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First Title value, for Searching Parkin, Henry (1779 - 1849)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-10-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Became a Surgeon in the Royal Navy (Royal Marines), and for upwards of fifty years was Inspector of Fleets and Hospitals. In 1843 his address was at the Marine Barracks, Woolwich. He seems afterwards to have practised as a physician at Woolwich, and latterly to have resided at Cawsand, Cornwall. He died at Woolwich on March 24th, 1849. In his brief obituary in the *Medical Directory* (1850, 469) he is described as “of Cawsand, in Cornwall”. *The Death Book* of the Royal College of Surgeons (vol. i) refers to him as of “the Royal Marines, Woolwich”.
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First Title value, for Searching Harkin, Alexander (1818 - 1894)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Ballymoney in 1818, and began to practise at Belfast in 1840. In 1864 he was appointed Medical Officer to the Belfast Constabulary, JP for Belfast and for Co Antrim, Surgeon to the Mater Infirmorum Hospital and to the General Dispensary. He also acted as President of the Ulster Medical Society and was a Membre Associé Étranger, Société française d'Hygiène. He died of old age on January 4th, 1894. Publications: Harkin published various articles on medical practice, including "Some Peculiar Views Concerning Cholera and its Treatment."
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First Title value, for Searching Larkin, Frederick George (1847 - 1927)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Hoath, near Canterbury, and was educated at Guy's Hospital. He was elected President of the Physical Society, and it was before this Society that, in 1869, he read the paper on "Nephrotomy and Excision of the Kidney" which is said to have led to the use at Guy's Hospital of operative measures for the treatment of renal calculus and other lesions of the kidney. Larkin first practised at Canterbury, and moved to London about the year 1875. For more than thirty years he practised at 44 Trinity Square, SE, and won widespread popularity as a general practitioner, taking a special interest in renal and general surgery and the treatment of fractures. He became widely spoken of in medico-legal circles through his connection with what was known as the Whitechapel tragedy, when he performed the post-mortem examination of Harriet Lane. In November of the same year (1875) Larkin's clear mind and confident judgement showed to advantage in the celebrated Wainwright trial, when his accurate evidence was largely responsible for the prisoner's final conviction, winning handsome recognition from the Lord Chief Justice. Larkin's evidence fills more than nine closely printed pages in H B Irving's *Trial of the Wainwrights*. At the end of the Library copy of this work Larkin has added a note to the effect that the learned judge, Cockburn, also expressed his high appreciation of the services of the two medical witnesses for the Crown, Thomas Bond (qv) and F G Larkin, and he ordered that both of them should receive a special fee of five guineas for each day's attendance at the Old Bailey. The care and thought which Larkin brought to the solution of a forensic problem was also applied to his treatment of fractures and to his surgical work in general. After his retirement he lived at Grove Park, Kent, and there continued his early interest in farming and gardening. His chief recreation during his long life was music; this enthusiasm dated from an early association with Canterbury Cathedral. In early days of practice he was choirmaster at Holy Trinity Church, Southwark, and later he held the same office at St Augustine's at Lee. For many years also he was intimately associated with Westminster Abbey, where his friend, Sir Frederick Bridge, was organist. As deputy also he sang in the choir of the Abbey at the Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria and at the Coronations of King Edward and King George, and he was himself the composer of a number of chants and other church music. He also composed a dramatic song, "The Shipwreck", and he was at one time Hon Medical Officer to the Choir Benevolent Fund. Larkin died at Craven House, Grove Park, Kent, on January 13th, 1927, and was buried at Hoath. He was survived by his widow. One of his sons, Reginald Larkin, MD, MRCS, was his successor in practice at 44 Trinity Square. In February, 1927, this son presented to the College Library the manuscript of the paper on "Nephrotomy and Excision of the Kidney", which is thus catalogued: "The notes and rough copy of an original paper entitled: 'Nephrotomy and Excision of the Kidney', which was read before the Pupils' Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, on Saturday evening, October 9th, 1869, and to which was awarded the honour of the first prize at the end of the Winter Session." The manuscript, within 44 glass slides, is contained in a wooden case, and is accompanied by a printed account of the origin of the article by F G Larkin. Larkin's portrait accompanies his biography in the Lancet and Guy's Hospital Gazette. Publication: "Report of Post-mortem Examination of the Remains of Harriet Lane in the White-chapel Tragedy." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1875, ii, 730.
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First Title value, for Searching Parkin, Alfred ( - 1924)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was Resident Obstetrician, House Physician, and Surgical Registrar. He practised for many years at 24 Albion Street, Hull, and was latterly Consulting Surgeon to the Victoria Hospital, Hull. Removing to Bridlington, he died at Carnaby Chalet, Cardigan Road, on October 1st, 1924, and was buried in Bridlington Cemetery. Publications: "Causation of Pes Cavus." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1891, lxxiv, 485. "Case of Removal of Cerebellar Tumour - Recovery." - *Trans Clin Soc*, 1897, xxx, 84. "Cases of Disease of Seminal Vesicles." - *Ibid*, 1892, xxv, 9. "Seven Cases of Intraspinal Haemorrhage (Haematomyelia)." - *Guy's Hosp Rep*, 1891, xlviii, 107. "Cases of Basal (Subarachnoid) Drainage." - *Lancet*, 1895, ii, 1166. "Cases treated by Injection of Bacterial Vaccines" (with Dr E TURTON) - *Ibid*, 1906, ii, 1130. "Treatment of Spinal Caries, and its Results, by Laminectomy." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1894, ii, 699.
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First Title value, for Searching Parkin, John (1801 - 1886)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-19
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on May 10th, 1801, the son of one of the principal officers of HM Dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham. He received his preliminary education under Canon Griffiths, of Rochester, and his professional training under Abernethy at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Settling in practice at Dover Street, Piccadilly, he devoted himself entirely to the treatment of lunacy, although he had previously spent much time in Spain in order to investigate the cholera there. At Chelsea, and then at York House, Battersea, he had private accommodation for the treatment of the insane, but, cholera breaking out in the West Indies, he severed his lucrative connection with his Battersea asylum and went out to the Colonies at his own expense. He remained abroad for many months, continuously attending cholera cases, and gaining such experience that he was sent out during a later West Indian visitation as Government Medical Inspector. After his return from the West Indies he went to Calcutta in order to study cholera on a different soil and among different races. From his long observation of this disease under various conditions he became strongly impressed with the conviction that cholera and other epidemics were in some measure due to those atmospheric conditions which attend or follow volcanic disturbances, so he was a strong opponent of all measures of quarantine. It is remarkable that, though throughout life Parkin suffered from a serious physical disability - spina bifida - he yet pursued his many investigations indomitably. His character was one of intense earnestness and he was sincerely religious. He died in the full possession of all his faculties, and to the last took a most vivid interest in everything relating not only to his own profession, but to every topic of the day. His death occurred at his residence, 5 Codrington Place, Brighton, on March 18th, 1886. He was a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Academies of Medicine and Surgery of Madrid, Barcelona, Cadiz, the Peloritan Society of Messina, and others. Publications:- Parkin left behind no writings on lunacy, but wrote voluminously on his other special subjects. His bibliography is as follows:- *Memoria sobre el Tratamiento curativo del Calera epidemico*, 12mo, Barcelona, 1834. *Mémoire sur le Traitement curatif du Choléra épidemique* - translation of the above by M F Duval, Montpellier, 1835. The same. *Abhandlung über das Heilverfahren bei der epidemischen Cholera*. Aus dem Spanischen von T Zschokke, 12mo, Aarau, 1836. *Observaciones sobre la Fisiologia y el Tratamiento del Colera morbo en el Estado de Colapso*, 12mo, Valencia, 1835. "El Vapor": "El Catalan": "Bol de Med": containing references to Parkin's works on cholera. 1834-5. *On the Efficacy of Carbonic Acid Gas in the Diseases of Tropical Climates; with Directions for the Treatment of the Acute and Chronic Stages of Dysentery*, 8vo, London, 1836. *On the Antidotal Treatment of the Epidemic Cholera; with a Sketch of the Physiology of this Disease, as deduced from that of Intermittent Fever*, 8vo, London, 1836; 2nd ed, with appendix, 1846. The same. *With Directions, General and Individual, for the Prevention of the Disease*, 3rd ed, 8vo, London, 1866. *On Gout: its Cause, Nature and Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1841. *On the Remote Causes of Epidemic Diseases*, Part I, 8vo, London, 1841. *On the Remote Causes of Epidemic Diseases; or, The Influence of Volcanic Action in the Production of General Pestilences*, Part II, 8vo, 3 maps, London, 1853. *The Prevention and Treatment of Disease in the Potato and other Crops*, 8vo, London, 1847. *Statistical Report of the Epidemic Cholera in Jamaica*, 8vo, London, 1852. *L'Antidote du Choléra asiatique*, 8vo, Rome, 1858. *A Letter to the Metropolitan Vestries on the Main Drainage Scheme* (for private circulation), 8vo, London, 1859. *The Causation and Prevention of Disease*, 8vo, London, 1859. *The Utilization of the Sewage of Towns*, 8vo, London, 1862. *The Cause, Prevention and Treatment of the Cattle Plague*, 8vo, London, 1865. *Epidemiology; or, The Remote Cause of Epidemic Diseases in the Animal and in the Vegetable Creation*, Part I, 8vo, London, 1873. The same. *With the Cause of Hurricanes, and Abnormal Atmospheric Vicissitudes*, Part II; 2nd ed, 8vo, 1 plan, 1880. *Climate and Phthisis; or, The Influence of Climate in the Production and Prevention of Phthisis*, 8vo, London, 1875. *Sanitary Reform: is it a Reality, or is it not?* 8vo, London, 1875. *Gout: its Cause, Nature, and Treatment, with Directions for the Regulation of the Diet*, 2nd ed, 8vo, London, 1877. *The Antidotal Treatment of Disease*, Part I, 8vo, London, 1878. *Climate: its Influence in the Production and Prevention of Phthisis and other Diseases*, 2nd ed, 12mo, London, 1882. *Phthisis: its Cause, Nature, and Treatment; being Part II of the Antidotal Treatment of Disease*, 8vo, London, 1883. *The Volcanic Origin of Epidemics* (popular edition), 12mo, London, 1887. *Are Epidemics Contagious?* (popular edition), 12mo, London, 1887.
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First Title value, for Searching Larkin, Frederick Charles (1858 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 23 May 1858, the second child and eldest son of Charles Robert Larkin, surgeon, and Hannah Pugh, his wife. He was educated at a private school at Sheerness and at the Liverpool Medical School. Larkin qualified as LSA in 1884 and MRCS in 1885. He returned to Liverpool as demonstrator in physiology and, later, in pathology at the medical school. In 1889 he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Liverpool Stanley Hospital and was elected surgeon in 1890, retiring as consulting surgeon in 1918. He practised at 77 Bedford Street. Larkin was a pioneer of thyroid surgery, and excelled as a teacher, being lecturer in clinical surgery at Liverpool University for many years till 1921. He took a keen interest in the work of the British Medical Association, sat on the Representative Body, and on the Council in 1907-08 and 1915-16. He was vice-president of the section of surgery at the Liverpool meeting in 1912, and chairman of the organization committee of the Association from 1910 to 1915. Outside his professional interests Larkin had a sound knowledge of local history and church architecture, and was the chief authority on the topography of old Liverpool. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 11 January 1934 and was a vice-president of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. He was a good Latinist and French scholar and taught himself palaeography in order to study mediaeval charters. Larkin died on 25 November 1940, aged 82, survived by his wife, Georgina Kathleen Barber, whom he had married on 9 September 1935. There were no children.
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First Title value, for Searching Parkin, Alfred (1879 - 1933)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-11
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Occupation Physician
Details The fifth son and sixth child of George Parkin of Gateshead, jeweller, and Jane Owens, his wife, he was born in Wreckenton, Co Durham on 13 May 1879. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and at the Durham University College of Medicine. He graduated with first-class honours after gaining the Tulloch scholarship in 1898, and the Charlton and the Gibb scholarships in 1901. He then studied in Berlin and Vienna, after serving as house physician to Sir Thomas Oliver, MD, at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and as house surgeon to Rutherford Morison. He acted as assistant to W Mearns, MD Aberdeen, of Gateshead, and became resident medical officer to the Newcastle Dispensary, which was then situated in Nelson Street. He was elected a surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, but soon turned his attention to medicine and in 1908 was elected assistant physician to the Infirmary, afterwards becoming physician. At the University of Durham College of Medicine he was in succession assistant demonstrator of anatomy, assistant demonstrator of physiology, demonstrator of pathology, and lecturer in therapeutics. He married Elizabeth Fenwick on 29 April 1914, who survived him. There were no children. He died suddenly of a thrombosis of the coronary artery on 8 February 1933, and was buried in Jesmond old cemetery. Parkin was a great clinical teacher of medicine and was possessed of a logical mind and much skill in the understanding of the mentality of his patients. He wrote but little. Publications: Caisson disease. *Northumb Dur med J* 1905, 13, 96. Thesis for the M.D.; it was awarded the gold medal and was based on observations made during the building of the King Edward VII Bridge at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Ambroise Paré. *Univ Durh Coll Med Gaz* 1911-12, 12, 19.
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First Title value, for Searching Sarin, Chaman Lal ( - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Chaman Lal Sarin received his medical education at the University of the Punjab where he qualified MB BS in 1958. After coming to Britain and gaining the Fellowship in 1964, he moved to the United States where he practised in the 1970s at West Bloomfield, Michigan, though thereafter he gave his address to the College as c/o 61 Branksome Towers, Poole. His death was reported to the College by his father-in-law as having occurred on 8 September 1994.
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First Title value, for Searching Sarkin, Theodore Leonard ( - 1998)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Teddy Sarkin's MD thesis was for work on the use of synthetic materials in finger injuries, and won him an Adams and Nuffield scholarship to continue these studies in the UK and USA, where he passed the FRCS of the Edinburgh and English colleges. He went on to be senior lecturer and director of the accident unit at Groot Schuur Hospital, Cape Town where he wrote two textbooks and many papers, and went on to be the first Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in Durban. By now he had an established reputation as a first-rate teacher of undergraduates and post-graduates. In addition he won an international reputation as a scientific thinker, which culminated in his book *The shape of the secret of life* (Luthuli Publishing, 1999) in which he discussed the central importance of the helix as the template for all vertebrate anatomy. This was published after his death which occurred on 19 January 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Larkin, Kerry Kelsall (1936 - 2021)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-11-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Kerry Larkin was a consultant surgeon in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
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First Title value, for Searching Najarian, John Sarkis (1927 - 2020)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-09-20
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Occupation Transplant surgeon General surgeon
Details John Sarkis Najarian was a clinical professor of transplant surgery at the University of Minnesota, USA. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
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