army and Royal Air Force Institute. He retired to Leamington in 1926 and became consulting physician to Leamington Spa. He married Caroline Helen Murray, second daughter of Adam Murray, alderman of Manchester. She died in 1928 without children. He died at Leamington on 28 November 1935 and was buried at St Mary's, Lillington, Leamington. Publications:- The femoral artery in apes. *J Anat*. 1881, 15, 523. Chancroidal bubo and bubonic chancroid. *Edinb clin path J*. 1884, 1, 889. The science of human anatomy; introductory lecture. *Edinb med J*. 1885, 30, 585. Treatment at the Royal Leamington Spa. *Prescriber*, 1927, 21, 104. *The large intestine, its function and disabilities*. Leamington, 1927
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First Title value, for Searching Hoffmeister, Sir William Carter (1817 - 1890)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-18
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Portsmouth on July 16th, 1817, the son of C W Hoffmeister, Collector of Customs at Belfast. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and at University College Hospital, London, where he was Clinical Clerk to Dr Elliotson and Dresser to Robert Liston. He settled in practice at Cowes in 1841, was nominated by Lord Yarborough and elected Surgeon to the Royal Yacht Squadron, a post he held until his death. When Queen Victoria and Prince Albert went to Osborne in 1845, Hoffmeister was recommended by Sir James Clarke as the Medical Attendant to the Queen and Royal Family in the Isle of Wight. During some years he attended on the Queen at Balmoral; he also attended Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, in her confinements at Darmstadt. He was knighted in 1884. He was also Physician to the Royal Isle of Wight Infirmary at Ryde, Medical Officer to the Isle of Wight Volunteers, and Vice-President of Epsom College. He died of bronchitis on July 29th, 1890, at Cowes. The Queen and Royal Family expressed lively sympathy and were represented at his funeral. He was succeeded by three sons, two of whom were members of the College.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Arthur David Winton (1900 - 1970)

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First Title value, for Searching Roy, Bidhan Chandra (1882 - 1962)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation Physician
Details Born at Patna, Bihar, he was educated at Bankipur College and Calcutta Medical College. After qualifying in Calcutta, he entered the Bengal Medical Service, but after some years he was granted study leave to come to England and attended St Bartholomew's Hospital. Having passed both the final Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in the same year, he returned to India. In 1919 he resigned from Government service and became Professor of Medicine at the independent Carmichael (now KG Kar) Medical College in Calcutta, and became also heavily involved as a major figure in both municipal and national politics. He remained nevertheless in demand as the outstanding medical consultant, towering above his contemporaries and at various times attending Gandhi, Prasad and Nehru. In 1929 he became first president of the unofficial All-India Medical Council, usurping the powers previously wielded by the Director-General of the IMS. The council became responsible for controlling standards of medical education, in place of the annual inspections and resultant recognition by the General Medical Council in England which had for long been offensive to Indians. As a disciple of Gandhi and a member of the Congress Working Committee he spent some time in prison as a seditionist. In 1948 he became Second Minister and then Prime Minister of Bengal, having previously refused the Governorship of the United Provinces at the hands of the British. At one time Mayor of Calcutta, he was a man of tact, capacity and statesmanship; a tall, handsome figure in flowing robes of homespun cotton with the traditional white cap. He died on 1 July 1962, his eightieth birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Ivan Stuart (1883 - 1963)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-14
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Occupation Physician
Details Ivan Stuart Wilson was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1883. After qualifying in medicine from the University of Otago he came to England for postgraduate experience. He was demonstrator of anatomy at the London Hospital under Professor William Wright and then worked at the Chelsea Hospital for Women with Victor Bonney. He completed the FRCS in 1912 and enlisted in the RAMC on the outbreak of the first world war. Serving as regimental medical officer with the first battalion of the Scots Guards he was awarded the Military Cross with bar and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He is reported to have suffered a severe chest wound in 1916 but returned to active service with the Guards Division and then with the Army of Occupation in Germany after the war. On returning to New Zealand in 1920 he had recurring disability from war wounds and switched his talents to medicine, becoming a foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1938. On the outbreak of the second world war he became Assistant Director of Medical Services at Army Headquarters, and was appointed OBE and honorary physician to the Governor General in 1943. He then served overseas as commanding officer of the 2nd New Zealand General Hospital in Italy. He was demobilised with the rank of Brigadier to become a medical member of the War Pensions Board and President of the 'Old Contemptibles' Association. Throughout his life he had earned the respect and affection of the community and the esteem and friendship of his colleagues. Outside his professional work he was interested in music, art and literature. His son, Dr Ivan S Wilson, practises in Wanganui. He was survived by his wife and son when he died on 29 December 1963.
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First Title value, for Searching Hobson, Lewis John (1852 - 1939)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-10 2014-02-07
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Occupation Physician
Details Born 4 April 1852 at Eaton Socon, Huntingdonshire, the second son and third child of William Hobson, merchant, and Susan Ann Squire his wife. He was educated at Bedford School, where he was first prizeman, and at University College Hospital, where he won the gold medals for physiology, comparative anatomy, materia medica, midwifery, and surgery. He then went to Bristol as house surgeon at the General Hospital and served afterwards as senior house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and acting medical officer at the Sea Bath, Hospital, Scarborough; moving to York he became honorary physician to the York County Hospital from 1882 to 1884. From York he settled at Harrogate, was appointed to the staff of the Royal Bath Hospital 1885, filled the office until 1932, when he resigned and was appointed consulting physician, and was made a vice-president of the Hospital in April 1935 on completing his fifty years of service. He married twice: (1) in 1880 Francis Vernon Armitage, of Huddersfield, who died on 16 October 1935, and (2) on 29 April 1936, Gladys Taylor Jefferson, fourth daughter and sixth child of Matthew and Mary Elizabeth Jefferson, of Middlesborough. There were no children of either marriage. He died at Hastings on 22 February 1939, and was buried in Stonefall Cemetery, Harrogate. Hobson was well known as a spa physician and was more especially interested in the treatment of diseases of the skin. He was a founder of the Harrogate Medical Society and acted as president in 1896. Publications:- *Psoriasis*, London, 1894. *Causes and treatment of eczema*. 1891. Treatment of common skin diseases at Harrogate spa. *Brit med J* 1913, 2, 1019.
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First Title value, for Searching Sowry, George Herbert (1870 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Howell, John (1777 - 1857)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-25
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on October 21st, 1777; he joined the Army as Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, on June 11th, 1801. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 61st Regiment of Foot on August 25th, 1804, and promoted to Surgeon of the Sicilian Regiment on March 17th, 1808. He again returned to the 61st Foot as Surgeon on May 11th, 1809, was attached to the Staff on April 16th, 1812, promoted Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals on July 22nd, 1830, and at the same time retired on half pay. His active service included the campaign in Calabria and the Battle of Maida, in 1805; he likewise served in Egypt and was wounded in the shoulder. During the Peninsular War (1810-1812) he was again wounded in Portugal. He lived at Clifton after his retirement, and had become Senior Physician to the Clifton Dispensary by the year 1828, living at 45 Royal Crescent. In that year he was beaten in an exciting election for the post of Physician to the Bristol Infirmary, when his opponent, Dr Wallis, received 361 votes and Howell 356. The election was carried out on somewhat unusual lines. Dr Wallis was less strait-laced than Howell, so the supporters divided themselves into 'Saints' and 'Sinners'. When the result was made known there was a general shout of 'Huzza for Wallis and the Sinners, down with the Saints'. Dr Henry Hawes Fox resigned on May 13th in the following year and Howell was elected unopposed on June 4th, 1829. He held office until June 7th, 1843, when he resigned and was made Consulting Surgeon. He appears, according to Johnston's *Roll*, to have died at Palermo, Sicily, on May 28th, 1857, though a less authentic tradition states that he died at Datchet in 1858. Howell was looked upon as one of the leading physicians in Bristol who did excellent service during the great cholera epidemic which visited the city in 1832. He was a learned man as well as an able practitioner, acting on the Council of the Bristol College, on the Committee of the Blind Asylum, and taking an active part at the meetings of the Bristol Institution. His name also appears in connection with the Bristol Penitentiary and on many subscription lists for charity and church building.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawford, Edward (1820 - 1899)

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First Title value, for Searching Keser, Jean Samuel ( - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-13
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Occupation Physician
Details Came of a Swiss family and received his early education in arts and sciences at Lausanne, studying for his profession subsequently at Strasburg, Heidelberg, Geneva, Bâle, and St Thomas's Hospital. He was appointed Physician to the French Hospital and Dispensary, London, and was well known in medical circles during the last decade of the nineteenth century, when he enjoyed a large practice, especially among the French colony in the metropolis. As correspondent of the *Semaine médicale*, which, under its editor-proprietor, Dr De Mauraus, enjoyed a large circulation and laid itself out to report meetings of societies and associations, he for many years regularly attended the annual meetings of the British Medical Association. A man of attractive personality, he made and retained many friends. He was Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and an Officier d'Académie. In 1899, being threatened with blindness, he determined to retire, but a year's rest restored him to health, and he was then able to indulge a taste for Greek archeology, travelling extensively in Greece and the Near East. He next settled on the outskirts of Geneva, and enjoyed his learned leisure until it was rudely interrupted on the outbreak of war, when some hundred thousand miserable refugees, expelled from the invaded parts of France, passed through Geneva. He was placed at the head of the dispensary, where about ten thousand persons were treated. It was a terrible experience for a man of Keser's cultivated mind and sensitive nature. Later the train-loads of refugees were succeeded by other trains carrying sick and wounded soldiers from France to Germany and the reverse; hundreds of volunteers were enlisted under the Red Cross and the work went on for years, involving great exertions and many hardships. All through he was unwearyingly helped by his wife. After an illness of two years' duration Keser died in the earlier half of 1925. He lived at 60 Route de Chéne, Geneva. Publications: *Étude clinique sur le Cancer du Sein* (Dies Inaug), Lausanne, 1880. "Medical Epigraphs of the British Museum," 8vo, London, 1893; reprinted from *Med Mag*, 1892-3, i, 907. "A Universal Language for Medical Men," 8vo, 1895; reprinted from *Med Mag*, 1895, iv, 341. *Diagnostic et Traitement chirurgical des Tumeurs abdominales*. Ed française (of Sir Spencer Wells's work), publiée avec le contours du Dr J Keser, 8vo, Paris, 1886.
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First Title value, for Searching Solly, Ernest (1863 - 1950)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation Dermatologist General surgeon Physician
Details Born 12 April 1863, the third son of Arthur Isaac Solly, country gentleman and company director, and Georgina Reade, his wife. He was educated at Rugby School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he won many prizes, including the Solly gold medal for surgery, founded by his family. After qualifying in 1886 and taking honours at the London MB the next year, he served as resident accoucheur and surgical registrar at St Thomas's, and senior resident medical officer at the Royal Free Hospital. He took the Fellowship in 1888 at the earliest permitted age. In 1893 he settled at Harrogate, taking over the general practice of A G Russell, MD. At first he was a general physician and took particular interest in the development of the Spa at Harrogate, but later specialized in surgery. He was appointed surgeon to the Harrogate Infirmary in 1905, and was elected consulting surgeon on retirement in 1932; he was also consulting surgeon to the Yorkshire Home for Incurable and Chronic Diseases at Harrogate. Solly was a vice-president of the section of dermatology at the Toronto meeting of the British Medical Association in 1906, and afterwards president of the British Balneological and Climatological Society. He represented his branch in the Representative Meeting of the BMA on many occasions between 1905 and 1939, and served on the central ethical committee from 1932 to 1939. He, served as surgeon-captain in the Territorial Force and was awarded the Territorial Decoration. On the outbreak of war he was commissioned in the RAMC on 20 November 1914, promoted major 23 February 1915, and saw active service in France. He had served as mayor of Harrogate as early as 1898 and founded the Harrogate Rotary Club. He was a promoter of the Boy Scout movement. Solly married in 1893 Mary A Norbury, who died in 1932. They lived at Strathlea, Cold Bath Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire. He died on 26 July 1950 at a Harrogate nursing home, aged 87, survived by his son and three daughters; his other children had died before him. He was cremated, after a funeral service at St Peter's Church, Harrogate. Solly had many and varied interests, besides those of a public nature already mentioned; he was fond of cricket and carpentry, and collected stamps.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Hugh (1864 - 1930)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation Dermatologist Physician
Details Born in London, 29 July 1864, the third son of Hugh Smith of Darvel, Ayrshire, and younger brother of Sir George Smith, KCMG, Governor of Nyasaland, 1913-23. Hugh Smith was educated at the City of London School and at University College, London. He entered the London Hospital after gaining the entrance scholarship, and won the scholarship for the first and second years' men. He took first-class honours at the MB examination. He served as house physician to Dr Hughlings Jackson, acted as house surgeon, and was resident midwifery assistant. From 1891 to 1900 he practised at Englefield House, Highgate, N, and was assistant medical officer to the General Post Office. He then went into partnership with Sir Alfred Edward Thomson at Cape Town, and a few years later determined to specialize as a consulting physician, being amongst the first to do so in South Africa. He obtained a large consulting practice, which extended throughout the province, and from 1902 to 1919 was honorary physician and consulting dermatologist to the Somerset Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he acted as consulting physician to the Hospitals at Wynberg and Maitland. For many years he was lecturer on dermatology in the Medical Faculty of the University of Cape Town. He was an active member of the British Medical Association, and was president of the Cape of Good Hope branch in 1914. He was also president of the Medical Congress which met in Cape Town in 1921. He married in London on 3 June 1920 Francisca Helena Hampson, widow of Captain H T Whybrow, who survived him with two daughters. He died suddenly at his house in Hof Street, Cape Town, on 2 July 1930, and was buried in Maitland cemetery. Mrs Smith married in 1932 G A Daniel-Tyssen (d 1941), a distinguished London solicitor. Hugh Smith was the best type of physician, and did much good in South Africa by his strict observance of ethical rules. Kindly but firm, he dealt successfully with such difficult patients as the old Boer farmers; and General Botha once said of him: "That Dr Smith is different from you doctors; he's not the sort of fellow you can quarrel with." Publications: Cerebral tumour, operation, recovery. *Lancet*, 1906, 1, 1688. Intracranial tumour. *Ibid* 1912, 2, 994.
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First Title value, for Searching Pilgrim, Herbert Wilson (1858 - 1914)

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First Title value, for Searching Hayward, John Arthur (1866 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born 7 April 1866, the son of John Hayward, MRCS 1845, of Rushall, Wilts, who died on 19 November 1869, aged 45. His mother, *née* Fuller, was the daughter of the Steward of St Bartholomew's Hospital and died not long after her husband. He was educated at Marlborough College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Brackenbury scholarship in medicine, and served as house physician. He was house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and assistant physician to the East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell. Hayward had taken the London MD the year after his qualification, and proceeded to the surgical Fellowship fourteen years later; after a further twenty years he took the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He had for many years one of the best general practices in the prosperous suburb of Wimbledon. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC, with the rank of captain, gazetted 25 March 1915. After his retirement in 1935 to Eynsham, near Oxford, he wrote an excellent popular history of medicine. Later he moved to Wilton, Wiltshire, where he died on 12 March 1949, aged 83, and was buried at Beechingstoke, near Devizes. He left a legacy of £300 to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. Hayward married on 4 February 1901 Rosamond Grace, daughter of George Rolleston, FRS, professor of anatomy at Oxford, and sister of Sir Humphry Rolleston, Hon FRCS. Mrs Hayward was a grand-daughter of Dr John Davy, brother of Sir Humphry Davy, PRS, Hon MRCS, the famous scientist. She was one of the first well-educated women to train as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Mrs Hayward survived her husband, with two sons and two daughters; the younger son, John Davy Hayward, is a distinguished literary critic. Mrs Hayward died at Wilton on 1 October 1950. Hayward, from time to time, presented books to the College Library. Publication:- *The Romance of Medicine*, London, Routledge, 1937; 2nd edition, 1945.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Harold Theodore (1878 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Woollaston, Robert (1801 - 1865)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-27
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Came of the same ancient Staffordshire family as William Woollaston, the moral philosopher, author of *Religion of Nature Delineated* (1724). Lord Macaulay was one of his schoolfellows. He was apprenticed to a leading hospital surgeon in London, and received his medical education at the London Hospital, Guy's Hospital, and in Paris. Electing to practise in Clapham, he was introduced to a good local connection by George Darling, a physician practising in Russell Square. One of his patients was Sir James Mackintosh, the philosopher. He married and removed to Westbourne Terrace, London, where for many years his practice was large and profitable. The sudden death of his wife completely unnerved him; he sold his practice and accepted an appointment as Physician to the Hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War. He became a member of the Imperial Medical Society of Constantinople. After the campaign he returned to England, married a second wife, and resumed practice at Cheltenham, whence he removed to Wolverhampton, where he was appointed one of the Physicians of the South Staffordshire Hospital. After about two years he removed to Stafford, having been elected Physician to the Staffordshire Infirmary and Visiting Physician to the Colon Hill Asylum. Colon Hill was the original seat of his family. In going there and in accepting public appointments he doubtless attained some of his dearest wishes, for he had always had a strong desire to be connected with some public institution. The state of Mrs Woollaston's health, however, now led him to seek a warmer climate. In Rome he studied antiquities, especially mosaics, and was about to continue his pursuit in Pompeii, when exposure to the sun's heat in the streets of Naples brought on congestion of the brain, followed by diarrhoea and inflammation of the lungs. Dr John Topham, whom he had succeeded as Physician to the South Staffordshire Hospital, had preceded him to Rome and was telegraphed for on August 16th, 1865. He came from Sorrento and thrice visited Woollaston, staying the night each time, but, despite all that medical skill could do, Woollaston sank and died on August 22nd. He was buried in the English burial-ground, the service being read by the Rev Pelham Maitland, who had been a Wolverhampton vicar. Publications:- *The Sanitary Advantages of Baths, especially the Turkish, or Roman Bath: A Lecture*, 8vo, Cheltenham, 1860. *A Short Description of the Thermae Romano-Britannicae, or the Roman Baths found in Italy, Britain, France, Switzerland, etc, etc*, 4to, London, 1864.
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First Title value, for Searching Elliott, John (1861 - 1921)

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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Caleb (1798 - 1871)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-13
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Occupation Physician
Details Received his early professional education under William Travis, of Scarborough, remaining with him till he came of age. He afterwards attended the Medical Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and spent a short period in those of Paris. He began to practise in York at the age of 25, and was soon chosen Visiting Medical Officer to the Friends' Retreat. Here he was assisted by James Hack Tuke (1819-1896), and was one of the earliest advocates of a more enlightened treatment of the insane, which should involve relaxation of the prevalent cruel system of restraint. He filled this appointment uninterruptedly for nearly fifty years, and resigned it on the ground of failing health in April, 1871. He was Physician, and then Consulting Physician (1864), to the York County Asylum, and with a number of his colleagues in the City remained faithfully at his post during the terrible cholera epidemic which visited York in 1832. From 1838-1858 he occupied the Chair of Materia Medica in the York School of Medicine, an institution which was afterwards closed. At the time of his death he was also visiting Medical Officer to two private asylums in York - namely, The Retreat and Lawrence House; to Terrace House Asylum, Osbaldwick; and to the York Penitentiary. Besides these he held other posts and was a member of the British Medical Association, the York Medical Society, and the Medico-Psychological Association. His large experience in the treatment of the insane gave him a widespread reputation, and his aid was sought from far and near. In 1851 Williams appeared as the advocate for a wider range of the plea of insanity in criminal cases than judges, jurors, or public opinion were then prepared to admit. In 1851 he made known his opinions, the results of long and careful observation, in a work *On the Criminal Responsibility of the Insane*. His course as a practitioner was one of constantly increasing reputation. Caleb Williams was a philanthropist, taking especial interest in the York Penitentiary, County Hospital, and Dispensary. He was for forty years a Preacher in the Society of Friends. His daughter, also of that Society, is the mother of Dr Caleb Williams Saleeby. He practised at 73 Micklegate, where he died after a few days' illness, and was interred in the Friends' Burial Ground in Heslington Road. The large company was addressed by Mr Isaac Brown, of Kendal, an intimate friend of the deceased. Publications: *Observations on the Criminal Responsibility of the Insane*, founded on the Trials of James Hill and of William Dove; to which are appended full Reports of the same, 8vo, London, 1851. "Case of an Epileptic Maniac Charged with Murder, and Acquitted on the Ground of Insanity." - *Lond Med Gaz*, 1840, xxvii, 18. "On the Present Type and Character of Disease." - *Trans Prov Med Assoc*, 1851, xviii (NS vi), 341.
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First Title value, for Searching Willis, William (1837 - 1894)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-13
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details The youngest son of George Willis, of Florence Court, Co Fermanagh; distinguished himself as a student at Middlesex Hospital, and after acting there as House Physician, went out to Japan with Colonel St John Neil's Mission. Willis became well known to Sir Henry S Parkes, KCB, throughout some sixteen years, and was appointed Medical Officer to HM Legation in Japan in 1861. He thus became a pioneer of modern medicine in Japan. During the Revolution up to 1868 he not only discharged his duties with marked zeal and efficiency, but also rendered many useful services to foreign residents and to Japan by volunteering gratuitous services in the field at personal hazard, in which he was successful in caring for the wounded. In 1868 Willis was lent to the Japanese Government, at their special request, for the purpose of establishing a Hospital and Medical School in Tokyo, and he resigned his appointment in HM service for the purpose of forwarding the science of medicine in Japan. In doing so he ventured into remote parts, where the animosity entertained by many of the people and soldiery against foreigners was so great that he carried his life in his hands. For his services to the wounded in the Army of the Mikado he received the honour of the Imperial Brocades, conferred for the first time upon a European and commoner. He received the thanks both of the Japanese and British Governments, and in 1893 the Government of Japan gave permission for the erection of a statue of Willis in the public park of Kayoshima by subscribers, the majority of whom were native medical practitioners who had studied under Willis. After that he was Vice-Consul at Yeddo until 1881, a post he filled with his accustomed tact and geniality. He returned to England in 1881, and after taking out a course of midwifery at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin came to London and passed the examination for the FRCS Eng and MRCP London. He practised for a short time with his brother George Willis at Monmouth. In 1885 he went out again as Physician to the Legation at Bangkok in Siam, obtained a large practice, started a public hospital for Europeans, interested himself in the prison population, and induced the King of Siam to institute important sanitary and moral reforms. The King and his brother, Prince Devawongze, were among his patients and presented him with their portraits and autographs. He returned to Europe on sick leave in 1892, spent some time at Monmouth and in London, and followed up advances in medical science. He was spending Christmas, 1893, with his brother at Florence Court, Co Fermanagh, when he fell ill of a 'bilious fever' and died on February 14th, 1894.
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First Title value, for Searching Noble, Daniel (1810 - 1885)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-29
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Preston, and received his medical education at the Borough School and Guy's Hospital. He settled in general practice in Manchester in 1834, and in 1847, when an alarming and disastrous epidemic of typhus raged there, was the general superintendent of the extensive arrangements made for checking the progress of the disease. In 1866, when the cholera threatened a renewed visitation, he was once more consulted. In 1859 he declined a County Magistracy offered him by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He practised at 32 Ardwick Green, after leaving Piccadilly, Manchester, to which latterly he returned. He was Medical Officer of the Manchester Union, Vice-President of the Manchester Medical Society, President of the Manchester Statistical Society, a Member of Council of the Provincial Medical Association, and President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the British Medical Association. He was also Visiting Physician to the Clifden Hall Retreat and Consulting Physician to the Manchester Ear Institute, and to the Wye House Lunatic Asylum, Buxton. He died on January 12th, 1885. His last address was at 258 Oxford Road, Manchester. Publications:- *An Essay on the Means, Physical and Moral, of Estimating Human Character*, 8vo, Manchester, 1835. *Facts and Observations relative to the Influence of Manufactures upon Health and Life*, 8vo, London, 1843. "On Mesmerism." - *Brit and For Med-Chir Rev*, 1845, xix, 428. *The Brain and its Physiology*, a critical disquisition on the methods of determining the relations between the structure and functions of the encephalon, 8vo, London, 1846. *Wat is waar, wat onwaar in het dierlijk magmetisme? Kritische beschouwing der mesmerische daadzacken en theorien. Uit het Engeloch vertaald door. J N Ramaer*, 8vo, Zutphen, 1847. "On the Question of Contagion in Cholera," 8vo, London, 1849; reprinted from *Lond Med Gaz*, 1849, ns viii, 141. *Elements of Psychological Medicine*, an introduction to the practical study of insanity, adapted for students and junior practitioners, 12mo, London, 1853; 2nd ed, 8vo, London, 1855. "Three Lectures on the Correlation of Psychology and Physiology," 8vo, London, 1854; reprinted from *Assoc Med Jour*, 1854, 586, etc; 2nd ed, 1855. *The Human Mind in its Relations with the Brain and Nervous System*, 8vo, London, 1858. "On Certain Popular Fallacies concerning the Production of Diseases," 8vo, Manchester, 1859; reprinted from *Trans Manchester Statist Soc*, 1863-4. "On Fluctuations in the Death-rate, with a Glance at the Causes, having Especial Reference to the Supposed Influence of the Cotton Famine on Recent Mortality" (read before the Manchester Statistical Society, Oct 26, 1863), 8vo, London, 1863; reprinted from *Trans Manchester Statist Soc*, 1863-4. "Thoughts on the Value and Significance of Statistics," 8vo, London, 1866; reprinted from *Trans Manchester Statist Soc*, 1865-6. "Epidemic Fever of 1847." - *Ibid*, 1848, i, 285. "Cerebrospinal Concussion, with Illustrative Cases." - *Assoc Med Jour*, 1855, 1127.
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First Title value, for Searching Morland, Egbert Coleby (1874 - 1955)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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Occupation Editor Journalist Physician
Details Egbert Morland was elected a Fellow in recognition of his services as Editor of *The Lancet*. Born in 1874, the fifth son of Charles Coleby Morland of Croydon, he came of a well-known Quaker family; an elder brother, Harold, a prominent accountant and auditor in the City of London, was Clerk (ie Chairman) of the Society of Friends 1927-32. Egbert was educated at Bootham School and Owens College, Manchester, and won an open scholarship to St Bartholomew's, qualifying in 1897 and winning the gold medal in physiology at the London MD examination in 1898. He held house appointments at St Bartholomew's and at Great Ormond Street. Adding Swiss qualifications, he practised as a chest physician in Switzerland for eleven years (1903-14) first at Davos and later at Arosa, where he was a pioneer of the English colony and helped to build the church. In the first year of the war he served in France under the Friends Relief Committee, but in 1915 joined the staff of *The Lancet*. He lived for twelve years in Buckinghamshire, moved into London in 1928, and succeeded Sir Squire Sprigge as Editor in 1937. During the second world war he evacuated *The Lancet's* office to Aylesbury and lived "over the shop" from 1939 to 1945. He then retired to Holmfirth, Yorkshire where his wife died in 1948. She had been Mary Windsor Latchmore, also a Quaker, and had shared his work and interests. They were married in 1903 and adopted two sons and a daughter. Morland died at York on 26 April 1955 aged 81. Morland was ideally suited to carry on *The Lancet's* tradition of sturdy independence and social conscience. He was an amusing and sympathetic companion, and experienced in clinical practice before he became a journalist. Personally he was interested in such humanitarian problems as child welfare, the treatment of tuberculosis, and the care of the aged, but in his editorial work he drew contributions from a very wide circle of acquaintance and was keenly awake to every advance in scientific medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, John Michael Harding (1847 - 1906)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Liverpool on May 6th, 1847, the son and grandson of surgeons. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Liverpool, where he was Medallist in Medicine, Surgery, and Pathology, also at Brussels. Becoming FRCS, he settled in practice at Blackburn as assistant to Dr William Irving, Physician to the Blackburn Infirmary, later in partnership with him, and on his death carried on the practice, one of the largest in the district. He continued his medical studies, and passed examinations to within two years of his death. For twenty-one years he was Surgeon to the Blackburn and East Lancashire Infirmary. For many years he was local Secretary to the British Medical Association and was the first President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch. A keen volunteer, he rose to be Major in command of the North-East Lancashire Bearer Company RAMC, and Surgeon Major, Army Medical Reserve, in connection with which he gave and published ambulance lectures. He encouraged sports, was President of the Blackburn Cycling Club, and gave annually a silver cup to be raced for. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the County Borough of Blackburn in 1887. As a Roman Catholic he was Physician to the Franciscan Convent of St Anne, and to the Convent of Notre Dame, and he held strong views in favour of denominational teaching in schools. Besides, he was connected with numerous societies. He died suddenly of apoplexy at Arnheim, Blackburn, on March 20th, 1906, and was survived by a widow, four daughters, and four sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Parsons, James St John Gage ( - 1905)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

First Title value, for Searching Lakin, Charles Ernest (1878 - 1972)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation Dermatologist Pathologist Physician
Details Charles Ernest Lakin was born in 1878, the son of a general practitioner who became the Mayor of Leicester. He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he was a First Entrance Scholar, and won Broderip and Freeman Scholarships, and qualified in 1901 with the Conjoint Diploma, and the degrees of London University in 1902, obtaining honours in medicine and obstetric medicine. In 1903 he proceeded to the degree of MD, and in 1908 he passed the examination for MRCP having been admitted as a Fellow of the College of Surgeons in 1905. At this period it was the custom for the physicians to undertake the post-mortem examinations and to teach pathology, and in this activity Lakin was outstanding as a teacher and expert opinion. During the first world war he served as pathologist at Addington Park War Hospital with a commission in the RAMC, although in civil life he held the appointment of consulting physician at the Middlesex Hospital. He was also on the staff of the London Fever Hospital and had, therefore, a special interest in infectious diseases. He was, in addition, consulting physician to Golden Square Throat Hospital and to the West Suffolk Hospital and acted as medical referee for HM Treasury. In his earlier years he had been a demonstrator of anatomy and a clinical assistant in the dermatological department at the Middlesex Hospital. For a time he was a clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. At the College of Physicians he was Lumleian Lecturer in 1932, Harveian Orator, and in 1947 Senior Censor. One time President of the Medical Society of London, he was also honorary librarian and delivered the Lettsomian Lecture in 1934. As a teacher he was outstanding with his wide field of knowledge of general medicine, infectious fevers, dermatology, children's diseases and, in particular, of pathology. Coronary thrombosis was no novelty to him as early as 1920. A bachelor, he was a genial host with many friends, a lover of music and a keen student of history. At the time of his death he was the most senior Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He died at his house, West Stow Hall, Bury St Edmunds, on 2 May 1972, aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Tyson, William Joseph (1851 - 1927)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon Physician
Details The son of William Taylor Tyson, for many years a medical practitioner in Folkestone. He was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and at Guy's Hospital, where he was afterwards House Physician and Resident Obstetrician. In 1876 he set up in practice in Folkestone, though not in partnership with his father. For fifty years he was constantly associated with the Royal Victoria Hospital, first as Medical Officer, then as Physician, resigning only shortly before his death. In addition to his duties as Physician he had charge of the Ophthalmic Department. He was Chairman of the Hospital, and in that capacity received Prince Henry on the occasion of the opening of the new wing in August, 1927. He was an active member of the British Medical Association, representing the South-Eastern Branch on the Council from 1897-1908, and was a member of the Central Council from 1912-1918, Secretary of the Section of Public Medicine at the Annual Meeting of 1886, and Vice-President of the Section of Medicine in 1907. He was an original member of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland, whose meetings he regularly attended. As Justice of the Peace for Kent he was Chairman of the Bench for the Elham Division. He died on September 5th, 1927, being survived by his widow, a daughter of J H du Boulay, of Sandgate, and by three daughters. Publications: "Rectal Alimentation," 8vo, London, 1882; reprinted from *Brit Med Jour*, 1882, i, 420. "Lately Developed Signs in Pneumonia." - *Trans Clin Soc*, 1880-1, xiv, 97.452 "Simple Stricture of Pylorus." - *Trans Pathol Soc*, 1881-2, xxxiii, 142. "Three Cases of Universal Alopecia." - *Trans Clin Soc*, 1886, xix, 120. "Case of Suppurating Hydatid Cyst of Liver opened through Chest Wall." - *Ibid*, 1894, xxvii, 76. "Tracheotomy in Croup." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1880, ii, 464. "Soporific Action of Mereury." - *Ibid*, 1891, i, 221. "On Acute Phosphorus Poisoning, with Case." - *Practitioner*, 1882, xxix, 432. "Some Thoughts on Prevention and Early Treatment of Disease." - *Trans Med Soc* Lond, 1905, xxvii, 262. "Clinical Types of Pneumonia." - *Lancet*, 1897, i, 1738. "Acute Suffocative Œdema of Lung." - *Ibid*, 1922, ii, 859, etc. "A Plea for more Precise Classification of Diseases." - *West London Med Jour*, 1897, ii, 91. *Notes and Thoughts from Practice*, 1909. *Medical Notes*, 8vo, London, 1926.
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First Title value, for Searching Hamilton, William Haywood (1880 - 1955)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon Physician Tropical medicine specialist
Details Born on 12 December 1880 son of W R Hamilton, Indian Civil Service, he was educated at Tonbridge School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won a prize in anatomy in 1902, and served as house physician and ophthalmic house surgeon. He played cricket and Rugby football for his school and hospital. He also played football for the United Hospitals, Blackheath and Middlesex clubs, and cricket for Netley and in India. He was commissioned in the Indian Medical Service on 1 February 1905 and promoted Captain three years later, serving at first as an ophthalmic specialist. From 1911 to 1915 he was Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services at Lucknow and served during 1911-12 in the Abor expedition on the North-East frontier, winning the medal and clasp. During the first world war he was posted to Mesopotamia, as Assistant and later as Deputy Director of Medical Services at General Headquarters. He won the DSO in 1916 and was mentioned eight times in dispatches between 1916 and 1921, for he continued in the Middle East, taking part in military operations in Kurdistan 1919, for which he was created CIE, and in Persia in 1920; he was created CBE in 1921. He had been promoted Major on 15 October 1915 and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 January 1918. He won the open championship at lawn tennis for Iraq in 1922. In India he served as ADMS for the Waziristan district on the North-West frontier, and was promoted to the full rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 September 1924, having taken postgraduate courses and two diplomas in tropical medicine in England during 1922-23. Between 1924 and 1936 he was ADMS successively at Secunderabad, Rawalpindi, Bombay, and Meerut, and from 1936 to 1940 Honorary Physician to the King-Emperor. In 1940 he became Director of Medical Services at the Army Headquarters in India with the rank of Major-General, and retired in 1941. He had been created CB in 1937. When the Channel Isles were liberated at the end of the second world war he went to live at the Grand Hotel, St Helier, Jersey. He collapsed in a shop there on 18 October 1955 and died almost immediately aged 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Churcher, Duncan Gillard (1894 - 1983)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation General practitioner Physician Police surgeon
Details Duncan Gillard Churcher was born at Dunoon, Scotland, on 4 October 1894, one of six children of Dr Thomas Churcher, a medical missionary, and Margaret, née Robertson, an Edinburgh trained nurse. He was educated at the City of London School and obtained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital which he represented at rugger during his student days as well as playing for the Surrey team. He qualified a year early with MRCS, LRCP in 1917 in order to serve with the Royal Navy, hunting submarines off the coast of Ireland. At the end of the war he returned to St Thomas's Hospital and passed both the final MB BS and the FRCS in 1920. Two years later he passed the London MD and was appointed surgical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital, a post normally reserved for those expecting a consultant appointment there. Hitherto his education had been funded by scholarships but he was unable to continue in an honorary capacity and accepted an appointment as inspector in the Sudan Medical Service for several years before returning to general practice in England, initially at Tarporley and later at Eastbourne. He wanted to join the surgical staff at Princess Alice Hospital but as no surgical vacancy was expected for some years he applied for a post as physician and served on the consultant staff in that capacity from 1926 to 1959. In addition he served as doctor to the Eastbourne lifeboat and as police surgeon; he also looked after the royal household when King George V convalesced at Eastbourne. After retiring from his post as consultant physician at the age of 65 he returned to general practice and continued as police surgeon until 1975. His relaxation came from the sea and he spent many hours on the Eastbourne lifeboat. In 1940 the SS *Barnhill* was bombed and set on fire in the English Channel. Although it was thought that all survivors had been taken off, the ship's bell was heard and the lifeboat was launched once again, Churcher leapt on to the ship and found the severely injured captain ringing the bell with his teeth. After his rescue the man made a good recovery returning to service at sea. He died on 13 July 1983, survived by his wife Nancy, a medical practitioner, and by five children, two being consultants, one a general practitioner and one a nurse.
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First Title value, for Searching Himsworth, Sir Harold (1905 - 1993)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation Physician
Details Sir Harold Himsworth was elected to the honorary Fellowship in 1965, during his tenure of the office of Secretary of the Medical Research Council. 'Harry' was born in Huddersfield on 19 May 1905, and was educated at King James Grammar School in nearby Almonbury. He came to London for his medical education, studying first at University College and then at UCH Medical School, where he qualified in 1928. His talents were immediately obvious and after his house jobs he was taken on as assistant to the medical unit under T R Elliot. His research was then directed towards diabetes, and he was one of the first to distinguish between insulin-sensitive and insulin-insensitive disease. He was appointed Professor of Medicine and Director of the medical unit at UCH in 1939 at the age of 34, and his vitality and enthusiasm were an inspiration to all who worked with him. During the war he had to give a lot of time to teaching and clinical practice but he continued a research programme on liver disease. The breadth of his knowledge and his concern with the whole field of medicine were immediately apparent when in 1948 he became a member of the Medical Research Council. In the following year he was appointed Secretary, the first practising clinician to have taken that post. This was a period in which the budget was regularly increased and he was able to set up some eighty research units during his twenty years in office, with widely differing fields of investigation. His particular initiative was the creation of the Clinical Research Unit at Northwick Park, with the object of encouraging research into common and 'ordinary' diseases seldom studied in the professorial units. He became very much the professional civil servant, though a most effective one. He had soon lost his Yorkshire accent but retained the direct approach characteristic of Yorkshiremen. He retired in 1968 when he became Chairman of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Later he turned his attention to philosophy but predictably concluded that mankind had gained more from scientists than from philosophers. His wife Charlotte was also a doctor, and she predeceased him after more than fifty years of marriage. They had two sons, one of whom, Richard, became a Professor of Medicine. He died on 1 March 1993, aged 88.
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First Title value, for Searching Phillips, Llewellyn Caractacus Powell (1871 - 1927)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details The only son of James Mathias Phillips, MD, and of Mary Anne Powell, his wife; born at Tir Caradoc Taibach, Glamorganshire, on July 28th, 1871. He was educated at Epsom College and was admitted a pensioner at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on October 1st, 1889. Here he was a scholar from midsummer, 1891, to midsummer, 1892. He graduated BA after gaining a 1st class in the first part of the Natural Science Tripos in 1892, having been awarded the Smart Prize for botany in 1891. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was an Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School after acting as House Surgeon. After acting as House Physician at the Royal Free Hospital, he practised for a time in Cardigan, and in 1901 was appointed Resident Surgical Officer at Kasr-el-Aini Hospital, Cairo. Subsequently he became Physician to the Hospital and Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Medical School until he retired in 1925. He acquired a large practice, both native and European, for at the beginning he made an excellent impression by his fine work during a cholera epidemic. During the War (1914-1918), in the Gallipoli Campaign, he served as Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC in Command of the British Red Cross Hospital at Giza, his wife acting as Matron. He was four times mentioned in dispatches, and received the 3rd class Ottoman Order of the Medjidie and the 3rd class Order of the Nile. He made a remarkable collection of old Arab glass weights and coins, and died at his house in Cairo in January, 1927. Publications: Phillips published important papers on Tropical Medicine including:- "Phlebotomus Fever" in Bryan and Archibald's *Practice of Medicine in the Tropics*, v *Amoebiasis and the Dysenteries*, 8vo, London, 1915.
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First Title value, for Searching Christopherson, John Brian (1868 - 1955)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon Physician Tropical medicine specialist
Details Born on 30 April 1868 at Batley, Yorkshire, son of Canon Brian Christopherson, later Rector of Falmouth, Christopherson was educated at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Grammar School, Clifton College, Caius College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualifying in 1893 he continued his studies at Vienna. In 1896 he was elected assistant surgeon to the Albert Dock Hospital, but his work there was interrupted by the outbreak of the South African War. He became surgeon to the Imperial Yeomanry base hospital at Deelfontein, and at the end of the war he joined the newly formed Sudan Medical Service as physician to the Inspector- General of the Sudan, Slatin Pasha. In 1904 Christopherson became the first Director-General of medical services to the Sudan Government. Five years later he resigned these appointments to become director of civil hospitals at Khartoum and Omdurman. The outbreak of the first world war once more interrupted his career and he accompanied Sir James and Lady Berry's Red Cross Unit to Serbia and acted as surgeon to the temporary hospital at Vrynatchka Banja. When taken prisoner by the Austro-Hungarian forces he was rescued by his friend Slatin, an Austrian, who arranged for Christopherson's release. Then he went to France as secretary of the War Office Commission on Medical Establishments with the BEF. He returned to Khartoum in 1917. Christopherson investigated many of the tropical diseases common in the Sudan. In 1917 he successfully treated several patients with kala-azar, who were also infected with schistosomiasis, by intravenous injections of antimony. On returning to England, Christopherson was for a time in charge of the special bilharzia clinic of the Ministry of Pensions. He was an examiner in tropical diseases to the Royal College of Physicians and to the University of London. He was physician for tropical diseases to the Royal Masonic Hospital, and in 1929 was elected President of the Tropical Diseases Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, but he became more interested in pulmonary diseases and joined the staff of the London Chest Hospital, Victoria Park. Christopherson married in 1912 Joyce Eleanor, daughter of Dr Joseph Arderne Ormerod, Physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was a deeply religious man and for many years was medical adviser to the University Mission to Central Africa. He retired to his country home, Heaven's Gate, Lydney-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, where he died on 21 July 1955, aged 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Lush, William George Vawdrey (1834 - 1904)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-06
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on May 24th, 1834, and educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He enjoyed the distinction of possessing the highest medical and surgical qualifications obtainable in the United Kingdom. He practised at 12 Frederick Place, Weymouth, and was Hon Physician to the County Hospital, Dorchester, a post he retained for thirty-two years. He was also Consulting Physician to the Weymouth Royal Hospital, the Portland Dispensary, and the Dorset Friendly Society. Lush was devoted to his profession, and was a man of simple and unaffected piety, addicted to such good works as church restoration, to which he subscribed large sums. He early formed the Dorset and West Hants Branch of the British Medical Association, was its Hon Secretary, and for many years represented it on the Central Council. After holding the Secretaryship for thirty years, he was presented by the members of the branch with a handsome testimonial consisting of a service of silver plate and a clock with chimes. As a skilled surgeon Lush was much called in consultation, his colleagues valuing also his fine character and fidelity to professional etiquette. On December 7th, 1904, while attending a committee meeting at the Dorset County Hospital, Lush, who had just spoken, fell from his chair and died almost at once. He was survived by his widow. His funeral was the largest known in Weymouth for a period of some forty years. There were about fifty mourning coaches. The clergy especially honoured a layman who had been an active member of the Salisbury Diocesan Synod and an Hon. Secretary of the Dorset Branch of the Queen Victoria Clergy Fund. Vawdrey Lush was a remarkable example of what could be done by sheer industry and conscientiousness without much outstanding mental ability. For several years he was 'coached' by Henry Power (qv), and 'come rain, come shine', as the clock struck seven he rang the door bell. Tea was provided at nine, and it was often midnight, or later, before he left, the 'coach' by that time exhausted and the 'coach's' wife fractious. Publications:- Lush was a contributor to the *Lancet*, the *Brit Med Jour*, and the *Med Times and Gaz*, from 1871 to 1898.
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First Title value, for Searching Brock, James Harry Ernest (1862 - 1945)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on 31 July 1862 at Madras, India, the third child and second but eldest surviving son of Samuel Brock, controller of public works accounts for Madras, and his wife Phoebe Parsons. He was educated at University College School, London and University College Hospital, where he won the Filliter exhibition and the Atchison scholarship, and served as house physician, resident obstetrician and ophthalmic assistant. He was then appointed physician to the Westminster General Dispensary. From 1886 11 1932 Brock was in general practice in south Hampstead. He was a Fellow of the Royal Sanitary Institute and at one time an assistant examiner in hygiene for the Science and Art Department, South Kensington. He was secretary of the International Congress on Hygiene at its seventh meeting, in London 1891. Brock retired in December 1932 and settled at 50 Queen's Road, Beckenham, Kent. His house there was severely damaged in the flying bomb raids of July 1944 and he moved to 137 Waxwell Lane, Pinner, Middlesex. After a year there he took part of a house at Worthing, Sussex (Rotorua, 30 Navarino Road), but died suddenly in his sleep after five weeks there, on All Saints' Day, 1 November 1945; he had been to church in the morning and seemed in good health. Brock married in 1898 Margaret Lupton, who survived him with a son and three daughters. During his retirement Brock maintained his interest in medicine and anatomy and wrote on Shakespearean problems. He always objected to state regulation of practice and never joined the panel system. Publications:- Mechanism of delivery of foetal head. *Lancet*, 1892, 1, 307. Case of labour at term in uterus didelphys. *Lancet*, 1902, 2, 1319. A case of hepatic abscess (?) treated by a vaccine; recovery. *Lancet*, 1909, 1, 610. A case of trench fever in a civilian. *Lancet*, 1918, 2, 144. The conduct of labour and puerperal sepsis. *Lancet*, 1919, 2, 277 and 456. *The dramatic purpose of Hamlet*. Cambridge: Heller, 1935. *Iago and some Shakespearean villains. Ibid*. 1937. In 1943 Brock presented a large number of copies of his two Shakespearean books to the Friends of the National Libraries for distribution.
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First Title value, for Searching Drysdale, Charles Robert (1830 - 1907)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-10-06
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Occupation Physician
Details Educated at University College, London, where he was Obstetrical and Ophthalmic Assistant, and in Paris. He was connected for a long time with the Metropolitan Hospital, and became Consulting Physician. He was also at one time Physician to the North London Hospital for Consumption and to the Farringdon Dispensary, and was Consulting Physician to the latter at the time of his death. Early attracted to the study of syphilis, he was led to investigate prostitution. These studies converted him to Malthusianism, of which he was an apostle. He was President of the Malthusian League, and he held his opinions honestly and defended them stoutly; a meed of respect cannot be withheld from one who sacrificed much in fighting for a cause which did not commend itself to the majority of his profession. He was also Physician to the Rescue Society of London. He died at his residence, 28 Carson Road, West Dulwich, SE, on December 2nd, 1907. Publications: "Alpine Heights and Climate in Consumption." - *St. Andrews Med. Grad. Jour.*, 1868. *On the Treatment of Syphilis and other Diseases without Mercury: being a collection of evidence to prove that mercury is a cause of disease, not a remedy*. 8vo, London, 1863. French translation of foregoing, 1864. German translation (Vienna), 1868. *Remarks on the Antecedents and Treatment of Consumption*, 8vo, London, 1865. "Prostitution Medically Considered: with some of its Social Aspects." A Paper read at the Harveian Society of London. With a Report of the Debate. 8vo, London, 1866. *On Cholera: its Nature and Treatment*. Being the Debate in the Harveian Society of London, edited by Dr. C. DRYSDALE, 8vo, London, 1866. *Recent Views as to the Causes and Nature of Pulmonary Consumption*, 8vo, London, 1868. "On the Inadequacy of Emigration as a Remedy for European Overcrowding and Destitution." Paper read before the London Dialectical Society, May 28th, 1869. London, 1869. *Medicine as a Profession for Women*, 16mo, London, 1870. *Syphilis: its Nature and Treatment. With a Chapter on Gonorrhea*. 8vo. London, 1872; 4th ed., 1880. German translation of 4th edition, 1882. "The Population Question at the Medical Society of London; or, the Mortality of the Rich and Poor." A Paper read at the Society, with the Debate, edited by CHARLES R. DRYSDALE, 12mo, London, 1879. "Debate on Infanticide, at the Harveian Society of London," May 17th, 1866, edited by C. DRYSDALE, 12mo, London, 1866; reprinted from the *Med. Press and Circ*. "Overpopulation considered a sa Prominent Cause of Misery and Early Death" (nd). "Report of the Committee for the Prevention of Venereal Diseases" (with J. BRENDON CURGENVEN ) read before the Harveian Society of London, July 1st, 1867. 8vo, London, 1867.
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First Title value, for Searching Duffin, Alfred Baynard (1834 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-10-05
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Occupation Physician
Details The son of Edward Wilson Duffin, MD (qv); was educated at King's College, London, and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin. He came under the influence of Virchow in Berlin, and thus acquired an interest in pathology which coloured all his later work as clinician and teacher. He was House Physician at King's College Hospital in 1858 under Drs George Budd, Todd, and George Johnson. He became Assistant Physician there at the same time as Edward Liveing and Symes Thompson, but did not become Physician to in-patients until 1874. During the latter part of this long service in the out-patient room he devoted one afternoon a week to the treatment of out-patients with skin diseases, and his teaching in this subject was much appreciated by the students. In 1876 he succeeded Lionel Beale as Professor of Pathological Anatomy, and in 1893 was elected Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine. He held this latter chair alone for a few years, till joined in its duties by Burney Yeo, who succeeded him when he became Professor of Clinical Medicine. He was for a long period an active member of the Committee of Management of King's College Hospital. On retiring from service on the hospital staff in 1898 he was made Consulting Physician and Emeritus Professor of Medicine. From 1894-1896 he was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians, and from 1889-1892 was an Examiner in Medicine. He also examined in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He somewhat prided himself on being one of the few physicians practising medicine who possessed the qualification of FRCS. He was examiner for various Assurance Companies, and attended pretty regularly the meetings of the Pathological Society and the Clinical Society. For many years he was Physician to the Church Missionary Society, and was himself a man of strong religious convictions on Missions. He lived and practised for long at 18 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, W, and died, after his retirement, at his residence, Wallington, Surrey, on February 10th, 1913. He never married, but devoted his life to the companionship and care of an invalid relative. He left net personalty of over £48,000. Portraits of him accompany his biographies in the *Lancet* and *British Medical Journal*. Publications: "Cellular Pathology." - Beale's *Archives*, ii. "Perforation of Peritoneum." - *Ibid*. "Stricture of the Sigmoid Flexure: Colotomy." - *Trans. Pathol. Soc.*, 1868, xix, 197. "Temperature in Syphilis." - *Trans. Clin. Soc*., 1870, iii, 170. "Early Diagnosis of Small-pox." - *Ibid.*, 1871, iv, 117. "Treatment of Hydatids of the Liver." - *Ibid.*, 1878, vi, 23. "The Abstraction of Blood, Clinically Considered." - *King's College Hosp. Rep.*, 1895 i, 31. "Perinephric Abscess." - *Med. Times and Gaz.*, 1870, ii, 362.
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First Title value, for Searching Nightingale, Henry John (1880 - 1973)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Physician
Details Henry Nightingale was born in Kingston on Thames on 21 April 1880. His father, James, was a surveyor and his mother before marriage was Agnes Thrupp. He went to school at Kingston Grammar School from where he obtained a scholarship to King's College, London. Nightingale next gained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital, where he had a distinguished record as a student, qualifying in 1906. He was appointed to various resident posts at St Thomas's and then moved to Southampton as a general practitioner, although his chief interest was of course surgery. In 1913 he was appointed to the staff of the Royal South Hants Hospital, first as a physician, a post he held until the outbreak of war in 1914. In 1915 he joined the RAMC as a surgeon and throughout the war served in France and during that time he gained a great experience in a variety of war wounds. This experience he later wrote up in a classic article in the *Lancet* (1944, 1, 525). He was a pioneer in the operative treatment of wounds of the abdomen and was one of the first surgeons in this country to realise that fulminating fatal gas gangrene is nearly always associated with the interference to the main blood supply to the limb. Many of the lessons he recognised and taught had to be relearned all over again at the time of the second world war. After the war he returned to his general practice together with his duties at the hospital, but gave up general practice in 1933 in favour of consulting surgery. Between the wars he was surgeon to the Southampton Borough Hospital, the Free Eye Hospital and Knowle Hospital as well as being consultant to the Royal Mail and Union Castle Lines. Nightingale was for a time chairman of the Royal South Hants Management Committee as well as being actively engaged in all the affairs of the other hospitals to which he was attached. In 1938 he was Chairman of the local division of the BMA and from 1941-55 he served as magistrate on the Southampton City Branch. During the second world war he stayed in Southampton and was responsible for the treatment of many air raid casualties as well as those wounded evacuated from France; for his services during this period he was awarded the OBE. In 1945 he retired and lived a full and active life from his home in Lymington until his death. Nightingale was loved and respected by all his colleagues and he had an unrivalled experience of the treatment of war wounds and any who are interested in this subject should not fail to read his article in the *Lancet* on this subject. In 1909 he married Kathleen Barber and had a supremely happy marriage. There were no children. Nightingale died quietly at the age of 93 on 27 May 1973.
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Harold Batty (1867 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on 13 July 1867 at Thorner near Leeds, the third son and fourth child of Edward Walker Shaw, civil engineer, and Helen Hudson, his wife. The family moved to Australia and Batty Shaw received his early education at King's School, Balmain, New South Wales. Returning to England he studied at the Yorkshire College, Leeds, until he entered University College Hospital in 1893, where he gained the Tuke medal in pathology in 1894 and the Erichsen prize in 1895. At the University of London he won the exhibition and gold medal at the intermediate MB examination and qualified for the medal at the examination for the Bachelor of Surgery. He served as house surgeon at University College in 1896, and was awarded the Atkinson Morley scholarship in surgery in 1897. He then acted as house physician to Dr Sydney Ringer, deserted surgery and devoted himself thenceforward to the medical side of the profession. He was appointed resident medical officer of the Hospital, and was so assiduous in the pathological laboratory and the post-mortem room that he was elected assistant physician to University College Hospital in 1900 whilst he was still RMO. He succeeded to the full staff in 1907 and retired with the rank of consulting physician in 1932. In the Medical School he lectured on therapeutics, 1903-16, and on the practice of medicine, 1916-17. He was dean of the School 1908-10. Batty Shaw was appointed assistant physician to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest at Brompton on 4 December 1902, physician to the Hospital and to the sanatorium at Frimley on 1 March 1912, and consulting physician on 17 March 1932. Elected FRCP in 1905, he delivered the Goulstonian lectures in 1906, taking as his subject "Autointoxication in relation to disturbances of blood pressure", a theme which he developed further in 1922 in his book of *Hyperpiesia and hyperpiesis*. He married on 1 September 1915 Muriel Agnes Ellison, daughter of the Rev Patrick Watson, Vicar of Earlsfield, SW. She survived him with a son and a daughter. He died suddenly at Littlehampton on 9 May 1936, without showing any previous signs of illness. Batty Shaw was characterized by his great energy and by his strict devotion to duty. He was a good teacher of students and was always an influence for good. It was largely due to him that Sir Donald Currie was led to defray the cost of the Medical School buildings attached to University College Hospital. Publications: *Organotherapy*. London, 1905. *Hypepriesia and hyperpiesis*. London, 1922. GPs and TB, an indictment: the answer. *Brit J Tuberc* 1934, 28, 49.
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First Title value, for Searching Walters, Frederick Rufenacht (1857 - 1946)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-04
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on 13 August 1857 at 4 Stockwell Park Road, Brixton, the only child of Frederick Walters and his wife, *née* Rufenacht. His father and grandfather were silk-weavers, members of the Weavers Company and freemen of the City of London. His father in 1870 bought a surgical instrument business, in which Walters worked for a time. He was educated at Dr Roberts' School, Croydon, and at St Thomas's Hospital, took honours at the London MB, 1881, and was awarded the gold medal and University scholarship at the BS examination, 1882. Although he took the Fellowship at the end of this year, Walters was at heart a physician and he proceeded to the MD, 1883, and the MRCP, 1888. After serving house appointments at St Thomas's, he became surgeon to Westminster General Dispensary, and lecturer in physiology at the Zenana and Medical Mission Training School, Westminster; he also lectured in physiology at Exeter Hall. Later he was physician to the City Dispensary and to the London Provident Association. In 1896 he was appointed physician to the North London Hospital for Consumptives at Mount Vernon, and from then his life was devoted to the institutional treatment of phthisis. At that time the gospel of open-air country treatment was being preached by those who had benefited from the care of Otto Walther at Nordrach in the Black Forest, and many sanatoria were established in England. Walters set up the Crooksbury Sanatorium near Farnham in Surrey, and ran it most successfully for many years with hardly any help. He was his own manager, physician, dietitian, almoner, and recorder. He made time, however, to publicize his observations and opinions, and to follow and discuss the work of others. His *Sanatoria for consumptives*, 1899, described the work at all important centres. His *Open-air or sanatorium treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis*, 1909, advocated the division of sanatoria into two departments, one for complete rest-treatment, the other for ambulatory occupational therapy. He attended the International Tuberculosis Congress at Rome in 1912, and read a paper on the classification of cases. While at Crooksbury he acted as joint County tuberculosis officer for Surrey. Walters was a most painstaking pioneer, who did excellent personal work in a field that was afterwards more elaborately developed. The good reputation of Crooksbury won him the trust of many distinguished patients. Walters married, on his thirty-third birthday in 1890, Miss Sykes, who died in March 1945. After retirement he lived at Pinecroft, The Sands, Farnham, where he died on 2 February 1946, aged 88, survived by his three daughters. Publications: *Sanatoria for consumptives*. London, 1899; 4th edition, 1913. *The home doctor*. London, 1902. *Open-air or sanatorium treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis*. London, 1909. Classification of cases. *Int Congr Tuberc* 7, Rome, 1912. *Domiciliary treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis*. London, 1921; 2nd edition, 1924.
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First Title value, for Searching James, John Alexander (1887 - 1965)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-18
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Physician
Details John Alexander James was born on 21 May 1887 at Berry, New South Wales, and was educated at the Brisbane Grammar School, where he distinguished himself by becoming Captain of the School, and a member of the Rifle Shooting Team which was the first to win the Empire Competition. After graduating in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1911 he held resident posts at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Coast Hospital, Sydney, till the outbreak of the first world war when he joined the 5th Field Ambulance and saw service in Gallipoli and in France. For a time he was DADMS of the 4th Division AIF, and ultimately took command of his old Field Ambulance. On demobilization he returned to a resident post at the Coast Hospital for two years, and then came back to England for a period of post-graduate study which earned him the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1925. James then went to Canberra, first as medical superintendent of the Canberra Hospital, and then, after obtaining the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1930, he was appointed honorary medical officer to the Canberra Community Hospital, continuing in that post and in private practice till his retirement in 1963. This outline of a distinguished professional career must be amplified by reference to his sterling character and his interests and attainments in other fields. At school and University he proved himself a first class athlete, gaining blues in both cricket and football, and he continued to play cricket for a time in Canberra, though later he turned to tennis and golf, and was an active patron of various sports clubs. His interest in military medicine was maintained through an association with the Royal Military College, Duntroon. His quiet but firm demeanour inspired confidence, though in spite of his skill and experience he never hesitated to seek the advice of a colleague when he thought it advisable to do so, for it was obvious that he put the welfare of his patients before any consideration of personal prestige. He became physician to the Governor-General and to the Government House Staff and took an active interest in the affairs of the growing capital city. For these services to medicine and the community he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1951, and a Commander of the Order in 1959. In 1929 Jack James married Miss Sheila Cary, whose vivacity and steadfast support made her an ideal partner. When he died on 25 February 1965 he was survived by his wife, a daughter who was a member of the nursing profession, and two sons, one of whom became a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Alderton, Roland Maitland (1902 - 1991)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01 2022-11-22
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Minister Physician Missionary
Details Roland Maitland Alderton was born on 20 June 1902 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, son of David Simpson, a miller and corn merchant, and Margaret McLachlan, daughter of a clergyman. He was educated at Tonbridge School and the London Hospital, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1930 and MB BS in 1931. After working as house surgeon and emergency officer at the London he gained the FRCS in 1932 and went to Hong Kong as medical officer at the Nethersole Hospital. Here he served from 1932-1958, but he was interned by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945 in Stanley, Hong Kong. In 1960 he was ordained minister in the Congregational Church in England and Wales. He was married twice, to Kathleen, née Blackman, who died in 1947 and to Bessie, née Partridge, in 1948. He had a son, Daniel Arthur, who became a physician, and a daughter. He died on 30 December 1991. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 7 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Roland Maitland Alderton was a medical missionary in Hong Kong. He was born on 20 June 1902 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, the son of Daniel Simpson Alderton, a miller and corn merchant, and Margaret Watson Alderton née McLachlan, from Edinburgh, the daughter of a clergyman. He was educated at Tonbridge School and the London Hospital, where he qualified with the conjoint examination in 1930. He gained his MB BS in 1931. After working as a house surgeon and emergency officer at the London Hospital, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1932, the same year he went to Hong Kong as a medical missionary with the London Missionary Society. He worked as a medical officer at Nethersole Hospital until 1942, when he was interned by the Japanese in Stanley Camp. Following the liberation of Hong Kong in 1945, he stayed on in Hong Kong for another six months to help restore and reorganise Nethersole Hospital, and returned to the UK in early 1946. He had married Kathleen Blackman in Battle, Sussex in 1935. She died in January 1947 of ovarian cancer. In October 1948 he married for a second time, to Bessie Partridge in Sudbury, Sussex. He returned to Hong Kong with his new wife in January 1949 and resumed his work at Nethersole Hospital, specialising in obstetrics. He finally returned to the UK in 1958 and studied at Westminster College, Cambridge for two years to become a minister in the Congregational Church. He then took charge of the Congregational Church in Ingatestone, Essex and then at White Roding, also in Essex. He retired in around 1970. He had a son, Daniel Arthur, who became a physician, and a daughter, Margaret. Roland Maitland Alderton died on 30 December 1991 in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. He was 89. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Warner, Francis (1847 - 1926)

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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Thomas David (1869 - 1924)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-27
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Occupation Physician
Details Born in London on January 30th, 1869, the son of Francis Wilson Lister and Elizabeth Wishart, only daughter of David Roy, of Glasgow. He was educated at the Haberdashers' Company's School, and received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon in 1893-1894. He was Registrar and Pathologist to the East London Hospital for Children from 1897-1900, and from 1917-1919 Consulting Physician for Chest and Heart Cases to the Prince of Wales's Hospital for Officers, Marylebone. At the time of his death he was Physician to the Mount Vernon Consumption Hospital; Hon Advisory Physician to the Council of the National Association for Establishing Sanatoria for Workers, and had drafted, as chairman of its sites and buildings subcommittee, the scheme for the Benenden Sanatorium. He was also Physician to the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women, and to the City Dispensary; Consulting Physician to the Benevolent Fund of the National Union of Teachers, the National Association of Local Government Officers, and the Post Office Sanatorium Society. He was also an invited member of the Panel Committee of the County of London and of the Hospital Fund Board of Delegates, and Lecturer at the London School of Clinical Medicine. A man of many interests and of great industry, he carried out much valuable work. Possessed of a keen, incisive, mathematical mind, he interested himself deeply in the problems of life insurance and the industrial aspects of disease, especially of tuberculosis. He was a recognized authority on these subjects; indeed, one of the foremost, as his writings prove. He was the chief Medical Officer of three great life assurance offices - the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, the North British and Mercantile Insurance Office, and the Friends' Provident Institution. It was characteristic of him that he was not content to study the medical problems of life assurance only, but that he also endeavoured to get a grasp of the actuarial and the business aspects of this important subject. His Presidential Address before the Assurance Medical Society on March 3rd, 1920, was a thoughtful, original, and suggestive essay, indicating numerous lines for future investigation and research. In it he developed an ingenious idea of vital trajectories (curves). Lister died after a long illness at his residence at Henley-on-Thames on July 30th, 1924, being survived by his widow - only daughter of Eugen Ritter - two sons, and a daughter. Publications: Edited the new edition of Chavasse's *Advice to a Mother*, 1912. A work on Medical Examination for Life Assurance, which is a standard work of reference, 8vo, London, 1921. *Sanatoria for the People* (with G H GARLAND), 8vo, London, 1911. "Industrial Tuberculosis." - *Lancet*, 1910, ii, 1122. "Value of Sanatorium Treatment." - *Ibid*, 1917, ii, 739. "Prognosis in Phthisis Pulmonalis." - *Med Press*, 1911, i, 138. "Tuberculin Treatment of Ambulant cases of Phthisis." -*Proc Roy Soc Med* (Med Sect), 1912-13, vi, 111. "Opening of Discussion on Treatment of Phthisis by Induction of Pneumothorax." - (*Therap and Pharmacol Sect*), 1914-15, viii, 9.
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First Title value, for Searching Carr, John Walter (1862 - 1942)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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Occupation Physician
Details Born in London, 5 June 1862, the only child of John Carr, JP, chemist, and M A Bowers, his wife. He was educated at University College School and Hospital, winning an exhibition and gold medal in materia medica and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of London intermediate examination. He was medical scholar of the Society of Apothecaries in 1885, and took first-class honours in medicine, surgery, and midwifery at the London MB examination. After studying the nervous system under Charlton Bastian at University College Hospital and the respiratory system at the Brompton Hospital under Douglas Powell, he was appointed assistant physician to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, in 1889, becoming physician in 1897 and consulting physician in 1920. In 1893 he was appointed assistant physician to the Royal Free Hospital, ultimately becoming consulting physician and emeritus lecturer in medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women. During the four years' war he was physician to the hospital for officers in the Royal Free Hospital, and was created CBE for his services. He was an examiner at the Royal College of Physicians 1919-23 and also examined for the Conjoint Board, for the Society of Apothecaries, for Birmingham University, and for the State Register of Nurses. At the Royal College of Physicians he served on the council 1919-21 and as a Censor in 1926-27. He was president of the clinical section of the Royal Society of Medicine 1928-29, and president of the Medical Society of London in 1928, when he delivered the presidential address on "Medical ambitions and ideals", *Lancet*, 1928, 2, 753. He had previously addressed the Medical Society on "Life and problems in a medical utopia", *Lancet*, 1923, 1, 993. Walter Carr took the highest professional qualifications and was interested in every branch of pure medicine, though in later years his chief interest was in tuberculosis and diseases of the lungs. His most original contribution was made in his paper on "Non-tuberculous posterior basic meningitis in infants", in which he was the first to point out its relationship to cerebrospinal fever, as was subsequently confirmed. This was published in abstract only in *Proceedings of the Royal Medico-chirurgical Society, London*, 1897, 9, 110. Carr was a Freeman of the City of London and served in 1914 on the court of the Haberdashers' Company and as Master in 1929. He took an active interest in the Drapers' and Haberdashers' schools and served on the council of Epsom College. He was a strong walker both at home and in Switzerland. At the age of forty he was attacked by writer's cramp, and towards the end of his life was crippled by severe multiple arthritis. Carr married in 1895 Jessie, daughter of Walter Griffith of Streatham Hill. Mrs Carr died in 1937. He practised at 10 Cambridge Terrace and later at 10 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, NW3, where he died on 29 September 1942, aged 80, survived by a son and three daughters, two of whom were married to medical men. Publications:- *The practitioner's guide*, with T. Pickering Pick, Alban Doran, and A Duncan. London, 1902. *How to live long*. London, 1916. "Diseases of the pleura and mediastinum". *Dictionary of practical medicine*. London, 1921. "Tuberculosis", in Thursfield and Paterson. *Diseases of children*, 1929.
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First Title value, for Searching Hadley, Wilfred James (1862 - 1944)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-26
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Occupation Physician
Details Born at Gloucester on 28 March 1862, sixth son of the eight sons and one daughter of Leonard Hadley, flour miller, and Elizabeth Bretherton, his wife. He was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, Newcastle-on-Tyne Medical School, Göttingen University and the London Hospital, which he entered in October 1879. He took first place in the examination for the Durham MB 1886, having qualified with the Conjoint and the LSA in 1883. Though he proceeded to the FRCS in 1887, his bent was towards medicine. He took the MRCP in 1890, won a gold medal at the Durham MD in 1893, and was elected an FRCP in 1899. Hadley served most of the junior offices at the London Hospital, as house surgeon 1884 to Walter Rivington, house physician 1885 to Sir Andrew Clark, resident accoucheur 1887 under G E Herman, and curator of the museum and medical registrar 1892. He also lectured on medicine, bacteriology, public health, and physiology. He was demonstrator of morbid anatomy and pathological histology 1894-97, and pathologist till 1920, being succeeded by William Bulloch. He was elected assistant physician 1893 on the death of James Anderson, and became physician 1904 and consulting physician 1924. He held similar positions at the London Chest Hospital, Victoria Park, where he was pathologist 1890, assistant physician 1891, physician 1903, and consulting physician 1925. From 1908 to 1912 he was an examiner in medicine for the Conjoint Board. Hadley was commissioned captain *à la suite* on the staff of the 2nd London General Hospital on 23 December 1908 when the RAMC Territorial Force was formed, and during the war of 1914-18 he served as physician to the Endsleigh Place and Palace Green Hospitals for Officers. Hadley was an old-fashioned physician of sound common sense and rapid power of summing up a situation. He wrote little, his chief contribution being to the classic work on *Fibroid diseases of the lung*, in which he collaborated with Sir Andrew Clark, FRCP and Dr Arnold Chaplin, FRCP in 1894. Though he spoke little at the bedside Hadley was a deeply read man of encyclopaedic knowledge, on which he drew fluently in private talk. His laconic obiter dicta, such as "Some get well in spite of vaccines", were treasured by his assistants. As a young man he had been a crack gymnast and footballer, and he kept his interest in games and sports, being a good shot, an enthusiastic fisherman, and a keen player of golf and billiards. Hadley married in 1897 Joanna Margaret, daughter of H T Wells, RA and widow of Ernest Charrington; there were four daughters and a son of her first marriage, and one daughter of her marriage to Hadley. Mrs Hadley was an MBE; she died before her husband. He was survived by his only child, Margaret Constance Noel Hadley-Jackson, MRCS 1923, wife of Laurence Nelson Jackson, MC, DM, with whom she practised in partnership at Crediton, Devon. Hadley died at Parkside, Reigate, on 6 July 1944 aged 82, and was buried at St Bartholomew's, Leigh, Surrey on 10 July. Publications:- *Fibroid diseases of the lung*, with Sir Andrew Clark and Arnold Chaplin. London, 1894. *Nursing: general, medical, and surgical*. London, 1901; 2nd edition, 1907. Diseases of respiratory system, annual surveys for *Medical annual* 1905-07.
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First Title value, for Searching Beadles, Cecil Fowler (1867 - 1933)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation Curator Pathologist Physician
Details Somewhat above middle height, clean-shaven with prematurely white hair and of ascetic appearance, Cecil Beadles was unmarried and lived for his garden and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was so excessively shy that he was rarely seen even by his colleagues unless they went to look for him in the work-rooms or the museum of the College. He was born in 1867, the son of Hubert Beadles, of Southgate, and thus came of a family of general practitioners, some of whom practised in Forest Hill and others at New Southgate, when both were villages which had not yet become engulfed by the suburbs of London. He was educated at University College, where he won the gold medal for histology in 1885 and became known to S G Shattock, then curator of the museum. He qualified MRCS and LRCP in 1890 and must soon have recognized his unfitness to deal with private patients, for his shyness made him brusque in manner and address. He was house surgeon at the Cancer Hospital for a short time and from 1892 until 1906 was assistant medical officer at the London County Asylum, Colney Hatch. Here he did good scientific work and contributed articles to *The Lancet* as early as 1891, 2, 754 and 1892, 2, 1159, showed cases at the Pathological Society and wrote in the *Journal of Mental Science*, work which led to the award of a prize by the Medico-psychological Association in 1894 for his dissertation entitled "The degenerative lesions of the arterial system in the insane". He resigned his post at Colney Hatch in 1906 and became an unofficial worker at the Royal College of Surgeons, where his value was recognized by S G Shattock, the pathological curator. In 1908 he was a Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology, and in October 1909 he was appointed to assist Shattock in selecting, arranging, and cataloguing specimens in the museum to illustrate the main principles of general pathology. His energy, foresight, orderliness, and excellent technique, aided by the wide philosophic outlook of Professor Shattock, completed "for the first time", as Sir Arthur Keith wrote, "a work written not in words but in illustrative specimens, a complete and systematic treatise on general pathology". From 1916 onwards Beadles was engaged in arranging and describing the Army medical war collection of pathological and other specimens. The work occupied him, with the help of T W P Lawrence, FRCS, until 1921, when the preparations were entrusted by the War Office to the keeping of the College. The College recognized his services in 1927, when he was elected FRCS without examination. He was appointed pathological curator when Shattock died in 1925, and from then onwards was engaged in the never-ending task of making a new descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens in the museum together with the examination and description of those which are being constantly added. He died on 3 January 1933 at Gresham House, Egham, and was buried at Englefield Green. It may fairly be said of Beadles that he was in the true line of succession of those who built up the pathological side of the Hunterian Museum: Clift, Paget, Doran, Goodhart, Targett, and Shattock; more he would not have wished.
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First Title value, for Searching Soltau, Alfred Bertram (1876 - 1930)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Physician
Details The eldest son of George Soltau, a nonconformist minister of Plymouth, and of his wife Grace Elizabeth Tapson, he was born at Myddleton Square, London, WC, on 21 March 1876. His father, who had been governor of Dr Barnado's Home in London, took charge of a mission church in Tasmania, and his son was educated at the Launceston High School, Tasmania. He returned to England in 1893 and entered the London Hospital, where he had a brilliant career as a student and served the offices of house surgeon and house physician. He gained first-class honours at the University of London, and acted for a time as assistant demonstrator of anatomy and biology in the London Hospital Medical School. He was also editor of the *London Hospital Gazette*. He soon decided to practise in Plymouth, where his family had lived for several generations, and settling in Athenaeum Place was appointed physician to the Devon and Cornwall Ear and Throat Hospital, and later to the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital. He devoted much time and energy to the British Medical Association and was vice-chairman of the Plymouth division, 1912-14. He was also vice-president of the Plymouth area of the St John Ambulance Association. A keen politician, he was president of the Conservative and Unionist Association of the Southern division of Plymouth, and in 1919-25 served as a member of the Plymouth borough council where he was chairman of the public health committee. He was also actively associated with the Boy's Brigade, and with many social and charitable institutions in Devonshire. Military medicine was for many years one of his special interests. He received a commission in the Devon Volunteer Brigade Bearer Company in 1905, and was the first commanding officer of the 2nd Wessex Field Ambulance, receiving in 1921 the Territorial Decoration. During the war he went to France in 1914 in command of a field ambulance. Two years later he was promoted honorary colonel, AMS, and was appointed consulting physician to the First and Second Armies; in 1918 he was appointed physician to the War Office and to the Ministry of Pensions for cases of gas poisoning. He was mentioned four times in despatches and was decorated CMG in 1916 and CBE in 1919. His foreign decorations included the Croix de Guerre, France, and Commendador d'Ordre d'Aviz, Portugal. During 1922-27 he was assistant director of medical services of the 3rd Wessex Division. In 1925 he was gazetted honorary physician to the King. He married in 1903 Edith Mary, daughter of W E Watts of Plymouth, who survived him with a son and a daughter, Catherine, afterwards the wife of Commander C H Lingard Guthrie, RN. He died in London on 26 July 1930, and was buried at Hendon Park cemetery, Mill Hill. Publications: Contributions to the chapters on Gas warfare in the official *History of the Great War, Medical services, Diseases of the war*. London, 1923, 2. On gunshot wounds of the chest, with J B Alexander. *Quart J Med* 1916-17, 10, 259. Sick wastage. *J Roy Army med Cps* 1920, 35, 152. Massive pulmonary collapse. *Brit med J* 1925, 1, 544.
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First Title value, for Searching Baron, Jeremy Hugh (1931 - 2014)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by John R Bennett
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2016-04-27
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Occupation Gastroenterologist Physician
Details Hugh Baron was a consultant physician-gastroenterologist at St Mary's and Hammersmith hospitals, London. Of all his qualities, the foremost was his love of scholarship. He hungered for knowledge in all his many areas of interest, and from his research and ideas he added to most of them. He described his main hobby as 'looking', and from his tall, gaunt frame his quizzical gaze would peruse scientific data, paintings, buildings and members of committees alike. Many were found wanting, for his standards were high, and his learning was analytical, not just acquisitive. He was a compulsive writer and publisher: everything (he believed) should be recorded. As well as his many interests within gastroenterology, he had clear views on ethical matters and was always concerned about the 'political' aspects of medicine. He was strong on medical history and on art in, and out, of hospitals. In later years he wrote thoughtfully about religious matters in a collection of talks given to seminars at his synagogue in New York. His father, Edward Baron, was a Tottenham general practitioner, his mother was Lilian Hannah Baron née Silman. Hugh's academic abilities were demonstrated early by winning a scholarship to University College School, a Styring scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford, and then becoming the first Broderip scholar at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. When house officer posts at the Middlesex and Royal Northern hospitals ended, National Service claimed him for the RAMC as a captain. Initially at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, he passed his MRCP and was sent as a junior specialist to Malaya. He might have ended his life there had his commanding officer not ordered him to stay in Kuala Lumpur rather than flying up country. His life-time's interest - indeed fascination - with the stomach was sparked as a student by Sir Francis Avery Jones and an enthusiasm for epidemiology and clinical trials by Sir Richard Doll. At the Middlesex as a registrar he developed Sir Andrew Kay's augmented histamine test of gastric secretion to his own concept of peak acid output (PAO) (often studying his own, as he had no fear of the nasogastric tube). He showed that below 15 mmol/hour PAO duodenal ulcers did not occur, so treatment to induce this lowered acid state would allow an ulcer to heal. This work led to his DM in 1964. In 1970 international recognition of his work and reputation led him to be invited to give one of the few quadrennial reviews at the World Congress of Gastroenterology in Copenhagen. This was magisterial in tone and delivery, and eventually resulted in his 1978 book *Clinical tests of gastric secretion: history, methodology and interpretation* (London, Macmillan). From 1961 to 1962 he held a Medical Research Council travelling fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, where he studied pancreatic secretion, showing that it correlated with PAO. Declining the offer of a permanent post in the USA, he returned to a lectureship at the Middlesex, and thence made his crucial move to the Postgraduate Medical School of London in Richard Welbourn's surgical department. This close collaboration with surgical researchers was unusual but productive, and he was also able to work closely with Stephen Bloom and Julia Polak in investigating regulatory peptides. Much later, when *Helicobacter pylori* came on the scene, he collaborated with John Calam. Additionally he took an interest in inflammatory bowel disease, writing about observer error in sigmoidoscopic reports of inflammation, and the effectiveness of 5-ASA compounds in colitis. His medical-surgical collaboration found a name in the 1980s when his friend Wilfred Lorenz of Marburg revived the idea of 'theoretical surgery'. Baron delighted in this seeming oxymoron and with Lorenz they founded a journal with the title - but it only survived a few years. In 1987 he was made fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and later became Hunterian professor (1993 to 1994). In 2001 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Alongside his part-time academic employment, he continued to practise clinical medicine at Tottenham, then at St Charles Hospital for over 20 years. Merger with St Mary's Hospital in 1991 established him on the consultant staff there. On retirement he donated his entire library to St Mary's. He was gregarious and travelled widely to lecture. He lectured as he wrote - clearly, trenchantly, authoritatively. His tall figure at the lectern (speaking with Received Pronunciation and extravagantly rolled 'r's) was a familiar sight world-wide, but he equally enjoyed discussion. Speakers often quailed as they saw him in the audience unfolding himself and, with hands together as in prayer, eyes closed and facing upwards, he might demolish an argument or correct a mistaken fact, but he was never impolite. His clarity of analysis, thinking and writing made him an ideal member of the *British Medical Journal*'s 'hanging committee' (1983 to 1988), which assisted the editor in making the final choice of papers for publication. Like many scientific writers, he did not always find the practices of publication satisfactory, so when the Society of Authors formed a medical writers group he was an early member and eventually became its chairman. He was an enthusiastic member of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG). He was its archivist for 16 years, was chairman of the golden jubilee committee for 1987, and wrote a history of the Society for a special edition of the journal *Gut* for that year (*History of the British Society of Gastroenterology 1937-1987: [BSG 50th anniversary]* *Gut* 28, Jubilee Suppl. London, British Medical Association, 1987). The biographical vignettes of every Society officer for 50 years, which he composed, were models of compressed detail of character. He was president from 1988 to 1989. He always regretted that he had never been invited to give the Sir Arthur Hurst lecture. He was a clubbable man and a 'joiner' of societies, so he liked being an Apothecary, became a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club (but not until they agreed to accept women members) and even founded one. In 1972 he created the Prout Club, membership by invitation, for researchers in the stomach and its secretions. This met at the BSG annual meeting for dinner and debate, and still continues. The Royal Society of Medicine benefited from his attentions and membership. He was on its council for 12 years and held several offices, including president of the clinical section. He kept an interested but baleful eye on the Royal College of Physicians for many years. After becoming a fellow in 1974, he became a regular attender at its quarterly comitias (general meeting of fellows), periodically asking cogent questions. He was a staunch ally of John Bennett from 1976 to 1985 while he sought to obtain a referendum about reforming the method of electing the president. He remarked to Bennett: 'I never know whether to dampen your enthusiasm. I always go into these battles knowing I am going to lose. You are of a different temperament and can fight only when you think you might win.' He was an RCP councillor from 1993 to 1996, and gave a memorable Fitzpatrick lecture in 1994. He applied to arts and architecture the same clarity of vision and analytical description as he did to science. Undoubtedly these interests were fostered by his marriages, first to Wendy (née Dimson), an expert on Walter Sickert and for many years curator of the Government Art Collection, and then to Carla, professor of the history of art at Kean University, New Jersey. He found most NHS hospitals dreary buildings and advocated their beautification by cleaning and installing art works such as murals. He even persuaded the Department of Health to revise its health building note one in 1988 to emphasise that hospital buildings should be 'beautiful as well as functional'. His productivity did not end with retirement in 1996. He spent summers in London and winters in New York, rejoining Mount Sinai Hospital as an honorary professorial lecturer. He co-edited a volume of the history of the gastroenterology and hepatology departments (*Gastroenterology and hepatology at the Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2000* New York, Mount Sinai journal of medicine, 2002) and compiled a volume on 24 Mount Sinai physicians (*Twenty-four notable Mount Sinai physicians and scientists* [New York], The Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine, [Mount Sinai School of Medicine], 2001). He continued research into the history of dyspepsia, making forays into the ancient medical records of institutions on both side of the Atlantic, revealing the story of 4,000 years of the stomach, published as a book in 2013 (*The stomach: a biography: four thousand years of stomach pains: literature, symptoms and epidemiology* Createspace/Jeremy Hugh Baron). He pursued bioethics, too, and in 2007 published an account of racism, nationalism, eugenics and genocide (*The Anglo-American biomedical antecedents of Nazi crimes: an historical analysis of racism, nationalism, eugenics and genocide* Lewiston, NY, Edwin Mellen Press). He worshipped at the New York Society for the Advancement of Judaism, often led discussion groups, publishing some of his seminar contributions as *Fifty synagogue seminars* (Hamilton Books, 2010). He had two children with Wendy, Susannah (a consultant dermatologist) and Richard, sometimes known as 'Archie'. He correctly summed himself up as a restless polymath and said 'I knew from experience how to accept the unchangeable, but still persisted, sometimes successfully, to change the unacceptable.'
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First Title value, for Searching Kilpatrick, Robert (Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig) (1926 - 2015)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons
Publication Date 2016-07-29
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Occupation Physician
Details Lord Robert Kilpatrick was dean and professor of medicine at the University of Leicester Medical School, and a former president of the General Medical Council (GMC) and the British Medical Association (BMA). He was born in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, the only child of Robert Kilpatrick, a mine worker. As a teenager, he contracted tuberculosis and spent months in hospital. He was educated at Buckhaven High School and then studied medicine at Edinburgh University, qualifying in 1949 with the Leslie gold medal. He was a medical registrar in Edinburgh from 1951 to 1954 and then a lecturer at the University of Sheffield from 1955 to 1966. During this period, he held a Rockefeller travelling fellowship at Harvard, where he conducted research on the pituitary gland. From 1966 to 1970 he was professor of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics at Sheffield. He was then dean of the faculty of medicine until 1973. From 1975 to 1989 he was dean of Leicester University Medical School, and also professor and head of the department of pharmacology and therapeutics from 1975 to 1983, and professor of medicine for five years from 1984. He was president of the GMC for six years from 1989, during which time he was involved in the development of *Good medical practice*, the core ethical guidance the GMC provides to doctors, and the *Performance procedures*, which allow assessment of a doctor’s professional performance. He was president of the BMA from 1997 to 1998. Having been awarded a CBE in 1979 and a knighthood in 1986, he was made a life peer in 1996. He spoke in many debates on health topics, particularly against euthanasia. He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth (née Forbes), whom he married in 1950, and their children – Neil, Kate and John. RCP editor [*The Scotsman* 31 October 2015 www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-robert-kilpatrick-baron-kilpatrick-of-kincraig-1-3933261 – accessed 5 November 2017; BMJ 2015 351 5727 www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5727?variant=full-text&hwoasp=authn%3A1509978776%3A1019339%3A1455338737%3A0%3A0%3AOsDqwGs8edGjkKlm%2BuXcFQ%3D%3D – accessed 5 November 2017; University of Leicester Lord Kilpatrick of Kincraig www2.le.ac.uk/staff/community/people/bereavements/2015/lord-kilpatrick-of-kincraig – accessed 5 November 2017; Republished by kind permission of the Obituary Series for the Royal College of Physicians of London, Inspiring Physicians]
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First Title value, for Searching Law, William Thomas (1845 - 1910)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation Physician
Details The son of Henry Compton Law, of Allington, by the daughter of the Rev John Taylor, Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Caroline. He was first articled to S S Varcombe, of Castle Cary, and in 1867 became a student at Guy's Hospital, where his contemporaries were Golding-Bird, Jacobson, Mahomed, and Pye-Smith. Migrating to Edinburgh with a view to the degree, Law first worked in the wards of Sir T Grainger Stewart, and then in those of Lister (qv). Later he was Resident Physician in the Royal Infirmary for a year, first in Dr Haldane's wards and afterwards in those of Dr G W Balfour, the authority on cardiac pathology. After graduating MB in August, 1872, he was appointed Assistant Medical Officer at the Chorlton Hospital, Manchester, which was a large new building on the pavilion plan. He remained there till he obtained the MD, with commendation for his thesis on mitral stenosis. He was soon appointed House Physician at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. After qualifying FRCS in 1875, Law became Resident Medical Officer at the Brompton Consumption Hospital. He grew somewhat anaemic, and was advised to go to St Leonards, whence he returned to London with re-established health in 1885. He was a believer in the value of the open-air treatment of phthisis, and followed the lines subsequently popularized as the 'Nordrach treatment'. Early in the eighties he published one such open-air case. While waiting for patients in London, Law acted as Clinical Assistant at the Soho Hospital for Women and the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Blackfriars. He was also Physician to the Home for Inebriate Women, North Finchley. He then went to the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, where he became an Intern. Returning to London he interested himself in ophthalmology, and for a year was Clinical Assistant at the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. Up to 1895 he lived at 9 Norfolk Crescent, Hyde Park, W, after which date he spent some years in the country. Law possessed much culture, and was a very careful and able physician. In 1902 he figured in a medical *cause célèbre*, sustaining an action for negligence in which £5000 were claimed from him - the suggestion being that his treatment of a case of asthma had conduced to the acquirement by the patient of a morphia habit. The jury stopped the case, giving Law a verdict with costs. The costs were not forthcoming, and Law suffered heavy financial loss. Dr R Paramore thereupon inaugurated a subscription for the purpose of reimbursing him, which, under the auspices of the Presidents of the two Colleges and the Master of the Apothecaries' Society, was supported by the profession to the amount of several hundred pounds. The loss of his only son, a promising Cambridge graduate of 25, left Law childless. He died at Bournemouth, after an operation for gall-stones, on September 6th, 1910, and was buried near his son at Ripley, Surrey, where he had lived. He was survived by his wife, a daughter of Mr Price, QC, Recorder of York. Publications: *The Effects of Alcohol on the Heart and Circulation*, 2nd ed, 1897. *Vittel as a Health Resort*, 1898. Translation (in conjunction with the author) of E Landolt's "Die Insufficienz des Convergenz-Vermögens." - *Ophthalmic Rev*, 1886, v, 185. Translation of Revilliod and Binet's *Texte explicatif des Planches montrant les Lésions viscérales produites par l'Alcoolisme*, 1894. *The Prevention of Consumption*, 1899. "Case of Chronic Bright's Disease (Mixed Form), with Remarks." - *Lancet*, 1874, ii, 546. "Sodium Nitrite in the Treatment of Epilepsy." - *Practitioner*, 1882, xxviii, 420. "Case of Phthisis Treated by the Open-air Method." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1899, i, 849.
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First Title value, for Searching Box, Charles Richard (1866 - 1951)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation Anatomist Physician
Details Born on 3 March 1866, the son of the Rev John Box and his wife Sarah Bray. He was educated at Dulwich College, and started work in business in the City. Finding this uncongenial he entered St Thomas's Hospital medical school, where his student career was brilliant. He took honours in physiology in 1889, and in medicine and obstetric medicine at the London University graduation in 1892, having qualified through the Conjoint Board the previous year. Although he took the Fellowship of the College in 1893, he decided to practise as a physician, and took the London MD in the same year. He was appointed medical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital in 1894 and held the post for three years. He became resident assistant physician in 1897, and took the Membership of the College of Physicians. He was appointed an assistant physician in 1900 and elected FRCP in 1906. He was in charge of the children's department, became physician in 1915 and consulting physician on retirement in 1926. Throughout almost his whole connexion with the hospital he acted as demonstrator of morbid anatomy (till 1919), and carried out most of the post-mortem examinations. He was also chairman of the medical and surgical officers committee. In the medical school he was successively lecturer in medicine and applied anatomy, medical tutor and sub-dean. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the 5th London General Hospital with the rank of major, RAMC. He was also physician, and ultimately consulting physician, to the Royal Masonic Hospital, the London Fever Hospital, and the Willesden General Hospital. He examined in medicine for the Universities of London and Birmingham, for the English Conjoint Board and the Society of Apothecaries. At the Apothecaries he was long a member of the Court and might have been Master, had he not been living in Devonshire, during the war of 1939-45. At the Royal College of Physicians he was a councillor, and a Censor in 1930-31; he delivered the Lumleian lectures in 1933 on "Complications of the specific fevers". Box was a skilled diagnostician, and a practical and watchful physician. His attitude to innovations was somewhat cynical, but he had an encyclopaedic and precise knowledge of medical literature, which was put to good use in his few masterly publications. His writings on fevers were authoritative. He was an honorary member of the British Paediatric Association. Box practised at 2 Devonshire Place, and lived latterly at 1 Harley House, Regent's Park. He married in 1905 Marian Jane, daughter of George Thyer of Bridgwater, Somerset, who survived him. He died in St Thomas's Hospital on 3 April 1951, aged 84, and was cremated at Streatham Vale. A memorial service was held in the chapel of St Thomas's Hospital on 11 April. He left £1,000 to the Society of Apothecaries, and his residuary estate to St Thomas's Hospital to form the Box fund for helping students. Box's interests lay entirely in his practice and his pathological work. He had few relaxations, but enjoyed an annual holiday in the Channel Isles. Publications:- Edited *St Thomas's Hospital Medical Reports*, 1893-6. *Clinical applied anatomy*, with W McAdam Eccles. London: Churchill, 1906. *Post-mortem manual, a handbook of morbid anatomy and post-mortem technique* [the same]. 1910, 2nd ed 1919. Fevers, in *A textbook of the practice of medicine*, edited by F Price. Oxford, 1926, and subsequent editions. Complications of specific fevers, Lumleian Lectures, RCP 1933. *Lancet*, 1933, 1, 1217, 1271, 1327.
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First Title value, for Searching Fawcett, John (1866 - 1944)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-05
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Brixton on 13 August 1866, eldest son and second of the seven children of John Bisdee Fawcett, of Lloyd's, and Ellen Hyslop, his wife. His father and mother both died when he was eleven, and the children were brought up by their uncle, Robert Grant, and his wife. He was educated at Dulwich and at Guy's Hospital, to which he was attached for more than fifty years. He served as demonstrator of morbid anatomy and as curator of the museum, and later won the Beaney research scholarship, under which he worked on the pharmacology and therapeutics of the salicylates. Although he took the FRCS in 1892 he had already begun to turn from surgery to medicine, having taken the London MD the previous year. In 1895 he took the MRCP, and was elected FRCP in 1902. Meanwhile he had been appointed to the honorary staff at Guy's in 1899. He became surgeon in 1906, and was elected consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1926. He also served as lecturer on medicine and was dean of the Medical School from 1900 to 1903, in succession to his great friend Lauriston Elgie Shaw, FRCP (1859-1923). Fawcett and Shaw planned to concentrate the pre-clinical work of all the London medical schools in a central school; when the board of Guy's, who had at first supported them, voted against the proposal Fawcett resigned the office of dean. He became later a governor of the Medical School of Guy's, in which he always retained a keen interest, and was also a member of council of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He succeeded Shaw also as chairman of Guy's medical committee. On Shaw's resignation the committee agreed to appoint their future chairmen by election instead of seniority, Fawcett being the senior eligible candidate, and then immediately elected Fawcett unanimously; he served the office for ten years. At the Royal College of Physicians Fawcett served as examiner 1916-20, councillor 1920, and a censor in 1920, 1921, and 1923. He represented the Physicians on the Senate of London University from 1920 to 1929, and examined in medicine for the universities of London, Sheffield, and Wales (Cardiff), and from 1916 to 1920 for the Conjoint Board. He was at one time assistant physician to the Royal Free Hospital and was an advocate of single-sex medical schools, taking much interest in the London School of Medicine for Women attached to the Royal Free. He was a member of council and for many years treasurer of Epsom College, and was vice-chairman of the Invalid Children's Aid Association. He was also founder and treasurer of the Old Alleynians' endowment fund. Fawcett was commissioned captain *à la suite* on 23 December 1908 on the formation of the RAMC Territorial Force, and served during the first world war at the 2nd London General Hospital, and was promoted brevet major on 3 June 1917. He was vice-president of the section of medicine at the Nottingham meeting of the British Medical Association in 1926. He represented the Board of Education on the General Nursing Council from 1928 to 1932, and served on the departmental committee of the Ministry of Health on morphia and heroin addiction, and on the Ministry of Pensions' Disability committee. Fawcett married on 15 July 1899 May Fleming, daughter of Herbert Fleming Baxter, who survived him with a son and a daughter. He practised at 66 Wimpole Street, later moving to 10 Chester Terrace, NW1, and again to 21 St John's Wood Court, NW8, and also had a country house, Oakdene, St Mengan's, Ruthin, North Wales. He was ill for many years at the close of his life, but never lost his confident spirit. He died in a London nursing home on 18 February 1944, aged 77, and was cremated after a funeral service at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone. Mrs Fawcett died a few months later; she left £1000 to Guy's Hospital and £500 to the Ladies' Guild of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, among other charitable bequests. "Honest John" Fawcett was a most punctual, painstaking physician, who based his clinical practice on a profound knowledge of morbid anatomy. He believed in thorough examination of his patients, to whom he showed very human kindness. He was a good though not inspiring teacher, with a real interest in education. Fawcett was a loyal and friendly man, of very conservative temperament. He had been a good football player in youth, and in middle life his recreations were shooting, golf, and walking, which he chiefly enjoyed on his regular holidays in Scotland. Publication:- Chronic intestinal pneumonia, in Allbutt and Rolleston's *System of medicine*.
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First Title value, for Searching Rickards, Edwin (1840 - 1908)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-07
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Occupation Physician
Details The fourth and youngest son of the Rev Thomas Ascough Rickards, Vicar of Cosby, Leicestershire, where he was born in 1840. He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, on July 1st, 1861, and graduated with a pass degree in Arts in 1864. He received his professional training at University College Hospital, in due course becoming House Surgeon under Sir John Eric Erichsen (qv). In 1870 he was appointed Resident Pathologist to the General Hospital, Birmingham. After acting as Pathologist, he was for a short time Resident Medical Officer. In 1874 he was elected Physician and filled the office for the long term of thirty years, being the last Physician appointed before the creation of the assistant staff appointments. A testimonial was presented to him on his retirement in 1904, which included an illuminated address, subscribed for by members of the Board, by the staff, and by Governors of the Hospital, when he became Consulting Physician. At the same time an etched portrait, drawn by H Macbeth-Raeburn, was presented to the Hospital, a replica being given to Mrs Rickards. From 1883-1903 he was one of the Consulting Physicians to the Birmingham General Dispensary, and was also Physician to the General Institution for the Blind for the same period. He was for a short time a systematic lecturer in the Medical School, and was a popular, painstaking, and conscientious clinical teacher. He had a wide knowledge of human nature and a quaint gift of original humour, which made his lectures attractive. The work of the new Birmingham University interested him greatly, and he gave a substantial sum of money to build and equip the first pathological laboratory. At the time of his death he had been for some years on the Council of the University and had filled various offices in local medical societies, being President in 1880 (for many years Treasurer) of the Birmingham Branch of the British Medical Association; President of the Midland Medical Association, of the Medical Institute (1902-1904), and of the Birmingham Benevolent Society. Although he took little part in the debates at these medical societies, and was usually a silent listener, he could on occasion show that he was neither an unmindful nor an inattentive observer of the progress of medical science, and that he had pondered with profit on passing events. In 1893, when President of the local Branch of the British Medical Association, he chose for the subject of his address, "The Treatment of Infectious Diseases by Vaccine", and showed in it an appreciation of the possibilities, then latent, in this method, and a deep and wide acquaintance with the hopes and aspirations of those pathologists who then stood as pioneers of progress. It must be remembered that at this time the profession was suffering from a reaction, and many were disposed to discredit the possibility of the cure of diseases by substances derived from bacterial cultures, in consequence of the disappointments experienced by the failure of Koch's tuberculin to fulfil the exaggerated promises entertained respecting it. He wrote on this occasion: "The apparent failure of any one method of dealing with a particular infectious disease by a vaccine through imperfection of detail must not shake our confidence in bacteriological science generally. I am free to admit that we are far from home in this matter, but I believe the road is right, and if ever we are to have a definite treatment for the infectious diseases it will be in the direction of vaccines, germicides, or antitoxins, and in respect to these we must look for light from the laboratory." In the concluding sentences he appealed for State help in order to allow of bacteriology undertaking those important national investigations which, as he rightly said, "become every day of more pressing necessity". He was a cultured gentleman, exceedingly hospitable and much beloved by his friends, and at his death was referred to by the Birmingham correspondent of the *Lancet* as one "of a generation which is all too rapidly passing away and taking with it the open, generous, loyal, and friendly spirit which characterized it" and was of great benefit to Birmingham. He practised at 54 Newhall Street, and died after a short illness at Ellerslie, Edgbaston, on June 11th, 1908. He was buried on June 15th in the churchyard of Northfield Parish Church, many medical men and friends being present. He was survived by his widow, whom he had married when he was well advanced in years. This lady was the daughter of John Archer (qv), of Birmingham. Publications: "Six Cardiac and Vascular Cases." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1881, i, 916. "Fatty Transformation of the Kidney." - *Ibid*, 1883, ii, 2. "Ulcerative Endocarditis." - *Ibid*, 1889, i, 640. His presidential addresses were written in a good style, and "two of his contributions deserve to be remembered, as they were, if not unique, at least exceedingly rare; one of these was an account of complete calcification of the pericardium, and the other of complete fatty transformation of a kidney in the pelvis of which a calculus was lodged".
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First Title value, for Searching Parkin, John (1801 - 1886)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-19
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on May 10th, 1801, the son of one of the principal officers of HM Dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham. He received his preliminary education under Canon Griffiths, of Rochester, and his professional training under Abernethy at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Settling in practice at Dover Street, Piccadilly, he devoted himself entirely to the treatment of lunacy, although he had previously spent much time in Spain in order to investigate the cholera there. At Chelsea, and then at York House, Battersea, he had private accommodation for the treatment of the insane, but, cholera breaking out in the West Indies, he severed his lucrative connection with his Battersea asylum and went out to the Colonies at his own expense. He remained abroad for many months, continuously attending cholera cases, and gaining such experience that he was sent out during a later West Indian visitation as Government Medical Inspector. After his return from the West Indies he went to Calcutta in order to study cholera on a different soil and among different races. From his long observation of this disease under various conditions he became strongly impressed with the conviction that cholera and other epidemics were in some measure due to those atmospheric conditions which attend or follow volcanic disturbances, so he was a strong opponent of all measures of quarantine. It is remarkable that, though throughout life Parkin suffered from a serious physical disability - spina bifida - he yet pursued his many investigations indomitably. His character was one of intense earnestness and he was sincerely religious. He died in the full possession of all his faculties, and to the last took a most vivid interest in everything relating not only to his own profession, but to every topic of the day. His death occurred at his residence, 5 Codrington Place, Brighton, on March 18th, 1886. He was a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Academies of Medicine and Surgery of Madrid, Barcelona, Cadiz, the Peloritan Society of Messina, and others. Publications:- Parkin left behind no writings on lunacy, but wrote voluminously on his other special subjects. His bibliography is as follows:- *Memoria sobre el Tratamiento curativo del Calera epidemico*, 12mo, Barcelona, 1834. *Mémoire sur le Traitement curatif du Choléra épidemique* - translation of the above by M F Duval, Montpellier, 1835. The same. *Abhandlung über das Heilverfahren bei der epidemischen Cholera*. Aus dem Spanischen von T Zschokke, 12mo, Aarau, 1836. *Observaciones sobre la Fisiologia y el Tratamiento del Colera morbo en el Estado de Colapso*, 12mo, Valencia, 1835. "El Vapor": "El Catalan": "Bol de Med": containing references to Parkin's works on cholera. 1834-5. *On the Efficacy of Carbonic Acid Gas in the Diseases of Tropical Climates; with Directions for the Treatment of the Acute and Chronic Stages of Dysentery*, 8vo, London, 1836. *On the Antidotal Treatment of the Epidemic Cholera; with a Sketch of the Physiology of this Disease, as deduced from that of Intermittent Fever*, 8vo, London, 1836; 2nd ed, with appendix, 1846. The same. *With Directions, General and Individual, for the Prevention of the Disease*, 3rd ed, 8vo, London, 1866. *On Gout: its Cause, Nature and Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1841. *On the Remote Causes of Epidemic Diseases*, Part I, 8vo, London, 1841. *On the Remote Causes of Epidemic Diseases; or, The Influence of Volcanic Action in the Production of General Pestilences*, Part II, 8vo, 3 maps, London, 1853. *The Prevention and Treatment of Disease in the Potato and other Crops*, 8vo, London, 1847. *Statistical Report of the Epidemic Cholera in Jamaica*, 8vo, London, 1852. *L'Antidote du Choléra asiatique*, 8vo, Rome, 1858. *A Letter to the Metropolitan Vestries on the Main Drainage Scheme* (for private circulation), 8vo, London, 1859. *The Causation and Prevention of Disease*, 8vo, London, 1859. *The Utilization of the Sewage of Towns*, 8vo, London, 1862. *The Cause, Prevention and Treatment of the Cattle Plague*, 8vo, London, 1865. *Epidemiology; or, The Remote Cause of Epidemic Diseases in the Animal and in the Vegetable Creation*, Part I, 8vo, London, 1873. The same. *With the Cause of Hurricanes, and Abnormal Atmospheric Vicissitudes*, Part II; 2nd ed, 8vo, 1 plan, 1880. *Climate and Phthisis; or, The Influence of Climate in the Production and Prevention of Phthisis*, 8vo, London, 1875. *Sanitary Reform: is it a Reality, or is it not?* 8vo, London, 1875. *Gout: its Cause, Nature, and Treatment, with Directions for the Regulation of the Diet*, 2nd ed, 8vo, London, 1877. *The Antidotal Treatment of Disease*, Part I, 8vo, London, 1878. *Climate: its Influence in the Production and Prevention of Phthisis and other Diseases*, 2nd ed, 12mo, London, 1882. *Phthisis: its Cause, Nature, and Treatment; being Part II of the Antidotal Treatment of Disease*, 8vo, London, 1883. *The Volcanic Origin of Epidemics* (popular edition), 12mo, London, 1887. *Are Epidemics Contagious?* (popular edition), 12mo, London, 1887.
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First Title value, for Searching Wynter, Walter Essex (1860 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on 5 May 1860, eldest son of Andrew Wynter, MD St Andrews 1853, and Mary Bramhall, his wife. His father was in general practice at Chiswick and Brompton; from 1855 to 1861 he was editor of the *British Medical Journal*; he died on 12 May 1876, aged 56. Walter Wynter's brother Andrew, MRCS 1888, MD Bruxelles 1890, practised at Clifton, Bristol. Wynter was educated at Epsom College, at the Middlesex Hospital, which he entered as a scholar in 1878, at St Bartholomew's, and at Freiburg. He took the Fellowship in 1885 two years after qualifying, but while he retained an active interest in surgery throughout his life he devoted himself primarily to the career of a physician. He took the London MD in 1888 and the MRCP in 1889, and was elected FRCP in 1897. He was appointed to the medical side of the honorary staff at the Middlesex Hospital, serving as assistant physician 1891, physician 1901 and lecturer in medicine, senior physician, and ultimately consulting physician 1925. After his retirement he took an active interest in the work of the Newbury District Hospital near his home and was appointed consulting physician to it. He examined in pharmacology and medicine for the Conjoint Board 1901-09, and was a councillor of the Royal College of Physicians 1917-19. He also served on the council of Epsom College, to which with his brother Dr Andrew Wynter he was a generous benefactor. During the first world war he served at the 3rd London General Hospital at Wandsworth, with a commission as major, RAMC (T), attached 2nd London Division, dated 21 February 1912. He attended this hospital in the mornings, the Middlesex in the afternoons, and the Royal Free in the evenings. Wynter married in October 1895 Ada Margaret, daughter of Samuel Wills, JP, of Bristol, but they had no children. Mrs Wynter died in 1937 and Wynter on 4 January 1945 at Newbury, aged 84, and was buried at St John's, Newbury. Possessed of ample means and lacking ambition, Wynter withdrew from London in 1925 and devoted himself to the restoration of Bartholomew Manor, Newbury, Berkshire, a fourteenth-century house on the outskirts of the town, which he found in a state of semi-dereliction. He was, too, a keen gardener with a taste for experiment; he smoked his own tobacco and brewed his own mead. For fifteen years he was an invalid, and at the age of seventy underwent amputation of his leg above the knee. Wynter left all his real estate at Newbury to the Middlesex Hospital as a home for retired or convalescent nurses, with his furniture and an endowment of £7,500. He had already in 1925 and subsequent years restored Jemmett's Almshouse near Bartholomew Manor, renaming it Bartholomew Close, and equipped and endowed several neighbouring cottages for the free use of twenty-four retired "Middlesex" nurses (*Brit med J* 1938, 1, 403, with illustration). He was before his illness strong, sturdy, rubicund, and energetic. His chief recreations were travel and fishing, and he was a skilful chess-player. Wynter liked to watch the operations which his surgical colleagues performed on patients from his medical wards, and was particularly happy in his long relationship with Sir John Bland-Sutton. It was at his suggestion that Bland- Sutton first performed splenectomy in a case of alcoholic jaundice (*Proc Roy Soc Med* 1914, 7, Clinical section, p 82), and Bland-Sutton and G Gordon-Taylor also removed spleens on his advice with successful results in cases of pernicious anaemia, in the days before the introduction of liver therapy. Wynter also suggested the value of lumbar puncture, on physiological grounds, before it was introduced by Heinrich Quincke in 1891. He was possessed of remarkable diagnostic acumen. Publications: *A manual of clinical and practical pathology*, with F J Wethered. London, Churchill, 1890. Four cases of tubercular meningitis, in which paracentesis of the theca vertebralis was performed for the relief of fluid pressure. *Lancet*, 1891, 1, 981. Minor medicine, London, 1907, compiled from papers originally published in *Archives of the Middlesex Hospital*.
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First Title value, for Searching Skirving, Robert Scot (1859 - 1956)

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Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born on 18 December 1859 at Campton, near Haddington, East Lothian, he was brought up under a strictly religious discipline with his brothers and sisters by his grandmother until her death. He was educated by a typical Scots dominie at the school in Haddington from which he proceeded to Edinburgh Academy and then, aged 16 and hoping to join the Navy, to Eastman's Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth. He passed all the necessary examinations only to discover that he was just three weeks too old to join the Royal Navy. Nothing daunted, he entered the Merchant Service and made two voyages to Iceland in a vessel of seven hundred tons, after which he entered as a cadet in the training ship *Conway*, where he was as he described it "never so happy." He was then apprenticed in the *Tantallon Castle* of eleven hundred tons, making the journey to Port Adelaide, Australia and returning via Cape Horn. On the way home he developed beri-beri and was landed at Queenstown with the knowledge that he would have to seek some other career than that of the sea, although he had achieved his master's ticket. He therefore returned to Edinburgh to study medicine, graduating with honours in 1881 and, being barely twenty-one years old, had to do a year's postgraduate study in Dublin and Vienna before obtaining an appointment as house surgeon to Professor Spence, Professor of Surgery at the Royal Infirmary. After other appointments pressure was put upon him to remain in Edinburgh and Argyle Robertson offered him a partnership. However, having seen Australia, he had an urge to return and signed on as ship's surgeon in the emigrant ship *Ellora*. On arrival he spent some time as a locum tenens in Queensland, but in November 1883 he obtained the appointment of medical superintendent of the Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, being at the same time appointed an honorary assistant physician. He ceased being medical superintendent in June 1884 and set up in private practice at College Street, Sydney. In 1889 he became honorary physician, which appointment he held up to 1911 when he became honorary consultant physician. In 1889 he was appointed honorary surgeon to St Vincent Hospital, Sydney and this appointment he held until 1923, so that he was in fact senior physician and senior surgeon to two large Sydney hospitals at the same time. In the South African war he served with his great friend Sir Alexander MacCormick, and in the war of 1914-18 he came to England and was surgeon in charge of the census division at Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank, returning to his practice in Sydney in 1919. His third son was killed at Suvla Bay in the Dardanelles campaign and this probably affected his wife's health and saddened his later years. During the war of 1939-45 he returned to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to assist with the teaching at which he was an acknowledged master. He was President of the NSW Board of the BMA in 1891-92 and chief medical referee of the Australian Mutual Provident Society for many years. He maintained an active interest in surgery up to the time of his death, was a widely read and avid reader, a witty raconteur and always retained his youthful approach to life. In 1885 he married Lucy Susan Hester, a nurse at the Prince Alfred Hospital, and they had three sons only one of whom, Robert, survived him. His wife died in 1950 at the age of 85. His brother Archie, who died in 1930, was a well known Edinburgh surgeon. He died on 15 July 1956 aged 96, and by his own request his coffin at the funeral, which was held in St Stephens Presbyterian Church, Sydney on 17 July, was draped with the red ensign.
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First Title value, for Searching Sherlock, Dame Sheila Patricia Violet (1918 - 2001)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07 2015-12-08
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Occupation Liver specialist Physician
Details Dame Sheila Sherlock was a distinguished liver specialist, and the UK's first female Professor of Medicine. She was born in Dublin on 31 March 1918. Her father was Samuel Philip Sherlock and her mother was Violet Mary Catherine née Beckett. Educated at Folkestone County School for Girls, she went to Edinburgh University to read medicine. There she played tennis for her university, and supported herself by working in the vacations as a waitress and a tutor in a crammer. When she graduated in 1941 it was summa cum laude and with the Ettles scholarship. She was appointed clinical assistant to James Learmonth and went on to be house physician to John McMichael at Hammersmith, also a former Ettles scholar. McMichael taught her the technique of liver biopsy and with this she went on to win a gold medal for her Edinburgh MD thesis on acute hepatitis. She was awarded a Rockefeller travelling fellowship to Yale in 1947 and on her return was appointed lecturer and honorary consultant at Hammersmith at the age of 30. Soon her liver unit became a fountain of research and internationally famous. In 1959 she was appointed Professor at the Royal Free Hospital, the first woman to become a Professor of Medicine in England. There, despite (at first) rickety accommodation, her research output continued to be profuse, including studies on the role of the hepatitis B virus in cirrhosis and liver cancer, of autoimmunity in primary biliary cirrhosis, and the value of corticosteroids in its control. She 'retired' in 1983, but went on working indefatigably. She married the distinguished physician Geraint James in 1951. They had two daughters, Amanda and Auriole. Honoured by innumerable universities all over the world, she was created DBE in 1978 and FRS in 2001. Sheila Sherlock trained a whole generation of future hepatologists, to whom she was both mother figure and role model. An excellent tennis player, an enthusiastic supporter of the Kent County Cricket team, as well as Arsenal, she had a powerful and stimulating personality. She died on 30 December 2001 from pulmonary fibrosis.
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First Title value, for Searching Rue, Dame Elsie Rosemary (1928 - 2004)

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Publication Date 2005-10-19 2012-03-09
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Occupation Civil servant Physician
Details As regional medical officer for Oxford Regional Health Authority Rosemary Rue pioneered part-time specialist medical training for women doctors. She was born in Essex on 14 June 1928, the daughter of Harry and Daisy Laurence. The family moved to London when she was five, and during the Blitz she was sent for safety to stay with relatives in Devon, where she contracted tuberculosis and peritonitis, an experience which determined her to be a doctor. She was educated at Sydenham High School and entered the all-women Royal Free Hospital. In 1950 she married Roger Rue, an instructor in the RAF and was told by the dean that she could not stay on at the medical school if she were married. She was however accepted at Oxford, but took the examinations of London University. Her first job was at a long-stay hospital on the outskirts of Oxford, but was sacked when it was revealed that she was married and had a newborn son. She moved into general practice in 1952, and there contracted poliomyelitis from a patient in 1954, the last person in Oxford to catch the illness. This left her with one useless leg, which made it impossible to carry a medical bag. For a time she taught in a girls' school. By 1955 she and her husband had separated and she went to live in Hertfordshire with her parents, whose GP needed a partner. This was a success, and she combined the practice with being medical officer to the RAF, Bovingdon. In 1960 she became assistant county medical officer for Hertfordshire and five years later assistant senior medical officer for the Oxford region, proceeding to become regional medical officer in 1973 and regional general manager in 1984. She oversaw the building of new hospitals in Swindon, Reading and Milton Keynes, designing basic modules that could be incorporated into every hospital, so obviating architects' fees. Her most important contribution however was to set up a part-time training scheme for women doctors who wanted to become specialists. She discovered 150 women doctors in the Oxford region who were insufficiently employed. She sought them out, interviewed them and found jobs for 50 within a few months, and went on to set up a scheme for training part-time married women. This was a great success and spread from Oxford all over the country, and it was with Rosemary's active help that our College set up the Women in Surgical Training scheme. In 1972 she became one of the founders of the Faculty of Community Health (now the Faculty of Public Health). She was a founding fellow of Green College, Oxford, a President of the BMA and was awarded the Jenner medal of the Royal Society of Health. Small, birdlike, with an intense interest in everything and everybody, she had great charm as well as a formidable intellect. She died of bowel cancer on 24 December 2004, leaving two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, William Thomas (1821 - 1915)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-16
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Occupation Educationalist Physician
Details Born at Caerphilly on December 6th, 1821, the son of a medical man who had an extensive country practice, which he conducted on horseback; he was proud of his stable, and his son had the advantage of an active outdoor life in his boyhood and after his apprenticeship to his father. William Edwards (1719-1789), his great-grandfather, was the bridge-builder of European reputation, who in the middle of the eighteenth century spanned the Taff at Pontypridd with the largest one-span stone bridge then known. After serving his apprenticeship at Caerphilly, William Thomas Edwards completed his professional education at University College Hospital and graduated brilliantly at the University of London. In 1844, after a brief period of practice at Llanfabon, he settled at Cardiff, then a town of little more than 10,000 inhabitants, and possessed of neither docks nor railways. In 1849 he was appointed Out-patient Medical Officer to the Infirmary, which was a small institution admitting in a year 113 in-patients and 2360 out-patients. From 1851-1860 he was Hon Surgeon, then Consulting Surgeon, but in 1862 was appointed Physician to the Infirmary, becoming eventually Consulting Physician. From an early period of his residence in Cardiff Edwards showed a keen interest in education. Beginning in a small way and assisted by a few friends, in 1847 he built a substantial single-story building known for many years as the British School. It provided elementary education for children of the working classes, the only other school in the town being one maintained by the Church of England. What his objection to the excellent old National School can have been is not stated, but we find him an early member of the Cardiff School Board and its Vice-Chairman in 1890. He was Governor of the Craddock Wells Charity till its absorption under the provisions of the Technical Education Act, and he laboured in the cause of higher education. In 1872, when the question of founding a university college in South Wales was under consideration, he strongly supported the scheme and urged that the college should be established at Cardiff. When this was decided upon he made a donation of £500, and as a Life Governor and in other capacities he ever afterwards laboured loyally and unostentatiously for the college, of which he was eventually elected Vice-President. He was elected President of the British Medical Association at its Cardiff Meeting in 1885, and then advocated his long-felt desire for the establishment of a medical school in Cardiff. He offered £1000 to found a school in connection with the University College, and his pupil and friend, Dr William Price, also of Cardiff, made a gift of the same amount. Other contributions followed, and it was one of Edwards's proudest memories that he had been instrumental in bringing the school into being, as he foresaw its utility in the future as part of the University of Wales. He was for many years a member of the Cardiff Town Council and was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Glamorgan and the County Borough of Cardiff. He was made a Life Governor of University College, London, in 1871. He was also Vice-President of the Liberal Association, and took a considerable part in the establishment of the English Congregational Union of Wales, which has built chapels where English services are held. He joined in the jubilee of the Union the year before his death. At the time of his death he was, in addition to his other distinctions, Hon Physician to the *Hamadryad* Seamen's Hospital. He died on April 11th, 1915, and was buried at Caerphilly. His address latterly was at Springfield House. He left estate valued at over £80,000. On the cessation of certain trusts, the testator bequeathed £7000 for the University College of South Wales and £5000 for Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire Infirmary. His donations to University College, Cardiff, amounted during his lifetime to £8000. In 1902 the jubilee of his services at the infirmary was celebrated at a banquet given by his local confreres.
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First Title value, for Searching Mercier, Charles Arthur (1852 - 1919)

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Publication Date 2012-08-01
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Occupation Physician Psychologist
Details Born on June 21st, 1852, the son of the Rev Lewis P and Anne Mercier, of French Huguenot descent. On the death of his father, the Mercier family were left in such straitened circumstances that after a few months' education at the Merchant Taylors' School in 1862, Mercier went as a cabin-boy on a voyage to Mogador; he then worked in a city woollen warehouse as a clerk. Rescue came; he entered the London Hospital, distinguished himself as a student, and qualified MRCS at 22, only one year above the minimum age. Whilst acting as a Medical Officer at the Buckinghamshire County Asylum, near Aylesbury, at the City of London Asylum, and at Flower House Private Asylum, Catford, by hard study and with great ability he gradually attained the highest qualifications - in 1904 the FRCP London, and in 1905 the MD of the University of London with the Gold Medal in Mental Science, thus becoming a remarkable combination of psychologist, physician, and logician. In this achievement he was influenced in particular by two teachers - at the London Hospital by Dr Hughlings Jackson; and by the writings of Herbert Spencer founded on Darwin and Evolution. Attention was drawn to Mercier by a continued series of publications beginning with a "Classification of Feelings" in *Mind* (1884, ix, 325, 509) and by his *Text-book of Insanity* (8vo, London, 1902; 3rd ed, 1921). He was appointed Lecturer on Insanity, first at Westminster Hospital, then at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Physician for Mental Diseases from 1905-1913, and lectured on the subject, 1906-1913. At the London University he served as Examiner; at the Oxford Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1904 he was President of the Section of Psychiatry. As a member of the Departmental Committee on the Treatment of Inebriety he contributed largely to the Report. He represented the Royal College of Physicians of London before the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded. For long a member, he also held the office of President of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland; he was also a most valuable member of the London Medico-legal Society. It was on the interrelations of insanity and crime that Mercier's genius found its particular expression. His work *Psychology, Normal and Morbid* (8vo, London, 1901) made his name widely known in philosophical circles. He entered upon the discussion of the foundations upon which Criminal Law rests, and was twice awarded the Swiney Prize - in 1909 for his work on *Criminal Responsibility* (8vo, Oxford, 1905), and in 1919 for his *Crime and Criminals* (8vo, London, 1918), his last work. As a dialectician, wit, controversialist, he was ready to argue at Oxford on the uselessness of logic as taught, and to abuse Aristotle as having done irreparable damage to the human mind. In spite of his sheer cleverness in controversy and a caustic pen, he had a warm generous heart. In later years he was the victim of osteitis deformans showing the classical symptoms and signs. He suffered very great pain, sank four inches in height, had an enlarged head bent forwards and bowed legs. It in no way impaired his mentality; indeed, the disease came to a standstill. His general health enabled him to recover after an operation for gangrenous appendicitis. All this came upon him after a great loss - the death of his wife. Never complaining, he worked to the end, as he promised, "with all flags flying like Barère's 'Vengeur'." He died at Moorcroft, Parkstone, Dorsetshire, on September 2nd, 1919. Publications:- *Lunatic Asylums: their Organisation and Management*, 1894. *A New Logic*, 8vo, London, 1914. *Astrology and Medicine: Fitzpatrick Lectures*, 1913, 8vo, London, 1914. *Leper Houses and Mediaeval Hospitals: Fitzpatrick Lectures*, 1914, 8vo, London, 1915. *On Causation, with a Chapter on Belief*, 8vo, London, 1916. *Spiritualism and Sir Oliver Lodge*, 12mo. London, 1917. *The Principles of Rational Education*, 8vo, London, 1917. *Human Temperaments. - Studies in Character*, 12mo, London, 1916; 2nd ed, 1917. Editor, with Preface, of Lépine's *Mental Disorders of War*, 1919.
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First Title value, for Searching Turney, Horace George (1860 - 1944)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

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Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation Physician
Details Born at Denmark Hill, London, SE on 28 October 1860, younger son and youngest of the four children of George Leonard Turney, needle and pin manufacturer, and Anna Neeve, his second wife. He was educated at Dulwich College and at Trinity College, Oxford. While at Oxford he had a severe attack of scarlet fever, and by way of convalescence went a voyage to Australia. He stayed in Queensland for a year's sheep farming and almost decided to stay permanently. But returning home he started to study medicine, several years later than the normal, at St Thomas's Hospital, with which he remained closely connected for nearly sixty years. Though at first intending to be a surgeon, he changed to the physicians' side, for he felt the aptitudes of a scholar rather than of a craftsman. He had taken the Oxford Mastership and the English Fellowship two years after qualifying, but the following year he took the MRCP and was soon elected to the medical teaching staff at St Thomas's, where he was resident assistant physician 1891-93, after serving as house surgeon and house physician, and having won the Mead medal in medicine and pathology. He duly rose to be assistant physician (1893) and then physician, and on his retirement in 1920 he was elected consulting physician and later a governor, and served on the grand committee and as almoner. Though he had a large private practice Turney's main interest was in the hospital. As assistant physician he created the department for diseases of the peripheral nervous system. He was always a general physician, but his strong leaning towards neurology led to his presidency of the section of neurology at the Royal Society of Medicine, which he addressed on "Vasomotor neuroses". He took active interest in the administration of the Hospital's Medical School, serving twice as dean, and was the best teacher of good pupils, but not so successful in coaching less well-equipped men. He was much interested in the Nightingale Nurses' Training College, to which he was physician, and was at one time chairman of the Nurses' Co-operative Guild. He served as physician to the United Kingdom Temperance Insurance Office, and succeeded his colleague Sir Seymour Sharkey, FRCS (1847-1929) as medical referee to H M Treasury. During the first world war he served at the 2nd London General Hospital, with the rank of captain *à la suite*, having been commissioned on 23 December 1908, on the formation of the Territorial Force, RAMC. He was created OBE (military) for his services. At the Royal College of Physicians, Turney served on the council 1915-17, as an examiner 1916-20, and as a censor in 1921, 1922, and 1924. He also examined in medicine for Liverpool University. Turney married in 1896 Margaret Ferguson, who had been Sister of Charity Ward at St Thomas's; she survived him with two sons and a daughter; another daughter had died in infancy. One son, Dr Horace Ferguson Turney, DM, MRCP, was serving as a major in the RAMC at the time of his father's death. Turney practised in Portland Place and later at 7 Park Square West, where he died on 26 February 1944, aged 83. He bequeathed £1,000 to St Thomas's Hospital to endow a bed. He was a tall man with a pale face and heavy, drooping moustache. He played no games and his only exercise was an occasional stroll in Regent's Park, though in early life he had been an active bicyclist. Turney was as big in character as in physique, cool in judgment and courteous in manner, but alert in mind and with an engaging humour. He was keenly interested in church architecture, which he studied on many visits to Italy and in his holidays at home; being an expert photographer he made beautiful records of the buildings which he admired. He usually visited Italy in the spring, and took an English country-house, where he entertained his friends, in the summer. Publications: The trophoneuroses. Allbutt's *System of medicine*, London, 1909. Vasomotor neuroses. *Proc Roy Soc Med*, presidential address to neurological section, 1915, 8, 1-26.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Eustace (1835 - 1914)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-07
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Occupation Physician
Details Born in London on October 24th, 1835, the third son of the Rev John Henry Smith, Vicar of Milverton, Warwickshire. One of his brothers was G Theyre Smith, the dramatist. He was educated at Leamington College, and received his professional training at University College, London, where he was a brilliant student. He also studied for a time in Paris. In 1870 he joined the staff of the East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell, and as early as 1874 became Senior Physician. During his earlier professional career he travelled for some time in the East as Physician to Leopold II, King of the Belgians, then Duke of Brabant. Eustace Smith's name was long and intimately associated with the East London Hospital for Children, where he retained to the very last a vigorous open-mindedness which the youngest might envy, and which accorded well with his singularly youthful appearance. He was delighted when, as often happened, patients who had consulted him some twenty or thirty years earlier sought him out, and when confronted with him insisted that he must be his own son. "When I was a child", such a patient would say, "I was taken to see your father", and sometimes he did not trouble to disabuse them. He was the permanent President at an Annual Dinner of past and present members of the staff of the hospital, and had not missed one of these gatherings in nineteen years. " Awaiting the arrival of guests at one of these functions," says Dr Graham Little, who was the Organizing Secretary, "I was standing with Sir Bryan Donkin at the head of the stairs leading to the reception room. We saw a tall and agile figure bounding up from the foot of the long ascent, taking three steps at a time. 'That is certainly Smith', said Donkin; 'no one else is as young as that', and he was right." If Heckford originated the East London Hospital for Children, Eustace Smith made and established its great reputation. He loved it like a father. Joining the staff only two years after its foundation, for forty-three years he gave unstintingly of his time and thought and care. He managed committees with consummate skill, was an admirable colleague, ever ready to promote the interests of his juniors or to help them in their work by placing his vast experience at their disposal. His spirit permeated the entire institution. Apropos of his experience with King Leopold, and to illustrate his gift of happy repartee, this story is told: "During one of his visits to England His Majesty complained of insomnia, which Eustace Smith treated perfectly successfully with a nightly dose of 15 grains of bicarbonate of soda. 'Do you know, Dr Eustace Smith,' said the King some time afterwards, 'that I showed the prescription you gave me for sleeplessness to my Court Physician, and he tells me that you ordered me common bicarbonate of soda? 'But, if I remember right, Your Majesty benefited by my treatment.' 'Oh, yes, it cured my insomnia, but bicarbonate of soda is such a very commonplace drug. My physician was quite surprised at your ordering it for me.' 'Ah, Your Majesty, you will forgive me for reminding you that Naaman the Syrian also objected to the Jordan as too commonplace a stream for his use - until immer-sion in it cured his leprosy.' " At the Seventeenth International Congress of Medicine in 1913 he presided over the Children's Section. The presidency disturbed his very regular habits, entailing as it did much hospitality, and doubtless fatigued him considering his great age; otherwise he was active in his consulting practice to the age of 79. In addition to being Physician to the East London Hospital for Children, he was, at the time of his death, Consulting Physician to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. He was a Member of Council of the Royal College of Physicians (1896-1898). Writing of his alertness, youthfulness, and importance to the East London Hospital, his colleague, Dr Alfred M. Gossage, adds:- "He showed the keenest appreciation of all recent medical advance, and readily availed himself of the assistance afforded to diagnosis by laboratory research, though he deplored the tendency displayed by the younger generation to rely too much on the laboratory to the detriment of the training of their eyes, ears, and hands. It was in physical examination that he excelled, and it was remarkable how his senses never failed him, for during all the time I have known him his hearing remained as acute and his fingers as deft as they can ever have been. He was always ready to discuss diagnosis and treatment, and most of his younger colleagues can recall many a pleasant dispute over cases in the wards, or fertile hints on treatment, illustrated by apposite tales from consultant practice, with which the journey back from the hospital was wont to be beguiled." In private life he was much of an artist, spending his annual holidays in water-colour sketching of a high order. In literature, French and English, especially in the Elizabethan dramatists, he was conspicuously well read. His own literary style was at once easy and lucid. He died after a short illness on Saturday, November 14th, 1914, and was cremated. He had practised at 19 Queen Anne Street, W. He married in 1875 Katharine Isabella Peace, by whom he had a son and a daughter. Publications:- *The Wasting Diseases of Infants and Children*, 8vo, London, 1868; 6th ed, 1899. *Clinical Studies of Disease in Children. Diseases of the Lungs: Acute Tuberculosis,* 8vo, London, 1876 ; 2nd ed., 1887. *A Practical Treatise on Disease in Children*, 8vo, London, 1884 ; 3rd ed, 1909. (Many editions of these standard works appeared in America.) *Some Common Remedies and their Use in Practice*, 1910. "Diseases of Children" in Quain's *Dictionary of Medicine*. "Diet and Therapeutics of Children", "Mumps", "Whooping-cough", "Diarrhoeas of Children", in Allbutt's *System of Medicine*. "Colic", "Constipation in Children", "Infantile Diarrhoea", "Infant Feeding", "Vomiting in Childhood", in *Index of Treatment*, 1907. "General Hygiene and Care of Infants and Young Children" in Latham and English's *System of Treatment*.
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First Title value, for Searching Sims, Francis Manley Boldero (1841 - 1902)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-31
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born on June 19th, 1841, at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, the son of the Rev Frederick Sims, Rector of West Bergholt, Essex, and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He spent his early life in Suffolk, and was educated at Colchester Grammar School. Shortly before he was 16 he was apprenticed to the then well-known practitioner, Thomas Young, of Sackville Street, W, and soon entered as a student at St George's Hospital. Rising very early - at five o'clock every morning - he studied medicine and modern languages before beginning the work of the day with his principal, and was thus able to carry off all the prizes at his hospital, where he was appointed House Surgeon, and afterwards Demonstrator of Physiology. He started practice in Down Street, Mayfair, and in 1870 joined partnership with William Fuller, of 111 Piccadilly, whose niece he married in 1875. In 1884, on the virtual retirement of William Fuller, he was joined in partnership by H Roxburgh Fuller, of Curzon Street, who remained with him to the end. Manley Sims became a most fashionable physician, with probably the largest West-End practice, and his life was one of tireless labour. As of old he rose very early, and was often on his rounds in his brougham before breakfast. He was seldom in bed after 5.30 am, whatever the duties of the previous night had been, and during the whole of this enormously long working day his powers of close attention, accurate insight, and sympathy remained unabated. It is to his credit that he was very helpful and generous to poor patients, and possessing, as he did, the ear of a wealthy and influential clientele, he could often contrive a scheme of assistance in cases of sickness and misery that was practical besides being well meant. To do so was the greatest possible source of pleasure to him. He was a firm and generous friend, an interesting companion, full of reminiscences and experiences, and well read. In the course of practice Manley Sims had met most of the celebrities of his generation, and was Physician to the Duke of Cambridge for over twenty years. He was also for a time Surgeon to the St George's, Hanover Square, Dispensary, and Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Blackfriars, as well as Surgeon to the Curzon Home School, and Clinical Assistant to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Dudley Stuart Home. His death occurred unexpectedly at his residence, 12 Hertford Street, on December 9th, 1902. By his marriage with Alice, daughter of Dr Henry William Fuller, Physician to St George's Hospital, and brother of his partner, he had issue two daughters and a son, who survived him. The son was Captain R F Manley Sims, DSO, King's Royal Rifles. A biographer notes the energetic restlessness of Manley Sims. He spent his brief holidays in travel, and declared that he loved nothing better than transit in a quick train. He was a great reader of modern literature, and a student of cities and of art, and to this may be attributed the charm of his conversation. Publications: *Physicians' Urine Charts*, 2nd ed. "Case of Ovariotomy Successfully Performed during Suppurative Peritonitis."- *Brit Med Jour*, 1879, I, 771.
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First Title value, for Searching Dodds, Sir Edward Charles (1899 - 1973)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation Biochemist Physician
Details Born in Liverpool on 13 October 1899 the only child of Ralph Edward Dodds and his wife Jane Pack, Charles Dodds was educated at Harrow County School and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won prizes in chemistry, pharmacology and physiology. He qualified in 1921 at the University of London, and proceeded in the next three years to the degree of PhD and MD, and also obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He subsequently became FRCP, and served his College as President from 1962 to 1966; he was created a Baronet in 1964. Since Sir Charles Dodds made his outstanding contributions to medicine as a physician-biochemist, only a summary of his career is offered here. He was much influenced by Ernest Kennaway to whom he was assistant in chemical pathology at the Bland-Sutton Institute of Pathology attached to Middlesex Hospital, and when Kennaway moved to the Royal Cancer Hospital, Dodds was appointed lecturer in biochemistry in his place at the age of twenty-two, and when twenty-five was appointed Professor. With F Dickens he now published a book on the chemistry and physiology of the internal secretions, while carrying out the clinical biochemical routine work of the Hospital and teaching in the Medical School. He had already made important researches in respiratory physiology and the use of test-meals in diagnosis of gastric cancer. Insulin had very recently been discovered, and Dodds was a pioneer in devising better methods of determining blood-sugar content by colorimetric analysis. In 1924 he collaborated with Dr George Beaumont in writing *Recent advances in medicine*; 'Beaumont and Dodds' remained a favourite vade-mecum of medical students through the thirteen editions which he edited up to 1952, and has continued to be popular. S A Courtauld built an Institute for Biochemistry at the Middlesex Hospital in 1928 and munificently endowed a Professorship of Biochemistry, which Dodds held with great distinction for nearly thirty years. His major scientific discovery was that of the synthetic artificial oestrogens, with which he began to obtain successful experimental results in 1933. Shortly afterwards, in collaboration with Sir Robert Robinson and Wilfrid Lawson, he prepared a most active oestrogen - diethyl stilboestrol, which could be readily prepared in quantity and proved active when given by mouth. It had all the physiological effects of natural female sex hormones, and was then found also to have very great value in control of cancer of the prostate gland - the first successful control of human cancer by an orally administered, relatively non-toxic drug. Confident of his own great abilities, Dodds was reputed arrogant in his youth, but he was always a team-worker and in later years became a very co-operative leader in many fields of medical and related research, serving as chairman of several cancer research bodies, the British Heart Foundation's scientific committee, the Tropical Products Committee of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the Food Purity and Preservation Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture. His activity on behalf of the Society of Apothecaries led to his Mastership in 1947-49, and he was similarly honoured by his colleagues at the Royal College of Physicians, where he served as Harveian Librarian for some years before becoming President in 1962. He was also from early in his career a consultant to many branches of industry, and most successful in enlisting their support for medical research. Lady Dodds died in 1969, and he died on 16 December 1973, aged 74, survived by his only son.
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First Title value, for Searching Verco, Sir Joseph Cooke (1851 - 1933)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-10
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Occupation General practitioner Physician
Details Born on 1 August 1851 at Fullarton, South Australia, the third son of James Crabb Verco, who emigrated from Cornwall to Adelaide about 1838. He was educated during 1862-67 at J L Young's Academy then in Stephen's Place and afterwards transferred to Freeman Street. The latter part of his education was carried out at St Peter's College. He entered the Civil Service as a clerk in the Railway Clearing House depart¬ment on leaving school, and came to England in 1870. Here he passed the matriculation examination of London University in June 1870, and the preliminary scientific examination in the following year. He then entered as a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1872, after winning the entrance scholarship. He acted as house physician and obstetric assistant, and returned to Adelaide in 1878. He sailed from Plymouth as surgeon superintendent of the barque *Clyde* (1,140 tons) and of her 377 emigrants on 26 January 1878, and reached Adelaide on 23 April. On his arrival he registered at the Medical Board of South Australia on 24 May 1878, and immediately began to practise as a general practitioner in Victoria Square, advertising his arrival by means of a red lamp and an unusually large name-plate, on which were displayed his various degrees. He is described at this time as being 5 ft 7½ in in height, with a long flowing beard, which reached half way down his waistcoat, deliberate in manner, speech, and gait. He soon became honorary physician to the Adelaide Hospital and honorary medical officer to the newly founded Adelaide Children's Hospital, a post he resigned in 1890. From 1885 to 1919 he was chief medical officer to the South Australian branch of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. The University of Adelaide was founded in 1885, and in 1887 Verco was appointed lecturer on medicine jointly with Dr Davies Thomas, and was sole lecturer from 1888 to 1915. He was also dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1889 and again in 1921-22, and was largely responsible for carrying out the details connected with the foundation of the dental school and hospital. In 1887 he was chosen as president of the first Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australia, and in this year he had an attack of typhoid fever. He gave up general practice on his recovery, and became the first purely consultant physician in the colony, when he declined to take cases of midwifery in 1891. At the Adelaide Hospital he was honorary medical officer in 1880, honorary physician 1882-1912 with the peculiar privilege of operating upon hydatids, and consulting physician in 1912. During the war he returned to work in the hospital. He was president of the Royal Society of South Australia 1903-21, and was created a Knight Bachelor in 1919. He married on 13 April 1911 Mary Isabella, daughter of Samuel Mills of Adelaide, and died on 30 July 1933; there were no children of the marriage. Verco came of an uncompromising nonconformist stock, and in his earlier years excited some amount of ill-feeling, perhaps partly actuated by jealousy of his higher professional attainments. He was a skilled stenographer. His lectures were delivered so slowly that students could take them down verbatim and thus dispense with a textbook. He was a leading conchologist, his collection in the National Museum being probably the best in the Southern Hemisphere.
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First Title value, for Searching Gardner, Dame Frances Violet (1913 - 1989)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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Occupation Cardiologist Physician
Details Frances Violet Gardner, the youngest of three daughters and the fourth child of Sir Eric, farmer and Conservative MP for East Berkshire, and Lady Gardner, was born on 28 February 1913. She was educated at Headington School, Oxford, Westfield College, London, and the Royal Free Hospital Medical School. On qualifying in 1940, with distinction in three subjects, she did a number of resident jobs and was then appointed medical registrar at the Royal Free Hospital in 1943. Two years later she became clinical assistant in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford. After a travelling fellowship at Harvard Medical School she was appointed to the consultant staff of the Royal Free Hospital as general physician and cardiologist in 1946. She also held appointments at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and the Mothers' Hospital. Frances was a dedicated clinician and a gifted teacher who was uncompromising in her pursuit of the highest standards. It was not easy to see the vulnerable and generous woman behind the defensive shield of intense reserve and the often abrupt public manner. Some were intimidated, others antagonised; but her students, however overawed, were quick to perceive her innate honesty and strong sense of justice. During the second world war she remained in London and did much for the calm organisation of casualty reception. She and George Qvist, whom she subsequently married, fortified the morale of students and nursing staff during those difficult years. After the war she was appointed Dean of the Royal Free Hospital Medical School from 1962 to 1973. She actively supported the establishment of the academic department of medicine, giving up beds in order to ensure the required complement for Sheila Sherlock, the first Professor. In 1958 she eventually married George Qvist and, although they were two fiercely independent, strong-minded and somewhat eccentric characters, this was a marriage of true minds and great affection: at work they lived separate and independent lives; at home they shared leisure and pleasures. Both separately and together they gave tremendous help, often financial, to many a student in distress. Having no children of their own their students became something of an extended family. Outside her professional life Frances was a keen gardener and she also maintained a fine allotment near her home on Highgate Hill and was a familiar sight on her electric milk float there. Equally familiar in central London, when not driving her Rolls Royce, was her small electric car. Her husband's death from multiple myelomatosis in 1981, after a long illness, was a crushing blow. But Frances, in his memory, became a most generous benefactor of the Royal College of Surgeons, funding the curatorship of the Hunterian Museum (now the George Qvist Curator), and also the regular George Qvist evenings, to which groups of students from the London teaching hospitals are invited to anatomical and clinical demonstrations, followed by an excellent meal. In 1983 she became FRCS by election in recognition of her unfailing support for George and the College throughout his illness. During her last years she gave notable backing to the Royal Free Medical School both as a member of Council and as its President, and she continued in consulting practice until shortly before her death on 10 July 1989. At her funeral, on 19 July, the oration at St Anne's Church, Highgate, was given by Professor Ruth Bowden, OBE.
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First Title value, for Searching Hall, John Charles (1816 - 1876)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-22
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Nottingham in December, 1816, and received his preliminary education in Doncaster. He was then apprenticed to Mr Carrick, of Kensington, and proceeded, after serving his time, to St George's Hospital, where he became Assistant and afterwards House Surgeon under Brodie and Keate. From St George's he went to Paris, and on his return settled in practice at Retford, and in 1848 migrated to Sheffield as a physician. He soon became attached to the School of Medicine there, and in 1854, with Drs Law and Elam, was elected Physician to the Dispensary. He laboured during four years, till 1858, to attach a hospital to this institution, and despite much opposition succeeded in doing so with the assistance of S Parker and others. Twenty-five beds were opened in 1858, and in 1872 this number had increased exactly fourfold. In 1858 he was presented with a handsome piece of plate in recognition of his untiring exertions on the hospital's behalf. He was Hon Secretary as well as Physician to the institution, his management was admirable and impressed his colleagues. Hall was one of the pioneers of improved conditions of labour. He studied the occupational diseases of Sheffield, and by protest and toil endeavoured to get them remedied. He wrote to *The Times*, contributed letterpress descriptions which accompanied the sketches of the Sheffield Halls in the *Illustrated London News*, and gave evidence before a Royal Commission on the special diseases of grinders and other workmen. *The Times* at last acknowledged his efforts in the following words: "Dr J C Hall, by his persistent efforts for years on behalf of these poor men, has at last forced the public to listen to him." Largely through his efforts, 'Hospital Sunday' was established in Sheffield, and at the time of his death he was a member of the Hospital Sunday Committee. He was of great service to Friendly Societies, particularly to the Oddfellows. He was President of the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association in 1866-1867, and at its meeting at Sheffield when Vice-President of the Section of Medicine, read a paper on the "Sheffield Diseases of Occupations". He was a Member of the General Council of the Association, and in 1872-1873 was President of the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society. He was an eloquent and pointed speaker, able to quote the poets admirably. Well read in the literature of his profession, he kept himself abreast of the progress of the day, was a skilful physician and a remarkably rapid and ardent worker. He died at his residence, Surrey House, Sheffield, on October 26th, 1876, and was buried in the General Cemetery. He had been two years a widower at the time of his death. By his marriage with Miss Orridge he left two sons and two daughters. At the time of his death, besides being Senior Physician to the Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary, he was Lecturer on the Practice of Physic at the Sheffield Medical School, having been previously Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Botany. He was also Consulting Physician to the Midland Railway Company, and Medical Referee to a number of Assurance Societies. Publications:- *Interesting Facts connected with the Animal Kingdom, with some Remarks on the Unity of our Species*, 8vo, London, 1841. *Clinical Remarks on Certain Diseases of the Eye, and on Miscellaneous Subjects, Medical and Surgical, including Gout, Rheumatism, Fistula, Cancer, Hernia, Indigestion, etc., etc.*, 8vo, London, 1843. *On the Nature and Treatment of some of the More Important Diseases, Medical and Surgical, including the Principal Diseases of the Eye*, 2nd ed., 8vo, London, 1844. *Facts which prove the Immediate Necessity for the Enactment of Sanitary Measures to remove those Causes which at Present Increase most fearfully the Bills of Mortality, and Seriously Affect the Health of Towns*, 8vo, London, 1847. "On the Pathology, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Thoracic Consumption; Bed-side Sketches," 8vo, London, 1850; reprinted from *Lond. Med. Gaz.*, 1850, xlv, 494, etc. *A Letter to the Chairman of the Board of Guardians of the Sheffield Union on the Pre-vention of Cholera*, 8vo, London, 1853. "Analytical Synopsis of the Natural History of Man" prefixed to Bonn's edition of Charles Pickering's *Races of Man*, 8vo, London, 1854. *Hints on the Pathology, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Thoracic Consumption, with Microscopic Illustrations of Tubercle*, 3rd. Ed., 12mo, London, 1856. *Medical Evidence in Railway Accidents*, 8vo, London, 1868. *Pathology and Treatment of the Sheffield Grinders' Disease*, 1857. *The Trades of Sheffield as influencing Life and Health*, 1866.
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First Title value, for Searching Washbourn, John Wickenford (1863 - 1902)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30
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Occupation Pathologist Physician Physiologist
Details Born at Gloucester in 1863, son of William Washbourn, a descendant of Sir Roger Washbourn, of Knight's Washbourn (*temp* 1370), went to King's College, Gloucester, then studied at Guy's Hospital, winning the Entrance Scholarship in 1881 and greatly distinguishing himself as well by taking prizes at the Hospital as by the scholarships and medals he won at the University. After his resident appointment he worked under von Baumgarten at Königsberg and Grüber in Vienna on bacteriology and bacteriotherapy. On his return in 1889 he was appointed Assistant Physician at Guy's Hospital, where he initiated the Department of Bacteriology. In 1891 he became Joint Lecturer on Physiology, and Lecturer on Bacteriology in 1892, Physician to the London Fever Hospital in 1897, and Physician to Guy's Hospital. Commenced in Germany, Washbourn carried on up to the time of his death researches on the pneumnococcus in relation to pneumonia, the varieties and life history of the Diplococcus pneumoniae, with an estimation of the virulence of the various strains. He sought to obtain from horses an antipneumonic serum, potent enough to influence cases of acute pneumonia, and he recorded his results in the *British Medical Journal* (1897, i, 510; ii, 1849). He studied the clinical applications of antidiphtheritic serum and published his observations in conjunction with Drs E W Goodall and J H Card. In 1897 he investigated the Maidstone typhoid epidemic and found the source of contamination in the water from the Tutsham-in-Field spring. With G Bellingham Smith he investigated the infective sarcomata of dogs in 1898. In February, 1900, Washbourn went out as Consulting Physician to the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital in South Africa, and served for sixteen months, first at Deelfontein, then in Pretoria. He organized the medical work of the Hospital with great success, was gazetted Consulting Physician to the Forces and made a CMG. Soon after his return, when President of the Section of Pathology and Bacteriology at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, he took as the subject of his opening address "Some Pathological Notes from South Africa" and related "Observations on Infective Diseases Prevalent in the South African Army" (*Brit Med Jour*, 1901, ii, 699). He had acted as Examiner in Physiology for the Royal College of Physicians, and he was appointed Croonian Lecturer for 1902. He devoted the winter of 1901-1902 to the preparation of the subject of his lectures, "The Natural History and Pathology of Pneumonia". The lectures were delivered from his notes by Sir William Hale-White after Washbourn's death, and included a survey of the subject, the varieties and virulence of the coccus, the modes of its growth, and the preparation of an antipneumonic serum. He had carried out with Dr M S Pembrey a series of experiments on the channels taken by dust inhaled into the lungs. Washbourn had an infinite capacity for taking pains, a keenly critical appreciation of the relative value of his results, tempered with a scepticism which refused to accept the apparently obvious until after an accumulation of confirmatory evidence. As a teacher he was luminous, and at Guy's Hospital made his mark in the physiological and bacteriological departments and generally by his powers of organization. He was popular alike with his colleagues and with students, interested in sports and amusements, himself a good tennis player and skater. He combined a fair controversialist in a staunch friend and a strong partisan. At the time of his death he was Hon Secretary of the Epidemiological Society and of the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association. He had suffered in South Africa from dysentery complicated by thrombosis. After the winter's work, including the preparation of his Croonian Lectures, he had an attack of influenza. After partial recovery he again fell into ill health, and was removed for a change of air to Tunbridge Wells. There miliary fever was diagnosed, and he died on June 20th, 1902. He married in April, 1893, Nellie Florence, daughter of William Freeland Card, of Greenwich Hospital School; she died after giving birth to a daughter, who survived her father. Good portraits accompany his obituary in the *British Medical Journal* (1902, i, 1627; 85). A portrait is also included in Wale's *List of Books by Guy's Men* (1913, 65). Eulogies were pronounced by many, including one by Alfred Willett, President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society (*Trans Med-Chir Soc*, 1903, lxxxvi, p. cxvii), and by Dr E W Goodall (*Trans Epidemiol Soc*, 1901-2, xxi, 151). Publication: *A Manual of Infectious Diseases* (with E W Gooneys), 8vo, London, 1896; 2nd ed, 1908.
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First Title value, for Searching Turner, Edward Beadon (1854 - 1931)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

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Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation Physician
Details The eldest son of George Turner, MRCS, who practised at 9 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, W, he was born at Chigwell, Essex, in September 1854. His younger brother was Sir G R Turner, KBE, FRCS, surgeon to St George's Hospital; two uncles also were Members of the College (see under G R Turner). E B Turner entered Uppingham School when Edward Thring was head master in October 1867, played in the School XV in 1871, and left in March 1872. He then entered St George's Hospital, where he gained the Brackenbury scholarship and the Treasurer's prize. He served as house physician, was visiting apothecary to the Hospital, and was an assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School. He then settled down in private practice with his father in Sussex Gardens, and afterwards described his clientele as being so well fed, well housed, and well clothed that he saw hardly any cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, whilst it was so well established that he had at least two families on his lists whom he attended for five generations. In 1912 he became a member of the Council of the British Medical Association, and from this time onwards he devoted his best energies to the service of the Association. He was chairman of the Kensington division in 1913, a member of the Metropolitan Counties branch council in 1914, becoming president of the branch in 1927-28. In 1915 he was unanimously elected chairman of the Representative Body of the Association and took an active part in its numerous committees. During 1920-25 he was a member of the General Medical Council as a direct representative, and for four years was chairman of the Central Council for District Nursing. Among the local appointments which he held were those of physician to St Mary's College, Lancaster Gate, consulting physician to the Princess Helena College at Ealing, and inspector of Special Constabulary of the F division, of which he was for a time chief medical officer. From 1921 until his death he was vice-president of the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease, a body afterwards known as the British Social Hygiene Council. On behalf of this Council he is said to have given 567 lectures to more than half a million officers and men, often travelling night and day. After the war the military authorities invited Turner to undertake a month's tour of the British Army on the Rhine in the course of which he addressed the entire force of over 12,000 men with the result that there was an immediate and considerable decrease in the number of cases of venereal disease. His devotion to sport, especially running and football, was life-long and he was always to be seen at the important Rugby matches and athletic meetings in London. He learnt his football at Uppingham, was president of the Old Uppinghamian Football Club, and played in the English Rugby Twenty in 1875-76 and in the English Fifteens in 1876-77 and 1877-78. He was formerly a member of the Rugby Union committee. His interest in athletics was hardly less keen, and he was president in 1913 of the London Athletic Club. He was also a vice-president of the National Cyclists' Union. He broke the world's records, amateur or professional, from two miles to twenty-five miles on a tricycle, beating all bicycle times; he held all tricycle records from half a mile to fifty miles on the path, and also the fifty miles tandem tricycle record on the road with S Lee. He held an extra Master's certificate in navigation, and kept up many forms of sport including yachting, cycling, and skating till his septuagenarian days. Turner was an excellent and very fluent speaker, who brought into his work on behalf of the profession the same capacity for working in a team which stood him in such good stead in the field of athletics. He was nevertheless a strong individualist, and an outspoken debater. He believed intensely in private practice, disliked all movements towards the nationalization of medicine, and never quite reconciled himself to national health insurance. But his invariable courtesy, as well as his evident sincerity, made him honoured alike by friend and foe. He married Margaret Isobel, daughter of Henry Scott of Bombay, who survived him with four daughters. Mrs Turner died on 20 June 1946, aged 85, at Willow House, Amersham. He died on 30 June 1931 at 21 Westbourne Terrace, W2, and was buried at Sherborne, Dorset. Publications: More than 200 cases of influenza treated with large doses of salicin. *Lancet*, 1891, 2, 121. Cycling in health and disease. *Brit med J* 1896, 1 and 2, a series of articles. Practice. *Lancet*, 1923, 2, 769. An address on the clinical and therapeutic aspects of influenza, 1889-1927; the value of salicin in treatment. *Brit med J* 1927, 2, 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Murphy, Sir Shirley Forster (1848 - 1923)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-29
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Occupation Physician Public health officer
Details Born on May 21st, 1848, in London. He was educated at University College and studied at Guy's Hospital. After holding a hospital appointment in Manchester and being threatened with tuberculosis, he acted for two years as Surgeon on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ships. On his return he was appointed Assistant Medical Officer at the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital at Homerton, London. The hospital was then full of small-pox and typhoid, and these infectious cases and his experience there gained him in 1875 the post of Resident Medical Officer at the London Fever Hospital, when Broadbent and Cayley were Visiting Physicians, following Murchison and Sir William Jenner. He next succeeded Sir Thomas Stevenson as Medical Officer of Health for St Pancras at a time when typhoid fever raged in insanitary surroundings. Murphy found the Parish Vestries opponents of sanitary reform on the score of expense. Hence in 1884 Murphy resigned his appointment at St Pancras and, with one or two minor appointments, set up as a Public Health Consultant. He acted as Secretary of the Epidemiological Society, and as Secretary of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and in this position originated discussions on milk infection, small-pox transmission, evidence for vaccination, periodicity of disease, epidemic diarrhoea of children, and the preparation of vaccine at the animal vaccine establishment in Lamb's Conduit Street. On the formation of the London County Council, Murphy was elected the first Medical Officer in 1887. The post required of its occupant the general surveillance of the public health work of other bodies, of the new Borough Councils, the work of co-ordination, consultation, standardization, or action, as complainant, referee, or as Court of Appeal. He instituted an efficient inspection of common lodgings, seamen's quarters, offensive businesses and trades, cowsheds, and insanitary areas. His reports covered a very wide ground. As evidence of the success of his administration during his twenty-two years' tenure of office, the death-rate in London from all causes declined from 20.1 to 14.6, the infant mortality from 152 to 113 per 1,000 births, and the deaths from the principal epidemic diseases from 5.57 to 2.98. Murphy's work was recognized by the Society of the Medical Officers of Health, which twice elected him President, the second time in 1905. In 1908 the Royal College of Physicians conferred on him the Bissett Hawkins Medal, and in 1921 the Epidemiological Society, of which he had been President in 1894-1895, awarded him the Jenner Medal. He retired from office in 1911, but on the outbreak of the War in 1914, as Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC (T), he was attached as specialist Sanitary Officer to the London Command, serving under successive Directors of Medical Services. He organized billeting, transport and arrival of troops, hygiene of quarters, and made provision for night shelters, and also dealt with problems relating to cerebrospinal fever and other epidemics. Soon after the War he began to suffer from attacks of neuralgia, but continued at work until a few days before his death, at 9 Bentinck Terrace, Regent's Park, London, NW, on April 27th, 1923. He married in 1880 Miss Ellen Theodore King, daughter of Henry S King, JP, and sister of Sir Henry Seymour King, KCIE. Lady Murphy, who had been his constant collaborator, survived him, with two daughters. His portrait accompanies the bibliography in the *Lancet* (1923, i, 927). In the *British Medical Journal* (1923, i, 790) Sir W W Hamer gave a full biography with valuable information as to his Reports. The *Index Catalogue of the Surgeon General's Library*, Series II, includes a long bibliography.
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First Title value, for Searching Payne, Reginald Theobald (1896 - 1967)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Reginald Theobald Payne was born at Northampton on 15 March 1896. When he was aged 65 he published a remarkable book *The watershed* in which he gave a vivid picture of his childhood and schooldays. He was the eldest of four brothers, and as his father, who had a furniture business in the town, brought up his family as Unitarians, teetotallers and vegetarians, strongly opposed to the teachings of orthodox medicine and favouring instead a strange form of hydrotherapy, the wonder is that Reginald, after serving as a non-combatant in the first world war, ultimately became a medical student. He did well at St Bartholomew's where in 1924 he was appointed house surgeon to Sir Holburt Waring. After other house posts in the throat and the skin departments, he became a demonstrator of anatomy at Bart's, and later registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital. These appointments are significant as indicating that he was training himself to be a teacher of general surgery, the next steps being a chief assistantship on a surgical unit at St Bartholomew's, and experience in pathology as curator of the museum, a post he held in 1932 and 1933, by which time he was aged 37. In the course of this training he took the degrees of MS in 1932, and MD in 1934. Further indications of his academic ability are afforded by his election as Erasmus Wilson Demonstrator at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1931, when he took as his subject sialography, and on four occasions as Hunterian Professor, first in 1929 when he lectured on varicose veins and ulcers, in 1932 on excretion urography, in 1936 on pyogenic infections of the parotid, and in 1938 on cancer of the stomach. All these lectures were carefully thought out, clearly expressed, and well documented from his own material, they were indeed models of scientific exposition. He won the Buckston Browne Prize and medal of the Harveian Society in 1937. In addition to his continuing interest in the salivary glands and in venous disorders, he later devoted special attention to certain aspects of preventive medicine, in particular the menace of asbestosis, the relationship between oral contraceptives and thromboembolism, and the evils of ill-designed and poorly manufactured footwear. In 1936 he was made casualty surgeon at St Bartholomew's, a post which in those days was regarded as preliminary to a staff appointment; and by virtue of the amount and variety of his clinical experience, together with the high quality of his scientific publications, he must have been a strong candidate for the next consultant vacancy. However, in 1938 he became assistant surgeon at the British Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, and remained there, except for a few months in the Emergency Medical Service early in the second world war, until he resigned in 1945. He was then 49, and for the remaining 22 years of his life he did not have any hospital attachment, yet, remarkably enough, he carried on a busy and successful consulting practice, at No 49 and later at No 95 Harley Street, until the day before he died. Though not opposed to the ideal of a health service, he was a vigorous critic of the political and, in his opinion, illiberal character of the service as established in 1948, and this must explain why he never sought a consultant appointment. His early upbringing made it hard for him to conform to majority opinion; it also made him rather a solitary, introverted person to whom intimate friendship did not come easily, and so much of an individualist that he did not take kindly to collaboration in a group. This was a serious defect which not only deprived some hospital of a valuable consultant, but also robbed a general of medical students of a first-rate teacher. However, it must be emphasized that to his patients he was the ideal medical man, physician as well as surgeon, who took infinite pains to attend to every detail of their personal affairs as well as their disease, and always seemed to have time to discuss their every question. They appreciated his conscientiousness, his richly-stored mind, his love of books and of painting, in which he became expert both in oils and watercolours. He was also an enthusiast for the open-air, and particularly fond of walking and swimming. He had a happy home life with his devoted wife Isabella Margaret, herself a trained nurse, and his two sons, one of whom became a pathologist (Richard Wyman Payne, MD Cambridge), and the other an Anglican clergyman. Payne died at his home 21 Norfolk Road, London NW8, on 20 October 1967, aged 71. Publications: Parotid gland diseases. *British encyclopaedic of medical practice*, edited by Sir Humphry Rolleston, 1938, 9, 449-462. Salivary glands. *British surgical practice*, edited by Sir E. Rock Carling and Sir J. Paterson Ross, 1950, 7, 430-453. *The watershed* [autobiography to the end of the first world war] 1961.
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First Title value, for Searching Embleton, Dennis (1810 - 1900)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-16
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Occupation Physician
Details Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on October 1st, 1810, and came of a Northumbrian stock, both his father and mother being natives of Alwinton. He was educated at Witton-le-Wear, Durham, and in 1827 was apprenticed to T Leighton, Senior Surgeon at the Newcastle Infirmary, to whom £500 was paid as Embleton's apprenticeship fee. He studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and at Grainger's, and, probably, also at Pilcher's School of Anatomy. After qualifying in 1834 he spent much of his time in the South of Europe, studying his profession in Paris, Rome, Bologna, and Pisa, among other places. He was a great pedestrian and wandered on foot over France, Spain, and Italy. He was never tired of talking of the adventures of those days - those halcyon days - of the beauties of the Southern scenery, of the grandeur of the cities, and of the manners and habits of the people with whom his own kind and genial disposition rendered it easy for him to amalgamate. He spoke French and Italian well, was familiar with the literature of France and of Italy, and loved the warmth and brightness of their sunny climate as much as if he had been a native. To the end of his life he retained his affection for Frenchmen and Italians, who were always welcome to his hospitable board and to his almost open house. He became a Doctor of Medicine of Pisa after the usual examination. He ended his wanderings in 1836 and settled in practice as a physician in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1837, and joined the Newcastle School of Medicine in September, 1839, as Demonstrator of Practical Anatomy and Curator of the Museum. The School had been established in 1884 by George Fife, Samuel Knott, and Alexander Fraser, who were later joined by John Fife (qv) and others. Embleton lectured first on anatomy and physiology, and acted as Registrar, and in 1852 was appointed Reader in Medicine at the University of Durham. On the closer connection of the University with the Medical School at Newcastle, he was appointed in 1870 the first Professor of Medicine and of the Practice of Physic. In 1872 Dr Edward Charlton succeeded him, and thus his long tenure of office at Newcastle and Durham ceased after a period of thirty-three years. He was the representative of the University of Durham on the General Medical Council from 1858 (the year of its inception) to 1872, and was Physician to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Infirmary from April, 1853, to May, 1878, when he became Consulting Physician. In the wards of the Infirmary he was perhaps less the popular clinical teacher than the student and the friend of students. Popularity had never any charm for him. He was a careful observer of facts, and extremely painstaking and accurate both in his accumulation and application of data. He was Physician to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dispensary and Fever House from 1856-1873. Though a man of the study not in love with popularity, Embleton was nevertheless locally most popular. At different times he was Vice-President of the Literary and Philosophical, the Natural History, and the Antiquarian Societies of Newcastle. He was actively interested in science at large, and in literature, was a good naturalist and a fine antiquarian. For years he was one of the best-known leaders of the educational movement in the North of England, and no savant ever visited Newcastle without asking for, and making the acquaintance of, Embleton. To within two years of his death, when he met with an accident, Embleton was one of the best-known figures in his native town. Carrying himself, even in his latest years, perfectly erect, he walked with a briskness, a firmness, and a rapidity of step that made him the envy of many. His robust inherited constitution enabled him to pass through an attack of pneumonia in extreme old age. After no long period of declining health this Nestor of the profession in Northumbria passed quietly away at his residence, 19 Claremont Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, early on the morning of Monday, November 12th, 1900. He was buried in St Andrew's Cemetery. He married in 1847 Miss Turner, a lady devoted to natural history and scientific pursuits; she died in 1869. He was survived by two daughters, of whom one had nursed him with great devotion. His only son, Dennis Cawood Embleton, MD, MRCS, had predeceased him by a few months at Bournemouth, where he had been for long in a large practice. Dennis Embleton, his grandson (MRCS 1906), was at the time studying medicine at Christ's College, Cambridge. A portrait of Embleton accompanies his biography in the *Lancet*, and his photograph is in the Fellows' Album (1867), where he already appears as a venerable man. Embleton had outlived his Newcastle contemporaries, with the exception of Lord Armstrong and T Lightfoot, the oldest local surgeon. At the time of his death he was one of three surviving original Fellows, the other two being Carsten Holthouse (d July 18th, 1901) and Henry Spencer Smith (d November 29th, 1901) (qv). Publications: *A Visit to Madeira in the Winter*, 1880-1: *two Lectures*, 8vo, London, 1882. *The History of the Medical School, afterwards the Durham College of Medicine at Newcastle-upon-Tyne*, 1832-72, 8vo, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1890. "On an Ancient British Burial at Ilderton, Northumberland, with Notes on the Skull" (with the Rev. W. GREENWELL), 8vo, 2 plates, 1863; reprinted from *Nat. Hist. Trans*. *A Case of Cyanosis*, 8vo, 1863. *Report from the Newcastle and Gateshead Fever Hospital on Typhus and Small-pox, for the year* 1864-5, 8vo, Newcastle, 1865. *On the Shoulder Tip Pain, and other Sympathetic Pains in Diseases of the Liver*, 8vo, Newcastle, 1870. Here his ability and the peculiar bent of his mind are well shown. Sir Thomas Watson alluded to the importance of this paper, or the one following, in his classic lectures on the Practice of Physic. "Tenderness and Pain of the Pneumogastric Nerves and the Importance of the Sign in Cases of Disease of the Stomach, Liver, and Heart." "On the Spinal Column of *Loxomma Allmanni* (Huxley), from the Northumberland Coalfield." - *Brit. Assoc. Rep.* 1889, 580. "On the Egg." - A lecture. *Northumberland Nat. Hist. Trans.*, 1894, xi, 255. "On the Anatomy of *Eolis*, a Genus of the Mollusks of the order Nudibranchiata" (with ALBAN HANCOCK). - *Ann. Of Nat. Hist.*, 1845, xv, 77; 1848, 2nd ser., I, 88; 1849, 2nd ser.,183. "Account of a Ribbon-fish (*Gymnetrus*) taken off the Coast of Northumberland" (with ALBAN HANCOCK). - *Ann. Of Nat. Hist.*, 1849, 2nd ser., iv, 1. "On the Anatomy of Scyllaea" (with ALBAN HANcocx). - *Brit. Assoc. Rep.*, 1847, 77. "On the Anatomy of *Doris*, a Nudibranchiate Mollusk." - *Ibid.*, 1850, 124. He sent his work "On the Anatomy of Doris" to the Prince Consort, who, at the request of the Queen, sent him a work on the Natural History of Braemar. Papers on folk-lore, dialogues and poetry in the Northumbrian dialect, short History of Featherstone Castle, lives of his friends, Joshua Alder, John and Albany Hancock, and W. C. Hewitson.
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First Title value, for Searching Harman, John Bishop (1907 - 1994)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation Physician
Details John Bishop Harman came from an extraordinary family of doctors, writers and politicians. His mother, Katherine Chamberlain, was the niece of Joseph Chamberlain, and married a distinguished ophthalmological surgeon, Nathaniel Bishop Harman. She herself qualified as a doctor at a time when there were only around 300 women on the medical register - something which gave her son very progressive views on the subject of women's education and of the need for their financial independence. John had two brothers and two sisters, one of whom, Kitty, married Donald McLachlan, the first editor of the *Sunday Telegraph*. John was born on 10 August 1907 at 108 Harley Street, the house where he practised and lived until his death. His early years have been described by his other sister Elizabeth Longford, the wife of Lord Longford, in *The Pebbled Shore*; in the index two early entries about John - 'speculations on the facts of life' and 'obstinate realism' - show a temperament in childhood that basically remained unchanged. Thus John was born into a medical and literary family, but with a strain of independence and rebelliousness of thought that served as an astringent element in his make-up throughout his career. Educated at Oundle and St John's College, Cambridge, he entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1929, qualifying in 1932. Characteristically he took the Royal College of Surgeons examinations at the same time, becoming FRCS that year, an intellectual feat of outstanding merit. However, he was to become a physician rather than a surgeon, and held a series of junior posts at St Thomas's, culminating in resident assistant physician, and was elected to the consultant staff in 1938. He remained there for the rest of his working life. Having been trained before scientific medicine became the norm, and with his career interrupted by service with the RAMC during the war, Harman missed out on the investigative revolution. After the war he returned to S Thomas's and became a teaching hospital physician, being also appointed to the staff of the Royal Marsden Hospital in 1947 where he developed an interest in cancer and leukaemia. He was always very much a generalist, seeing himself as a guide for the patient through specialist opinions. St Thomas's was the centre of his professional life and he served it well on many committees, some of which he chaired, even after his retirement at 65. He became a popular teacher, a trim upright figure in a bowler hat, snuff box always at the ready (old patients were often given a pinch and many a houseman was convulsed on ward rounds by accepting an injudiciously large helping). Generations of students were entranced by his wit and spark, and colleagues were also beguiled, even if his independent line could make him appear provocative at times. This outspokenness denied him the highest offices which his intellect deserved (it was said that if he had entered the law he would have ended up on the woolsack). He was always interested in the law and achieved national fame by appearing as a witness for the defence on behalf of Dr John Bodkin Adams in the notorious murder trial in 1957. This was a very hotly disputed event, the media of the day having decided beforehand that the man was guilty. Harman, with typical clear mindedness and independence of thought, spoke out eloquently for the defendant, who was subsequently acquitted. Harman's evidence was highly commended by Lord Devlin in his book on the trial, *Easing the passing* (1985). Harman's legalistic mind was put to good use on the Medical Defence Union, of which he was president from 1976 to 1981. He was a great supporter of the Royal College of Physicians, of which he was second Vice-President from 1981 to 1982. He was not a man to be prejudiced in any way that might prevent him from learning from others. For instance, in 1959 he went behind the Iron Curtain and visited the Soviet Union (he was a Conservative himself) to view at first hand their many impressive achievements in medicine, long before many of his colleagues would have contemplated such a trip. He also visited Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Africa and Australia. His interests were wide. He edited both the *National Formulary* and, before that, St Thomas's Hospital formulary. In a conscious echo of his great uncle, Joseph Chamberlain, he grew orchids in a conservatory on the roof at Harley Street, and gardened very knowledgeably and with scientific curiosity. He was fascinated by the history of medicine and the development of ideas. Not surprisingly, he was a superb chairman and after-dinner speaker. During a long life he kept active and regularly chaired the postgraduate meetings at St Thomas's. Harman was a man of immense courage. Though constantly in the hands of surgeons in later years, he always remained in high spirits so that few knew of his illnesses. The last of these, dissection of the aorta, he diagnosed correctly, recovered, and remained active until the end. He died at the wheel of his car outside St Thomas's Hospital. He married Anna, née Spicer, in 1946. She was a solicitor to whom he was introduced by the Longfords at Oxford in 1945. Their four daughters, Janet, Sarah, Harriet and Virginia, all became solicitors, and Harriet is a former Labour front bencher. When he died on 13 November 1994 he was survived by his wife, daughters, and ten grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Wigg, Henry Carter junior (1845 - 1890)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-06
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born in Norfolk, the son of Henry Carter Wigg, senr; was taken out to Geelong, Australia, in January, 1853. He returned in 1859 to King's Lynn, was a pupil at Mr Lupton's school, and was so interested in chemistry as to perform the illustrative experiments after his master's lecture, becoming so absorbed as to be undisturbed by the plaudits of the audience. He went on to University College, London, studied chemistry under Williamson, botany under Oliver, and won a prize given by Berkeley Hill for a clinical "Essay on Four Out-patients". He passed to Edinburgh University and graduated with the Inaugural Dissertation, "Physiological Action of Nitrobenzole", on Aug 1st, 1866, Sir David Brewster conferring the degree. Returning to University College, he obtained the first Certificate of Honour and Gold Medal in Medical Jurisprudence in 1865, and the Filter Exhibition of £30 for proficiency in Pathological Anatomy in 1866, also the first Certificate of Honour and the Gold Medal in the same subject in December, 1866. In 1869 Wigg took the MRCS and FRCS, apropos of which his father quoted Erichsen's Eulogy on the College of Surgeons: "The medical profession can boast of no greater institution of a purely educational and scientific character than the Royal College of Surgeons of England, whether as regards the scientific value of its magnificent museum, the extent of its library, the importance of its endowed lectureships, the vastness of its acquired wealth or the yearly increasing number for its diploma. It is beyond rivalry in Great Britain and it is without an equal in the world." He learnt at Edinburgh the method of acupressure advocated by Sir James Simpson, and from holding a locum tenens at Hecklington, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, and other places, he gained experience of English country practice. He was fond of music, and began to write poetry. In January, 1879, he sailed on board the *Planet* emigrant ship as Surgeon, with the care of 195 emigrants, and reached Brisbane after ninety-five days, where he presented a Report to the Secretary of the Queensland Government containing a list of drugs desirable for emigrant ships. Wigg then started practice in Carlton, Melbourne, attended the Lying-in Hospital and Benevolent Asylum, and in April, 1871, was elected Physician to the Alfred Hospital. He resigned this post in the following November for that of Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children. He was active in getting this hospital transferred in 1893 to a more suitable building belonging to Sir Redmond Barry in Pelham Street, and in 1876 succeeded in persuading the Hospital Committee to allow the University students to attend his clinic there. His practice rapidly increased, and in addition to his ordinary work he added to it by giving lectures on first-aid to the railwaymen. His health having failed in 1882, he resigned his appointments and travelled to Europe via Ceylon, became interested in architecture, and returned to Australia at the end of 1883. In 1878 he gave evidence in favour of the Contagious (Venereal) Diseases Legislation from experience derived from attendance at the Sick Children's Hospital and the grave effects of inherited syphilis. In 1888 the plague of rabbits gave rise to the offer by the New South Wales Government of a prize of £25,000, and Pasteur dispatched two assistants for the purpose of experimenting on the dissemination of fowl cholera. Wigg opposed the experiment, and was instrumental in getting the Royal Society of Victoria to advise the Government to refuse permission as involving danger to human life; moreover, the experiments carried out on Rodd Island, Sydney, were negative in results. Among about 1400 other schemes a rabbit-proof fencing was devised, but the rabbits burrowed underneath it. In 1889 Wigg went on a visit to a friend in Queensland, and was interested in a Benevolent Asylum at Dunwich Stradbroke Island, where 520 inmates built and lived in bark cottages, and grew bananas and oranges in gardens. He returned apparently in good health, but after rowing and taking a ten-mile walk he ruptured a blood-vessel, and died on Feb 7th, 1890. *In Memoriam* was published by his father, Henry Carter Wigg, senr, in 1890. It contains a photograph.
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First Title value, for Searching MacNalty, Sir Arthur Salisbury (1880 - 1969)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

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Publication Date 2014-09-12
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Occupation Medical Officer Physician
Details Born at Glenridding Westmoreland on 20 October 1880 he was the eldest son of Francis Charles MacNalty MD, MCh, sometime senior assistant physician to the Metropolitan Hospital, London, and Hester Emma Frances, nee Gardner, who was the grand-daughter of Sir John Piozzi Salisbury. MacNalty's boyhood was spent in the Lake District and Winchester where his father worked after leaving London. He was educated at Hartley College, Southampton, and later became a member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He completed his medical education at University College Hospital, London. After holding resident posts at his hospital he became resident medical officer to the Brompton Hospital, then medical registrar to the London Hospital (1911-1913). While at University College Hospital he worked with Sir Victor Horsley on the cerebellum and a paper on this research appeared in Brain in 1909. He also investigated heart block with Thomas Lewis; their joint paper in the *Journal of physiology* (1908) recorded for the first time the use of the electrocardiograph for the diagnosis of heart disease. In 1913 MacNalty's career was diverted to preventive medicine when Sir John Burns, MP offered him the medical inspectorship at the Local Government Board. In this appointment he was employed in measures to combat tuberculosis. During the first world war he was seconded to the War Office and worked with R S Reece and Sir Shirley Murphy on the outbreaks of cerebro-spinal fever amongst troops and civilians, and they also confirmed Wickman's findings on contact infection in poliomyelitis. From 1919-32 MacNalty was deputy senior medical officer of the Ministry of Health and secretary of the Tuberculosis Committee of the Medical Research Council during which time he published several papers on tuberculosis/poliomyelitis and encephalitis lethargica. From 1932-34 he was senior medical officer for tuberculosis and deputy chief medical officer to the Ministry of Health under Sir George Newman, becoming chief medical officer in 1935. From 1935 until the outbreak of the second world war he was one of a medical advisory committee to the Ministry of Health which among its members included Lord Dawson of Penn, Lord Moynihan, Lord Horder and representatives from the British Medical Association. At MacNalty's recommendation the Ministry set up a departmental committee to review amongst other things the conditions of service of the nursing profession and the medical aspects of the Midwives Act of 1936. He also persuaded the Ministry to make the purchase of anti-diphtheria vaccine free to the local authorities and thus practically eliminated diphtheria as a killing disease of children. In 1939 MacNalty was sent by the Minister of Health on a mission to Canada and the USA to inform the authorities there of our medical preparations in case of war and on his return he served as chairman of special committees to deal with various aspects of the Emergency Medical Service. In 1941 at the age of 60 he retired and was immediately appointed editor in chief of the official medical history of the second world war under the chairmanship of Mr R A, later Lord, Butler. He served on the Council of the Royal College of Physicians (1937-39) and also continued as Crown nominee on the General Medical Council until 1943. He was appointed honorary physician to the King from 1937-46. He became Milroy Lecturer to the College of Physicians (1925); Vicary Lecturer to the Royal College of Surgeons (1945) and Holme Lecturer at University College Hospital (1955). He also examined in public health for the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and London. Amongst his other honours he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1949), a Freeman of the City of London and an Honorary Freeman of the Society of Apothecaries and of the Barbers Company. In 1963 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He also served as President of the Epidemiology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine being elected an Honorary Fellow in 1959. MacNalty was a small man with a modest demeanour with brilliant eyes and a charming voice. He possessed a profound and varied knowledge of science, history and literature and his vision and administrative ability achieved real advances for the nation's health. He married in 1913 Miss Dorothea de Wesslow and they had two daughters. His wife died in March 1968, and Sir Arthur died on 17 April 1969 at Bocketts, Downs Road, Epsom; one of his daughters survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Sir Horace, Lord Evans of Merthyr Tydfil (1903 - 1963)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03
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Occupation Physician
Details He was born on 1 January 1903 son of Harry Evans, conductor of the celebrated choir at Dowlais and Merthyr Tydfil. His grandfather was a pharmacist at Dowlais and inspired him to take up the study of medicine. His parents moved to Liverpool and he was educated at Liverpool College, City of London School and the London Hospital, where he was a scholar and gained the K E D Payne scholarship in pathology in 1928. In 1929 he was appointed as assistant in the medical unit, and he became consulting physician to the London Hospital, the Poplar Hospital, King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst, and the Royal Masonic Hospital. He became best known as physician, in succession to Lord Dawson of Penn, in turn to Queen Mary 1944-53, to King George VI 1949-53, and to HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. He was also consulting physician to the Royal Navy, a member of the RAF Medical Advisory Board, and consultant to the London Transport Executive. He acted as an examiner in medicine for the Conjoint Board and for the University of London. At the College he was a Hunterian Professor, and at the College of Physicians was Croonian lecturer in 1955. He served as President of the Medical Society of London, and was a Knight in the Order of St John of Jerusalem. An able clinician of great personal charm, he found time to attend to the care of the most humble of his patients and was punctilious in his obligations to the London Hospital in particular the care of the nursing staff. In 1929 he married Helen Aldwyth, daughter of T J Davies, by whom he had two daughters; Lady Evans died on 3 December 1963. Lord Evans died on 26 October 1963 in King Edward VII Hospital for Officers.
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First Title value, for Searching Saunders, Dame Cicely Mary Strode (1918 - 2005)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

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Publication Date 2005-11-02 2012-03-09
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Occupation Nurse Physician
Details Dame Cicely Saunders established St Christopher's Hospice in London, which became the model for hundreds of other hospices. She was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, on 22 June 1918, the daughter of Gordon Saunders, a domineering estate agent, and Mary Christian Wright. She was educated at Roedean and St Anne's College, Oxford, and on the outbreak of war deferred completing her degree to become a nurse. She entered St Thomas's, but a back injury put an end to a career in nursing. She returned to complete her degree at Oxford and qualified as a lady almoner (a hospital social worker). By now she had fallen in love with David Tasma, a refugee from the Warsaw ghetto, who was dying of cancer. Through him she learned how the pain of cancer could be tamed by modern drugs, and that the inevitable distress of the dying could be made tolerable by care in which physical and spiritual needs were combined. At this time she also gave up her agnostic stance and became a committed and evangelical Christian. Her experience as a volunteer at St Luke's Home for the Dying Poor caused her to realise that the received medical views on dying and bereavement needed to be changed, and to do this she needed to become a doctor. She returned to St Thomas's and qualified in 1957, at the age of 38. She set up a research group to study the control of pain, while also working at St Joseph's, Hackney, which was run for the dying by the formidably down-to-earth Sisters of Charity. Before long Cicely had reached the unorthodox conclusion that the usual intermittent giving of morphine for surges of pain was far less effective than giving enough morphine to achieve a steady state in which the dying patient could still maintain consciousness, self-respect and a measure of dignity. It was at St Joseph's that she met Antoni Michniewicz, who for the second time taught her that loving and being in love were powerful medicaments in terminal illness. His death determined her to set up St Christopher's Hospice, named after the patron saint of travellers, as a place in which to shelter on the most difficult stage of life's journey. Her unorthodox views were published as *The care of the dying* (London, Macmillan & Co) in 1960. This opened many eyes, and soon another edition was needed. There followed years of hard work, lecturing, persuading and fund-raising. St Christopher's was set up as a charity in 1961 and the hospice was opened in 1967. That her methods worked was soon apparent and before long Cicely was invited to join the consultant staff of St Thomas's and the London Hospital. In 1980 she married Marian Bohusz-Szyszko who shared her love of music and with whom she was blissfully happy. Sadly he predeceased her in 1995. A tall, impressive lady, she had a tremendous though quiet personality that shone with honesty and wisdom. Innumerable distinctions and honours came her way - honorary degrees and fellowships galore, the gold medals of the Society of Apothecaries and the British Medical Association, the DBE and the Order of Merit - but it was the establishment of hundreds of hospices according to her principles and the revolution in the care of the dying that will be the real measure of her greatness. She died from breast cancer on 14 July 2005 at St Christopher's.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Frederick John (1857 - 1919)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-07
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on August 17th, 1857, at Castle Donington, Leicestershire, the youngest son of John Smith, a surgeon of considerable repute during forty years at Castle Donington. He received his early education at Christ's Hospital, where he was distinguished both as a scholar and as an athlete. He won an open mathematical scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated on October 18th, 1876. He was also a Christ's Hospital Exhibitioner. At Oxford he took a 1st Class in Mathematical Moderations (1877) and a 3rd Class in the Final School of Natural Science (1880). He then acted for a short time as a schoolmaster, and entered the London Hospital Medical School on October 1st, 1881. At the London Hospital he was awarded in due course the Entrance Science Scholarship, the Letheby Prize, the Out-patients' Dressers' Prize, and Certificates of Merit in chemistry, medicine, and surgery. In 1885 he was House Physician, and gained the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship at Oxford. From 1887-1891 he was Medical Registrar at his hospital. He was elected Assistant Physician in September, 1891, became Physician in July, 1902, and Consulting Physician in July, 1918, after thirty-seven years of work in connection with the institution. He was at one time Lecturer on Medicine in the School, but later became Lecturer on Forensic Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, subjects to which he had devoted much attention. He was also Senior Pathologist and an active member of the Medical College Board. He was a Referee under the Workmen's Compensation Act; Examiner in Forensic Medicine at the Universities of Oxford, Leeds, and Birmingham; Assistant Physician to the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, City Road; and at the time of his death Consulting Physician to the City of London Dispensary and the National Orthopedic Hospital. He was also Examiner at the Royal College of Physicians, London, and Examiner in Medicine at the Apothecaries' Society. He was much interested in the Hunterian Society, serving as Hon Secretary, delivering the Oration in 1900 "On the Influence of Modern Surgery on Medical Practice", and being elected President in 1904. He frequently took part in the discussions of the Medico-Legal Society, of which he had been President during the difficult period of the European War. For many years he was an active member of the British Medical Association, especially of the Metropolitan Counties Branch. He was one of its Secretaries from 1904-1907, and President in 1914-1915, when his address was "On Modern Vascular Problems", in which he criticized some recent developments and asked some crucial questions about blood-pressure. He was Secretary of the Section of Medicine at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1901, Vice-President in 1912, and was for some years a Member of the Central Council, and from 1912-1917 Chairman of the Science Committee. F J Smith was a sound, practical physician, careful in diagnosis, and possessed of a knowledge of men and the world which disposed him to treat the patient and not be misled by some terminological label. The constitution of his mind was critical, and in therapeutics he was ever ready to challenge accepted views, as was well illustrated by his persistent teaching with regard to diet in typhoid fever. As early as 1901 he spoke and wrote in favour of free feeding up to satisfaction of the appetite, but starvation when the appetite was in abeyance, free supplies of plain water, and free evacuation by saline aperients, especially sodium sulphate. He had an offhand manner and a very colloquial way of expressing himself, which sometimes misled those who did not know him well; but to his friends 'F J', as they always called him, was known as a man of wide knowledge and shrewd judgement, always disposed to take a charitable view, always ready to give of his best in any difficulty. His manner was probably of the kind then traditional at Christ's Hospital and at Balliol, which, perhaps alone among Oxford colleges, despised suavity in Smith's day. An Oxford man, a student at the London Hospital under Smith, noted that he spoke German fluently, and used his accomplishment to rate, if not to abuse, the poor, meek, and shabby foreigners from the East End slums who crowded the out-patient rooms. To his colleagues, however, Smith appeared in an increasingly amiable light. He retired from the London Hospital and from practice in July, 1918, feeling, as he expressed it, like a schoolboy going off for a long holiday. Within a year, however, he died at his country house at Colyton, Devon, on April 30th, 1919, after an illness of several months, and was buried at Colyton. He married in 1889 Janet Nicholls Macnamara, but had no children. Publications: *Problems in Cardiac Pathology*, 8vo, Cambridge, 1891. *Introduction to the Outlines of the Principles of Differential Diagnosis, with Clinical Memoranda*, 8vo, London, 1899. *Then and Now* (Hunterian Society Oration), 1900. *Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology, as delivered at the London Hospital*l, 12mo, London, 1900; 2nd ed, 1908. This contains his clear and authoritative teaching at the London Hospital. *Law for Medical Men: A Book for Practitioners containing Extracts from Acts of Parliament*, 8vo, London, 1913. He edited Alfred Swaine Taylor's *Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence,* 2 vols, 5th and 6th eds, 1905 and 1910. The standard work of the time. Articles in Knocker's *Workmen's Compensation Act* and French's *Index of Differential Diagnosis*. "Treatment of Typhoid Fever."- *Med Soc Trans*, 1901, xxiv, 84. "Treatment of Typhoid." - *Amer Practitioner*, 1913, xlvii, 227.
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First Title value, for Searching Drew, Sir William Robert Macfarlane (1907 - 1991)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

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Publication Date 2015-09-07 2016-02-02
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Occupation Military doctor Pathologist Physician Tropical medicine specialist
Details William Robert Macfarlane Drew was born in Sydney on 4 October 1907, the son of William Hughes Drew and Ethel Macfarlane. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and Sydney University, graduating with honours in 1930. After house posts in Sydney Hospital he joined the RAMC and was posted to India as a pathologist, a graphic illustration of the range of the British Empire of those days. In 1935 he became the first house physician to Sir Francis Frazer at the new British Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith in the same intake as Professor Grey Turner and Dick Franklin, and later progressed to clinical tutor. He was recalled to the RAMC in 1939, and going to France with the British Expeditionary Force he became DADMS HQ 3 Corps. He was decorated for efficiency and bravery in the campaign and evacuation at Dunkirk. In the UK he commanded the 10 Field Ambulance and later the Hatfield Military Hospital, and in 1942 he was appointed assistant professor of tropical medicine at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, and Medical Officer to the war cabinet. He prepared hundreds of young medical officers for the health hazards of service overseas and extended his remit to instruct undergraduates from the twelve London medical schools in tropical medicine and the prevention of malaria. After the war he was appointed professor of medicine at Baghdad Medical College, and remained there until becoming OC Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, in 1955. His subsequent career showed he was destined for higher places. In 1957 he became consulting physician MELF (Cyprus) and in 1959 consulting physician to the army. At that time National Service came to an end and Drew and the senior 'brass' in the medical service had to reorganize from a large conscripted service to a small professional one. The post-National Service full-time Medical Corps was to be compact and one of high qualifications and skills, comparable to their NHS counterpart, thereby to encourage recruitment of the most suitable doctors. To encourage this end he established a medical research unit allowing civilian and military doctors to work together. In 1960 he became Commandant of the Royal Army Medical College and in 1963 was appointed Director of Medical Services to the BAOR. He was the obvious choice for Director General of the Army Medical Services in 1965, the first Australian to take up this post. To high office he brought energy, experience, insight, organisational talent, an outgoing personality and an extraordinarily retentive memory, and all were used to the benefit of the Medical Service. On leaving the army he became deputy director of the Postgraduate Medical Federation and contributed greatly to the setting up of the Margaret Pyke Centre for Family Planning. He retired in 1976 to spend the next decade in his native Sydney. He contributed some forty publications, mainly related to tropical diseases, but with Samuel and Ball from the Hammersmith Hospital he wrote the first account of primary atypical pneumonia. Future historians will thank him for compiling the roll of Medical Officers of the British Army 1660-1960. Among many prizes he received were the Leishman Medal at the RAMC and the Mitchiner Medal at the College. He was President of the Medical Society of London in 1967, of the Clinical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1968 and of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine in 1971; and Vice-President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1970. He was a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries. In 1934 he married Dorothy Merle Daking-Smith of Bowral, New South Wales. She died in 1990. They had a daughter, Joanna, who predeceased him and a son, Dr Christopher Drew, who survived him, along with seven grandchildren, when he died on 27 July 1991.
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First Title value, for Searching Power, Sir William Henry (1842 - 1916)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation Physician
Details Born at Bosworth on December 15th, 1842, the eldest son of William Henry Power, MD, who was himself fifth in a medical line of descent. He was educated at University College, London, and was apprenticed to his father, who was a well-known and successful medical coach. He was then apprenticed to Frederick Wood, Apothecary to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in due course served as House Surgeon to Holmes Coote (qv). He became Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Albert Hospital, Devonport, and afterwards at the Victoria Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, where he acquired the intimate knowledge of tuberculous disease which he used to such good purpose at the Local Government Board. He was appointed a temporary Medical Inspector under the Local Government Board in 1871 when the medical staff of the Privy Council was transferred to that newly created body. Sir John Simon (qv) held the senior post and had as his colleagues Seaton, Buchanan, Thorne-Thorne, Netten Radcliffe, and Ballard. Power proved extraordinarily good as an Inspector. He observed the small-pox epidemics of 1871-1872 and 1881 in London, and formulated the theory of the aerial conveyance of the disease. In 1886 he reported upon the "Statistics of Small-pox Incidence in the Registration Districts of London relatively to the Operation of Small-pox Hospitals in the Metropolis", and this led to the removal of all small-pox cases to hospitals outside the metropolis instead of treating them in the neighbourhood of densely populated areas as had been the custom hitherto. In 1876 and 1877 he reported upon outbreaks of diphtheria at Brailes in Warwickshire and at Radwinter in Essex, showing, before bacteriological evidence was available, that the disease was transmitted through mild sore throats in school-children. He also drew attention to the spread of diphtheria by contaminated milk, as a result of his observations during the diphtheria epidemic of 1878 in Kilburn and St John's Wood, and did useful work at Sheffield in showing the effects of different kinds of water on leaden pipes. His knowledge of natural history was usefully applied in 1887 when eels began to appear in the water supplied by the East London Water Company, and he showed that they gained access to the reservoirs during their autumnal migrations, when they travelled overland and entered the manholes. Two years later he investigated the outbreak of 'fever' on the Reformatory ship Cornwall and showed it to be due to *Pelodera*, a parasite which had not hitherto been recognized as invading the human body. Power was appointed Assistant Medical Officer to the Local Government Board in 1887, and became Senior Medical Officer on the death of Sir R Thorne-Thorne in 1889; in both these positions much of his time was occupied in the training of a succession of very efficient subordinates. In 1905, chiefly on his recommendation, the Local Government Board established a department to exercise supervision over food and to advise as to the administration of all Acts relating to the sale of food and drugs. He also kept in close touch with the Proceedings of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis (Human and Bovine) which was appointed in 1901, and published a report upon the subject in 1908 and a final report in 1912. He had acted as Chairman of the Commission from 1907 after the death of Sir Michael Foster. He resigned the office of Principal Medical Officer to the Local Government Board in 1908. He was the recipient of the Jenner Medal of the Epidemiological Society of London in 1898, the Bisset Hawkins Medal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Stewart Prize of the British Medical Association, and the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society in 1907. He acted as Crown nominee at the General Medical Council until he retired from the office of Medical Officer of the Local Government Board. He was decorated CB in 1902 and promoted KCB in 1908. He married in 1876 Charlotte Jane Godwin, the third daughter of Benjamin Charles Godwin, of Winchester, by whom he had two daughters, the elder of whom, Mildred Olive, married in 1916 Mervyn Henry Gordon, CMG, CBE, MD, FRS. He died at his residence, East Molesey, on July 28th, 1916, after a long illness, and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery. Power was a man of fine physique, standing 6 feet 5 inches in height, an athlete in his younger days and a keen cricketer. He was a good shot and had an exceptionally fine collection of English birds. Extraordinarily shy, he had an almost morbid dread of notoriety. As an official he was ideal, being full of ideas, a good judge of men, and generous to his subordinates, always giving them full credit for their work. He had thus raised his department to a high pitch of excellence when it became a part of the Ministry of Health.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Sir Francis Avery (1910 - 1998)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation Gastroenterologist Physician
Details Francis Avery Jones was a distinguished consultant physician and gastroenterologist at Central Middlesex and St Mark's Hospitals. He was born in Beccles, Suffolk, on 31 May 1910, the son of Francis Samuel and Marion Rosa. He was educated locally at the St John Leman School, before proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his medical studies. He gained the Baly research scholarship in 1936, and it was at his *alma mater* that he developed his major interest in peptic ulcer and its complications, especially haemorrhage. Appointed consultant physician to the Central Middlesex Hospital in 1940, he built up a gastrointestinal unit virtually single-handed - the first clinical and research unit in Britain. Aspiring young British and overseas doctors were welcomed to the unit, many of whom later developed their own units, having been taught to be calm, caring and competent physicians. He himself was unflappable and was constantly searching for new ideas, as well as using and evaluating the old: his expertise with the rigid gastroscope was renowned. Basil Hirschowitz, working in his department, realised the advantage of the 'Hopkins' fibre-optic system, but he and Avery were unable to persuade British instrument makers to recognise the future potential in gastroenterology. Hirschowitz left for the USA, where the first flexible fibre endoscope was produced. Avery Jones' unit continued to attract distinguished figures, who worked on oesophageal and intestinal motility and jejunal biopsy, and were also engaged in clinical trials. In the management of peptic ulcer he was fortunate to have Peter Gummer as a surgical colleague. Avery Jones was also consultant physician to St Mark's Hospital (from 1948 to 1978), to the Royal Navy (from 1950 to 1978), and honorary consulting physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital. He had a special concern for nutrition and was early to recognise the need for dietary fibre; his unit at the Central Middlesex Hospital (where there is an Avery Jones Postgraduate Medical Centre and an annual Avery Jones lecture) is now the department of gastroenterology and nutrition. He published many books and papers, including two editions of *Modern trends in gastro-enterology* (London, Butterworths, 1952 and 1958) of which he was editor, and *Clinical gastroenterology* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific, 1960) of which he was joint author. Both books gave the specialty a firm foundation for expansion in Britain. Present at the inaugural meeting of the British Society of Gastroenterology in 1937, he was President in 1966, and served as its archivist for many years thereafter. He graced the Society's diamond jubilee celebrations in the spring of 1997. Instrumental in founding the journal *Gut* in 1960, he was the editor until 1970. As well as examining for the University of London and Leeds, he served on the medical subcommittee of the University Grants Committee from 1966 to 1971 and from 1975 to 1982 was a council member of the University of Surrey. He made major contributions to the Royal College of Physicians as an examiner, and was second Vice-President from 1972 to 1973. Over the years he gave several eponymous lectures for the Royal College of Physicians, including the Goulstonian lecture in 1947, the Lumleian lecture, the Croonian lecture in 1969 and was Harveian orator in 1980. His association with the Worshipful Company of Barbers led to his becoming Master from 1977 to 1978, and in the Vicary lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1977 he chose as his subject, '*The Norwich school of surgery*'. Reflecting his East Anglian roots, he gave a well-researched historical account from early days through the medieval period and the origins of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, ending with the 20th century contributions of surgeons at this institution. Avery Jones became President of the sections of proctology and united services of the Royal Society of Medicine, and was President of the Medical Society of London from 1977 to 1978, gaining the latter's Fothergillian gold medal in 1980. He was also President of the Medical Artist's Association from 1980 to 1991 and of the British Digestive Foundation from 1981 to 1992. An ardent supporter of the NHS until the latest reforms, Avery Jones served on numerous committees, being Chairman of the Emergency Bed Service (from 1967 to 1972) and a member of the Brent and Harrow Area Health Authority. For 35 years he served on King's Fund committees, concerning himself with the quality of hospital care, including records, waiting lists, hospital beds and patients' diets. Made an honorary member of many overseas gastroenterological societies - American, Canadian, Australasian, French and Scandinavian, he was the first memorial lecturer of the American Gastroenterological Association in 1954, and won the Henry Bockus medal of the World Organisation of Gastroenterology in 1982. Relaxation came from waterside and herb gardening, which he tackled as systematically as his clinical work, acquiring an extensive knowledge of medicinal herbs. He married Dorothea Pfizter in 1934, by whom he had one son, John Francis Avery Jones, CBE, a lawyer of distinction, born in 1940. On the death of his first wife in 1983, he married K Joan Edmunds.
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First Title value, for Searching Waring, Edward John (1819 - 1891)

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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Tiverton on December 14th, 1819, the sixth son of Captain Henry Waring, RN, of the city of Hereford. The family was peculiarly gifted, several of the brothers being well known in the world of letters. The second son, George, a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Wadham and Magdalen Hall, Oxford, was called by that mordant conversationalist Thorold Rogers "the most learned man in England, perhaps in Europe". Francis Robert Waring, another brother, was well known for his opposition to the theory of evolution, and John Burley Waring was a distinguished authority on architecture and ceramic art. Here, then, was one of those brilliant families comparable to the Darwins, the Pollocks, the De Morgans, and, in the ranks of the profession, the Pagets and the Ainsworths. Browning may have had in view the Warings when he wrote the rugged poem beginning, "What's become of Waring?" though he referred directly to his friend Mr Dommett. Edward John Waring obtained his first schooling at Lyme Regis, his master, Mr Roberts, being a well-known authority on the Monmouth Rebellion. From Lyme he went to Ilminster Grammar School, and completed his education at Bristol Infirmary, the Lamb Street School, and Charing Cross Hospital. Before qualifying he acted as Surgeon on a ship bound for Sierra Leone and to Jamaica (1841). In 1842 he qualified in England, but returned at once to Jamaica, where he practised and acted as Medical Officer of Health. In 1843 he was again in England and took service under the Commissioner of Emigration, visiting Australia, the Cape, Calcutta, Trinidad, and the United States. In 1847 he married Caroline Anne, daughter of William Day, JP, DL, and settled at Uckfield in Sussex; but heavy financial losses forced him once more to start on a professional career. He took service as Assistant Surgeon to the Madras Establishment of the East India Company, and was posted in charge of the remote station of Mergui, Tennasserim Provinces, where he saw the Burmese War through and received the War Medal. The position involved grave responsibility and complete isolation, being a thousand miles from Calcutta, with a contingent of less than ten Europeans, whilst there was a large gaol and body of Sepoys to look after. While at Mergui he laid the foundation of his subsequent wide reputation both in Europe and in India. He brought out the first edition of his *Practical Therapeutics*, and then began his life's labour as an Indian pharmacologist. The difficulty of transport occasioned by the Burmese War caused the drug supplies of Mergui to run short, and this led Waring to search the native bazaars and the forests for substitutes - a task which led to the valuable investigation he eventually undertook into the properties and medicinal uses of the indigenous plants of India. In 1853 he became Residency Surgeon at Travancore, and here he pursued his botanical and pharmacological studies, published papers in the Indian medical journals, and collected and recorded with characteristic care 300 cases of abscess of the liver. Appointed in 1856 Durbar Physician to the Maharajah of Travancore, he investigated elephantiasis, which he believed to be febrile. He published *Bazaar Medicine* in English and a Tamil translation in 1860, which was followed by other translations, and thereby exercised a most salutary influence over native medical practice. An elaborate *Encyclopaedia Therapeutica* now begun was afterwards published by the New Sydenham Society as the basis of the *Bibliotheca Therapeutica* (1878-1879). Another good work undertaken was the establishment of a school for children of the Pulayar or slave caste, which had been much needed. In 1863, owing to failing health, Waring returned to England. He retired from the Indian Medical Service on Sept 13th, 1865, and in the same year was made responsible editor of the *Indian Pharmacopoeia*, which appeared in 1868. The committee acting with him numbered such members as Sir J Ranald Martin, FRS (qv), Sir W O'Shaughnessy Brooke, MD, FRS, Alexander Gibson, FLS, Daniel Hanbury, FRS, Dr T Thomson, FRS, Dr J Forbes Watson, FLS, and Dr R Wight, FRS, and their joint labours were published in 1868. Waring, largely occupied as a philanthropist, was a pioneer of cottage hospitals, and was a useful member of the original Committee of the London Medical Mission in St Giles's. He also wrote upon and worked for a 'Spectacles Mission' which supplied poor people with glasses. His own growing blindness led him to sympathize with those similarly afflicted. His sight failed in 1884, and he was blind and unable to pursue his favourite reading until successfully operated on for cataract. In 1887 he presented his fine library to the Army Medical School at Netley, and Sir Joseph Fayrer (qv) in acknowledging the donation said: "Dr Waring is a great author and physician, and a man who has conferred infinite benefits on his profession. Such a valuable gift as this could scarcely be obtained elsewhere, for, on the subject of materia medica, it is unrivalled, and I know no man in London who has such a collection." Waring's career was one of exceptional brilliancy, and the CIE conferred upon him in 1881 was a tardy and scant recognition of his work. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, and an honorary member of the Société de Pharmacie, Paris. There is a characteristic portrait of him in the *Midland Medical Miscellany*, 1883, ii, 97. His death occurred at his residence, 49 Clifton Gardens, Maids Vale, W, on January 22nd, 1891. Publications: *A Manual of Practical Therapeutics, considered chiefly with reference to Articles of the Materia Medica*, 8vo, London, 1854. A copy of the American edition of this book (8vo, Philadelphia, 1866) was placed at the headquarters of every regiment in the United States Army. 4th ed. by Dr Dudley Buxton, 8vo, London, 1886. *An Enquiry into the Statistics and Pathology of some Points connected with Abscess in the Liver, as met with in the East Indies*, 8vo, Trebandrum, 1854. *On Elephantiasis, as it exists in Travancore*, 8vo, Calcutta, 1857. *Notes on the Affection called 'Burning of the Feet'*, 8vo, np, 1860. *Notes on Some of the Principal Indigenous Anthelmintics of India*, 8vo, np, 1860. *Remarks on the Uses of Some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India, with a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India; to which are added, directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites*, etc, 8vo, Travancore, 1860; 2nd ed, 12mo, London, 1874; edited by Sir Charles Pardey Lukis (qv), 6th ed, 16mo, London, 1907. *Notes on Some of the Indigenous Medical Plants of India (Emetics)*, 8vo, np, 1861. *Notes on Some of the Indigenous Medical Plants of India (Purgatives)*, 8vo, np, 1861. *The Tropical Resident at Home. Letters addressed to Europeans returning from India and the Colonies on Subjects connected with their Health and General Welfare*, 8vo, London, 1866. *Cottage Hospitals: their Objects, Advantages, and Management*, 8vo, London, 1867. *Pharmacopoeia of India*, 8vo, London, 1868. Translated by Daniel W Chapman, revised by the late Samuel F Green. Tamil text, 8vo, Jaffna, 1888. *The Hospital Prayer Book: containing Prayers for Daily and Occasional Use*, also a short form of public service for lay readers in hospitals; with a few remarks on conducting the same, 12mo, London, 1872; 2nd ed, 1888. *Bibliotheca Therapeutica, or Bibliography of Therapeutics*, chiefly in reference to articles of the materia medica, with numerous critical, historical, and therapeutical annotations, and an appendix containing the bibliography of British mineral waters, 8vo, London, New Sydenham Society, 1878.
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First Title value, for Searching Stone, William Henry (1830 - 1891)

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Occupation Physician
Details Born in Spitalfields on July 5th, 1830, the only son of the Rev William Stone, Rector of Christchurch, Spitalfields, and later Canon of Canterbury. Canon Stone was a man of commanding presence, great learning, and wide culture, and earnestly desired that his son should become a scholar and an ornament of the Church. The boy was brought up in refined surroundings and in a deeply religious atmosphere. He took to classics with avidity, and at seven years old showed what later proved a life-long tendency - that of branching off at a tangent from one pursuit to another. He was found attending alone the lectures at the Royal Institution, and was questioned one evening as to whether he understood them. His answers were so satisfactory that the managers put him on the free list for a term of years. He became a brilliant student at Charterhouse School, where he was educated from 1843-1849 and won the Gold Medal. He matriculated from Balliol College, Oxford, on November 30th, 1848, having gained a scholarship there which he held until 1855. He graduated BA in Michaelmas Term after gaining a 1st class in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') and a 2nd class in mathematics, though it is not recorded in the *Oxford Historical Register*. Stone became a student at St Thomas's Hospital, his love for physical science having been fostered by John Jackson, of Church Street, Spitalfields, who was a skilful microscopist. In him physic and physics were seen working together so naturally, says Dr William Ord, that his young friend was led to choose a profession in which both could take part. He was as brilliant at St Thomas's as at school and college. He took without difficulty the entrance scholarship in Classics and Mathematics, and ended by obtaining the Treasurer's Medal at St Thomas's, which is awarded for general proficiency. His studies were completed in Paris, where he was a pupil of Richet. He was appointed Medical Registrar at St Thomas's Hospital, but soon accepted the post of Inspector to the Board of Health and Superintendent of Vaccination in Trinidad, where he gained great experience of tropical fevers and leprosy. Returning to London in 1861, he was appointed Physician to the Surrey Dispensary and Assistant Physician to the Brompton Hospital for Consumption, devoting much of his leisure to the study of physics and the collection of apparatus in his little Vigo Street house, which became a perfect museum. He was appointed Lecturer on Forensic Medicine at St Thomas's, and in 1868 became Physician to the Clergy Mutual Assurance office, with which he was connected to the end of his life, and where both as Medical Examiner and Director he showed persistent energy and proved himself a man of business in whom the Board reposed trust. In 1870 he was appointed Assistant Physician at St Thomas's Hospital, and Lecturer in Materia Medica and Physics in the School. In a year or two he became full Physician and held this post till his retirement under the rule as to age in 1890. His record at the Royal College of Physicians was a high one. He was Censor (1884), Lumleian Lecturer (1886), Harveian Orator (1887), and Croonian Lecturer (1879). His Lumleian Lectures were, says his biographer, Dr Ord, as connected with medicine, the culmination of his physical studies; they treated of the electrical conditions of the human body, and, while carefully recording the results obtained by previous observers, were full of original thought and observations far in advance of what was already known. In his pursuit of medicine he was at all times attracted by subjects related to physics - hence many of his papers, such as his early prize essay on "Aegophony". He did much electrical research, writing extensively on his results, and in conjunction with Mr. Wyatt, the actuary, published his important reports on "The Mortality Experience of the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society". He showed in these that there was no evidence of increased prevalence of cancer and that phthisis is not as frequently hereditary as is supposed. His style was literary, lucid, full of flashes of wit and illustration. As a lecturer he was all this, and was almost more amusing than seriously instructive. He fascinated his pupils, but was often again tempted to wander beyond their depth. His classical scholarship had always stood him in good stead; he was well versed in the Latin and Greek medical authors, and his trained memory enabled him to quote readily. He might have become a brilliant orator. He attended closely to his duties as a physician, and perhaps the most important part of his teaching in the wards was therapeutical. He did not practise, and at his home in Vigo Street, and afterwards in Dean's Yard, devoted himself to physics, to the Clergy Mutual Office, and lastly to music, of which he was a master. He was a member of the well-known amateur musical society the "Wandering Minstrels", played in many concerts, and performed admir¬ably on the clarionet. He improved the double bassoon, and invented and played one with lower notes than had hitherto been heard in orchestras, to which he introduced his instrument. He lectured on acoustics at the Royal Institution, etc, and published valuable works on sound. His papers on music bear witness to the fact that he might have taken a very high position as an authority on that art had he so chosen. He also read many papers on his electrical researches before the British Association and Society of Telegraphic Engineers. He was a Vice-President of the Physical Society of London. His musical accomplishments and brilliant conversational powers should have led him into society, but he lived the life of a recluse. At 14 Dean's Yard "he lived a life mostly to himself, with his kindly old housekeeper, his owls, and his multitudinous apparatus". He was attacked with severe mental illness in 1882, and has referred to his case in one of his papers. His vigour was much impaired; he took to drugs, removed to Wandsworth, and came back to London, making spasmodic public appearances. Indeed, he acted for some years as Hon Secretary of the Fellows' Club of the Royal College of Physicians, and in this capacity showed much of his old brilliancy. In 1890 he resigned his position as Physician to St Thomas's Hospital, and died at Geraldine Road, Wandsworth, on his sixty-first birthday, July 5th, 1891, after months of suffering. Dr S W Wheaton, his faithful and careful friend, was with him to the last, and supplied Dr Ord with much of his information. A portrait accompanies Dr Ord's biography (*St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1890, xx, pxxvii.) Publications:- *Novus Theaetos or Sense and Science; being the Introductory Address delivered at St Thomas's Hospital, Oct 1st*, 1869, 8vo, London, 1869. "A Short History of Old St Thomas's Hospital," 8vo, London, 1870; reprinted from *St Thomas's Hosp Rep,* 1870, I, 1. "On Aegophony," 8vo, London, 1871; reprinted from *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1871, ii, 187. "Clinical Lecture on Pleural Tension. Delivered at St Thomas's Hospital," fol, 1878; reprinted from *Med Examiner*, 1878, iii, 68 - a very interesting essay. *Some Further Remarks on Pleural Tension*, 8vo, np, 1878. "Adjustments of the Sphygmograph."- *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1875, vi, 105. "On Hysteria and Hystero-epilepsy," 8vo, London, 1880; reprinted from *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1880, x, 85. "On the Effect of the Voltaic Current on the Elimination of Sugar," 8vo, London, 1881; reprinted from *Rep Brit Assoc*, 1881, 724. "On the Electrical Resistance of the Human Body," 8vo, London, 1883; reprinted from *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1883, xii, 203. *The Harveian Oration, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, Oct 18th,* 1887, 8vo, London, 1887. In Frank B Wyatt's *Report on the Mortality Experience of the Clergy Mutual Assur-ance Society*, etc, 8vo, London, 1891, Stone wrote the "Report on the Medical History of the Society" (1829-1887); and he also wrote on the same subject with STEWART HELDER in *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1872, iii, [141, and *Ibid*, 1876, vii, 273. *International Health Exhibition, London*, 1884. *The Physiological Bearing of Elec¬tricity on Health*., 8vo, London, 1884. "Use of the Continuous Current in Diabetes" (with W J KILNER) - *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1882, xi, 61. "Measurements in the Medical Application of Electricity" (with W J KILNER) - *Ibid*, 147. "The Physical Basis of Auscultation."- *Ibid*, 1873, iv, 233. Stone's paper "On the Electrical Resistance of the Human Body" led up to the Lumleian Lectures. Among his medical papers mention should be made of "Some Effects of Brain Disturbance on the Handwriting", *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1883, xii, 67, in which he gave an account of his own illness; and of the "Tricoelian Heart", *Ibid*, 1882, xi, 57. He edited the *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1870-3, i-iv. He also published lectures on the "Scientific Basis of Music" and "Elementary Lessons on Sound", *Sound and Music*, 8vo, London, 1876, which had a large sale.
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First Title value, for Searching Richardson, John Samuel, Lord Richardson of Lee in the County of Devon (1910 - 2004)

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Publication Date 2006-01-13
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Occupation Physician
Details John Samuel Richardson was a former President of the General Medical Council and the British Medical Association who inadvertently played a key role in the resignation of Macmillan in 1963. The son of a solicitor, he was born on 16 June 1910 in Sheffield, where his grandfather had been Lord Mayor, Master Cutler, an MP and Privy Councillor. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, going on to St Thomas’s to do his clinical studies, where he won the Bristowe medal and Hadden prize. After qualifying, he did his house jobs at St Thomas’s, winning the Perkins fellowship. He served in the RAMC in North Africa with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and there, in 1943, was assigned to be physician in attendance to King George VI (whom he treated successfully for sunburn), on which occasion he met and treated Harold Macmillan, with whom he became a close friend. After the war Richardson returned to St Thomas’s as a consultant physician, where he became very successful thanks to his considerable charm. In due course he became President of the General Medical Council, British Medical Association and the Royal Society of Medicine, and was the recipient of innumerable honours. Rather unfairly he is probably remembered today not for his many and considerable contributions to his profession but for being on holiday when Harold Macmillan developed acute-on-chronic retention of urine, formed the (wrong) impression that he was going to die of cancer and handed over the reins of government to Alec Douglas Home. Lord Richardson married the portrait painter Sybil Trist, who predeceased him. They had two daughters. He died on 15 August 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Dawson, Sir Bertrand Edward, Viscount Dawson of Penn (1864 - 1945)

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Occupation Physician
Details Lord Dawson of Penn, consulting physician to the London Hospital and physician in ordinary to four successive monarchs and sometime president of the Royal College of Physicians, was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College on 10 March 1932. He never practised surgery or took official part in the College's affairs, though an ardent supporter of intercollegiate amity. Only a brief outline of his career follows. Born 9 March 1864, son of Henry Dawson, FRIBA of Purley, he was educated at St Paul's School and at University College, London. He took the Conjoint diplomas in 1890 and the London MD in 1893, and was elected assistant physician to the London Hospital in 1896. He was elected FRCP in 1903, and physician to the London Hospital in 1906. In 1907 he became physician extraordinary to King Edward VII, and afterwards physician in ordinary to him, to King George V, King Edward VIII, and King George VI, and to Queen Mary. During the war of 1914-18 Dawson was at first, as a captain RAMC, commandant of the 2nd London General Hospital and later consulting physician to the Army in France with the rank of colonel A.M.S., and was mentioned despatches. In 1919 he was promoted major-general and appointed honorary member of the Army Medical Advisory Board. He had been knighted KCVO at King George's coronation 1911. Sir Bertrand Dawson was created a Baron in 1920 as Lord Dawson of Penn, and was raised to a Viscountcy in 1936 in the sole birthday honours list of King Edward VIII's reign. In 1931 he became PRCP and was re-elected yearly till 1938. He was president of the BMA in 1932 and on the tragic death of Sir Beckwith Whitehouse, FRCS in 1943 was re-elected president, in which position his wise counsel was of great value during the negotiations about the nationalizing of medical services. Dawson served on the Medical Research Council and was chairman of its special committee on tuberculosis in war-time. He was on the council of King Edward's Hospital, Fund for London from 1929. He was in demand also as a lecturer on topics of general sociological interest, and contributed statesmanlike letters to *The Times*. He married in 1900 Minnie Ethel, youngest daughter of Sir Arthur Yarrow, 1st Baronet. Lord Dawson died on 7 March 1945 of pneumonia at his house, 149 Harley Street, W1, two days before his eighty-first birthday. Lady Dawson of Penn survived him with three daughters, the eldest of whom had married David Eccles, MP, third son of W McAdam Eccles, FRCS. Lord Dawson had no son and his peerage became extinct. A memorial service was held in Westminster Abbey, at which the King was represented. Lord Dawson directed by his will that his body be opened in the interest of science and as an example of the need for the bequest of bodies for anatomy.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Sir Philip Sydney (1836 - 1918)

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Publication Date 2012-05-23
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born in Sydney and was educated at three local schools. He came to Europe to finish his general education, and was enrolled as a student of medicine at University College, London, where he obtained medals for proficiency in anatomy and in medicine, and won the Fellowes Gold Medal as the most proficient student in clinical knowledge of his year. He was also House Surgeon, House Physician, and Resident Medical Officer at University College Hospital, and spent some months studying medicine and surgery in Paris. He returned to Sydney in 1861 and began to practise at 10 College Street. Within a few months he was elected Surgeon to the Sydney Infirmary (later the Sydney Hospital). His colleagues were Charles Nathan, Sir Alfred Roberts, and Charles McKay. The duties of the staff in those days were onerous, since there was only one resident house surgeon, and each member of the honorary staff was expected to do his own dressings. Dry dressings were unknown, and much time was spent in applying wet cloths. Sir Philip was elected Consulting Surgeon after holding office at the infirmary for fourteen years. Like the other medical practitioners of his day, Sir Philip Sydney Jones carried on a general practice. There was no specialism in the sixties, and all kinds of special and general surgery were carried out by the medical practitioners. Sir Philip was the first medical man in Sydney to remove an ovarian tumour successfully. Giving up general practice, he established himself as a physician in 1876, and was the first in Sydney to engage in consulting work. He was appointed Consulting Physician to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1887. At the time of his death he was the senior member of the Royal Society of New South Wales, his membership having lasted fifty-one years. He had always taken a leading part in the Society's medical section. In 1882 he was a member of the Royal Commission which investigated and reported on the arrangements of the Quarantine Station. The result of this commission was the establishment of the Quarantine Station at North Head, Port Jackson, for the reception of all cases of infectious disease that came to New South Wales by sea. The value of the work of this Commission is shown by the fact that it was not necessary to remodel the system suggested by the Royal Commission, even after thirty-five years' experience. He was much interested in the progress of education in the Colony, and especially in that of medical students. He was for a time Examiner in Medicine to the University of Sydney; a Member of the Senate from 1887-1918; and Vice-Chancellor, 1904-1906. He was also a member of the Committee appointed in 1868 to raise funds to erect a "permanent and substantial memorial as a token of the heart-felt gratitude of the inhabitants of New South Wales for the recovery of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh". The memorial took shape as the Royal Alfred Hospital, which was incorporated in 1878. Sir Philip served on the Board of the hospital, for nineteen years as a Director, and for many years as Chairman of the Medical Board. He was unanimously elected President of the third International Medical Congress of Australia, held in Sydney in 1892. His address dealt with the large saving of life which sanitation had effected in the Colony, and he spoke of electric lighting, gas-heating, and smoke-consumption as desirable reforms in the future. As President of the New South Wales Branch of the British Medical Association in 1896-1897 he delivered a thoughtful address, in which he spoke of the X rays and the use of serums, then in their infancy, as subjects of great promise. The address reveals the acumen and foresight possessed by Sir Philip as a medical practitioner. He owed his knighthood to his distinguished services to science in the war against tuberculosis. He was knighted as a Birthday Honour in 1905. Sir Philip Sydney Jones was for thirty years a member of the Medical Board of New South Wales, of which he was elected President in 1909. He was a member of the Royal Commission which inquired in 1895 into the locally notorious Dean case. In 1903 he was a member of the Royal Commission on the Decline of the Birth-rate and on the Causes of Infantile Mortality. In 1913 he was a member of the Tuberculosis Board, appointed by Government to advise concerning measures for the suppression of tuberculosis. He will perhaps be specially remembered for his unceasing efforts to control tuberculosis, and as the pioneer in New South Wales of open-air treatment. He was instrumental in establishing the Queen Victoria Homes at Thirlmere and at Wentworth Falls, where the object is to treat the early phases of the disease. He was for long President of the Executive Committee of these sanatoria. In 1914 he took a leading part in founding the National Association for the Prevention and Cure of Consumption, and was its first President. He also gave valuable advice concerning the institution of anti-tuberculous dispensaries founded in New South Wales between 1913 and 1918. He took an active part in many charitable institutions, notably in the New South Wales Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, of which he was Vice-President in 1916. Sir Philip was given to scientific pursuits, and was an original member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (1875), and, up to the last, a trustee of the Australian Museum. He was a Congregationalist, and for thirty years was senior deacon of his church. He married in 1863 Anna Howard, daughter of the Rev G Charter. She died in 1892, leaving a family of three sons and four daughters, who survived their father. The eldest son, Dr Philip Sydney Jones, practised at The Glebe, New South Wales. Sir Philip died at Strathfield, where he owned land, on Sept 18th, 1918. A presentation portrait by Percy Spence, painted at the request of the Council of the New South Wales Branch of the British Medical Association in 1905 on the occasion of his receiving the honour of Knight Bachelor, hangs in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney. There is another portrait in sepia, also made in 1905, and presented by his fellow-members on the executive committee of the tuberculosis sanatoria. Sir Philip Jones was to the medical profession of New South Wales a pattern of the wise physician of exemplary probity, of unfailing courtesy, and of the widest charity. He utilized his professional attainments as far as possible for the benefit of his fellow-citizens. He employed his great experience in the care and treatment of the sick, more especially in advocating better methods for the control of tuberculosis. For a quarter of a century he was recognized as the leader of the medical profession in New South Wales. Publications: Jones contributed a few papers on the treatment of consumption and on medical ethics to the *Australasian Med Gaz*, and published a paper on "The Tuberculosis Problem in Australia" in the *Brit Jour Tubercul*, 1910, iv, 1.
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First Title value, for Searching Rolleston, Sir Humphry Davy (1862 - 1944)

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Publication Date 2013-10-23 2015-09-04
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Occupation Physician
Details Sir Humphry Rolleston was a physician and a College of Physicians man. He was elected LRCP before the establishment of the Conjoint Board and was never an MRCS. But he was a constant friend of the College of Surgeons, a life-long and almost daily reader in the Library, to which he gave many books, and took an active interest in the Imperial Cancer Research Fund managed by the two colleges. He was Chairman of the Fund 1925-41, and with particular reference to this work was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1939. Born at Oxford, 21 June 1862, eldest of the five sons and three daughters of George Rolleston, DM, FRS, Linacre professor of anatomy and physiology since 1859 (for whom see *DNB*), and Grace his wife, daughter of John Davy, MD (see *DNB*), the brother of Sir Humphry Davy, PRS (see *DNB*). Sir Humphry Davy had been elected an Honorary Member of the RCS in 1821, a degree discontinued on the institution of the Fellowship in 1843. Two of Rolleston's brothers achieved distinction in medicine, J D Rolleston, FRCP (d 1946) and Christopher Rolleston, FRCP (d 1950); his second sister, Rosamund Grace, trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew's and married J A Hayward, FRCS. The family was of Rolleston in Staffordshire, and Sir Humphry's great-grandfather was "Squarson" of Maltby in the West Riding. They had Anglo-Irish connexions, the poet T W Rolleston was a cousin, and Sir Humphry was well known in professional circles in Dublin and was honoured by both Universities and by the College of Physicians there. The Davys were Cornish. He was educated at Marlborough, at St John's College, Cambridge (scholar; pupil of Donald Macalister; Fellow 1889) and took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, parts 1, 1885, and 2, 1886, and was university demonstrator in pathology, anatomy, and physiology. He played rugby football for his college and occasionally for the University, and later for the Bart's XV which won the Inter-Hospital cup; he played lawn tennis till over seventy. Rolleston retained close affection for Marlborough and Cambridge; he succeeded Sir Clifford Allbutt, whose life he wrote, as Regius professor of physic in 1925 while PRCP; only the famous Glisson, 250 years before, had similarly combined those offices. Rolleston gave no inaugural lecture; he retired in 1932. Rolleston received his medical training at St Bartholomew's and was house physician to Sir William Church, who nearly forty years later enrobed him as PRCP. As he could not afford to wait for a vacancy on the staff at Bart's he accepted an assistant physicianship at St George's, and in 1898 became physician there. He was elected emeritus physician for life in 1919, and a vice-president. He first made his mark as a pathologist. His earliest researches were with C S Roy, MD, FRS, on heart mechanism, later the subject of his Harveian oration, and he then took up the study of Addison's disease. This called forth his most original work and his one really first-class contribution to knowledge (for how few eminent and brilliant men achieve even one such success!): the discovery of the role of the suprarenals, announced in his Goulstonian lectures delivered in 1895, when he was 33. His results were confirmed by Schäfer and Oliver, and the secretion which he predicted was in due course isolated and became familiar as adrenalin. Rolleston was now threatened with phthisis, but volunteering for war service with the Imperial Yeomanry, he served as consulting physician to their hospital at Pretoria 1900, and his health was restored by the South African climate. On his return to London he built up a large practice in Upper Brook Street. He made his name widely known by his remarkably able editorship of Allbutt and Rolleston's *System of medicine*, 2nd edition, a reference work of enduring value, to which he himself contributed. Late in life he carried through with equal success Butterworth's *British Encyclopaedia of medicine and surgery*, to which he gave meticulous personal attention as general editor. Rolleston's wide reading, assiduous scholarship, and precisely retentive memory, equipped him with a knowledge of medical literature ancient and current probably seldom equalled. He kept his interest in the endocrines, the study of which grew during his life-time almost from the beginnings to a vast science. His Fitzpatrick lectures 1933-34 on this subject were elaborated into an historical study, *The endocrine glands*, 1936, his major work in the history of medicine, containing also much of clinical and scientific value. He made very many shorter historical studies, often biographical. He was elected the first consultant (for life) to the Army Medical Library at Washington, the central workshop of English-speaking medical scholarship, when he attended as guest of honour at its centenary celebrations, 1936. He edited *The Practitioner*, 1928-44, greatly enhancing the prestige and usefulness of that old-established journal by his flair for eliciting contributions from the best authorities and by specializing the contents of each issue, as well as modernizing the style of production. Rolleston was a man of singular modesty and charm; his slightly caustic wit was modified by the real kindliness displayed in a wry smile. He was tall, thin, and good-looking. He married in 1894 Lisette Elsa, daughter of F M Ogilvy. Their elder son, Francis Lancelot, was killed in Flanders in 1914 and their younger son, Ian Humphry Davy, of the Colonial Civil Service, was killed in a riot at Zanzibar in February 1936. He bore his sorrows with stoical calm. Rolleston died at Martins, Haslemere, Surrey, where he had lived since leaving Cambridge in 1932, on 23 September 1944, aged 82. His strength had been failing for some weeks, when he collapsed in his bath and was severely scalded. Although conscious when helped out, he did not survive the shock. Lady Rolleston survived him; they had lately celebrated their golden wedding. He left £1,000 to Papworth Village Settlement near Cambridge for rehabilitation of the tuberculous, with whose work he had been closely identified, and the residue of his estate to St John's College, Cambridge, to help medical students. He left his medical books between the libraries of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Surgeons. Summary of Rolleston's official positions, etc: RCP: Counsellor, Censor, President in succession to Norman Moore 1922-26. Rolleston published each of his annual presidential addresses. Goulston lecturer 1895, Lumleian 1919, Fitzpatrick 1933-34, Lloyd Roberts 1933; Harveian orator 1928. BMA: Section of pathology and bacteriology: secretary 1895, vice-president 1904; Section of medicine: vice-president 1899, president, Cambridge 1920, and centenary 1932; Section of diseases of children: president 1910; president, Cambridge and Huntingdonshire branch; vice-president of the Association 1932; acting president in England at the time of the Australian meeting 1935; gold medallist 1926; drafted report of special committee on arthritis. Other societies: Honorary Freeman, Society of Apothecaries; president, 1925 and 1929, Association of Physicians; president, British Institute of Radiology and Röntgen Society; president, 1927, Medical Society of London; chairman for 18 years, Medical Insurance Agency; president, London Cornish Association. Foreign societies: Corresponding member of Académie de Médecine, Paris, and Reale Accademia di Medicina, Rome; Honorary Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine; Honorary Member, Association of American Physicians. Examinerships: RCP, 1894-1902; Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Bristol, Durham, London, Manchester, Sheffield. Official service: (1) To the Crown: physician in ordinary 1923; in attendance during King George V's illness 1928-29, see the life of Sir H M Rigby; physician extraordinary 1932-36. Rolleston was granted the rare privilege of bearing the Lion of England as a "special difference" in his coat of arms. (2) War service: consulting physician, surgeon rear-admiral, RN 1915-18, and subsequently member of board of medical consultants, RN. (3) Miscellaneous: Represented RCP and Cambridge on GMC; chairman, VAD Council; member of medical advisory committee, RAF; Royal Commission on National Health Insurance; Royal Commission on Lunacy; Colonial Office committee on medical services; Home Office enquiry into industrial diseases and workmen's compensation Acts; Ministry of Health: committee on vaccination, chairman; committee of medical records; Croydon typhoid epidemic inquiry, 1937, one of two assessors; Trustee of the British Museum. Select bibliography: *A manual of practical morbid anatomy*, with A A Kanthack. Cambridge, Dighton Bell 1894. Rolleston's elegant microscopic handwriting was modelled on Kanthack's. Sir Clifford Allbutt *A system of medicine*, 8 vols, 1896-99, H D R was assistant editor; 2nd edition by Allbutt and Rolleston, 11 vols, 1906-11. Rolleston contributed to both editions articles on Alcoholism, Diseases of the oesophagus, Diseases of the small intestine, Adrenal glands, Spleen, Lymphatics. The suprarenal bodies, Goulstonian lectures, RCP. *Brit med J* 1895, 1, 629; 687; 745. *Diseases of the liver, gall-bladder and bile-ducts*. Philadelphia, 1905; London, 1912; and with J W McNee, 1929. *Cerebrospinal fever*, Lumleian lectures RCP London, 1919. *On writing theses for MB and MD degrees*. London, Bale 1911; 2nd edition, 1925. Medical aspects of Samuel Johnson. *Glasg med J* 1924, 101, 173. *Cardiovascular diseases since Harvey's discovery*, Harveian oration RCP. Cambridge, 1928. *The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt*. London, Macmillan, 1929. Lord Moynihan, who had known Allbutt well, thought it unworthy of its subject; but F H Garrison, the doyen of medical historians and a friend of both subject and author, praised it in a remarkable review: *New York Acad Med Bull* 1930, 6,132-135. *The Cambridge Medical School, a biographical history*. Cambridge, 1932. *Some medical aspects of old age*, Linacre lecture enlarged. London, Macmillan, 1922. 170 pages. *Aspects of age, life and disease*. London, Kegan Paul, 1929. 304 pages. The two Heberdens. *Ann Med Hist* 1933, 5, 409; one of the best of a long series of biographical articles. *The endocrine glands, in health and disease, with an historical review*, Fitzpatrick lectures, RCP 1933-34, enlarged. Oxford, 1936. 521 pages. The early history of morbid anatomy and pathology in Great Britain, Vicary lecture, RCS 1938. *Ann Med Hist* 1939, 1, 217.
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First Title value, for Searching Turner-Warwick, Margaret Elizabeth Harvey (1924 - 2017)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

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Publication Date 2017-11-02
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Occupation Physician Thoracic specialist
Details Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick was elected as the first female president of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1989, 471 years after its foundation – one of her many remarkable achievements. At one stage in her career she was the only female professor of medicine in the UK. She is recognised as a principal architect of the modern specialty of respiratory medicine. She was born at home in Smith Square, London; her father, William Harvey Moore, was a barrister from Devon, who stood for parliament several times, for Labour and as an Independent. Her mother, Maud Kirkdale Baden-Powell, was the daughter of Sir George Baden-Powell, MP for Kirkdale in Liverpool. From the age of nine the family lived in a small flat in the Inner Temple, where she attended the City of London School; from here they moved briefly to Kent, then to Exeter, where she learned to ride and joined the Girl Guides. However, in 1942, Exeter was badly bombed and the family returned to London, to a riverside Victorian house in Chiswick, where she learned to sail. She went to St Paul’s Girls’ School and in 1943 won an open scholarship to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to read medicine (one of the quota of seven females out of 100 students in her year). There she was on the fire watch rota at the Radcliffe Science Library, assisted in the Radcliffe Infirmary, grew vegetables, played the violin, was elected president of the junior common room, and in 1945 won the Welch prize for anatomy. She also met her husband-to-be, Richard Turner-Warwick, a fellow medical student and Oxford rowing blue. Her future seemed assured, when in 1946 she became aware of a lump in her neck and was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. This was just before the first effective anti-TB drugs came into use, and she was sent to a Swiss sanatorium, where she was treated with phrenic nerve crushes and induction of artificial pneumothorax – she underwent refills of the latter for five years. After nine months, she returned to study clinical medicine at University College Hospital (UCH), where she won several prizes including the Atchison scholarship for ‘student of the year’. She qualified in 1950 and married Richard at St Dunstan-in-the-West Church in Fleet Street: the reception was held at Apothecaries’ Hall. She held appointments as a house physician at UCH, obtained her membership of the Royal College of Physicians during maternity leave after the birth of her first daughter, Gillian, and was a house physician at the Brompton Hospital, before returning to UCH in 1953 as a medical registrar. In that year, she and Richard moved into a family home in Highgate, north London, built on a plot given to them by Richard’s father. She worked for and obtained her DM in 1956 during maternity leave after the birth of her second daughter, Lynne. She returned to work as a registrar to Lord Amulree, geriatrician at St Pancras Hospital, and Liberal whip in the House of Lords. Having by now decided on a career in chest medicine, she returned to the Brompton as a registrar and became a chief medical assistant (senior registrar) in 1958. Here she obtained her PhD on clubbing and the pulmonary circulation in lung fibrosis, performing her own autopsies. In 1961, she obtained her first consultant appointment, at the then Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in north London. In 1967, she became a consultant at the Brompton and London Chest hospitals, and part-time senior lecturer at the Institute of Diseases of the Chest; she recounts that she was appointed to the planning committee for the new Brompton Hospital, which opened shortly after she retired, 22 years after the committee first met! When Guy Scadding, then professor of medicine at the Institute, retired in 1972, Margaret was appointed to his chair at what was renamed the Cardiothoracic Institute. She recruited academic physicians into the sub-specialties to which she had already contributed, including asthma, lung immunology, occupational lung disease and lung fibrosis, and ensured a close working relationship between the Institute and the Brompton hospital. From 1984 to 1987 she was dean of the Institute, which moved in 1985 from a prefabricated building in the grounds of the north block of the Brompton, to a much more spacious converted building (formerly St Wilfrid’s Convent) in Cale Street. Margaret retired from medical practice in 1987. The following year she was treated successfully for breast cancer; and the Cardiothoracic Institute, where she was now professor emerita, was renamed the National Heart and Lung Institute. She was not to be idle, as she was elected president of the Royal College of Physicians in 1989. This was the time of major reforms of the National Health Service under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, including the introduction of the internal market; Margaret Turner-Warwick was constructively critical. There was also a looming workforce crisis in the NHS; Margaret created a manpower unit at the RCP to collect detailed and reliable data to use in pressing for expansion of the consultant workforce. After demitting office, Margaret returned to Devon, serving as chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Health Care NHS Trust from 1992 to 1995. During her clinical and research career, she published over 200 papers and several books, including a monograph on lung immunology. She established an international reputation in the field of respiratory medicine and research, and numerous honours came her way, including being made Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1991, and being named a ‘giant in chest medicine’ by the American College of Chest Physicians in 2014. When the Thoracic Society and British Thoracic Association merged in 1982, she was elected the first president of the new British Thoracic Society; she was a former council member and later vice president of the British Lung Foundation, a vice president of the national tuberculosis charity TB Alert, and chairman of the medical research committee of the Asthma Research Council. She received the president’s award of the European Respiratory Society in 1997, and the president’s medal of the British Thoracic Society in 1999. She sat on the Medical Research Council’s systems board, and the University of London senate, and was a trustee of the Rayne Foundation, chairman of the board of governors of Bedales School in Hampshire, and an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple. She held honorary doctorates of science from seven British universities. She gave many named lectures, including the Harveian Oration of the Royal College of Physicians, and was an honorary fellow of numerous national and international academic bodies. In 2015, at the age of 90, she performed the official opening of the Margaret Turner-Warwick education centre at the National Heart and Lung Institute. Despite Margaret’s academic and administrative achievements, the care of her patients was always her principal consideration. She was also committed to her staff and was always supportive, and an excellent mentor; she helped launch the careers of many of the next generation of respiratory researchers. She could be formidable in debate and had exacting standards, but she possessed great charm and a mischievous sense of humour, and was always fun to be with, and keen to hear the latest news from her former institutions. Outside medicine, Margaret had a wide range of interests. She loved music, and was a good violinist, and also a very competent watercolourist. In retirement she tended her garden, and also enjoyed windsurfing until late in life. She was devoted to her family and was proud that her daughter Lynne and granddaughter Tabitha both followed her into the medical profession. Margaret published an autobiography, *Living medicine: recollections and reflections* (London, Royal College of Physicians), in 2005. Margaret died from complications of aortic valve disease at the age of 92, in the care of the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, where she had spent most of her working life. Her memorial service was held across the road in St Luke’s Church, Chelsea: it was packed full. Under a dark suit her husband Richard wore a colourful Fair Isle jersey; when he spoke movingly about Margaret he explained that she had knitted it for him while being treated for her tuberculosis in Switzerland. She was survived by Richard, her daughters Gillian and Lynne, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Noel Snell
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First Title value, for Searching Banting, Sir Frederick Grant (1891 - 1941)

2024-05-02T05:11:12Z

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Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation Physician
Details Frederick Grant Banting, the discoverer of insulin, was born at Alliston, Ontario on 4 November 1891, fifth child and fourth son of William Thompson Banting, farmer, of Irish extraction, and Margaret Grant, his wife, of Scotch extraction. He was educated at Alliston High School and Toronto University, where he graduated MB in 1916. On the outbreak of war he had enlisted as a private, but was sent back to college. He joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps as soon as he had qualified and served in Canada, France, and England, being promoted captain on 9 December 1917. He saw a good deal of fighting, was wounded in the arm at Cambrai, and won the Military Cross in 1918. He was later invalided to England with blood-poisoning and while here took the MRCS in 1918. He went back to Canada in 1919 as resident surgeon at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. Next year he moved to London, Ontario, where he practised privately and was a part-time assistant in physiology at Western Ontario University. In 1921 he went back to Toronto as lecturer in pharmacology at the university, becoming senior demonstrator in the department of medicine in 1922, and professor of medical research in 1923, a chair which he held till his death. His own account of his early practice and research may be read in his Cameron lecture in the *Edinburgh Medical Journal*, 1929. On 16 May 1921 he began his research on the internal secretion of the pancreas, in collaboration with Professor J J R Macleod and Dr C H Best, and in less than a year announced (1) the discovery of the insulin treatment for diabetes. In 1889 Minkowski and Mering (2) had shown that the pancreas must have an internal secretion dealing with blood-sugar besides the external secretion dealing with food-stuffs in the gut. This internal secretion eluded them and also Schaefer (3), who called it "insulin", from its localization in the islands of Langerhans, as Laguesse had pointed out in 1893 (4). Opie (5) showed in 1901 that in diabetes the island tissue was usually weak or degenerate. In 1908 Zuelzer (6) and Scott (7) in 1912, extracted small quantities of active substance from the dead pancreas, which proved too toxic for medicinal use. In Macleod's department Banting elaborated a new technique for estimating minute changes in the blood-sugar, and with the help of Best's skill he was able to block the external secretion in dogs and recover from the still intact islands an extract which cured experimentally diabetic dogs. Banting and Best verified that the insulin was still present in the dead pancreas and could be extracted with alcohol before its destruction by ferments. This extract J B Collip purified from its toxic constituents, and thus made it available for the treatment of diabetes. The new treatment proved one of the most valuable discoveries, prolonging many lives and preventing much disability. Banting was rewarded by many honours. He was awarded the Starr gold medal for the doctorate and the George Armstrong Peters prize by Toronto University in 1922 and the Reeves prize and Charles Mickle fellowship in 1923; the Nobel prize for medicine with J J R Macleod in 1923; the Johns Scott medal, Philadelphia in 1923; the FRS of Canada in 1925; the Cameron prize at Edinburgh in 1927; the Flavelle medal of the Royal Society of Canada in 1931; the Apothecaries medal of London in 1934; the F N G Starr gold medal of the Canadian Medical Association in 1936; and the Rosenberger gold medal at Chicago in 1924. He was elected Hon FRCS in 1930, FRS in 1935, and Hon FRCP in 1936. He received the DSc from Toronto in 1923, Yale in 1924, and McGill in 1936, and the LLD from Queen's in 1923 and Western Ontario in 1924. He was knighted KBE in June 1934. Banting went to Stockholm in 1925 to receive his half of the Nobel prize and gave the Nobel lecture; as he felt that Best had been unjustly overlooked by the prize committee he shared his half-prize with him. He also set up a medical research institute at Toronto, afterwards called the Banting Institute, and patients benefited by insulin subscribed nearly £4,500 towards its funds. He became too an active vice-president of the Diabetic Association started in England for the mutual help of diabetics. Another enthusiasm of Banting's was medical care for the Eskimo, and he went to the Arctic in 1927 with a project of starting hospitals there, but the nomadic life of the Eskimo made the scheme impracticable. Banting inspired a real school of young research workers at his institute, and with them carried out much important work. After the completion of his insulin studies he turned his attention to the suprarenal glands, and also made important contributions to the elucidation of the aetiology of cancer, and published a valuable study of silicosis. He was active in helping refugee scientists, and early realized the need for planning medical research to anticipate the demands of the second world war. In this connexion, and in his work after the war had broken out, he showed an unexpected organizing ability. At the beginning of the war Banting came to England as a major in the Canadian AMC and meant to begin research at the Canadian Military Hospital. But in 1940 he went back to Canada to serve on the technical and scientific development committee set up in Ottawa, and began to work on the physiological problems of high flying and the elimination of airman's black-out. He worked at his own institute and at various air stations. In 1941 he started to fly to England on a mission connected with this work, but the aeroplane crashed at Musgrave Harbour in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, on Friday 21 February. The navigator and another passenger were killed outright, but Banting did all he could for Mackey the pilot, before he himself died in the snow. Mackey, who had head injuries, was alone rescued alive. Banting's body was flown to Toronto where it lay in state in the university convocation-hall before the half-military funeral on 4 March. The service was read by the president of the university and the imperial, dominion, provincial, and city authorities were all represented. A memorial service was held in London on 5 March at St Martin's in the Fields and attended by the presidents of the Royal Colleges. Banting had married first in 1924 Marian, daughter of Dr William Robertson of Elvia, Ontario, and they had one son, William Robertson Banting, born 1929; but the marriage was dissolved in 1932. He married secondly in 1939 Beatrice Henrietta Ball, who survived him. He was a talented painter whose pictures of arctic landscape were particularly admired, and a keen amateur singer with a fine baritone voice. He was of large build, and of simplicity and charm of character, but a difficult colleague. A good portrait appeared in the *American Journal of Digestive Diseases*, 1934, 1, facing page 220. On 20 December 1943 a "liberty ship" named the *Sir Frederick Banting* was launched by Lady Banting, in the presence of the Canadian ambassador to the United States and representatives of Toronto University and other institutions connected with Banting's work, at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland. Lady Banting gave a portrait of Banting to hang in the cabin, and the ship was presented by the United States maritime commission to the British government (*Canad med Ass J*. 1944, 50, 181; *J Amer med Ass*. 1943, 123, 1121). Insulin references in text:- (1) Banting, Best and others, *Canadian medical Association Journal*, March 1922, 12, 141. (2) J v Mering und O Minkowski, Diabetes mellitus nach Pankreasexstirpation. *Arch exper Path*. 1889-90, 26, 371. (3) Sir E Sharpey Schafer, *The endocrine organs*. London, 1916. In the second edition (1926), p 343, Schafer says: "The term, insulin, was introduced by de Meyer *Archivio di Fisiologia*, 1, 1909. In ignorance of this it was employed as a convenient term to denote the autocoid of the islet tissue in the first edition of this work, published in 1916. It was independently adopted by Toronto workers in 1922." Banting stated, *Edinburgh Medical Journal*, 1929, that in the laboratory he and his fellow-workers had used the term "isletin", but that Macleod insisted on the term insulin for publication, unaware of its previous use. (4) Laguesse, Sur la formation des îlots de Langerhans. *Comptes rendus, Société de biologie*, 1893, 9th ser 5, 819. (5) Opie, On the relation of chronic interstitial pancreatitis to the islands of Langerhans and to diabetes mellitus. *J exp Med*. Baltimore, 1901, 5, 397. (6) Zuelzer and others, Neuere Untersuchungen über den experimentellen Diabetes. *Deut med Woch*. 1908, 34, 1380. (7) Scott, On the influence of intravenous injection of an extract of pancreas on experimental pancreatic diabetes. *Amer J Physiol*. 1911-12, 29, 306. See also Fielding H Garrison, Historical aspects of diabetes and insulin. *Bull New York Acad Med*. 1925, 1, 127. Bibliography of Banting's principal writings:- Insulin: The internal secretion of the pancreas, with C H Best.* J lab clin Med*. February 1922, 7, 251. Pancreatic extracts in the treatment of diabetes mellitus, with Best and others. *Canad med Ass J*. March 1922, 12, 141; *Trans Ass Amer Phys*. 1922, 37, 337; *Bull Battle Creek San and Hosp Clin*. 1922-23, 18, 155. Pancreatic extracts, with Best. *J lab clin Med*. May 1922, 7, 464. The effects of pancreatic extract (insulin) on normal rabbits, with Best and others. *Amer J Physiol*. September 1922, 62, 162. The effect of insulin on experimental hyperglycaemia in rabbits, with Best and others. *Ibid*. November 1922, 62, 559. Insulin in the treatment of diabetes mellitus, with W R Campbell and A A Fletcher. *J metab Res*. 1922, 2, 547. *The antidiabetic functions of the pancreas and the successful isolation of the anti- diabetic hormone, insulin*, with J J R Macleod. St Louis, 1923. 69 pp. Insulin. *J Mich med Soc*. 1923, 22, 113. The value of insulin in the treatment of diabetes. *Proc Inst Med Chic*. 1922-23, 4, 144. Discussion on diabetes and insulin, with P J Cammidge and others. *Brit med J*. 1923, 2, 445. Insulin in treatment of severe diabetes, with A McPhedran. *NY med J*. 1923, 118, 215; *Trans Ass Amer Phys*. 1923, 38, 370 (discussion, p 405). Observations with insulin on department of soldiers civil re-establishment diabetics, with J A Gilchrist and Best. *Canad med Ass J*. 1923, 13, 565. Insulin, with D A Scott. *Proc Trans Roy Soc Can*. 1923, 3rd ser 17, sect 5, p 81. The use of insulin in the treatment of diabetes mellitus (Nathan Lewis Hatfield lecture No 5). *Trans Coll Phys Phila*. 1923, 45, 153. Factors influencing the production of insulin, with S Gairns. *Amer J Physiol*. 1924, 68, 24. Medical research and the discovery of insulin. *Hygeia*, Chicago, 1924, 2, 288. Insulin. *Internat Clin*. 1924, 34th ser 4, 109. Pharmacologic action of insulin. *J Amer med Ass*. 1924. 83, 1078. Insulin. *Proc Intern Conf Hlth problems trop Amer*. Boston, 1925, 1, 728. *Diabetes and insulin* (Nobel lecture, 15 September 1925). Stockholm, 1925; also in *Sven läk-sälls Handl*. 1925, 51, 189, and *Canad med Ass J*. 1926, 16, 221. History of insulin (Cameron prize essay). *Edin med J*. 1929, 36, 1. Early work on insulin. *Science*, 1937, 85, 594. Medical research: *Inst quart Springfield*, 1924, 15, 11; *Ann clin Med*. 1924-25, 3, 565; *Canad med Ass J*. 1926, 16, 877; N.Y. state J. Med. 1932, 32, 311. Serum studies: Antitryptic properties of blood serum, with S Gairns. *Amer J Physiol*. 1930, 94, 241. Site of formation of phosphatase of serum, with A R Armstrong. *Canad med Ass J*. 1935, 33, 243. Cancer: Resistance to Rous sarcoma, with S Gairns. *Canad med Ass J*. 1934, 30, 615. Study of serum of chickens resistant to Rous sarcoma, with Gairns. *Amer J Cancer*, 1934, 22, 611. Resistance to experimental cancer (Walter Ernest Dixon memorial lecture). *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1939, 32, 245. Silicosis, etc: Silicosis. *J Indiana med Ass*. 1935, 28, 9. Cellular reaction to silica, with J T Fallon. *Canad med Ass J*. 1935, 33, 404. Tissue reaction to sericite, with Fallon. *Ibid*. p. 407. Silicosis research. *Canad med Ass J*. 1936, 35, 289. Heart: Experimental production of coronary thrombosis and myocardial failure, with G E Hall and G H Ettinger. *Canad med Ass J*. 1936, 34, 9. Effect of repeated and prolonged stimulation of vagus nerve in dog, with G E Hall and G H Ettinger. *Ibid*. 1936, 35, 27. Experimental production of myocardial and coronary artery lesions, with Hall. *Trans Ass Amer Phys*. 1937, 52, 204. Vagus stimulation and production of myocardial damage, with G W Manning and Hall. *Canad med Ass J*. 1937, 37, 314. Miscellaneous: Observations of cerebellar stimulations, with F R Miller. *Brain*, 1922, 45, 104. Suprarenal insufficiency, with S Gairns. *Amer J Physiol*. 1926, 77, 100. Study of enzymes of stools in intestinal intoxication, with Gairns, J M Lang, and J R Ross. *Canad med Ass J*. 1931, 25, 393. I P Pavlov. *Amer J Psychiat*. 1936, 92, 1481. Physiological studies in experimental drowning; preliminary report by Banting and others. *Canad med Ass J*. 1938, 39, 226.
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First Title value, for Searching Cohen, Henry, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead (1900 - 1977)

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Publication Date 2014-11-20
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Occupation Physician
Details Henry Cohen was born in Birkenhead on February 21, 1900, the son of a draper and clothier, and was educated at the church school of St John when the fees were 2d a week. One of his school masters remembered him as a brilliant boy 'who showed signs of genius when most boys are only beginning to show signs of intelligence'. He won a scholarship to Birkenhead Institute and then captained the Cricket XI, was a champion gymnast and gained slight experience in theatricals. From the Institute he won a scholarship to Oxford, but on the grounds of expense transferred it to Liverpool though he remained so impecunious that he had to walk to and from the ferry every day. His original intention had been to study medicine in order to become a criminal lawyer, but as his studies continued he realised that medicine alone had enough to offer him. He graduated MB ChB in 1922 with first class honours and distinction in every subject in the curriculum, and obtained the MD with special merit in 1924 after further studies in the Universities of London and Paris. He was appointed assistant physician to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1924 and remained on the staff for 41 years. Sheer ability, with an outstanding flair for diagnosis soon made him the most sought-after opinion in the city. In 1934 it was clear to his seniors that he had so far outstripped his colleagues that he was the obvious choice for the Chair of Medicine in the University of Liverpool. From the time when he was appointed to the end of the war he rose to eminence in the conventional ways, election to the FRCP in 1934 and later an examiner to the College, a member of Council 1943-1946, and all this time increasingly in demand as an orator. His lectures and orations were brilliant performances, showing originality, breadth of vision, erudition and wit. Towards the end of a long series of named lectures came the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians in 1970, on the motion of blood in the veins. Of the same standard as his great clinical ability and his oratory was his grasp of administration, particularly his chairmanship of committees. After the introduction of the NHS he became one of the principal outside experts and voluntary advisors to the Ministry. He was the first Vice-Chairman of the Central Health Services Council in 1949, and became Chairman in 1957. His great contribution was that he brought to the Ministry the professional knowledge of the active clinician so that the administration was kept closely in touch with the outside medical world. In recognition of his talents he received a knighthood in 1949 and it was as Sir Henry Cohen that he was elected President of the BMA in 1951. In 1952 he was seriously ill with a coronary thrombosis over which, after several anxious weeks, he triumphed. Unlike most doctors, he strictly adhered to the medical advice he was given, and on recovery gave up his vast private practice and dedicated himself to the national work of the organisation and advancement of British medicine. He presided over countless committees and was a household name to general practitioners, who had good reason to bless the Cohen categories as they struggled with the drugs to be used in the NHS. One of his most important scientific contributions arose by virtue of his chairmanship of the committee dealing with the organisation of poliomyelitis vaccination in this country. He also played a large part in the preparation of the reports on the medical care of epileptics and on staphylococcal infections in hospital, to mention just two among many. His remarkable memory and powers of exposition made him a formidable figure in the counsels of the Ministry of Health, and the debt owed to him by successive Ministers and departmental heads was immense. It was for these great administrative talents that he was created a peer in 1956 and he was the first physician from the provinces to be raised to the House of Lords. When he made his maiden speech on the subject of vivisection, Lord Silkin, deputy leader of the Opposition, said he never heard a more effective maiden speech in the House. It was appropriate that his great grasp of medicine and his legalistic bent were harnessed together when he became President of the General Medical Council in 1961, and anyone reading his summings-up cannot fail to appreciate his humanity. In 1958 he was elected President of the Royal Society of Health, and in 1975 he was re-elected for his fourth five-year term of office. Elected in 1961 President of the National Society for Clean Air, he was also appointed a member of the Clean Air Council. Among his many lectures at this time he delivered the Chadwick Lecture to the Royal Society of Health in 1961. He was invested as an associate Knight of the Order of St John that year and in November was elected President of the General Medical Council. In 1963 he received the Honorary FRCPS Glasgow, the Honorary FFARCS and the Honorary LLD London. In December he retired from the Chairmanship of the Central Health Services Council and of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Health. In March 1964 he was elected to Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He retired from the Chair of Medicine at Liverpool in 1965. In July 1966 he received the Honorary LLD of Hull University and the Honorary DSc of Sussex University. The following year the Gold Medal of the BMA was awarded to him in recognition of his outstanding services to the Association and to the medical profession. He had been a member of the BMA since 1923 and throughout his professional life played an active and important part in its affairs, President 1950-1951, he was elected Vice-President in 1953. Over the years he served on many of its committees. Two of these, of which he was chairman, published reports on the training of a doctor (1948) and on general practice and the training of the general practitioner (1950). The honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law was conferred on him by Oxford University in 1968, the following year he was elected Honorary FRCS and in 1970 he was elected Chancellor of Hull University. He was appointed Companion of Honour in 1974. Outside medicine his first love was the theatre and he took a very active part in the running of the Liverpool Playhouse. He personally helped to select the plays, and as he was a shrewd businessman the Liverpool Repertory Company was one of the few in the country to make money. His favourite theatre story was that when as a small boy he had taken the part of the first watchman in *Much ado about nothing* it had been reported in the local press that 'The first watchman had two lines to speak and both were inaudible'. His later distinction as an orator showed that the words of the critic had not fallen on stony ground. His other great love outside medicine was the collection of old silver, and when he was President of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1954 his inaugural lecture on the subject delighted his medical and lay audience. He said that it satisfied the intellect as well as the aesthetic senses as a leisure occupation. He enjoyed his television sporting programmes and when talking to patients he always knew the results of the Reds and Blues football matches. His publications included *New pathways in medicine* (1935); *Nature, method and purpose of diagnosis* (1943); *Sherrington: physiologist, philosopher and poet* (1958) and *The evolution of modern medicine* (1958), beside numerous contributions to journals and medical books. Lord Cohen of Birkenhead was an orthodox Jew. He was a bachelor and devoted to his mother, who died some years before him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006354
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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