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First Title value, for Searching Shah, Jelal Moochool (1886 - 1967)

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First Title value, for Searching Kilburn, Helen Patricia ( - 1989)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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Occupation Gynaecologist Orthopaedic surgeon Venereologist
Details Helen Patricia Kilburn qualified MB BS in Sydney in 1942 at the Brisbane General Hospital. She was appointed senior medical officer at the Innisfail District Hospital in Queensland in 1944. From there she moved to the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children in Sydney where she was clinical assistant in gynaecology from 1948 to 1951. Moving to the United Kingdom she became clinical assistant in venereology to St Thomas's. Leaving London for Surrey, she became clinical assistant in orthopaedics for the St Helier Group of Hospitals. She was a member of the BMA and of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Disease. She retired to Rye in East Sussex and is thought to have died in early 1989.
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First Title value, for Searching Greenslade, Charles Mills (1895 - 1971)

2024-05-05T00:30:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-04
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist Venereologist
Details Charles Greenslade was born in Dunedin, New Zealand and was educated at the Otago Boys' High School before proceeding to the Otago Medical School from where he qualified in 1918. After graduation he immediately enlisted in the 1st NZEF and proceeded overseas for the duration of the war. On discharge from the Army he commenced his postgraduate studies in London, first at St Bartholomew's Hospital and later as resident surgical officer at the Royal Infirmary Sheffield (1921-22) and then assistant superintendent of Paddington Hospital (1922-26). In 1924 he obtained his Fellowship and returned to Dunedin in 1926 to take up the appointment of consultant surgeon and lecturer in surgery at the Otago Medical School. Although Greenslade was basically a general surgeon his chief interest lay in urology and venereology and he was chiefly instrumental in organising the VD clinic in Dunedin which he conducted until his retirement in 1955. He had many interests outside medicine, in particular he will be remembered for his work in Heritage, Rotary, and for his many sporting achievements. He was a district governor of Rotary from 1947-48 and President of Heritage from 1964-66. In his retirement his chief interest was fishing and it was while he was enjoying this pastime on the Eglinton River that he was accidentally drowned on 28 November 1971. He was survived by his wife, son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Crone, William Plunkett (1919 - 1980)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon Venereologist
Details William Plunkett Crone was born on 23 March 1919, in London, the second child and first son of William Crone, a civil servant and secretary to the Northern Ireland Government Board of Trade. His mother was Mary Jane, née Plunkett. His early education was at the Methodist College, Belfast. He entered Queen's University, Belfast, where he qualified as a doctor in 1942. He then joined the RAF reaching the rank of Acting Squadron-Leader. After the war he became an ex-service registrar in Leeds, the resident surgical officer at Leeds General Infirmary and finally senior surgical registrar, where he worked for the late George Armitage. He took his FRCS in 1953. He published papers on retro-peritoneal rupture of the duodenum and intestinal polyposis associated with pigmentation and intussusception in triplets, in the *British medical journal*, 1954. He was appointed consultant surgeon in Goole and Pontefract, but gave up surgical practice in the early 1960s. He then became consultant venereologist to the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and the Royal Halifax Infirmary after working as medical assistant in venereology to the Leeds Regional Hospital Board. He was a member of Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society and Leeds Regional Surgical Club. His pastime was golf. In 1947 he married Dr Agnes A Jervis, daughter of Dr J Johnstone Jervis, Medical Officer of Health for the city of Leeds. He died on 4 May, 1980, leaving his wife, one daughter who is a dermatologist, and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching McDonagh, James Eustace Radcliffe (1881 - 1965)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-12
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Occupation Venereologist
Details James McDonagh was born in London on 17 October 1881, and was educated at Bedford School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He also studied in Vienna. Qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1906, he subsequently worked for the Fellowship which he obtained in 1909. In his practice he developed a special interest in venereal disease, and was appointed surgeon to the London Lock Hospital. For a time he lectured on venereology at St Bartholomew's, and gave a Hunterian Lecture at the College of Surgeons in 1916. His chief interest, however, was in research into the nature of disease, and into the treatment of various diseases by the newer drugs - Ehrlich entrusted to him the first consignment to this country of Salvarsan 606 which revolutionized the treatment of syphilis. In 1929 he founded the Nature of Disease Institute, of which he was Director, and the work which he did there formed the basis of a large number of publications, including a text book on venereal diseases. He was a cultured man with a great love for flowers and flowering shrubs which he cultivated in the garden of his home at Storrington, and later after his move to Stowmarket, where he died on 14 February 1965. He will be remembered in the College for a collection of nearly 300 19th century skin disease portraits which he presented to the library in 1959.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Archibald Gordon (1898 - 1972)

2024-05-05T00:30:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation Dermatologist Venereologist
Details Archibald Gordon Smith was born at Gourock on 19 December 1898, and was educated at Greenock Academy and Glasgow University where he graduated MB ChB in 1920. During the first world war he interrupted his studies in 1917 and joined the Navy as a Surgeon Probationer. After graduation he became house surgeon to Sir William MacEwen, and then moved to Norwich where he was house surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, the first attachment to a hospital which later became the principal focus of his professional career. But after his junior hospital posts Smith was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital, and passed the FRCS in 1925. He then went out to Colombo as Professor of Anatomy for three years, after which he decided to return to clinical work in a partnership in Bombay where he developed an interest in dermatology. This led to a course of study in Paris and the MD Glasgow in 1934 after which he returned to Norwich to practice as a dermatologist. It was in this capacity that he was later appointed to the staff of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. In the second world war he joined the army as specialist in dermatology and venereology serving in the United Kingdom. In 1945 he was adviser in dermatology, stationed at Rawalpindi, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and in the following year he returned to Norwich, where he remained until his retirement in 1964. He was popular with his colleagues who admired his kindly good humour, and his interest in classical history and archaeology. He had been President of the Norfolk and Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society. He died at his home in Beccles on 2 January 1972, and was survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Holgate, Albert William (1896 - 1976)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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Occupation General surgeon Venereologist
Details Albert William Holgate was born at Halifax on 8 November 1896. His mother's father was Dr Keighley of Batley, Yorks. He was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich. He obtained the MRCS LRCP in 1918 and graduated MB BS the following year. He held house appointments at University College Hospital and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, and came under the influence of Wilfred Trotter and Leonard Joyce of Reading. He took the FRCS in 1928 and MS in 1929. From 1930 until 1961, when he retired, he was consultant surgeon to Chester Royal Infirmary and to various cottage hospitals in Cheshire and North Wales. As well as serving as consultant surgeon he was also for many years venereologist at the Infirmary and up to within a week of his death was undertaking occasional locum sessions in the speciality. Bill Holgate was a surgeon with profound knowledge and acute diagnostic ability. His surgical technique was impeccable and he was much loved by those who worked with him and by the many patients who owed so much to his skill and care. A quiet, gentle man who never sought fame and publicity, he was one of those who steered the Health Service through its early days by service on committees of all kinds. His recreation was music, and he applied the same assiduity in its study and expression through his playing of the cello as he had given to the practice of his profession. During his retirement he took part in public performances by ensembles and orchestras throughout Cheshire and the Merseyside areas. His first wife died in 1931. In 1935 he again found happiness in marriage to Monica Gamon, SRN, a member of the staff of Chester Royal Infirmary. They had two daughters. He died on 19 April 1976, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Harkness, Arthur Herbert (1889 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-05
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Occupation Venereologist
Details Arthur Harkness was the son of a saddler and he was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal. In South Africa he had a moderate academic career, but was a superb cricketer and in rugby football he played for Natal, being nearly as good as his brother who eventually played for the Springboks. After qualification at Guy's Hospital in 1914 he joined the Royal Naval Reserve and served as a Surgeon-Lieutenant during the Gallipoli campaign and afterwards in submarines and on the famous 'Q' boats. When he returned to England he was put in charge of thousands of sailors suffering from venereal disease and this post decided his future career. When he left the Navy he proceeded to take appointments at St Peters, St Charles and the London Skin Hospital and there he made the study of syphilis and dermatology his chief interests. Harkness in time built up a large private practice and patients from all over the world passed through his hands. His work was of great value and he stood high in the opinion of members of his specialty having served as President and member of the Council of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases. Harkness's chief work was on non-gonococcal urethritis which he established as a clinical entity and his book on this subject published in 1950 became so important that it was recognised by the College of Surgeons who awarded him a Fellowship the following year. Despite his long life Harkness constantly endured ill health, suffering from both typhoid fever and bilharzia. From 1917 onwards he also suffered from a duodenal ulcer for many years which plagued him with multiple bleedings and four perforations; he was finally cured by a partial gastrectomy. Harkness married and his wife pre-deceased him, but he was survived by his sister who at the time of his death lived in Durban. He died quietly at his home in Wimpole Street on 12 November 1970 at the age of 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Dawson, Edward Owen (1917 - 1977)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist Venereologist
Details Edward Owen Dawson was born in Adelaide, the second son of Sir Bernard Dawson who went to Dunedin in 1931 as the first full-time Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Otago. He was educated at McGlashan College, Dunedin, and at the University of Otago Medical School where he took an interest in athletics and twice represented the university. He graduated MB, ChB in 1941 and was house surgeon at Christchurch Hospital. He enlisted in the New Zealand Army Medical Corps in mid-1941 and rose to the rank of Major. He was posted to the Mediterranean theatre and was successively medical officer at Maadi Camp, and to the 20th Battalion and the 4th Field Ambulance taking part in the Italian Campaign. After the war he went to the United Kingdom for postgraduate training and obtained both the FRCS and FRCS Ed in 1948. Dawson returned to Christchurch in 1948 and was resident surgical officer at Christchurch Hospital for a year. He went to Dunedin Hospital in 1949 and was a surgeon demonstrator in anatomy. In 1952 he was appointed visiting surgeon to Dunedin Hospital and lecturer in surgery, University of Otago; later he was senior lecturer and in 1956 was appointed visiting venereologist. For a time he was visiting urologist to Southland Hospitals; he retired from his hospital and university positions in January 1977 because of ill health. Dawson, who was known to all as Jim, was an excellent didactic teacher of both surgery and anatomy; his patients were handled both clinically and operatively with skill. He had ideals of the highest order coupled with complete integrity. He was matter-of-fact and had a brisk approach to life, friends and colleagues, but he was most unassuming and was ever ready to help with excellent advice and sympathy when approached. He had many interests and for forty years was a member of the New Zealand Alpine Club, making some first ascents in the Ohau and Aspiring areas. He continued to be physically active until retirement and never lost his slender athletic form. His health deteriorated markedly in his last year and he died a year after retirement, on 29 December 1977.
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First Title value, for Searching Ockwell, Charles Melton (1883 - 1958)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation Dermatologist General surgeon Medical officer of health Venereologist
Details Born in 1883 son of Charles Ockwell of Cricklade, Wilts, he received his medical education at Guy's Hospital between the years 1901 and 1906, and while a surgical dresser to W H A Jacobson contracted septicaemia, for which Jacobson treated him during a long period of sickness. When qualified he went into practice first in Burgh, Lincolnshire for a few years and then in partnership with M W Renton at Dartford. During the war of 1914-18 he joined the RAMC and in 1915 was surgeon at a hospital in Fécamp and in 1916-18 was ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich and Paddington Military Hospital. In 1920, back in practice, he started a maternity and antenatal clinic at Crayford treating four hundred cases in a year, and from 1921 onwards was MOH of Crayford including in 1926 Swanscombe UDC and Dartford RDC. In 1927 he pioneered diphtheria immunisation and by 1929 seventy per cent of the children had been immunised. About this time he became full-time MOH and also venereologist to Kent County Council until 1947. In 1938 he organised the casualty services for North Kent and during 1939-45 was busy with casualty services and VD Clinics, but nevertheless found time for postgraduate study of dermatology at St John's and at Guy's Hospital. In 1924-25 he was chairman of the Dartford Division of the BMA and again in 1934-35, becoming President of the Kent Branch in 1937-38. In 1948 with the introduction of the National Health Service he became consultant dermatologist and venereologist, retiring in 1951. In that year he married Kathleen Keirle who had been his secretary-chauffeuse for twenty years, and built a house at Kemsing on the Pilgrim's Way, where he laid out a unique garden. A gracious, quiet and dignified man, he was always ready to be helpful as a locum tenens in an emergency. He died in Guy's Hospital on 17 October 1958.
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First Title value, for Searching King, Ambrose (1902 - 2000)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
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Occupation Venereologist
Details Ambrose King was born in Hackney on 19 April 1902, the second son of the owner of a steam laundry business in the East End of London. His mother was the eldest of the five daughters of an Irish immigrant, and had trained as a teacher. He was educated, along with Alfred Hitchcock and the future Cardinal Heenan, at the Jesuit College of St Ignatius, in Stamford Hill, a school renowned for not sparing the rod. During the first world war, Ambrose and his brother had a variety of duties, including lighting and de-scaling the factory boiler, and driving the horse-drawn delivery van. He studied the basic sciences at Queen Mary College and went on to the London Hospital in October 1919, where he played rugby, was taught by Russell Howard and followed his brother (A C King) into taking the primary FRCS as a student. His first house appointment was in the bacteriology department under William Bulloch, one of the leading microbiologists in Europe, who had worked with Lister on the sterilisation of catgut. He was house physician to Lord Dawson and house surgeon to Sir James Walton, whose registrar was McNeill Love. He passed the final FRCS from a post in the VD department, which was combined with that of registrar at Poplar Hospital. Ambrose found himself in sole charge of the department, which dealt with gonorrhoea and its complications, nominally under two genito-urinary surgeons who were seldom seen. When a full-time consultant was appointed in their place, Ambrose was invited to stay on as chief assistant at an attractive salary. The subject was, however, unpopular; he sought advice from Bulloch who replied, "King, if you take up this work you will have an interesting life and your future will depend on human nature. Human nature will never let you down." Over the next few years, Ambrose established his department with the highest standards of compassion and clinical care. This was the time when the first sulphonamides were being tested, but treatment for gonorrhoea and syphilis was protracted and largely ineffectual. King was soon the leading venereologist in London; he visited the United States to learn the new hyperthermia technique for the complications of gonorrhoea and syphilis (undergoing the treatment himself in the process). The London County Council refused to buy the necessary equipment, but the London Hospital did, and soon the new treatment was in full swing. Ambrose was for a time clinical assistant to Barrington at St Peter's. He had joined the Territorial Army and when the second world war had begun he was appointed specialist in venereal diseases for Southern Command, in charge of the VD section at Netley. Soon his patients occupied more than 80 per cent of the hospital. Before long a purpose-built annexe was erected for Lieutenant Colonel King's patients which other soldiers, from many nations, nicknamed 'The College'. He remained in charge until the end of the war, was not honoured by the British, but was awarded the Bronze Star by the United States. After the war, Ambrose returned as director of the VD clinic at the London (now the Royal London) and was later appointed to the London Lock Hospital. He began the task of rebuilding his former private practice. At that time Ambrose staffed his department with bright young physicians and surgeons, from whom he demanded the highest standards for his patients, but gave plenty of spare time to study for higher degrees; in this way he attracted staff of the highest calibre, and in return they learned much from him. He married and had one daughter, Mary. Ambrose retired from the London in 1967, but continued in private practice and at Moorfields, travelling extensively on behalf of the World Health Organization - including detailed tours of brothels and massage parlours in the Far East. He was co-author with Claude Nicol of the standard textbook *Venereal diseases* (London, Cassell, 1964) and joined his brother in writing *Strong medicine* (Churchman, 1990), a kind of dual autobiography, in which his delightful sense of humour shines through, as does his deeply felt Catholic piety. He died at Seaford, East Sussex, on 25 September 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Sandes, Gladys Maud (Mrs Maxwell Alston) (1897 - 1968)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist Venereologist
Details Born in Dublin on 5 November 1897, the daughter of John Sandes of Greenville, Listowel, Co Kerry, she was educated at Wimbledon High School and the London School of Medicine for Women, since 1947 the Royal Free Hospital Medical School. Her interest in medicine was aroused during her school days by Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. After qualifying in 1922 she became surgical registrar at the South London Hospital for Women and the London Lock Hospital, later becoming consultant at Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton and the Mothers' Hospital, London. In addition, she worked as a clinical assistant in the urological department of the Royal Free. She also became consultant to the London Lock Hospital, an appointment she prized, but which disappeared with the advent of the NHS. After retirement in 1962 she was a member of the house committee of the Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End and the house committee of the Mothers' Hospital. She was an active member of the Royal Society of Medicine and of its Section of the History of Medicine. From 1955 to 1957 she was chairman of the Marylebone Division of the BMA and was for many years their representative at the annual representative meetings. She served on the Women's Advisory Committee of the British Standards Institution; as a member of the executive of the Fellowship for Freedom in Medicine and as chairman of the editorial committee of *Mother and child*. She rendered great but unobtrusive service in the care of patients with venereal disease and, in particular, of children who were victims of sexual assault. She was a member of the Standing Committee of Convocation of London University and chairman of the Old Students Association of the Royal Free Hospital, with which she retained an active connection, having been a part-time teacher in the anatomy department for 40 years. In 1929, in conjunction with Dr Evelyn Hewer, she wrote *An introduction to the study of the nervous system*, the first edition of which was so successful that it was reprinted in 1933. She took a great personal interest in all her students whether from home or abroad and made a point of keeping in touch with them after they had completed their studies. Similarly with her patients she took infinite pains to arrange for all their needs over and above those of their medical treatment. An enthusiastic traveller she had visited many countries in Europe and, in addition, the United States, Canada, Russia and S Africa. This enabled her to add constantly to her wide circle of friends and acquaintances. She was an active member of the Irish Genealogical Society and she was a witty and telling debater, always ready to cope with all contingencies, whether those of illness or those produced by authority with which she disagreed. She continued working indefatigably in spite of illness up till the time of her death. She married Dr Maxwell Alston MD, FRCP, and they had one daughter. She practised at 41 Devonshire Street, W1 and died on 17 January 1968, survived by her husband and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan (1828 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-05-04 2012-03-22
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Occupation Dermatologist Ophthalmologist Pathologist Venereologist
Details Born on July 23rd, 1828, the second son of Jonathan Hutchinson and Elizabeth Massey, both members of the Society of Friends, at Selby, Yorkshire. Hutchinson continued throughout life to exhibit some of the external characteristics of a Quaker. After an education at Selby, he was early apprenticed to Caleb Williams (q.v.), Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the York School of Medicine, and he attended the York Hospital. At this very small York School of Medicine he received individual instruction from Dr. Thomas Laycock - later Professor of Medicine in Edinburgh - which made a life-long impression, on the importance of heredity, and of physiognomy in diagnosis. He passed on to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where Sir James Page's influence was dominant; he studied under him, including the subject of syphilis, and qualified M.R.C.S. in 1850. He then pursued the post-graduate study of which he became afterwards such a strong advocate. He acted as Assistant Physician at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest; Surgeon to the Metropolitan Free Hospital; Surgeon to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields (1862-1878), where he had Edward Nettleship (q.v.) as Assistant; Surgeon to the Blackfriars Hospital for Diseases of the Skin; and Assistant Surgeon to the Lock Hospital for a while from 1862. He continued Surgeon to the Moorfields and Blackfriars Hospitals for many years. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the London Hospital in 1860; and after passing the F.R.C.S. examination in 1862 became Surgeon until 1883, then Consulting Surgeon. From 1862 he lectured on the principles and practice of surgery, from 1863 on medical ophthalmology, and in that year gained the Guy's Hospital Astley Cooper Prize for his essay "On Injuries of the Head". After 1883 he gave an annual course of lectures as Emeritus Professor of Surgery. A Triennial Prize for an essay was instituted to commemorate his services and teaching. He was an active member of various London medical societies and served as the President of five of the most important. At the meeting called to wind up the old Sydenham Society he proposed a continuation as the New Sydenham Society, of which he was Secretary from 1859-1907. The translations from the chief writings of Continental authorities constitute an extraordinarily well-selected collection. The publications especially due to him in the New Sydenham Society were the *Atlas of Skin Diseases* and *The Atlas of Drug Eruptions.* At the Royal College of Surgeons he was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology, 1879-1883; Member of Council, 1879-1895; Member of the Court of Examiners, 1880-1887; Bradshaw Lecturer, 1888; President, 1889 (returning to the previous custom of holding office for one year, broken by the four years' tenure of his predecessor, W. S. Savory); Hunterian Orator, 1891; Trustee of the Hunterian Collection, 1897. He sat on the Royal Commission on Small-pox and Fever Hospitals, 1881, and that on Vaccination, 1890-1896; his demonstration of vaccino-syphilis as a possible consequent of arm-to-arm vaccination put a stop to that method of vaccinating. As Hunterian Professor he gave six lectures on "Neuropathogenesis, chiefly with reference to Diseases of the Eye, Skin, Joints, etc.", four lectures "On Some of the Surgical Aspects of Gout and Rheumatism", and two lectures "On the Etiology of True Leprosy". His Bradshaw Lecture dealt with "Museums in reference to Medical Education and the Advance of Knowledge". Jonathan Hutchinson, as a clinical diagnostician by naked-eye observations, was one of the great medical geniuses of his time, and there is no one superior in the history of medicine, whether in the diagnosis of cases in surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, or syphilology. This was conjoined with a peculiar strain of philosophy. He was a colleague of another extraordinary genius in neurology and philosophy - Hughlings Jackson - and the interest of the two met over the ophthalmic side of neurology, and the general use of the ophthalmoscope as an instrument of diagnosis. His remarkable talent was exhibited in the discovery of syndromes; his audience supposed he was exhibiting a rare case, but after listening to him they discovered that they were able to recognize such cases, and his syndromes have now become commonplaces in the text-books. Examples are his 'triad' in inherited syphilis - deformity and notching of the teeth, labyrinthine deafness, and interstitial keratitis; defects in children's teeth, associated with infantile convulsion and lamellar cataract; the peculiar physiognomy in ophthalmoplegia and tabes dorsalis; the inequality of the pupils in cerebral compression; gout and haemorrhages; tobacco amblyopia; and idiosyncrasies of many kinds. He had, too, a remarkable fund of illustration and simple comparison - the 'apple-jelly' appearance of some forms of lupus; the imitative characteristics of the superficial appearances of syphilis. He had a slow and precise delivery, with eyes turned to the ground. An endless series of cases were stored in his memory, recalled by the initial of the patient's name and the outstanding feature presented. His broad-minded philosophy made him hold, as to his rare cases, that they afforded clues to the pathology of the class, links between some one already recognized group and another. His crowded audiences listened intently as he passed, by some ingenious connection, from one subject to another - a custom defended by him on the plea that, for the attention of his audience, a 'mixed diet' was needed. At the hospital one lecture had as title, "On Fairy Rings and Allied Phenomena". From fairy rings in fields, he passed on to ringworms and herpes, phenomena he held to be allied. One lecture at Haslemere commenced with the earth's crust, passed to elephants, and ended on John Wesley; another, on whales, tailed off to Wordsworth's poetry, and then to social questions relating to tuberculosis and leprosy. No one of his colleagues equalled him in a 'spotting diagnosis', for he was nearly always right, very exceptionally wrong. A young surgeon who had married and was beginning surgery broke out into a rash all over, which rapidly became nodular. Several who saw him murmured, "Syphilis, however acquired", until 'Jonathan' at once said, "General sarcomatosis", and this was confirmed in a few weeks. In another case, however, he diagnosed syphilis, in spite of the patient's protests that he had not undergone exposure, and in a couple of days small-pox was evident. His genius in diagnosis and his philosophy were remarkably combined in all he wrote and said on syphilis. At the discussions on the pathology of syphilis at the London Pathological Society in 1876 (*Pathol. Soc. Trans.*, 1876, xxvii, 341) he held that the condition was due to a specific and living microbe, contagious and transmissible only so long as the microbe retained its vitality. "Someone will see it one day, for it is beyond doubt that it must be there" (p. 446). With this should be compared Moxon's sarcasms whilst avoiding question of causation (pp. 403-410), the gibe by Gull - "Well, I think syphilis is a flesh and blood disease" (p. 415). He taught the treatment of early syphilis by long persistence in the administration of metallic mercury by the mouth, very finely divided as 'grey powder', the course being interrupted at increasing intervals, for two to three years, but always short of salivation. He made but little use of arsenic, for he was impressed by it as a cause of cancer. In 1855 he began to observe cases of leprosy from the East End in the London Hospital, and thus called attention to a number of instances wandering about and mixing with the general populace in many cities of the world. He took up the view that in Norway and elsewhere lepers persisted owing to the custom of eating stale fish. Until he stirred up inquiry the subject leprosy was in a state of stagnation. After the discovery of the bacillus he made further observations in South Africa and India, in which he grafted to his first theory the transference of the bacillus by contact and contamination of food - but it continued until the end of his life a non-proven thesis. In 1868 he suggested that a museum illustrating the progress of medicine and surgery during the past year should be instituted at the Annual Meetings of the British Medical Association; this came into force. His houses at Nos. 14 and 4 in Finsbury Circus and in Cavendish Square, one after the other, became filled by a vast collection of specimens, coloured drawings, and charts used by him for his clinical lectures and demonstrations, until he collected them in the clinical museum attached to his son's house, 1 Park Crescent, Regent's Park. For years he was making provision for post-graduate instruction, and in 1899 he instituted a Medical Graduates' College and Policlinic at 22 Chenies Street, of which he was at once the life, the soul and the financier. He made exhibitions for short periods of illustrations he had collected on various subjects, and, through his persuasion, lectures and demonstrations were given by a great number of members of staff of hospitals, and by special practitioners. The history of Hutchinson's Policlinic will form an important chapter when systematic post-graduate instruction becomes definitely established in London; it came to an end after his death and the outbreak of the War. All that is of special and permanent value has been collected and preserved in the Museum of the College of Surgeons, including MSS., such as his research on the arthritic diathesis. The abundance of his collections was so great that duplicates of illustrative material were dispersed and in part taken over to the United States. There was yet another remarkable endeavour. At his country house at Haslemere, Surrey, he set up an educational museum and library, a miniature of the Natural History Museum in London, and a library providing an outline of history, for the benefit of the population of the locality. The museum displayed rocks, fossils, plants, flowers, preserved as well as freshly gathered, birds' eggs, an aviary and vivarium exhibiting natural objects of the neighbourhood, including the common viper. The library contained charts of figures tabulating events from antiquity to the present day. King Edward VII knew of him as the surgeon who had a hospital for animals on his farm. Lectures and addresses were given - including Sunday afternoon addresses - on the potato, tuberculosis, poetry, the inner life, and new birth. This 'home university' published a monthly journal, which includes features of a school book, encyclopaedia, and a journal of science and literature. After his death the executors handed it over, pruned of its diffuseness, to Haslemere. Hutchinson also started a somewhat similar museum at his birthplace, Selby, but that did not excite so much local interest. The object of the museum was to establish evolution as a motive for right living in place of personal immortality as usually taught. Throughout his life he jealously retained his membership of the Society of Friends, although he accepted 'evolution' as a renaissance of religion. Hutchinson was a good walker, fond of shooting and riding; he swam in a cold-water pool in his grounds until nearly the end of his life. He died at his house, The Library, Inval, Haslemere, on June 23rd, 1913, and was buried at Haslemere. By his orders there was inscribed on his gravestone, "A Man of Hope and Forward Looking Mind". Portraits accompany his obituary notices, and there are several in the College Collection. He figures in the Jamyn Brookes portrait group of the Council, 1884. His wife died in 1886; their family included six sons and four daughters. One son, Jonathan, F.R.C.S., followed his father as Surgeon to the London Hospital; another, Proctor, a laryngologist, died early ; Roger Jackson was in practice at Haselemere; and H. Hutchinson became an architect. PUBLICATIONS: - Hutchinson's publications were very numerous; the chief works are: - *The Archives of Surgery*, 10 vols., 1889-1900. His archives include what Hutchinson deemed of importance from among his previous publications, together with notes and additions. "Syphilis, the Discussion at the London Pathological Society, 1876." - *Trans. Path. Soc.*, 1876, xxvii, 341. *Notes about Syphilis*, 1887; new. ed., 1909. The introduction to the *System of Syphilis*, by D'Arcy Power and J. Keogh Murphy, in 6 vols., 1908, pp. xvii-xxxv. Hutchinson Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. Illustrations, notes and MSS.
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Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format Obituary
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