Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Proctologist

First Title value, for Searching Eisenhammer, Stephen (1907 - 1995)

2024-05-03T05:57:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist
Details Stephen Elsenhammer received his medical education in Cape Town and Edinburgh, qualifying MB ChB Edinburgh in 1930. He obtained his Fellowship in 1941 and specialised in proctology, holding house positions at St Mark's Hospital before returning to South Africa and practising in Johannesburg for many years. He died on 27 March 1995 at the age of 88 in East Surrey Hospital.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007914
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Lionel Evan (1910 - 2002)

2024-05-03T05:57:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist
Details Lionel Jones was born in London on 5 October 1910, the son of Harry Evan, an architect, and Louisa Ada, his wife. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, from which he followed his brother Bertram to St Thomas's Hospital with a Merchant Taylors' scholarship. He had an outstanding career as a student, winning the Musgrove and Tite scholarships. After junior posts at St Mark's under Naunton Morgan, Max Page, E T C Milligan and Lloyd Davies, he worked in Birmingham in the Emergency Medical Service, and then joined the RAF, reaching the rank of Squadron Leader. He was appointed consultant surgeon in Coventry and Rugby in 1948, retiring in 1976. His main interest was proctology. He married a Miss Cooper. They had one son, Brian, who became a doctor, and one daughter, a nurse. He was involved with his local church and had many interests including painting, golf and gardening. He died on 22 May 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008671
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Frederick Swinford (1853 - 1939)

2024-05-03T05:57:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist
Details Born on 17 January 1853 in Westbourne Terrace Road, London, W, the eldest son of Lewis Frederick Edwards, solicitor, and Frances Elizabeth, daughter of John Swinford of Minster Abbey, Isle of Thanet, his wife. His father came from Framlingham, Suffolk, lived at Mitcham, and practised in London. Swinford Edwards was educated at Dulwich College from June 1866 to September 1869, and on leaving school was sent for a short time to learn German at Leipzig and Stuttgart. He entered the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1871 and distinguished himself by his neatness in dissection, gaining the junior anatomical prize at the end of his first year and the senior prize in his second year. He was subsequently a house surgeon at the hospital, and assistant demonstrator of anatomy and teacher of operative surgery in the medical school. In 1880 he was elected assistant surgeon to the West London Hospital at Hammersmith, where he became in succession surgeon, consulting surgeon, and a member of the Board of Management. In 1881 he was appointed surgeon to the St Peter's Hospital for Stone, and in 1884 he became surgeon to St Mark's Hospital for Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum where he worked in conjunction with Sir Alfred Cooper, FRCS. He gradually abandoned general surgery and confined himself to the treatment of disease of the lower alimentary tract, which is now called proctology. He was amongst the first to treat piles by injection, instead of by the methods then in use of ligature, clamp and cautery, and excision. He served as president of the section of proctology at the Royal Society of Medicine, and was an honorary member of the French Association of Urology, the American Proctologic Society, and the Association internationale d'Urologie. He was also president of the West London Medico-chirurgical Society in the year 1902-3. Cheery, benevolent, and clubable he was always much interested in freemasonry, had passed the chair of the Cavendish Lodge, was a founding member of the Rahere Lodge of which he was the Worshipful Master in 1919, and was appointed Past Grand Deacon in the United Grand Lodge of England in 1926 and was Past Assistant Grand Sojourner in the same year. He married Constance Evelyn Jeannette Dudley Driver on 14 June 1890. She survived him with two daughters, the younger of whom served on the Board of Management of the West London Hospital and was a member of the Ladies Guild of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. He died at 68 Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Square, on 29 May 1939. Publications:- Examination of the bladder, and Clinical examination of the urethra, in Quain's *Dictionary of Medicine*, 3rd edition. London, 1902. Operations upon the rectum and anus. Burghard's *System of operative surgery*, 1909, 2, 633. *Diseases of the rectum, anus, and sigmoid colon*, by A. Cooper and F. S. Edwards. 3rd edition by Edwards. London, 1908.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004016
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First Title value, for Searching Guerrier, Hugh Philip (1913 - 2002)

2024-05-03T05:57:39Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Hugh Guerrier was a consultant surgeon in Torbay. He was born in Muswell Hill, London, on 2 January 1913, the only son of Arthur Philip Guerrier, a solicitor, and his wife, Hilda Gwendolene née Davies, whose father was a general practitioner. Hugh was educated at Cambridge House School, Margate, and Highgate School. He first entered the insurance world, working for the Alliance Assurance Company, but in 1934 decided on a career switch to medicine. He studied at Guy's, where he proved himself to be a good tennis player. After qualifying in 1940, he continued in a wide variety of house appointments in and around London in the early war years. He was an outpatient officer at Guy's, then a resident obstetrician, house surgeon and physician at the Southern Hospital, Dartford, then an orthopaedic house surgeon at Lewisham. He finally took a post in Ipswich. He then joined the RAF as a Flight Lieutenant. On returning to civilian life, he gained his FRCS in 1947, and was a registrar at Guy's and then a senior registrar in the department of surgery, where he received training in the developing specialty of urology. In his formative years, he was influenced by Sir Heneage Ogilvie, F R Kilpatrick, W D Doherty and, during clinical assistant posts at St Peter's Hospital, by J Sandrey, and by W B Gabriel at St Mark's Hospital on the City Road. He was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at the Torbay Hospital, Torquay, in 1953, but he continued his specialist interests in urology and, to a lesser extent, proctology. He wrote articles on haematuria and haematospermia, contributed to the *Encyclopaedia for general practice* (edited by G F Abercombie and R M S McConaghey, London, Butterworths, 1963), and to the *Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine* on Paget's disease of the anus. He developed links with the established urology department in Bristol, with John Mitchell, Ashton Miller and Norman Slade, to keep this interest alive. It was in Torquay that he continued to enjoy tennis, also developing further outside interests in sailing, golf and gardening. He was an active member of many learned societies, including the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), of which he was an associate member, serving on it's council from 1970 to 1974. He hosted a successful annual meeting of BAUS in 1974 during his last year on council. Although separated from the metropolis, he was an active member of the sections of urology and proctology of the Royal Society of Medicine, rarely missing a meeting of either and serving on both councils. Many will remember him as a congenial and loyal colleague, whose quiet demeanour and whimsical sense of humour was welcoming. He married Shelagh Streatfeild, a doctor and an anaesthetic registrar at the Royal Free, in 1939. They had four sons, the eldest of whom became a consultant in ENT surgery in Winchester. He retired in 1977, and eventually moved to live in East Sussex, where he and his wife enjoyed gardening and some sailing. He found golf difficult in later years because of cardiac problems. Shelagh, his wife, died in 1988. Hugh continued to live in East Sussex, although his health gradually failed after a stroke. He died on 21 March 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008649
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First Title value, for Searching Lockhart-Mummery, John Percy (1875 - 1957)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25 2014-07-18
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Occupation Proctologist Coloproctologist
Details He was born at Hampstead on 14 February 1875, son of John Howard Mummery FRCS (1847-1926) and Mary Lily, his first wife, daughter of W Lockhart of Shanghai. John Howard Mummery (for a memoir of whom see *Plarr's Lives* 2, 81 and *British dental Journal* 1926, 47, 1023-7) was a prominent dental surgeon in London and had been President of the Odontological Society; he was elected a Fellow of the College in 1923 as a Member of 20 years' standing. His father, John R Mummery, had also been a dentist, but made his mark as an anthropologist. J P L Mummery's younger brother Stanley Parkes Mummery (1878-1945) MRCS also distinguished himself as a dental surgeon. John Percy Lockhart Mummery (in later life he hyphenated the double surname) was educated at the Leys School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the first part of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1897. He was appointed an assistant demonstrator of anatomy at Cambridge. Mummery took his clinical training at St George's Hospital, qualifying in 1899 and proceeding to the Fellowship in 1900 after holding resident posts at St George's, and winning the Thompson gold medal there. He also worked at the North Eastern (now Queen Elizabeth) Hospital for Children at Hackney and at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, but he really found his métier when he was appointed to the staff of St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum in 1903. He became senior surgeon on the retirement of Swinford Edwards in 1913 and was made emeritus surgeon when he himself retired in 1935; in 1940 he was appointed consulting surgeon and a vice-president. Lockhart-Mummery not only made a great career for himself, becoming probably the best-known proctologist in London, but he raised St Mark's from being a small institution into the front rank of special hospitals. His work is recorded in the *Collected Papers* published to celebrate the centenary of St Mark's in 1935. Lockhart-Mummery was a Hunterian professor at the College in 1904, lecturing on the physiology and treatment of surgical shock and collapse. The small book which he based on this lecture, *The after-treatment of operations* (1903), was extremely successful, running to four editions and being translated into several languages including Arabic. He won the Jacksonian Prize for 1908 with his essay on diseases of the colon, which he published and subsequently enlarged as *Diseases of the Rectum and Colon* 1923, second edition 1934. He was the first secretary and moving spirit of the British Proctological Society in 1913, and saw it become a section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1939, and became its President. He was also President of the section of proctology at the British Medical Association's annual meeting at Newcastle in 1921, and of the section of children's diseases in the Royal Society of Medicine. Lockhart-Mummery was one of the founders of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, first chairman of its executive committee, and active in its work till the end of his life. He was prominent in promoting the London International Cancer Conference of 1928, was much interested in heredity in cancer and a pioneer of the study of familial polyposis (1925). He published a semi-popular book on the *Origin of Cancer* in 1932, and two collections of fictional essays, *After us* 1936 and *Nothing new under the sun* 1947, the first of which contained an imaginary account of England in AD 2456. He devised an electric sigmoidoscope as early as 1904, while his operation for perineal excision of the rectum (1925) became classical. Lockhart-Mummery was a man of many interests, fond of fishing and a regular player of golf in spite of the handicap of losing a leg while a young man, and, in his old age, of bowls. He was also a keen dog racer, winning the Dog Derby with one of his greyhounds. He married twice: (1) in 1915 Cynthia daughter of R A Gibbons; of the two sons of this marriage, one Hugh Evelyn Lockhart-Mummery FRCS succeeded him at St Mark's Hospital; (2) in 1932 Georgette, daughter of H Polak of Paris. He had practised at 149 Harley Street, but after retirement lived at Hove, where he died on 24 April 1957, aged 82. A Bibliography of his writings is included in the *Collected Papers of St Mark's Hospital* 1935, pages 417-423.
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