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First Title value, for Searching Dent, Andrew Wesley (1955 - 2008)

2024-05-03T00:49:56Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-03-24
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Occupation Emergency medicine specialist Accident and emergency consultant Tropical medicine specialist
Details Andrew Wesley Dent was one of Australia’s most respected accident and emergency surgeons and an aid worker committed to humanitarian work in the third world. Born in Warragul, Victoria on 1 February 1955, he was the fourth child and third son of Ronald William Dent an engineer and his wife Dulcie Rose née Weatherhead, the daughter of a teacher. Educated at Warrangul High School and Wesley College in Melbourne, he then enrolled at the University of Melbourne initially at Queen’s College. He then proceeded to the University Medical School and trained at St Vincent’s Hospital. After graduating with first class honours in 1979, he travelled to Calcutta in 1980 and worked with Mother Theresa at the Missionaries of Charity – the start of his lifelong commitment to medical care in developing countries. In 1981 he came to the UK and did house jobs in casualty at the North Middlesex Hospital, London and in orthopaedics at St James’ Hospital, Balham. Two years later he moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn where he worked with S G Thompson as a general surgeon before finishing his training at the Peterborough District Hospital from 1983 to 1985 under J H Hall and C J S Kent. He passed the fellowship in 1985 and moved to a mission hospital in Shishong in Cameroon where he spent many years as the only qualified surgeon in a small team. While there he did his best to introduce modern medical practice and worked tirelessly to fundraise for what was basically a very under resourced hospital. In 1986 when the volcanic Lake Nyos released a deadly cloud of gases, he was the first doctor on the scene of the disaster which eventually killed about 1700 people. After spending a short time in Australia for the birth of his first son, he moved to Raboul, New Guinea. Here the town was almost completely destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption in 1994 and his research in tropical medicine was cut short. His wife and children were evacuated by the RAAF but he stayed on to give much needed medical aid before returning to Australia in 1995. He was appointed Director of Emergency at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, became a member of the Australian College of Tropical Medicine and a fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine. He established the Emergency Practice Innovation Centre at St Vincent’s and streamlined the accident and emergency services. He was particularly keen to provide a compassionate service and a colleague Guy Sansom, who worked with him for 15 years, said that “He truly believed that the unwashed and the unloved are just as deserving as anyone else is to good quality care…..he just reminded us that everyone deserves a chance.” Active in the training of younger doctors and the author of numerous research papers and practice manuals, he became an associate professor at Melbourne University. He passed a master’s degree in public health and continued to visit New Guinea frequently, establishing the Pacific Health Foundation to ensure that his work continued. In 2008 he was admitted to the Order of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. While working on a kibbutz in Israel in 1977 he met Blandine Janot, she was the daughter of the French constitutional lawyer and politician Raymond Janot. They married in 1978 and had two sons Christian and Stephan. Outside medicine he enjoyed playing golf, squash and cricket. The day after he was named in the Queen’s Birthday honours, he died of colon cancer on 10 June 2008, aged 53, survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, David Hedley (1928 - 2015)

2024-05-03T00:49:56Z

by Susan Wilson
Publication Date 2016-01-21 2016-05-27
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Missionary Tropical medicine specialist
Details David Hedley Wilson was a consultant surgeon in the accident and emergency department, Leeds General Infirmary. He was born in Leeds on 5 October 1928, the son of Herbert Wilson and Phyllis Wilson née Hield. His grandfather had been a master grocer and his father, who served in the First World War, returned to join the business; however, sadly, this collapsed in the 1930's. At the age of eight, David decided that, despite the family being poor, he was going to be a missionary doctor. He was educated at Roundhay School in Leeds. At the age of 15 he met his wife to be and a year later he won a scholarship to study medicine at Leeds University, living at Rawdon Theological College. As well as studying, he loved sport and was the reserve for the 400 metres at the 1948 Olympics. He qualified in 1951 and married Robina McKenzie Simpson in July 1953; so started a relationship that lasted 40 years. After posts in surgery, casualty and obstetrics in Leeds, he took the diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene in Antwerp in 1954. On his 26th birthday, David and Robina sailed with their young baby girl Pamela to Pimu in the Belgian Congo. Their location was a very isolated hospital in the heart of the rain forest. He stayed in the Congo from 1954 to 1968, eventually moving south to a large mission hospital near the Angolan border at Kimpese. On his first period back at home in 1958, he felt the need to train in orthopaedics. In his work in Africa he was dealing with much disability from poliomyelitis and leprosy. He did this training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore. On his return to the Congo, he developed a limb fitting centre, then the only one in Central Africa. During the Congo uprising following independence, Robina returned with the children to the UK and David stayed caring for the patients at Kimpese. During this time, he treated many horrific injuries owing to the civil war. On returning to the UK in 1961, David studied for his FRCS. In 1964 he gained the Edinburgh FRCS and later, in 1988, gained his FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The family returned to the Congo in 1964 and stayed until 1968. During this time, he became a visiting lecturer at the newly formed National University in Kinshasa and medical director of the Institut Médical Evangélique at Kimpese. They now had four children - Pamela, Gerard, John and Christine. In 1968 they returned permanently to the UK and he held registrar posts in orthopaedics in Yorkshire. In 1970 he was appointed as a consultant in accident and emergency medicine at the General Infirmary at Leeds. During the subsequent years, he pioneered the growth of the specialty of accident and emergency medicine, seeking to establish it as a specialty with its own consultants. He wrote textbooks and developed patterns of training throughout the UK. He advised and lectured in Australasia and America, where he was awarded honorary fellowships. He also lectured in Canada and Europe. At this time, he was conducting research in spinal nerve regeneration and the effectiveness of Diapulse (electromagnetic therapy) in the healing of damaged tissues and nerves. He campaigned for the use of seat belts and against drink-driving. He also oversaw the introduction of computerised records in the accident and emergency department at Leeds in 1974. Paul, born in Leeds, completed the family in 1968. David was a committee man! He sat on various national committees and became an examiner for the FRCS (accident and emergency surgery) from 1982 to 1990 in Edinburgh. During this period, he represented the specialty of accident and emergency surgery on the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1986 he played a leading role in the organisation of the first International Conference of Emergency Medicine in London. He was appointed postgraduate dean of medical education at the University of Leeds in 1986, becoming chairman in 1989 and also represented the university on the General Medical Council. In 1990 he was appointed to the chief medical officer's Forum on Education and Training in the Health Service. Sadly, after celebrating 40 years of married life, Robina died of carcinoma of the stomach in 1992. David took retirement to care for her, living at that time in Harrogate. In 1994 he married Susan Evans, a nurse who had also worked in the Congo. They married on 16 April 1994 and David moved to live near Presteigne, mid Wales. He continued to be guided by his Christian faith, maintaining an interest in the church and serving as secretary in the local Baptist Church. He became president of the Baptist Union of Wales and of the Baptist Missionary Society. His love of committees and organisation continued well into his retirement. He was privileged to be one of the founding members of the College of Emergency Medicine and attended the inaugural ceremony officiated by Princess Anne in 2008; the college later became the Royal College in 2015. In 2004 his autobiography *Doctor at the cutting edge* (Houghton Regis, Bound Biographies) was published. He loved walking and gardening, enjoying the beauty of his home and life in mid Wales, although he was always proud to be called a Yorkshire man. Sadly, David developed vascular dementia and over a five-year period there was a slow decline; he was cared for in his home until he died on 4 October 2015, just two hours short of his 87th birthday. David was a visionary, always challenging the status quo and seeking better ways of doing things. He will be remembered for his contribution to changing the face of accident and emergency medicine, his Christian service in the UK and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and for his diplomacy in committees.
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First Title value, for Searching Barratt, John Oglethorpe Wakelin (1862 - 1956)

2024-05-03T00:49:56Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15 2016-08-17
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Occupation Bacteriologist Pathologist Tropical medicine specialist
Details Born on 11 May 1862 at Birmingham, the son of Oglethorpe Wakelin Barratt MRCS, he was educated at University College, London. Although he took the Fellowship soon after qualifying, Barratt never practised surgery but spent his life in research, producing valuable work in a variety of fields. While making postgraduate study at Göttingen and Munich he contributed papers to the German journals of physiology and bacteriology. He worked in the physiology and pathology departments at University College 1893-96, was a research scholar in neuropathology in the London County Council's asylums 1897-99 and pathologist to the West Riding Asylum at Wakefield 1899-1903. He held a British Medical Association research scholarship 1903-05 and then, after a year as assistant bacteriologist to the Lister Institute, spent a year (1906-07) in the Cytology and Cancer Research Department of Liverpool University. The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine sent him to Nyasaland in 1907 as senior member of its Blackwater Fever Expedition. His valuable findings were published between 1909 and 1911, while he was director of cancer research at Liverpool. He came back to the Lister Institute in 1913 with a Beit memorial fellowship to research on blood plasma and serum reactions. This work was interrupted by his service in France during the war of 1914-18 as a Captain RAMC with the 1st City of London Sanitary Company. Wakelin Barratt was Master of the Society of Apothecaries in 1933-34. He married Dr Mary Muter Gardner of Stonehouse, Lanark, in 1913, and she survived him. He lived at 56 Alfriston Road, Clapham Common, and died on 1 December 1956 aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Vevers, Geoffrey Marr (1890 - 1970)

2024-05-03T00:49:56Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24 2015-09-04
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Occupation Parasitologist Tropical medicine specialist Zoologist
Details Born on 20 September 1890 at Hereford, he was the younger son of Henry Vevers, surgeon of Hereford, and he received his early education there before entering St Thomas's Medical School in 1909. On the outbreak of war in 1914, he went to France as a dresser with the British Red Cross Society but, after being sent back to qualify in 1915, he again served as Captain RAMC throughout the war in France until 1919, qualifying for the 1914-15 Star. He served as a casualty officer at St Thomas's and in 1919 became assistant helminthologist at the London School of Tropical Medicine until 1923, having been awarded a Beit Memorial Fellowship during the years 1920-22. He was honorary parasitologist to the Zoological Society of London from 1919 to 1921 and in 1921 was a member of the Filariasis Commission to British Guiana. In 1923 he was appointed superintendent to the Zoological Society of London which post he held until his retirement in 1948, receiving the Society's silver medal in 1942. In 1947 the Zoological Society of Glasgow and the West of Scotland awarded him its gold medal and he was also an honorary member of the Zoological Societies of Philadelphia and of Ireland. When the society decided to start the collection at Whipsnade he was chief assistant to the then secretary, Sir Philip Chalmers Mitchell and he built a house for himself there as he had to do most of the field work. He paid several visits to Moscow where he succeeded in obtaining a number of rare animals and where he became a great admirer of the USSR, editing the Anglo-Soviet journal from 1939-1946. As a student at St Thomas's he became a close friend of P H Mitchiner, who later became an honorary fellow of the Zoological Society and in 1946 Vevers was elected a Fellow of the College as a member of twenty or more years standing. Vevers wrote numerous scientific papers and also childrens books on natural history, on which subject he regularly broadcast in the BBC "Children's Hour". Gardening was his means of relaxation. He died on 9 January 1970 at his home Springfield, Whipsnade, and was survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Hamilton, William Haywood (1880 - 1955)

2024-05-03T00:49:56Z

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 Christopherson, John Brian (1868 - 1955)

2024-05-03T00:49:56Z

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 Johnson, Sir Walter Burford (1885 - 1951)

2024-05-03T00:49:56Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-24
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Occupation Tropical medicine specialist
Details Born 20 December 1885, the youngest son of James Nowell Johnson, inspector of insurances, and his wife Elizabeth Burford. He was educated at the City of London School and St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying in 1908 and taking the Fellowship in 1911. In 1912 he entered the West African Medical Staff, intending to practise as a surgeon. On arrival in Africa, however, he became more interested in public health problems and was seconded in 1913 for research work with the Yellow Fever Commission. During 1914-15 he served as a temporary captain, RAMC, in the Cameroons. He began tsetse fly investigations in northern Nigeria in 1921, work which led to the establishment of the Trypanosomiasis Research Institute at Kaduma. Johnson was appointed Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for Nigeria in 1929, a post which he held with great distinction till 1936. He was created CMG in January 1933 and a Knight bachelor in June 1935. He was instrumental in establishing the Nigerian Medical School. After retiring he became Superintendent of the Botsabelo Leper Institute at Maseru in Basutoland, and was subsequently medical adviser to the High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland. Johnson was unmarried. His life and work were shared by his sister Miss Mary Johnson, MBE. They lived at The Thatch, Penhill Estate, Eersteriver, Cape Province, where he died on 5 July 1951, aged 65. Johnson was essentially a field worker, though also an able administrator. He was a man of abounding energy and goodwill, loved and admired by countless Europeans and Africans, and was known to his friends as Buff. He thought little of driving his Ford truck from Nigeria north to England or south to the Cape, accompanied by his sister. He was a big-game hunter and a fisherman, fond also of travel and of golf. He was a strong swimmer and nearly lost his life in a gallant attempt to rescue a friend off Lagos beach. Johnson was the author of many valuable official reports on yellow fever and trypanosomiasis. At the centenary meeting of the British Medical Association in London in 1932 he presided at some of the meetings of the section for tropical medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Ross, Sir Ronald (1857 - 1932)

2024-05-03T00:49:56Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-23
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Occupation General surgeon Tropical medicine specialist
Details Born at Almora in the Kumaon Hills, about the centre of the Himalayan range, on 13 May 1857 the eldest of the ten children of Lieutenant-General Sir Campbell Claye Ross, KCB (1824-92), by his wife, Matilda Charlotte Elderton. He was sent to England in 1865, was educated at Ryde and at Springhill School near Southampton, where he showed some talent and was placed first in all England at the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations. In October 1874 he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital and acted as dresser to Sir William Savory, but held no resident appointment. He was unqualified house surgeon at Shrewsbury Infirmary for six months in 1877-78 and ship's surgeon in the Alsatia, Anchor line, in 1879. He was gazetted surgeon IMS on 2 April 1881, having been posted to the Madras Presidency. He served at various stations until June 1888 when he came to Europe, took a course of bacteriology under Emanuel Klein, and returned to Bangalore as staff surgeon in 1889. He then began his life's work in connexion with malaria. Alphonse Laveran, a French Army surgeon, working in Algeria from 1878-80 had identified a living cause for the disease, as a microscopic protozoal organism which had an asexual phase coincident with the acute stage of the fever and a sexual phase the fate of which was unknown. Patrick Manson had discovered that mosquitoes ingested filariae with the blood of patients suffering from elephantiasis, and suggested to Ross that malaria parasites might pass in the same way or might infect healthy persons who swallowed, in drinking water, mosquitoes or even the germs themselves which had been excreted by the insects. Ross to elucidate the problem made many dissections of mosquitoes and distinguished Culex the pot-breeding mosquito and Stegomyia. Continuing his work he discovered the malaria plasmodium in the stomach of Anopheles, the pool-breeding mosquito, on 20 August 1897 whilst working in the hospital at Begumpett near Ootacamund, and in July 1898 he demonstrated it in the ducts and salivary glands of the insect. Working with birds, as Laveran had already done, Ross then extended his results to humans. He proved that the malaria organism was not passed directly from victim to victim by the mosquito, but that it underwent regular changes in its life history within the insect, which did not become infective to a new host for twelve days in the case of human malaria. Ross left the Indian Medical Service in 1899 and after a journey to West Africa was appointed professor of tropical medicine in University College, Liverpool. In 1901 he lectured in the United States, in 1907 went to study malaria in Mauritius, and in 1913 for the same purpose to Cyprus. During the war he served in Alexandria and in 1917 was appointed consultant on malaria with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the RAMC(T). He resigned his post at the University of Liverpool, came to London, was made consultant in malaria to the Ministry of Pensions, and founded at Putney Heath the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases. The Institute was opened by HRH the Prince of Wales in 1926. Ross was also editor of *Science Progress* from 1913 till his death. At no time a rich man, Ross sold the papers connected with his discoveries in malaria. They were bought by Lady Houston for £2,000 and were presented by her to the Ross Institute, where they are now preserved. In 1929 a "Ross Award Fund" was collected by scientific friends which amounted to £15,513. He married in 1889 Rosa (d 1931), daughter of A B Bloxham, a lady of much talent who contributed greatly to the success of her husband's work. He died on 16 September 1932. Many honours came to Ross, but somewhat late in life. He was awarded the Parkes' memorial gold medal at Netley on 20 March 1895; the silver medal of the Society of Arts in 1901; the Cameron prize, Edinburgh University, in 1902; the Nobel prize in medicine in 1902; the Barclay bronze medal of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, in 1903; the Royal gold medal of the Royal Society in 1909; besides other distinctions conferred by foreign governments and societies. Ross's nature was complex. Coming of a highly artistic family, both in music and water-colour sketching, he added some skill in mathematics and the dogged perseverance, amounting to genius, which enabled him to unravel the life history of the malarial plasmodium. He failed to appreciate, however, that great discoveries need time to be appreciated, and his life was embittered by what he considered to be deliberate official neglect of his work. His poetry was of a high order of merit, more especially the privately printed *In Exile*, a suite of verses written 1890-97. Publications: *Instructions for the prevention of malarial fever*. University Press, Liverpool, 1899; 6th edition, 1901. *Malarial fever, its cause, prevention, and treatment*. University Press, Liverpool, 1902; translated into German, 1904 and into modern Greek, 1906. *Mosquito brigades and how to organise them*. London, 1902 (*Lpool Sch Trop Med*, Memoir 2). He wrote several mathematical papers, in addition to his purely scientific papers, which appeared chiefly in the *British Medical Journal* and the *Indian Medical Gazette*, and the poems and romances.
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First Title value, for Searching Rogers, Sir Leonard (1868 - 1962)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-06
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Occupation Pathologist Tropical medicine specialist
Details Born on 18 January 1868 in Cornwall the son of Captain Henry Rogers RN, he was educated at Plymouth College and St Mary's Hospital where he passed the final examination for the Fellowship at the age of 24 while holding the post of resident obstetric officer. He then entered the Indian Medical Service being gazetted Lieutenant on 29 July 1893, his subsequent promotions being to Captain in 1896, to Major in 1905, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1913 and he retired in that rank in 1921. He was, however, immediately appointed to the Medical Board of the India Office on which he served for twelve years being its President in 1928-33 and being promoted Major-General on 3 November 1928. As he himself said he joined the IMS "solely in the hope of finding better opportunities for research when there were few openings in Great Britain", and again "I fear I made little use of the Fellowship except as having been the first to diagnose and operate on biliary abscesses of the liver in 1903 in Calcutta". A dedicated research worker he did, however, in the course of his regimental duties in various parts of India, demonstrate his abilities as an all-round clinician and public health administrator before devoting himself exclusively to research work. As Professor of Pathology in the Medical College in Calcutta he took the initiative in founding and endowing the School of Tropical Medicine which stands in Calcutta as a permanent memorial to his name. Although his work on cholera, amoebic dysentery and kala-azar saved many, he was proudest at having galvanised interest in leprosy by founding the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association in 1923, he himself having for many years been interested and having devised many improvements in the methods of using chaulmoogra oil in its treatment. In the late nineties he commenced research on snake venom and, in the course of hazardous experiments into its nature, improved the methods of production of antivenene. In 1904, by a brilliant piece of work carried out at the research station at Maktesar near Naini Tal in the Himalayan foothills, he predicted the development of Leishman Donovan bodies outside the blood of man, although he had been forestalled by those two workers in the actual discovery of the parasite of kala-azar in 1903. He next turned his attention to cholera and he proved that the mortality could be substantially reduced by intravenous hypertonic saline and oral potassium permanganate, travelling to Palermo in 1911 to test out his methods in a great epidemic raging in that city. In 1912 he discovered the curative action of emetine in amoebic dysentery and in 1915 made another advance by discovering the use of intravenous tartar emetic in the treatment of kala-azar. On his return to England he was appointed a physician to the Hospital for Tropical Disease and lecturer to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Numerous honours and distinctions were awarded him and he had already in 1916 been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1924 he was Croonian lecturer at the College of Physicians and his distinctions included the Moxon Gold Medal of that College, the Fothergill Gold Medal of the Medical Society of London, the Presidency of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1933 to 1935, the Laveran Medal in 1956 and honorary membership of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. A prolific writer he published numerous papers and textbooks including one on *Tropical Medicine* in conjunction with Major-General Sir John Megaw, a friend and contemporary, a book on *Dysentery and Bowel Disease in the Tropics* and one on *Leprosy* in conjunction with E Muir. He retained his interest in tropical disease into advanced old age and contributed articles from his home in Cornwall, bombarding younger colleagues with technical advice on medical and financial matters. In 1926 he had entrusted the Medical Research Council with an endowment for research in tropical medicine and in 1945 he raised this to fifteen thousand pounds. A staunch upholder of the Research Defence Society, he was prepared to mount a soap box in Hyde Park in answer to the anti-vivisectionists. In 1950 he published his fascinating and modest memoirs *Happy Toil* (Frederick Muller 1950), which was at first refused by the publishers on the grounds that it was quite impossible for one man to have done so much. In 1953 he received the congratulations of the President and Council on having completed sixty years as a Fellow, and in 1958 at the age of 90 The Lancet published his paper on "The Forecasting and Control of Cholera epidemics in SE Asia and China". A forceful, energetic, striking personality, he exerted a memorable influence on his students by whom he was held in great affection. He was, moreover, of a most upright, kindly disposition, ever helpful to his friends. He married in 1914 in his late forties Una Elsie, daughter of C N McIntyre North who died in 1951 and by whom he had three sons, Dr Gordon Leonard Rogers, Professor Claude Ambrose Rogers FRS, Professor of Mathematics in London University, and Dr Stephen Clifford Rogers. He died in Truro Hospital on 16 September 1962 aged 94, the senior Fellow of both Royal Colleges.
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First Title value, for Searching Browne, Stanley George (1907 - 1986)

2024-05-03T00:49:56Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-12 2016-02-02
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Occupation Tropical medicine specialist
Details Stanley Browne was born on 8 December 1907, in New Cross, London, the second son of Arthur Browne, a civil servant, and of his wife Edith (née Lillywhite). The family originated in Norwich, and were connected with the foundation of English nonconformity. Early education was at Waller Road (New Cross) Elementary School, Brockley Central School and at LCC evening classes. On leaving school at the age of 16 he took an appointment in the Town Clerk's department of Deptford Borough Council. While there he passed the College of Preceptors' Senior Certificate examination with distinctions. He also studied at the LCC Evening Institutes in Forest Hill and Peckham, from which he took examinations of the Royal Society of Arts (English, with medal, and French with distinction), of the National Union of Teachers (including English with medal) and in Pitman's shorthand (120 words a minute). He took part five times in the All-England National Sunday School Union scripture examinations, winning gold, silver and bronze medals. In 1926 he passed the London Matriculation in the first division, and took supplementary logic in 1927. The same year he was awarded an LCC non-vocational scholarship tenable for two years at King's College. There he gained further prizes before proceeding to King's College Hospital with the Raymond Gooch Scholarship. At King's he won prizes, medals and distinctions in every branch of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and pathology. He became an Associate of King's College (AKC) and later FKC. After graduating in 1933 with honours in the London MB, BS (distinctions in surgery, forensic medicine and hygiene) and taking the Conjoint Diploma the same year he was appointed house physician to Sir Charlton Briscoe, JL Livingstone and Terence East and then house surgeon to Cecil Wakeley, Edward Muir, HLC Wood and Yates Bell. He was specially influenced by Cecil Wakeley and by Edward Muir, whose first house surgeon he was. Then, after locum medical and surgical registrarships he studied in Antwerp at the Institut de Médecine Tropicale. In 1934 he had successfully sat for the MRCP examination and in 1935 for the FRCS. As a postgraduate he had also been awarded the Murchison Scholarship of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Sir Charlton Briscoe Prize for research from King's College Hospital. In 1936 he took the DIM Antwerp, and felt prepared for his life's ambition, to be a medical missionary. He sailed for Africa the same year to serve with the Baptist Missionary Society at Yakusu in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire). At Yakusu he was in charge of an area of 10,000 square miles in which he developed from scratch a programme of community care based on 18 health centres and 35 treatment centres. These became a model in Africa for the control of endemic diseases. One of his achievements was the discovery of the larval stage of *Onchocerca volvulus*, which led to the control of river blindness over a large area. His main scientific pre-occupation was in the field of leprosy. His prolific publications, both in English and French, gained him wide recognition. During his time in the Congo he was Medécin Agré, Congo, Belge; Médecin-Directeur, first of the École Agrée d'Infirmiers, then of the Service Médicale de la BMS, Yakusu and finally of the Leproserie de Yalisombo. In 1949 Browne left the Congo and was appointed senior specialist leprologist and director of the Leprosy Research Unit, Ukuakoli, Eastern Nigeria. There he did pioneering studies on B663, one of the newly synthesised riminophenazine compounds. It proved to be one of the three most effective anti-leprosy drugs, and was also found to have anti-inflammatory properties. It was later named Clofazimine. His work received wide recognition. He was appointed associate lecturer in leprosy at the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos and received a Leverhulme travel grant, to investigate training of medical auxiliaries in the Belgian Congo, and a World Health Organisation grant to visit leprosy research institutions. He became medical consultant to the Leprosy Mission, the Order of Charity, the Hospital and Homes of St Giles, the All-Africa Leprosy Rehabilitation and Training Centre (ALERT), the Albert Schweizer Hospital at Lambarene (English Committee), the Chairman of the Christian Medical Fellowship and of the editorial board of *Leprosy review*. He was also a member of the editorial board of the *International journal of leprosy* and of *Tropical Doctor*. He was secretary and treasurer of the International Leprosy Association and Vice-President (1971-73) of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. His foreign appointments included Conseiller Technique, Association de Leprologues de Langue Francaise; Visiting Professor, Institut de Médecine Tropicale, Antwerp; Membre Titulaire, Société Belge de Médecine Tropicale, and honorary member of the Argentine Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and of the Argentine Society of Investigative Leprology. Browne was an indefatigable worker, and published in all some 500 articles on medical subjects - mainly leprosy, tropical dermatology, filariasis, onchocerciasis and medical education in the tropics. These appeared in English and French in 30 or so journals. He was also a dedicated Christian - President 1969-71, of the Christian Medical Fellowship and Chairman, 1972-75, of the International Congress of Christian Physicians. The publications by which he wished to be remembered were *Congo, as the doctor sees it* and *Leprosy, new hope and continuity challenge*. He was proud to be the subject of a book by Sylvia and Peter Duncan (Odhams, 1958), *Bonganga, the story of a missionary doctor*. After leaving Africa "Leprosy Browne", as he was widely known, put the damage to his work at Uzuakoli during the Nigerian civil war behind him. As director of the Leprosy Study Centre in London he continued until it was closed in 1980. He was adviser in leprosy to the DHSS and medical secretary of Lepra. He remained an active Christian, and was President of the Baptist Union, 1980-81. He was a powerful speaker on religious occasions. He married in 1940 Ethel Marion Williamson, MA Oxon, daughter of the Rev HR Williamson, D.Litt, the distinguished sinologist. They had three sons, two of them doctors, members of the College. He died suddenly on 29 January 1986, aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Drew, Sir William Robert Macfarlane (1907 - 1991)

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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 Firth, Sir Robert Hammill (1857 - 1931)

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Occupation Tropical medicine specialist
Details Eldest son by the second marriage of John Firth, who was in the educational department of the HEICS, and of Maria, his wife, daughter of Major Robert Hammill, 18th Royal Irish Regiment, was born in Bombay, 1 December 1857. He was educated privately by the Rector at Ware, Herts, and then at University College, London, and he matriculated from Oriel College, Oxford, but never graduated, as his studies were interrupted by a visit to a brother in South America. He joined the Army Medical Department as a surgeon on 3 August 1883, becoming colonel AMS 13 November 1912, and retiring 25 December 1917. He was awarded the Alexander memorial prize and medal in 1888 and in 1891, and the Parkes memorial prize and medal for hygiene in 1889 and again in 1892. His first tour of foreign service was in India, where he served with the Hazara expeditionary force in 1888, receiving the medal and clasp. In 1892 he was appointed assistant professor of hygiene at the Army Medical School, Netley, and held the post until 1897, J Lane Notter being professor. On completing his five years' tenure as assistant professor, Firth returned to India, and took part in the operations during the Tirah expedition on the North-West Frontier 1897-98 and gained the medal with two clasps. Having by this time become known for his work on hygiene, for he had published conjointly with Lane Notter a standard work on *The theory and practice of hygiene*, he was detailed to investigate the causes of an increase in sickness due to enteric fever amongst the troops at Rawalpindi, and was subsequently sent to Lucknow to work at the bacteriology of dysentery. The results of his investigations were published in the *British Medical Journal*, 1902, 2, 936 and 1094, under the title "The influence of soil, fabrics, and flies in the dissemination of enteric infection", and "A comparative study of some dysentery bacilli" in the *Journal of the RAMC*, 1903, 1, 436. The latter paper was issued jointly with Major W H Horrocks and is extremely well illustrated. In 1906 he was appointed instructor at the School of Army Sanitation, when it was first established at Aldershot, and in that position he laid the foundations of the knowledge which was used to such good effect in the war of 1914-18. He proceeded again to India on the termination of his appointment, and on his return filled for a time the position of Sanitary Officer at Army Headquarters, a post which was abolished on 1 December 1912, the title being ADMS (Sanitary). In March 1915 he became ADMS of the 20th Division of the British Expeditionary Force in France, and in September 1915 he was appointed DDMS of the 11th Corps, a position he held until May 1917, when he retired on reaching the age limit and was transferred to the Havre base. For his services he was mentioned three times in despatches, received the Victory and Allied medals, was decorated CB (mil) in 1918 and was invested KBE (mil) in 1919. He was a Grand Officer of the Order of Avis of Portugal, and in 1919 received a silver medal from the municipality of Havre in recognition of the medical services rendered to the civil population of the town. In 1924 he was awarded a well-earned "good service reward". He was for many years a member of council and examiner at the Royal Sanitary Institute, a member of council of the Royal Institute of Public Health, and a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. From 1927 to 1931 he was president of the Army Medical Officers' Widows and Orphans Fund. He was also a member of the Société de Médecine militaire française and at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association held at Swansea in 1903 he held office as vice-president of the section of state medicine. He married on 15 March 1884 Mary, eldest daughter of William Knight, solicitor, of Cardiff and Appledore, Devon, who died before him leaving one daughter. He died on Saturday, 6 June 1931, at his house in Finchley Road, NW. Firth carried on the tradition of Army sanitation which began with Parkes and it was largely due to the interest in his subject which he excited in officers of the combatant forces during the time he was in charge of the School of Army Sanitation at Aldershot that the British forces maintained so good a record of health during the war of 1914-18. Publications:- *The theory and practice of hygiene*, with J Lane Notter. London, 1896. This work practically replaced the excellent *Manual of practical hygiene* prepared especially for use in the medical service of the Army, which was written by E A Parkes in 1864 and was edited from the fifth edition in 1878 by Professor de Chaumont. The third edition of *The theory and practice of hygiene*, published in 1908, was brought out by Firth alone; the ninth edition appeared in 1921. *Practical domestic hygiene*, with J L Notter. London, 1897. *Military hygiene, a manual of sanitation for soldiers*. London, 1908. *Musings of an idle man*. London, 1919. Editor of the *Journal of the RAMC*. vol. 1, 1903. The succeeding volumes were edited by David Bruce.
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