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First Title value, for Searching Mullaferoze, Perin Kavasji (1910 - 2005)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2025-03-06
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Paediatric orthopaedic surgeon
Details Perin Mullaferoze, the first female orthopaedic surgeon in Mumbai, India, devoted her life to the treatment and management of children with cerebral palsy. She was born on 3 October 1910 at Cumballa Hill in what was then Bombay. She attended Queen Mary School at Byculla, Elphinstone College and then Grant Medical College, Bombay, earning her MB BS degree in 1935. She was subsequently a house surgeon at the Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital. From 1936 to 1940 she was in the UK for further surgical training. She gained her MRCS LRCP in 1937 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1940. She returned to India, where she was a general surgeon at the Cama Hospital in Bombay until 1943. She then joined the Indian Army as a captain, later rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and saw service in Alipore, Asansol, Ranchi, Dacca and Batavia. In 1947 she was awarded an OBE for her military service. Also in 1947, she helped set up the Society for Rehabilitation of Crippled Children. Beginning as a small clinic in a doctor’s waiting room for the treatment of children affected by polio, under the patronage of Nehru land was granted in Bombay and, in 1950, the Children’s Orthopaedic Hospital was established. In 1953 Mullaferoze took over as medical director. By 1956 the number of children presenting to the hospital with cerebral palsy had increased significantly, and she decided to research treatment options. She visited the UK, where she met Karel and Berta Bobath, who were developing their Bobath method of managing cerebral palsy, Japan and the United States, where a team approach was used in clinics. In 1963 she set up a cerebral palsy unit as a pilot project in Bombay, where she worked with a team of experts, including a neurologist, paediatrician, physiotherapist, nurses, occupational and speech therapists. The institution, which became permanent, was the first multidisciplinary service provider for children with cerebral palsy in India. With the aim of encouraging research and increasing awareness of cerebral palsy, Mullaferoze conducted courses for therapists, held seminars and wrote several papers. She also encouraged parents to form support groups and helped found the Indian Academy of Cerebral Palsy. A polyglot, she was fluent in English, Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi and Konkani, and was an avid reader, an animal lover and a sports enthusiast. Mullaferoze died in November 2005 at the age of 95. In her honour her birthday – 3 October – has been designated by the Indian Academy of Cerebral Palsy as ‘National Cerebral Palsy Day’.
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Peris Woodfine (1934 - 2017)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-02-17 2020-07-02
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Peris Woodfine Edwards was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny. He was born in Bangor, Wales on 27 January 1934. His father, John Gwynan Edwards, was a pharmacist and optician; his mother was Elsie Edwards née Jones. He attended John Bright Grammar School in Llandudno and then studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1957. He was a house officer at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead and at the Whittington Hospital in London. From 1960 to 1963 he held a short service commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving at the British military hospitals in Kinrara, Malaysia and in Brunei. He was an orthopaedic registrar at the Whittington Hospital, and a senior registrar at Cardiff Royal Infirmary and the Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, Rhydlafar, Cardiff. In 1969, he was appointed to his consultant post in Abergavenny. He retired in 1995. He was chairman of the Gwent medical committee from 1989 to 1992 and a member of the Welsh medical committee for the same period. At the Royal College of Surgeons, he was a surgical tutor from 1988 to 1993 and a member of the Welsh board at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1990 to 1997. He was interested in golf, bridge and DIY. In December 1957, he married Judith E M Lines. They had three children – Gwynan, David and Jane. They divorced and in May 1981 he married Vanessa Mary Humphrys. They had a son, Benjamin James.
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First Title value, for Searching Perrin, Thomas ( - 1926)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at St Thomas's and the London Hospitals. He was Ophthalmic House Surgeon at St Thomas's and Clinical Ophthalmic Assistant at the London Hospital. He was then Assistant Medical Superintendent of the City of London Union Infirmary, Bow. During the War (1914-1918) he was Surgical Specialist to the Curragh Camp, Colchester, and at Wimereux. Having afterwards settled in practice at Aylesbury, he was Surgeon to the Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital in partnership with Dr James Shaw, of High Street, Aylesbury. He was an active member and Secretary of the local Branch of the British Medical Association. He was very popular, with an unassuming manner, kindly and courteous to patients, keen and scientific, always ready to help and co-operate with his colleagues. He died at 10 Temple Square, Aylesbury, on October 3rd 1926.
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First Title value, for Searching Pern, Alfred ( - 1915)

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First Title value, for Searching Perrin, Walter Sydney (1882 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at 50 Camberwell Road, SE, on 25 April 1882, the eldest son of J Walter Perrin, a City merchant, and Harriet S Savage, his wife. He was educated at Wilson School under Mr McDowell, at Richmond Hill School under Mr Whitbread, and at the City of London School under Mr A T Pollard. On 1 October 1901 he was admitted with a Tancred scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He graduated BA in 1904, after gaining a first class in Part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos and a first class in zoology in Part 2. He had by this time come under the influence of Adam Sedgwick of Trinity College, who was starting a school of protozoology at Cambridge. Perrin was given the Shuttleworth research scholarship and the Thruston prize by Caius College and was sent to Austria, where he went to the zoological station at Rovigno, Istria, and worked in the laboratory of Prowazek during the autumn of 1904 and the first half of the year 1905. On his return to England he was awarded the Walsingham medal and £20 given by the University of Cambridge for papers published as a result of his work on protozoology with Prowazek, and was given the post of University demonstrator of zoology under Sedgwick. He remained in Cambridge trying unsuccessfully for a Fellowship at Caius College and maintaining himself by coaching until 1907, when he realized that zoology would not maintain him and turned to medicine. He entered the London Hospital as a student, gained an entrance scholarship and two years later the Jonathan Hutchinson prize for an essay on intussusception, was awarded the medical and surgical scholarships, and was admitted MRCS and LRCP in 1912. He took the Mastership of Surgery at Cambridge in 1914, but never graduated MB. At the London Hospital he filled the posts of house surgeon, house physician, and surgical registrar, was elected assistant surgeon in 1921, and became surgeon in 1928. He also acted in the medical school of the hospital as demonstrator of anatomy when William Wright was head of the department. During the war Perrin acted first as officer in charge of the Belgian Field Hospital at Fumes; he was gazetted temporary lieutenant, RAMC on 12 March 1918 and temporary captain a year later, on appointment as a surgical specialist at various casualty clearing stations in France. On demobilization he returned to his ordinary civil duties. He married Dorothy Edith Rafferty on 9 December 1916; she survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died after a short illness on 8 December 1935 at 16 Upper Wimpole Street, aged 53. Perrin, had his means allowed of it or had he gained a properly remunerated teaching post, would have been as good a protozoologist as he afterwards became a surgeon. He was excellent at research and a trained teacher of students. As a surgeon he devoted himself more especially to the diseases of the rectum, and was president of the subsection of proctology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1932-33. His last appointment was as surgeon to the Royal Masonic Hospital. Publications: A preliminary communication of the life history of Trypanosoma balbianii. *Proc Roy Soc* 1905, B 75, 368. Researches upon the life history of Trypanosoma balbianii. *Arch Protistenk* 1906, 7, 131. Preliminary communication on the life history of Pleistophora periplanetae. *Proc Camb Phil Soc* 1906, 13, 204. Observations on the structure and life history of Pleistophora periplanetae. *Quart J micr Sci* 1905-06, 49, 615. Note on the possible transmission of sarcocystis by the blowfly. *Spolia Zeylan* 1907, 4, 58. Intussusception, a monograph based on 400 cases, with E C Lindsay. *Brit J Surg* 1921-22,9, 46-71. The ambulatory treatment of piles. *Lancet*, 1929, 1, 569.
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