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First Title value, for Searching Elliott, Robert (1804 - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, George Viner (1812 - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-16
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born on September 25th, 1812, the second son of Viner Ellis, of Duni House, Minsterworth, near Gloucester, where his family had for many years been landowners. He was educated at the Crypt Grammar School, and then at the Cathedral Grammar School, and was afterwards apprenticed to Dr Buchanan, of Gloucester. On the advice of his scientific uncle, Daniel Ellis, FRS, Edinburgh, he was entered as a medical student at the newly-founded University College, London, where his career was one of distinction, In his vacations he studied in Paris, and he also followed courses of lectures and worked at anatomy in Berlin. He was for a long period Demonstrator of Anatomy under Professor Richard Quain, and succeeded him in the Chair of Anatomy in 1850, resigning with the title of Emeritus Professor in 1877. He never mingled much with the professional world. At the time of his death in the year 1900, Viner Ellis was *magni nominis umbra* to the younger generation of medical students, but in his day he had been one of the ruling spirits of the world of anatomy in this country. He gave his whole working life to the study and teaching of his chosen subject. Though too austere and unsympathetic in manner and strict in discipline to be popular with the great body of students, he was held in the highest respect by all, and in almost affectionate regard by a chosen few. Though he disdained the art of clothing the dry bones of anatomy with any flesh of human interest, his lectures were so exact in detail and so clear in expression that they were always listened to with close attention if not with pleasure. He taught most conscientiously, having his students' credit greatly at heart. Such was his grief when University College men failed badly in the Royal College of Surgeons examinations, that on one occasion, after they had figured very poorly, he appealed to his class, with tears rolling down his face, to remove this disgrace from him. His name soon became a household word with medical students at large when he published his famous *Demonstrations of Anatomy: being a Guide to the Knowledge of the Human Body by Dissections*. This appeared in 1840, and quickly became the standard text-book in English and American dissecting-rooms. The 11th edition was published in 1890 (edited by Professor G D Thane). A number of quaint anecdotes were told of Ellis. His class was always in perfect order, and once when his colleague, Professor Robert Grant, then very old and feeble, found his men unmanageable, he called Viner Ellis to his aid. After a brief but convincing interview with Ellis the unruly became quiet as lambs in 'poor old Grant's' lecture-room. He hated smoking and forbade it to his dissectors, who once, so the legend runs, petitioned the Council of University College for leave to purify the air in the dissecting-rooms with tobacco smoke. The petition was granted, and Ellis at once sent in his resignation, only withdrawing it when he had received assurances that he should never again be asked to tolerate the accursed thing. When he subsequently caught a comfortable party of smokers round a stove, his anger was memorable. He was secretive as to his place of residence, and students out-of-doors were wont cautiously to shadow him on his way home, but he always apparently succeeded in giving his followers the slip. The popular myth was to the effect that he kept two *ménages*. In the afternoons he used to go round to each individual dissector and would show his approval of a hard worker by patting him on the shoulder with hands "too visibly subdued to that they worked in" - a mark of approval not always properly appreciated. He spent most of his time in the dissecting-room, looking in after his midday lecture and sniffing the air as though to gain an appetite for lunch. To the specially privileged he would sometimes unbend, the hard face wrinkling every now and then into kindly smiles. He would reveal unsuspected depths of knowledge and feeling, and would tell stories of the old resurrectionists, some of whom he had known, or would show a love of literature in discussing the Elizabethan poets. He was an expounder rather than a discoverer in anatomy, a rigorous verifier and systematizer of what was already known. He discovered the corrugator ani muscle, a fact commemorated in a student's epitaph composed in his memory:- "Here lies, beloved by few, and feared by many, Georgy, discoverer of the corrugator ani." After his retirement Professor Ellis built himself a house in his native place, and lived quietly there with his sister. He devoted himself to the cultivation of his garden and was a successful apple-grower. He also taught the older boys of the parish in a night school, for he hated to be idle. With Viner Ellis passed away almost the last of the great teachers who had first made the Medical School of University College famous. He died at his residence, Severn Bank, Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, on April 25th, 1900. He was several times Examiner in Anatomy at the University of London, but refused to join the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, who in his day were required to test the knowledge of candidates in surgery as well as in anatomy. Publications:- In addition to the *Demonstrations of Anatomy*, Ellis published:- *Illustrations of Dissections in a Series of Original Coloured Plates the Size of Life, representing the Dissection of the Human Body,* fol., London, 1867; 2nd ed., 2 vols., 8vo, New York, 1882. This is as much a classic as the *Demonstrations*. The drawings were finely executed from nature on stone by G H FORD. They were from Ellis's dissections. He wrote the greater part of the description of the nerves in his and Sharpey's edition of Jones Quain's *Elements of Anatomy*, 6th ed., 1856. He also contributed several papers on scientific subjects to the *Lond. Med. Gaz.*
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Sir Herbert Mackay (1851 - 1912)

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First Title value, for Searching Ellison, King (1800 - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Elsworth, Richard Cogswell (1859 - 1922)

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First Title value, for Searching Saneyoshi, Yasuzumi (1848 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Roger Barritt (1944 - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Roger Barritt Jones was a consultant surgeon and clinical director of surgery and urology at Rotherham General Hospital. He studied medicine at Manchester University, gaining a BSc in 1965 and graduating MB ChB in 1968. After house posts, he was an assistant lecturer in anatomy at Manchester University, and a registrar in surgery at the University Hospital of South Manchester. Prior to his appointment to his consultant post, he was a senior registrar in general surgery at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. Roger Barritt Jones died on 18 June 2012, aged 67. He was survived by his wife, Hilary, and sons Andrew, Richard and Paul.
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First Title value, for Searching Kock, Nils Gustav Johannes (1924 - 2011)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2015-03-20
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Occupation Colorectal surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Nils Kock, professor of surgery and chief of the department of surgery II, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, was an eminent colorectal surgeon, widely known for his development of the 'Kock pouch', a continent pouch formed by using the terminal ileum after colectomy. Known as 'Nicke' to his friends, Nils Kock was born on 29 January 1924 in the Finnish town of Jakobstad ('Jacob's city'), to use its Swedish name, and Pietarsaari ('Peter's Island') in Finnish. This town in Ostrobothnia, western Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia, is an important Finnish port and industrial centre with some 20,000 inhabitants. Nils Kock's family were Finnish-Swedish in origin. His father, Emil Kock, owned an equipment store in Jakobstad: his mother, Aili Kock née Lönnmark, was a housewife. Nils had one older brother, Sven, who became a professor of economics, and an older sister, Auda Andersson, a language teacher. The first four years of Nils' school life were spent in the Jakobstad Folkskola, or elementary school, followed by eight years at the Jakobstad Samlycéum or secondary school. His teenage years were interrupted by the Second World War. Drafted into the Finnish Army, he was involved in the confrontations between Russia, Germany and the Western Allies. Entering the Army as a private in the heavy artillery, by the end of the war he had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant. His home town of Jakobstad was bombed by the Russians during the war years. Nils Kock was always modest about his war-time experiences, but these years remained important to him for the rest of his life: he was very proud of belonging to the Finnish Second World War veterans. Demobilised after the war, Nils applied for entrance to Helsinki University to study medicine. As his school grades were not all that outstanding, even after being given extra marks for exemplary military service, his first application was turned down. Clearly disappointed at the outcome, he entered what he felt was the second best option, the dental school. Within a year he re-applied for a place on the medical course at Helsinki University and was successful. He was further compensated for this early upset by meeting his future wife, Birgit Bretenstein (known as 'Bie'), a student of languages. She was born in Tampere in southern Finland. Their romance led to their wedding in 1950 at a small family ceremony. They had a very happy and successful life together. The first of two daughters, Anki, was born in Helsinki in May 1952. Nils graduated in 1951 and held post-qualification house appointments in Helsinki, but to realise his ambition of specialising in surgery, he decided to move to Sweden in the hope of gaining entrance to a residency programme. Travelling in the autumn of 1952 with his wife and daughter, he studied hard in order to pass the Swedish qualifying examination in the spring of 1955. By now the Kocks had another daughter, Maria, who was born in Gothenburg in January 1955. Having a Swedish licence to practice, he managed to get a foot on the first rung of the ladder as an assistant in surgery in the department of surgery I, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The period of higher surgical training within the University Hospital was to last another five years or more. He was to remain in Gothenburg for the rest of his professional life: from 1974 to 1990, when he retired as professor of surgery and chief of the department of surgery II, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. He formed the opinion that to progress in his chosen career of surgery, basic science education must work hand-in-hand with clinical work. Supervised for two to three years by Bjorn Folkow, head of the department of physiology at Gothenburg, Nils worked towards a PhD thesis. Entitled 'An experimental analysis of mechanisms engaged in reflex inhibition of intestinal motility', he defended his thesis before the adjudicating panel, receiving his doctorate in 1959. At this early stage of his training he had established a laboratory for 'urodynamic' studies, and adapted the apparatus for pressure studies on intestinal segments as bladder substitutes on both canine and feline models. This was just the beginning of his future clinical research, with projects that led to innovations in continence-preserving urological and colo-rectal techniques in patients undergoing cystectomy and procto-colectomy. For years those patients with conditions requiring radical colectomy accepted the need for a permanent opening or ileostomy, for which external appliances/bags were required over the stoma to collect faecal waste. There was still a degree of patient satisfaction of 'conventional ileostomy', as popularised by Bryan Brooke of Birmingham, who had founded the Ileostomy Association in 1956 in the UK. Similarly, urine drainage bags were acceptable in patients after total cystectomy with ileal conduits, and continued to prove satisfactory. However, in 12% of patients the continuous flow of faecal material/urine over the abdominal wall caused skin erosion, and prolapse of the ileostomy and para-stomal hernias were also significant problems. Clearly, other approaches were needed. During his animal experiments that were part of the evolution of the 'continent ileostomy', Kock discovered that graded filling of the sigmoid colon as well as small bowel segments induced strong pressure waves, even when low volumes of fluid were introduced. Such pressures were sufficient to overcome sphincter tone and allow leakage of fluid. But by detubularising of the intestinal segments using a new double folding technique and suturing together the opened terminal ileum, a spherical 'reservoir' could be constructed virtually free of pressure on filling. A satisfactory 'bladder/reservoir' capacity with minimal leakage therefrom resulted after years of experimental work. This unique invention meant that patients whose colon and rectum had been removed could be offered an alternative to an external appliance. Stimulated by these promising experiments, in 1967 Kock began a clinical study using low-pressure reservoir continent ileostomy after procto-colectomy in patients with ulcerative colitis. The reservoir was constructed on a distal 15cm of ileum and the outlet or stoma from the pouch passed through the rectus abdominis muscle at an acute angle to form a flat cutaneous ileostomy. It was hoped that rectus muscle tone would be sufficient to gain continence. Sadly, in many cases it proved insufficient to stop leakage from the internal pouches, and alternatives were sought. In 1969, Nil Kock published a landmark article on this, the 'Kock pouch', or continent ileostomy ('Intra-abdominal "reservoir" in patients with permanent ileostomy. Preliminary observations on a procedure resulting in fecal "continence" in five ileostomy patients' *Arch Surg*. 1969 Aug;99[2]:223-31), describing a surgical method for achieving continence by creating an internal reservoir in the form of a sphere. Fashioned from the lower end of the patient's own small intestine it led to an opening or stoma on the patients' abdominal wall. Several times a day the patient would sit on the toilet, insert a catheter via the stoma and into the pouch and drain out waste material. It was only necessary to place a small dressing over the stoma to absorb mucus in between regular self-catheterisations. A 'nipple valve' constructed by intussuscepting a short outer segment of the efferent limb at the stoma achieved a greater degree of continence: some valves required stapling in order to increase stability. But evacuation difficulties, stenosis, slippage of the valve or leakage still remained the Achilles heel. None of these problems and complications were ignored by Kock and the many other investigators who were attracted to this revolutionary concept. Solutions were found whenever possible. Needless to say, long-term studies are being done on continent ileostomies, with or without valve mechanisms. The incidence of pouchitis, improvements on the nipple valve and, most important of all, pouch durability and need for revisions are being researched. Many studies were done by Nils Kock himself, assessing quality of life and patient satisfaction. Kock's method spread world-wide, and specialist centres in North America and other parts of Scandinavia began to report good or improved results. A Canadian devotee, Zane Cohen, set up a clinic at the University of Toronto after first visiting Kock at St Mark's Hospital, London, where he held a fellowship. He described him as 'an amazing individual who was kind, clever, committed and creative'. Cohen and his colleagues modified and worked on the Kock pouch procedure at the University of Toronto, and the Scandinavian experience has been shared and improved throughout other parts of the world. Nils was a charismatic tutor and skilled clinician who generously shared his skills and ideas with others: he also very much preferred to 'go his own way'. In so doing he expressed a slight distrust of hospital administration and bureaucracy in general. On joining the permanent staff of his old medical school, he set up a private clinical and experimental gastroenterological research unit with a staff of research nurses and graduate assistants, who constituted the cornerstone of his research activities. From this laboratory emanated a large number of original papers and academic theses in gastroenterology and urology. Over the years he himself had over 300 publications, including those detailing modifications necessary to overcome problems with the Kock pouch. As an early part of his own training, and to broaden his experience of other systems of healthcare, in 1968 he and his family went for a year to the USA. In Buffalo, New York, he worked with Bud Schenk in laboratories attached to the Edward J Meyer Memorial Hospital, doing research work on intestinal circulation. No doubt he imbibed the cut and thrust of discussions on 'grand rounds', so common in USA institutions. Nils had numerous invitations to lecture and demonstrate his techniques abroad. In 1973 he was asked by the thoracic surgeon, Ake Senning, to spend a sabattical year and to establish a new clinic for gastrointestinal surgery in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1986 he went to work in the urological department of the University of Mansoura, Egypt, for several short periods. A common problem in this country is the development of carcinoma in bladders infested with bilharzia. Working with Mohammed Ghoneim, who became a great friend, he developed a Kock reservoir which would avoid a stoma after cystectomy. They started a trial using the low pressure pouch provided with an anti-reflux valve that was anastomosed directly to the urethra, a technique which is now used widely. Nils Kock was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1978, at an annual general meeting held in Swansea. At the meeting he also gave a Moynihan lecture entitled 'A new look at faecal and urinary diversion procedures'. Throughout his career he was presented with numerous awards, including, in1988, the Söderberg prize in medicine - the so-called 'small Nobel prize' - for his ground-breaking research and clinical development of continence-preserving surgery. In 1997 he received the Société Internationale d'Urologie award in recognition of his great contributions to urology. Although he was in many ways a workaholic, Nils had many interests outside medicine. He was fond of sailing his yacht round the islands of southern Sweden. In 1969 he, with two other surgeons, bought properties and land on Ljusterö, an island located in the northern part of the Tjust archipelago on the east coast of Sweden. It became a favourite place to which he could escape with his closely-knit family. His original mind led him to carpentry for relaxation, befitting a surgeon who was a good technician. He was widely read on diverse subjects, and visited the library near his home in Gothenburg on a regular basis to borrow books to read at home. Following his retirement in 1990, he and his wife lived for part of the year in southern France, where they enjoyed the French cuisine and wine. In addition they and the members of the family were able to meet up more frequently on Lustjerö. Anki, the older of the two daughters, is married and has two children, My Ernevi and Jonas: she followed her mother into the study of languages. The second daughter, Maria, has followed her father into medicine. She is an anaesthetist and specialist in intensive care at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg. She is married and has three children - Björn, a trainee cardiologist, Olaf, an intern in medicine, and Tove, who is studying psychology. Nils Kock died as he would have wished, peacefully, on 24 August 2011, at his home in Gothenburg whilst waiting to go out for lunch. He was 87. He did not wish for any fuss at his memorial service, which was non-religious. He was known to have cardiac problems, so this was presumably the cause of his sudden death. He was survived by his wife of 61 years, their two daughters and five grandchildren. As the coloproctologist Sir Alan Parks described him at the time of his election to the honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, he was 'A giant of a man in all ways, a great Scandinavian, and a great European'. His colleagues, Leif Hultén and Helge Myrvold, end their tribute: 'We who had the privilege to work and interact with "Nicke" have a lot to thank him for and have great memories to look back on. We remember him for his dedication, his curiosity, his thoughtfulness and humour.'
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First Title value, for Searching Moseley, Francis Xavier (1805 - 1866)

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First Title value, for Searching Moseley, George (1826 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Moss, William Boyd (1829 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Mouat, Frederic John (1816 - 1897)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-22
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Occupation Chemist General surgeon
Details Born at Maidstone on May 18th, 1816, the second son of Surgeon James Mouat, King's Hussars, 13th Light Infantry, and 15th Dragoons. Surgeon General Sir James Mouat, VC, KCB, FRCS his elder brother (qv) survived him for about a year. Frederic John Mouat studied in Paris with the intention of entering the Army, then turning to medicine he attended University College, London, and Edinburgh University, where he graduated MD in 1839. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Army on January 3rd, 1840, and was sent successively to the 21st Fusiliers at Fort William, to the 4th Bengal Native Infantry, and to the 1st Battery of Artillery at Dum Dum. He was for a year Deputy Apothecary and Assistant Opium Examiner to the Government, at the same time conducting experiments on some dye-yielding lichens. Having drawn up a detailed memorandum on Indian Industrial Products, he was appointed by Lord Auckland Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica, also Secretary and Treasurer of the New Bengal Medical College, in 1841. He was the Resident Principal Officer in control of the College from 1841-1853, and obtained for it recognition by the RCS and by the University of London. He remodelled the system of clinical teaching in the wards and rendered into Hindustani an Anatomy for the use of the medical class, also the London Pharmacopaeia. As Chemical Examiner to the Government he served on the Select Artillery Committee and experimented on percussion caps. In conjunction with Colonel Edward Ludlow he invented a waterproof glaze to prevent rapid deterioration of the caps in a tropical climate. Some of the percussion caps having failed at the Battle of Inkerman, Mouat investigated the cause, and on the Chinese Expedition the muskets of the Cameronians, the 49th and 65th Foot were supplied with percussion caps filled according to Mouat's instructions so as to be damp-proof. He and Colonel Ludlow also experimented in the laboratory of the Medical College on field rockets. Mouat also submitted rubber to chemical analysis. Appointed Secretary to the Council of Education of Bengal on April 12th, 1843, he produced in 1846 a scheme, on the lines of the University of London, for Indian Universities, and in 1854 Sir Charles Wood recommended what was essentially Mouat's scheme, which was adopted by the Council of Education and by the Indian Government. From the Professorship of Chemistry Mouat passed in 1845 to that of Medical Jurisprudence, and in 1849 to the Professorship of Medicine, including charge of the Medical Wards in the Hospital. He was gazetted Inspector-General of Jails in Bengal on December 18th, 1855, and advocated remunerative prison labour as a way to reform prisoners and make prisons self-supporting. The outbreak of the Mutiny caused Mouat to be made President of a Committee in November, 1857, to explore the Andaman Islands in search of a suitable site for a convict settlement; his report was published in 1859. In a fight with the Andamanese he was wounded in the mouth and had two ribs broken. A harbour was discovered on the west coast of the Great Andamans and named Port Mouat. He twice reported to the Government on coolie emigration and its dangers. He founded the Bethune Society of Calcutta, so named after John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, Indian Legislator (1801-1851). Mouat retired on December 3rd, 1870, and on this occasion the Mohammedan and Hindu communities presented addresses recapitulating the good work done by him as the developer of the idea of Indian education, which had been inaugurated by Lord Macaulay under Lord William Bentinck's administration. Although no Knighthood or Companionship of an Order recognized it, the name of Mouat stands alongside those of Macaulay and Bentinck, Wood and Canning, in the spread of English education and the origin of the Universities in India. Mouat was a fluent speaker in French and Hindustani, as well as in English, and he presented a valuable library to the Calcutta Medical College. On retirement he had the rank of Deputy Inspector-General. On his return to England he was appointed one of the Local Government Inspectors until 1887. He contributed much to the *Lancet*, also to Blue Books on Prison Reforms, Opium and Alcohol, Organization of Medical Relief, Hospital Construction and Management, and Repression of Crime. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1890-1892. He visited and reported on the Ambulances in the north of France in 1871. On November 9th, 1876, he was present, as the representative of the Local Government Board, in the Tower of London during the removal of the pavement in the chancel of the Church of St Peter ad Vincula when the skeletons of Anne Boleyn, the Duke of Monmouth, and others were found and identified. He founded and endowed a Scholarship for Medical Students at the University of Edinburgh. He died at 12 Durham Villas, Kensington, on January 12th, 1897, and was cremated at Woking. He married (1) in 1842 Mary Rennards Boyes, and (2) in 1889 Margaret Key, daughter of John Fawcus, JP, who survived him. A good portrait accompanies his biography in the *Medical Reporter* of Calcutta (1894, iii, 314), and a small reproduction is in the College Collection. His bust by H Thornycroft, RA, he left to University College, London. Publications:- *Observations on the Nosological Arrangement of the Bengal Medical Returns, with a few Cursory Remarks on Medical Topography and Military Hygiene*, 8vo, Calcutta, 1845. *Elements of Anatomy: compiled from the Most Recent Authorities and translated into Hindustani*, 8vo, illustrated, Calcutta, 1848. *An Atlas of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, with Descriptive Letterpress in English and Hindustani*, published by order of Government, fol, 50 coloured plates, Calcutta, 1849. *Reports on Jails Visited and Inspected in Bengal, Behar, and Arracan*, 8vo, 2 plans, Calcutta, 1856. *The Andaman Islands; with Notes on Barren Island* (Report of the Committee appointed Nov 20, 1857, to select a Site for the Establishment of a Penal Settlement), 8vo, 6 plates and a plan, Calcutta, 1859. *Selections from the Records of the Government of India (Home Dept)*, No XXV. *The British Soldier in India*, 8vo, London, 1859. *On Prison Statistics and Discipline in Lower Bengal*, 8vo, 1860? *Report on the Diet of Prisoners in the Jails of the Lower Provinces of the Bengal Presidency* (with Appendix No II, showing in detail the strength, admissions, deaths, dietary, and cubical space of the three quinquennial periods of 1839-1843, 1844-1848, and 1852-1856, in the Jails of the Lower Provinces, with Abstracts of the same), 4to, Calcutta, 1860. *Report on the Classified Dietary of 1862 for Prisoners in the Jails of the Lower Provinces of the Bengal Presidency* (with Appendix showing the results of the new dietary, as exhibited by the weights of the prisoners subjected to it, on admission and discharge; the sickness and mortality that prevailed among them; and the cost of the measure during the continuance of the experiment, viz, from the 1st of May to the 31st of October, 1862), 4to, Calcutta, 1863. *Adventures and Researches among the Andaman Islands*, 8vo, London, 1863. "Special Report on Wounds and Injuries received in Battle," 8vo, 1865?; reprinted from the *Medical and Surgical History of the New Zealand War*, by Sir James Mouat, VC (qv). *Memorandum on the Duties, etc, of Inspectors of Sanitary Arrangements*, fol, 1868. *A Visit to Some of the Battlefields and Ambulances of the North of France*, 8vo, London, 1871. "Medical Statistics, with Especial Reference to Cholera and Syphilis," 8vo, London, 1874; reprinted from *Trans Epidemiol Soc Lond*, 1866-73, iii, 376. *Note on the Statistics of Child-birth in the Lying-in Wards of the Workhouse Infirmaries of England and Wales for the Ten Years* 1871-80, 8vo, nd. *The Death Tribute of England to India*; being an examination of the deaths and invaliding of officers of HM British Forces serving in India, from 1861-1870 inclusive, considered with special reference to the question of the present value of European life in India, 8vo, London, 1875. *Repression of Crime; Address delivered before the Social Science Congress at Dublin*, Oct 4, 1881, 8vo, London, 1881. *Memorial to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for India, in Council*, 8vo, nd. *Hospital Construction and Management* (with H SAXON SNELL), 4to, 52 plates and map, London, 1883-4. He added a note on dry sewage to W R Gilbert Hickey's *The Carbonization or Dry Distillation System*, 8vo, Darjeeling, 1869. He published a Persian translation, with Appendix, of Spilsbury and Samachurn Dutt's *Hindustani Version of the London Pharmacopoeia*, ed 1836, 8vo, Calcutta, 1845. He wrote extensively on prisons and their discipline (*see* his *International Prison Statistics, International Prisons Congress*, 1890). *A History of the Statistical Society of London*, 1885. *Origin and Progress of Universities in India*, 1888. Much of his work in Blue Books, etc, had to do with the condition of the English poor. Lieut-Colonel Crawford, IMS, adds to the foregoing list (Crawford's *History of the Indian Medical Service*, 1914, especially vol ii, p. 177). *Rough Notes of a Trip to Mauritius, Réunion, and Ceylon*, 1853. *Value of European Life in India*, 1873.
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First Title value, for Searching James, John (1825 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised in London successively at 49 Prince's Street, Leicester Square; at 13 Pall Mall; at 11 Thurloe Square, SW, where he was Assistant Physician to the Chelsea Hospital for Women; and at 37 Culverdon Road, Balham, where he died in retirement on January 31st, 1913. Publication: Translation of Virchow's *Infectious Diseases in the Army*, chiefly wound fever, typhoid, dysentery, and diphtheria, 12mo, London, 1879,
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First Title value, for Searching Manning, Guy Eugene ( - 1920)

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First Title value, for Searching Mann, Robert James (1817 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Mapleton, Henry (1815 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Margerison, Richard (1852 - 1906)

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First Title value, for Searching Markwick, Alfred (1822 - 1887)

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First Title value, for Searching Muriel, John (1799 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Murphy, James Keogh (1869 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Morris, James (1826 - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London on October 29th, 1856. He was the younger son of James Morris, a native of Paisley, and was educated in London and at Glasgow. At the age of 16 he began to study at University College and Hospital in the days of Sharpey, Jones Quain, W H Walshe, C T B Williams, S Cooper, and Liston. He was House Surgeon under Syme and Erichsen. At University College he gained medals in chemistry, anatomy, physiology, and at the Apothecaries' Society the Linnean Gold Medal for botany. At the University of London he took Gold Medals in anatomy, physiology, comparative anatomy, and surgery. Taking his MB in 1849, he began private practice at 79 Park Street, Grosvenor Square, W, but this did not hinder him from passing further examinations - the BA in 1851, FRCS in 1852, the MD in 1853. Later he practised at 13 Somers Place. A widely read man, he was a Fellow of the Statistical Society and appreciated English and German poetry. Ill health compelled him to retire from practice, but he lived on at Somers Place, and was only ill in bed with influenza for three days before his death on December 22nd, 1900. He married in 1869 Agnes, daughter of his friend, John Turner, MA, of Glasgow. She died in 1899, and left two sons and three daughters. There is a portrait of him in the Fellows' Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Morris, Edwin (1815 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Morrill, John ( - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Morland, Charles Henry Duncan (1866 - 1911)

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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, William Francis (1800 - 1872)

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Publication Date 2012-08-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was born at Shepton Mallet, in Somersetshire, in August, 1800, and received his elementary education under Mr Rogers, of Dursley, and Mr Mules, of Ilminster. He was apprenticed for five years to Richard Smith, Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1796-1843, for a fee of two hundred guineas. He served as Physician's pupil during the year 1820, and then went to London, attending the lectures of John Abernethy and taking a course at the Moorfields Eye Hospital. Returning to Bristol, he settled in Bridge Street in 1824, and was elected Apothecary to the Infirmary on July 7th, 1825, being the only candidate who came to the poll. He resigned his office in April, 1833, and received votes of thanks for his services from the medical staff as well as from the Governors. He then began to practise in Park Street and made £150 in the first year. On November 23rd, 1837, he was elected Surgeon in succession to William Haling, when there were eight applicants. He resigned on April 18th, 1854, when he was appointed Consulting Surgeon. In all he retained his close connection with the Infirmary for over fifty years. His great experience, his extensive knowledge of the literature of his profession, and his calm, good judgement, made his opinion highly valued. He was little known beyond Bristol, as he scarcely published anything and was no speaker, owing to a slight stammer. He is described as "a grey-whiskered little man neatly dressed in a long frock coat", who was much beloved for his simple unassuming character, his kindness and irreproachable conduct. Owing to extreme irritability of the heart, which precluded all exertion, he had retired from active duty some years before his death. This occurred suddenly on Sunday, December 7th, 1872. He resided and carried on his private practice at 2 Berkeley Square, Bristol.
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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, John Hammond (1847 - 1924)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on August 19th, 1847, the only son of John Morgan (1820-1891) (qv); was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he matriculated on Oct 13th, 1866, and in 1870 graduated in the third class of the Natural Science School. It was as an athlete and runner that 'Johnnie Morgan', 'Three-mile Morgan', so distinguished himself. A small, thickly set man, he had great elasticity of action, bounding along without the slightest appearance of effort or of fatigue. At Harrow he represented Dr Butler's House at cricket and football. He was in the School rifle team of 1864 which won the Ashburton Shield open to the Public Schools, and the *Illustrated London News* of July 30th shows Lady Elcho presenting the shield to Harrow's representatives. In the spring of 1866 he won the School Mile Race. In 1868 he won the Blue Riband of the Oxford and Cambridge Athletic Meeting, the Three Mile Race, beating Mitchell the Oxford, and Royds the Cambridge, cracks in the easiest fashion by nearly 200 yards. In 1869 and 1870, besides winning other races, he repeated his feat of winning the Three Miles in the same superbly easy fashion. His time in one race was then a record-15 min 15 sec. In 1870 he was elected President of the Oxford University Athletic Club, also President of the Harrow Club, after serving as Treasurer in 1869. He was also elected to the Falstaff Club, the announcement being made in a letter written by Lord Randolph Churchill. Morgan followed his father in studying at St George's Hospital, and after a further period of study at Vienna was appointed Surgical Registrar, subsequently Assistant Surgeon, to the West London Hospital for Hip Joint Disease and to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1880 he got his definite appointment as Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, becoming Surgeon in 1888 and resigning in 1905. From 1881-1892 he lectured on surgical pathology. He was a surgeon rather of the old school, with little sympathy for newfangled ideas. Among his maxims, which he was constantly impressing upon his students, were: "Do just what is required and no more"; "Avoid meddlesome surgery"; "As regards the abdomen get in quick and out quicker." His results in what he did understand were distinctly good. His greatest friend was Sir Frederick Treves, for whom he had unbounded admiration. From 1898-1906 he acted as Treasurer of the Charing Cross Medical School. Possessed of ample means, private practice had no attractions for him, and few men of his experience and standing ever made a smaller income. He would pass on private cases saying, "I don't want the money; Treves will do it better than I could." Confining himself to clinical surgery, he passed on the appointment of Lecturer on Surgery to Stanley Boyd (qv). His athletic record and his gentle, genial personality endeared him to the students; he was President of the Students' Club, and a warm supporter of the cricket, football, and athletic clubs. He was an excellent member of committees, and for many years Chairman of the Committee of the Medical Schools. His chief publications concerned his experiences in the surgery of children in particular - eg, *The Lettsomian Lectures on the Affections of the Urinary Apparatus of Children*, 1898, given when he was President of the Medical Society. On the foundation of the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples' Hospital in 1907, Morgan was nominated a member of the original Medical Board by the Presidents of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and was then unanimously elected Chairman of the Board. He often visited the hospital and warmly agreed with and rejoiced in the conservative surgery practised. He served as Examiner in Surgery at Oxford, and was on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1902-1910. At the British Medical Association Meetings he was Secretary of the Section of Surgery at Bath in 1878, President of the Section of Diseases of Children in London in 1895, and Vice-President of the Section of Surgery at the Sheffield Meeting in 1908. In addition to his athletic triumphs he was a keen fisherman, shot, and rider to hounds. Unfortunately, when hunting in 1882, his horse fell on him and caused a comminuted fracture of the femur near the hip, which, despite the most careful treatment, united with such marked shortening that he was lame for the rest of his life. He then travelled a good deal and went on one journey with Sir Frederick Treves to the West Indies. At his country house at Bucklebury Common, Berkshire, he delighted in his garden and laid out a miniature rifle range for the villagers. In spite of some temporary trouble in his cerebral circulation, he undertook in 1917 the duties of Surgeon-in-charge of the Hôpital des Anglais at Nevers until ill health forced his retirement. In private life he was an ardent and patriotic Conservative, and a churchwarden at St George's, Hanover Square. Dignified and courtly, he lived for many years in Grosvenor Street. After his retirement he moved from Grosvenor Street to 3 Connaught Square, Hyde Park, where after prolonged illness he died on October 11th, 1924. He married Isabel, second daughter of W C Lucy, of Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire, in 1874; she survived him without issue. He left over £114,000, and bequeathed his athletic trophies to Trinity College, Oxford.
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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, John (1840 - 1902)

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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, John (1820 - 1891)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Bath on April 20th, 1820, the son of a medical practitioner who died soon after; was of Welsh origin in Glamorganshire, an uncle having been Rector of Lampeter College. Mrs Morgan, one of the Biggs of Wiltshire, for her only child's education, lived first at Clifton and passed the holidays with her family at Bapton, in Wiltshire. She moved to London when her son entered King's College. He was apprenticed to William Henry Hodding, who practised at 67 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, where he learnt both to compound prescriptions and to drive his master's carriage. Then he entered St George's Hospital, attended lectures by Thomas Tatum and Charles Johnston, and, among other prizes, gained the Brodie Medal, which thirty years later his son, John Hammond Morgan (qv), also won. After qualifying he returned to Bath in 1842 and acted as House Surgeon to the United Hospital, after which he came back to London and joined in partnership with Edgar Barker in 1845, near Hyde Park Square, a neighbourhood where there were numerous wealthy and influential residents. He had many friends, including Sir Benjamin Brodie and Sir Charles Locock, and in 1860 he moved to Sussex Place, where for a time he practised single-handed; later he took a partner. In 1877 he had a bad attack of rheumatic fever which caused him to take holidays and to travel abroad during the spring and make country visits in the autumn. After a sudden and brief illness he died at 3 Sussex Place on November 20th, 1891, and was buried at Willesden. Mrs Morgan had predeceased him in 1875; their only son was John Hammond Morgan (qv), Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital. In December, 1891, Morgan's friends held a meeting in Sir John Aird's drawing-room at 14 Hyde Park Terrace, under the chairmanship of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, and a sum was collected and handed to the British Medical Benevolent Fund to form the John Morgan Annuity, as he had been a Vice-President of the Fund (*Lancet*, 1891, ii, 1372).
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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, Howel ( - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, George Thompson ( - 1845)

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First Title value, for Searching Morris, John (1815 - 1887)

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First Title value, for Searching Morrison, William ( - 1854)

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First Title value, for Searching Murphy, John Benjamin (1857 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Murphy, Sir Shirley Forster (1848 - 1923)

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First Title value, for Searching Marley, Miles P. ( - 1854)

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First Title value, for Searching Murray, Frank Everitt (1874 - 1907)

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First Title value, for Searching Muscroft, James ( - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Muspratt, Charles Drummond (1859 - 1927)

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First Title value, for Searching Nance, Henry Chester (1856 - 1927)

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First Title value, for Searching Nance, James (1818 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Nankivell, Arthur Wolcot ( - 1899)

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First Title value, for Searching Nash, James George (1804 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Nasmyth, Alexander ( - 1848)

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First Title value, for Searching Nathan, Charles (1816 - 1872)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Westminster Hospital, where he was a distinguished student and prizeman. He went out to Australia, began the practice of his profession in Sydney in 1842, and continued actively to exercise it for thirty years. He was at the head of the profession in Sydney, and is said to have been courteous, kind, a stickler for professional honour, well versed in all branches of his art, and one whose opinion on questions of surgery carried great weight in the Colony. He was, moreover, a wit and a good musician. He held many high positions, occupying for over twenty years the post of Surgeon to the Sydney Infirmary, of which, on his retirement some eight years before his death, he was unanimously elected Consulting Surgeon. During the last three years of his life he was also Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary and St Vincent's Hospital. He was Surgeon to the Sydney Female Refuge; a Member of the Medical Board of New South Wales; Member of the Senate of Sydney University; a Fellow of St Paul's College; an Examiner in Medicine at Sydney University; and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. Not long before his death he was busy with others in drafting a new Medical Bill. He was also desirous of forming a scientific Medical Society in Sydney, intending, shortly before his death, if his health continued good, to call a meeting of the profession for this purpose. He died at Sydney on September 20th, 1872, leaving a widow and a numerous family, on whose behalf a large subscription was afterwards raised. His portrait accompanies his biography in the *New South Wales Medical Gazette* (1872-3, iii, 43). His Sydney address was at 187 Macquarie Street. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 1 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Naulty, John ( - 1846)

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Occupation Naval surgeon
Details John Naulty was a naval surgeon. He died on or before July 28th, 1846.
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First Title value, for Searching Nayler, George (1828 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Nelson, Duckworth John ( - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Nesbitt, Francis Albert (1832 - 1866)

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First Title value, for Searching Ness, John (1804 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Nettleship, Edward (1845 - 1913)

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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Kettering, Northamptonshire, the fourth son of Henry John Nettleship, solicitor, and Isabella, daughter of the Rev James Hogg, Rector of Geddington and sometime Head Master of Kettering Grammar School. He traced his paternal ancestry through six generations to John Nettleship, of Bole, whose successors made their home at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. Edward Nettleship was one of seven children, six of whom were boys. The only girl died in early infancy and the youngest boy died at the age of 15. The eldest brother, Henry, became Corpus Professor of Latin at Oxford; the second, John Trivett, was well known as an animal painter and as one who early drew attention to Browning's poetry; the fifth son, Richard Lewis, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, died in 1892 during an attempt to ascend Mont Blanc. Edward Nettleship was educated at Kettering Grammar School under Dr Tune, an enthusiast in natural history. His pupil developed similar tastes and it was decided that he should become a farmer. In 1861 he spent some months on a farm at Kimbolton and then went to the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, of which he became a Member in 1863. He afterwards entered King's College, London, and the Royal Veterinary College, Camden Town, where he seems to have studied for the medical and veterinary professions simultaneously. He was admitted a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries and received the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1867. He was appointed Professor of Veterinary Surgery at the Royal Agricultural College in succession to William Hunting, but held the post only for a year, after which he returned to London, entered the London Hospital, and acted first as dresser and afterwards as private assistant to Jonathan Hutchinson. To the end of his life Nettleship remained the friend, as he was also the most distinguished pupil, of his master. Nettleship began to specialize in ophthalmic surgery in 1868, when he became a student at Moorfields Eye Hospital under Jonathan Hutchinson (qv) and was associated with Waren Tay (qv). He was appointed Curator of the Museum and Librarian of the Moorfields Hospital in 1871 and held office for two years and a quarter. He signalized his curatorship by introducing the glycerin-jelly method of preserving the museum specimens, a method which gave place in 1894 to Leber's formalin as a hardening and preserving agent. He married in 1869 Elizabeth Endacott, daughter of Richard Whiteway, of Compton, Devonshire. In 1873 he was placed in charge of the Ophthalmic School at Bow which had been opened by the Local Government Board in a disused workhouse, and here he lived with his wife under conditions which required much tact on his part and entailed considerable discomfort on hers. A year later he was asked by the Local Government Board to inspect and report upon the Metropolitan Poor Law Schools, more especially in reference to the prevalence of ophthalmia and the measures for dealing with it. The report was published in 1874 and led to some much-needed reforms in the care of pauper children. Nettleship's first appointment on the staff of a hospital was at the South London Ophthalmic (now the Royal Eye) Hospital. He resigned in 1878, when he was elected Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, in place of R Liebreich, where he remained until 1895. His work there was carried out with conspicuous ability, his reputation as an ophthalmic surgeon and as a teacher became firmly established, and he soon acquired a considerable private practice. His merits and business capacity were so highly esteemed by his colleagues at St Thomas's that he was asked in 1888 to fill the position of Dean of the Medical School, a post he held for the next three years. In 1882 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Moorfields Eye Hospital, the election being the last to be carried out by a personal canvass of the whole body of Governors; in 1887 he was promoted full Surgeon, and he remained on the active staff until 1898. On his retirement he presented a considerable sum of money to the Committee of the Hospital to be spent in buying apparatus for pathological and physiological investigation. Other hospital appointments held by him, but only for short periods, were those of Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and Assistant Surgeon to the Blackfriars Hospital for Diseases of the Skin. Early in 1880 he was one of the promoters of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and was elected the first Surgical Secretary, Sir William Bowman being President and Sir Stephen Mackenzie the Medical Secretary. In 1895, after serving as a Member of Council and a Vice-President, he was chosen President and filled the post with distinction for two years. He was also interested in the formation of the Section of Ophthalmology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1912. He acted as one of the Secretaries of the Ophthalmological Section at the International Medical Congress held in London in 1881, and was a Vice-President of the Section when the Congress met again in London in 1913. Nettleship was President of the Ophthalmological Section of the British Medical Association at the Montreal Meeting in 1897. In 1909 he delivered the Bowman Lecture "Upon some Hereditary Diseases of the Eye", and in 1910 he was appointed a member of the Board of Trade Departmental Committee on Sight Tests for the Mercantile Marine, which issued its report in 1912. He was also a member of a special board which sat at South Kensington for the examination of candidates for the mercantile marine who appealed from the decision of the Board of Trade examiners in colour vision. Nettleship began to practise independently in 1875 and gave up practice in 1902, when he retired to Hindhead, where he died at Longdown Hollow on October 30th, 1913. His remains were cremated at Woking. He lived at first in furnished rooms in Grafton Street, then in Finsbury Pavement, where he shared a home with Waren Tay; next at Stepney in a little old-fashioned creeper-clad house with a garden, where he took resident pupils from the London Hospital. He lived at 5 Wimpole Street whilst he practised, and in 1885 he bought land at Hindhead, where he built a house which was completed in 1887, moving in 1910 to a smaller house in the same neighbourhood. Throughout his life he was greatly helped by his wife from a period of poverty to wealth, but there were no children. Retirement from practice merely meant change of work for Nettleship, and he really made his name and a new branch of ophthalmology during his residence at Hindhead between 1902 and 1913. He created a school of ophthalmological geneticists by his investigations on the influence of heredity in eye disease. He traced 1800 descendants of Jean Nougaret born in 1637. Jean himself and his race from the first were afflicted with congenital night blindness. In the earlier half of the nineteenth century only 600 Nougarets had been traced. In conjunction with Karl Pearson and C H Usher he prepared an elaborate monograph upon "Albinism in Man". He was elected FRS in 1912 largely in recognition of this work. A fund was inaugurated on the occasion of his retirement from practice in 1901 to express the esteem and regard in which Nettleship was held, and was devoted to found a medal for the encouragement of scientific ophthalmic work. The Edward Nettleship Prize is awarded triennially by the Ophthalmological Society, and the first award was to Nettleship himself in 1909 in recognition of his researches upon heredity in diseases of the eye. Nettleship was possessed to an unusual degree of the judicial mind, and his judgement in complex questions was seldom at fault. His natural reserve masked in some degree his decision of character, his determination, and his unbounded energy. As a lecturer he was not at his best, for he was not eloquent nor was his voice sufficiently powerful; he excelled especially in post-graduate teaching. He did not suffer fools gladly and he had no use for the man whose clinical work was slovenly or inaccurate. Ignorance, provided the desire for knowledge was evident, was no bar, and no genuine seeker ever failed to obtain his help. Publications: Nettleship wrote much. His articles on hereditary night blindness appeared in the *Trans Ophthalmol Soc of the United Kingdom*, 1907, xxvii, 269, and on retinitis pigmentosa and allied diseases in the *Roy Lond Ophthal Hosp Rep*, 1908, xvii, part i, 1; part ii, 151; part iii, 333. *The Student's Guide to Diseases of the Eye*, 12mo, London, 1879; edited and revised by W T HOLMES SPICER, 8vo, 1897.
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First Title value, for Searching Newman, William (1833 - 1903)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Hallfield, near Sheffield, on August 29th, 1833, the son of Robert Newman, land agent to Earl Fitzwilliam. He received his education under Dr Jacob at Sheffield Collegiate School, and was here well grounded in the classics and learnt the art of addressing an audience. He began the study of medicine in the house of his uncle, Dr Freemen Eaton, of Ancaster, where he formed a friendship with his future patron, the Earl of Ancaster. He then studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where his student career was one of distinction. After qualifying he was for a time House Surgeon to the Salop Infirmary (Shrewsbury Hospital), and then acted as assistant to his uncle, Dr Eaton, from whom he went to practise at Fulbeck, near Grantham. But he did not long remain here, and in 1863, at the instance of Lord Ancaster, he settled at Stamford. It was suggested that he should aim to become Assistant Physician to St Bartholomew's; such an appointment would probably have led him very far up in his profession. At Stamford, however, he found sufficient scope for his activities, and built up an important practice, being, at the time of his death, one of the best-known surgeons in the Midlands. He was for thirty years Surgeon at the Stamford and Rutland Infirmary, and on retiring was made Consulting Surgeon. In a few years, however, he resumed the Surgeoncy, and operated in the Infirmary until the autumn before his death. Among other posts held by him was that of Medical Officer of Lord Burghley's Hospital. He was also Vice-President of the Section of Surgery at the British Medical Association Meeting at Nottingham in 1892, and Life Governor of Epsom College. He practised at Barn Hill House. It is a noteworthy and pathetic fact that he finally died in the Infirmary to which he had been so devoted, having been brought thither from his cottage at the upland village of Luffenham. His death occurred on December 3rd, 1903. He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Sarah Tinley Newton, daughter of Mr William Newton, of Sudbroke; by this union were born two sons and four daughters. By his second wife he left one son. One of his sons was Lieut-Colonel E A R Newman, IMS, MB Cantab, MRCS. Newman is described as a man of middle height with massive head and bushy beard, grave but kindly blue eyes, twinkling under shaggy eyebrows. His precise diction, together with his impressive voice and somewhat austere aspect, made him appear formidable at times to timid patients on a first interview. He had a reputation, not altogether undeserved, of being apt to take the gravest view of a case. As a professional man he was the soul of honour, and when called in consultation he invariably strengthened the practitioner's position with the patient. As a physician his rare insight was the outcome of careful diagnostic methods and up-to-date knowledge of medical literature. As a surgeon he was cautious but intrepid, and was amongst the first to master the technique of antiseptic and subsequently of aseptic surgery. The keynote of his work was thoroughness. Publications: *Caesarean Section: Recovery of Mother: Child not Viable* (privately circulated), 8vo, Stamford, 1866. *On the Treatment of Naevi by Electrolysis*, 8vo, London, 1881. *Surgical Cases mainly from the Wards of the Stamford, Rutland and General Infirmary*, 8vo, London, 1881. *History of the Stamford Infirmary*. *Pamphlet of Records of the Lincolnshire Medical Benevolent Society*, centenary publication (1903) by William Newman as President. *Drainage and Water Supply of Towns*. *How to make Home Healthy*. "On Punctured Wounds of Knee-joint." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1857, 539; 1864, ii, 623. "Diphtheria." - *St Bart's Hosp Rep*, 1866, ii, 35. "Cases of Lithotomy." - *Ibid*, 1870, vi, 26. *Address* (*on Provident Medical Dispensaries*), 8vo, Stamford, 1886.
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First Title value, for Searching Newport, George (1803 - 1854)

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Occupation Entomologist General surgeon
Details The son of a wheelwright at Canterbury, where he was born on July 4th, 1803. He was first apprenticed to his father's trade, but becoming interested in insect life he was appointed curator of a museum of natural history established by Mr Masters, a nurseryman in the town, next apprenticed to William Henry Weekes, a surgeon of Sandwich, who was an enthusiast in chemistry and physics. He entered University College, then called the University of London, on Jan 16th, 1832. He was appointed House Surgeon to the Chichester Infirmary in April, 1835, by the influence of Sir John Forbes, MD, who was then the Physician and ever after remained his friend, and retained the post until January, 1837. He made frequent visits to Canterbury and its neighbourhood, more especially to Richborough, where he studied the habits of the humble-bee, the white cabbage butterfly, and the buff-tip moth. He proved too that in the generative system of the amphibia the impregnation of the ovum by the spermatozoon is not merely the result of contact but of penetration, and for this discovery he was awarded a Royal Medal in 1851 by the Royal Society, where he had been admitted a Fellow on March 26th, 1846. He also contributed valuable papers to the Transactions of the Linnean Society, of which he became a Fellow in 1857, and to the Entomological Society, of which he was President in 1844-1845. When he left Chichester, Newport settled in London at 30 Southwick Street to practise as a surgeon, but his scientific pursuits prevented success and he was given a Civil List pension of £100 a year in 1847. He seems never to have married, and he died at 55 Cambridge Street, Hyde Park, London, on April 7th, 1854, of a cold caught "in the marshy grounds of Shepherds Bush while procuring his annual supply of living animals for his physiological investigations." He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, where a granite monument was erected to his memory by the Fellows of the Royal and Linnean Societies. Newport, like his successor, W K Parker, subordinated his medical practice to his scientific interests. The genius of both lay in their unwearied patience, in their attention to detail, and in their faithful record of observed facts. He was a very skilful dissector and was able to draw equally well with his left and right hand. He concerned himself more particularly with the embryology and reproduction of the Insects and Amphibia, the economic value of his work being shown by the medal awarded to him by the Agricultural Society of Saffron Walden in 1838 for his essay on the turnip-fly. Publications:- Newport's paper on the "Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia" is printed in the *Philosophical Trans*, 1851, cxli, 169. His catalogue of the Myriapoda in the British Museum appeared posthumously in 1856.
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First Title value, for Searching Kelly, Charles Ernest Mackenzie ( - 1910)

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Publication Date 2012-05-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The second son of Canon Kelly, of Manchester; educated at Owens College. For a time he held various posts in London, being District Surgeon to the City of London Lying-in Hospital; Surgeon to the Invalid Home for Incurables, Aubert Park; and Surgeon to the Holloway and North Islington Dispensary. He settled in practice at Witney, Oxfordshire, about the year 1899, and had then also passed the examination for the MRCP Lond, but owing to the restrictions in force never received the diploma. In a modest but interesting unsigned communication to the *Lancet* Kelly explained the great success which had marked his examination course, for all his numerous honours, degrees, and diplomas were earned after he was a fully qualified man and in practice. His contention was that the higher tests need have no terrors for the postgraduate student if he has behind him a sound general education, and if he can bring stern method into the conduct of his studies. [His unsigned letter is in the *Lancet*, 1910, i, 1036] Kelly was extremely popular at Witney, where during eleven years he identified himself with useful local movements. At the time of his death he was Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator of the Witney District and Workhouse, an Assistant Medical Inspector of Schools to the Witney and East Burford Division of Oxfordshire, a Certifying Factory Surgeon, and a Medical Officer to the Great Western Railway. He was also Deputy Coroner for the Western Division of Oxfordshire. He died at Witney on March 28th, 1910, from an overdose of morphia administered by himself with the object of relieving pain and procuring sleep, and was buried at Ashton-under-Lyne. He was survived by his widow and a daughter. Publications: "Scirrhus Mammae beginning in the Axilla." - *Lancet*, 1898, i, 859. "Colloid Carcinoma of Breast." - *Trans Pathol Soc* 1898, xlix, 303, and *Lancet*, 1898, i, 1117.
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First Title value, for Searching Norris, Henry (1789 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching North, Thomas Stanley (1897 - 1924)

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First Title value, for Searching Norton, Arthur Trehern (1841 - 1912)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on August 17th, 1841, the second son of Robert Norton, MD (qv), of Bayswater. He was educated at Totteridge Park School and entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School as a student in 1858. He was a successful worker, most of the class examination prizes for which he competed being awarded to him. He secured the Scholarship in Anatomy in 1861, at a time when the holder of this scholarship - which was discontinued in 1884 - became Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. Shortly afterwards he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy, although he had not yet qualified. His colleague was, for a short period, George G Gascoyen (qv). In 1866 Norton was elected Surgeon to Out-patients. From 1866-1876 he was Lecturer in Anatomy, being till 1871 joint-lecturer with Gascoyen. In 1878 Norton succeeded H Spencer Smith (qv) as Surgeon to In-patients, and in 1881 followed James R Lane (qv) as Senior Surgeon. He was Lecturer in Surgery from 1876-1888, his colleagues in this post being James E Lane (qv) from 1876-1881 and Herbert Page (qv) from 1882-1888. In 1888 the Clinical Lectureships were revived and Norton became Lecturer on Clinical Surgery, Sir William Broadbent being Lecturer on Clinical Medicine. Norton, though his term of office did not expire till March, 1898, severed his connection with the staff of St Mary's at the close of 1896, and was elected Consulting Surgeon on January 22nd, 1897. In 1870 he had been placed in charge of the newly established Department for Diseases of the Throat at St Mary's, and in the same year he served with the English Ambulance in France during the Franco-Prussian War, receiving the French Gold Medal in recognition of organizing work in the Ambulance Department; together with Sir John Furley and Henry Sewill the dental surgeon, he was in charge of an ambulance at Brieu. He took an active part in the formation of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, which he joined as Surgeon Major in 1885, being transferred from the Civil Service Rifles. In 1888 he became Commandant of the London Companies, and in 1889 was promoted to the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel. In recognition of his services he was made a CB in 1889, and received the Volunteer Officers' Decoration on its institution as well as the Jubilee Medal. He was also an Hon Associate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. In view of his military experiences he was appointed a member of the War Office Committee for the development of the Volunteer Medical Service. He ardently supported the movement for admitting women to medical degrees and took an active share in founding the London School of Medicine for Women. He was an Examiner in Surgery at the University of Durham and the Society of Apothecaries. He was appointed Examiner to the latter in 1892 and held the post for six years; in 1901 he became a member of the Court of Assistants, was Warden in 1908-1910, Master in 1910-1911, and represented the Society on the General Medical Council from 1910-1912. After his retirement from London and from practice he lived at Leyfields Wood, Ashampstead, Berks. Norton died at a nursing home at Reading after an operation for appendicitis on Sunday, August 4th, 1912. In 1898 he married Lucy Maude, eldest daughter of E Meredith Chase, of Newhouse Park, Herts. A portrait of him in uniform accompanies his biography in *St Mary's Hospital Gazette*, 1897, Personally Trehern Norton was courtesy itself, and in his profession he had shown great industry and capacity, giving also ungrudgingly personal help to both colleagues and students at St Mary's. He was for some years editor in London of the *Medical Press and Circular*, and was one of its proprietors at the time of his death. Publications:- *Osteology: a Concise Description of the Human Skeleton*, 8vo, atlas of 20 plates, London, 1866; 2nd ed. *Affections of the Throat and Larynx. The Classification, Description and Statistics of 150 Consecutive Cases occurring in the Throat Department of St Mary's Hospital*, 8vo, London, 1871; 2nd ed, 1875. *The Examiner in Anatomy: a Course of Instruction in the Method of Answering Anatomical Questions*, 12mo, London, 1877. *Text-book of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy, based on the Original Work of Professors Claude Bernard and Ch Huette*, 2nd ed, 8vo, 88 plates, London, 1886. *Clinical Lectures on Recent Surgery*, 12mo, London, 1894. "On Accommodation of Vision and Anatomy of the Ciliary Body." - *Proc Roy Soc*, xxi, 423. "The Anatomy of the Eye" in Haynes Walton's *Diseases of the Eye*, 3rd ed, 1875. Norton was one of the first contributors to *St Mary's Hosp Gaz* (1875, i, 5), with an article on "Gunshot Wounds in Civil Practice", which also referred to his experiences in the war of 1870.
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First Title value, for Searching Norton, Robert (1803 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Kempthorne, John (1822 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Nottingham, John (1810 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Was a Yorkshireman, and was apprenticed to the father of C G Wheelhouse (qv). He received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, and in Paris under Dupuytren and Velpeau, where he became a member of the Medical Society formed of English students studying in Paris. He was appointed about the year 1837 House Surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary (now the Royal Infirmary), and was noted for his eagerness in pursuing his clinical and pathological studies. He and a contemporary made post-mortem examinations together early in the morning, and throughout life Nottingham did much work at that time of day. He began general practice in the centre of Liverpool about the year 1840, but excluded midwifery cases from his routine. He soon acquired a good surgical practice, and in a few years settled at Everton in succession to Wainwright. This was then a charming and opulent suburb, and here John Nottingham continued till his retirement in the late seventies of the nineteenth century. He practised at 20 Roscommon Street, which became a slum during his time. Together with the late J Penn Harris and others he founded the St Anne's Dispensary, which rapidly became popular, and is now one of the Liverpool East Dispensaries. Here he made a reputation as specialist in eye and ear diseases. In 1850 or thereabouts Nottingham was appointed Surgeon to the Southern Hospital, where he was known as cautious, ingenious, and skilful in operations. During his tenure of office the hospital was rebuilt on a new site (1872) as the Royal Southern Hospital. After his retirement he suffered from double cataract, and remained in seclusion and blindness at his country seat at Whitchurch, Salop, till successfully operated upon in 1880 and 1881. He then again enjoyed good eyesight till 1887, when, just before Christmas, exposure on a cold night brought on inflammation and the globe of one eye had to be extirpated. The question of sight affected him in an extreme degree, for he had an immense library, comprising medical, surgical, and other literature, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, in most of the European languages, arranged on the walls of four spacious rooms, where also he had in many cabinets an extensive museum of surgical instruments. He was a great student, an omnivorous reader, and when not reading hard himself he employed a polyglot reader who lived in his house and arranged and managed his books. He was an accomplished linguist, and had a most retentive memory. A mind thus well stocked from many literary and scientific sources, great conversational power, and a quiet affable manner rendered him a most charming companion. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the Royal Medical Society of Berlin. Nottingham visited much among his well-chosen circle of friends, including Sir Joshua Walmsley, ex-Mayor of Liverpool, with whom he travelled in Spain and frequently shot in England. Latterly the old scholar never appeared abroad without a veil, and he died of mere old age on May 7th, 1895. He married Sarah Worthington, of Whitchurch, who survived him. Publications: *Report on the Restoration of Sight, by the Formation of an Artificial Pupil, in a Patient of St Anne's Dispensary*, l6mo, Liverpool, 1850. *Surgical Report on Bilateral Lithotomy, with General Remarks on Operations for Stone*, 8vo, London, 1850. *Practical Observations on Conical Cornea, and on the Short Sight and other Defects of Vision connected with it*, 8vo, London, 1854. *Diseases of the Ear. Illustrated by Clinical Observations*, 8vo, plate, London, 1857.
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First Title value, for Searching Nourse, William Edward Charles ( - 1912)

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First Title value, for Searching Kent, Hugh Braund (1882 - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The fourth son of Horace Kent, barrister-at-law. He was educated at Oxford High School and received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, where he was several times a prizeman. He became Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in 1906, of Operative Surgery in 1908, and Clinical Assistant in 1909. In 1906 he was Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was appointed in 1909 Medical Officer to the West African Medical Staff, being compelled by circumstances to make his own living. He went on service to South Nigeria. In 1911 he crossed to China, being appointed a Medical Officer to the Imperial Railways of North China, and residing at Tongshan, where he was Principal Medical Officer of the Kailan Mining Administration and the Chinese Pekin-Mukden Railway. When Kent took over this work in July, 1910, there was a hospital for foreign residents and for the Chinese at Tongshan, but it was by no means fully equipped for the practice of modern medicine and surgery. When he died the hospital had been greatly extended and thoroughly fitted out for work of almost every kind. To effect such an improvement the co-operation and support of his employers were, of course, essential, but it was Kent's initiative, perseverance, and recognized ability which ensured that they were freely given. In his relations with the Chinese he was remarkably successful, and he so won their confidence as even to overcome their prejudices against surgical operation. The money required for the hospital's X-ray apparatus was subscribed, mostly in small sums, by the Chinese themselves. Fifteen years is a short time in which to establish a reputation as a first-class surgeon, yet Kent did it. During the last thirteen years of his life he suffered from severe recurrent illness, but seemed thereby to be braced to new effort. In 1919 and 1923 he obtained leave to come home and work for the MS and FRCS, both of which he obtained. He died at Tongshan, North China, on November 24th, 1925, being survived by his widow. Publication:- "Case of Subperiosteal Lipoma of the Femur." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1913, i, 444.
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First Title value, for Searching Santi, Philip Robert William de (1863 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Sargent, Sir Percy William George (1873 - 1933)

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Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation General surgeon Neurosurgeon
Details Born at Chester on 8 May 1873, the second child and eldest son of Edward George Sargent, a bank manager, and Emily Grose, his wife. His brothers were Dr Eric Sargent, the Rev D H G. Sargent (who died 19 July 1935), and the Rev E H Gladstone Sargent, and he had four sisters. He was educated at Clifton College and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1895 he competed for the University entrance scholarships at St Mary's Hospital and at St Thomas's, and having been elected to both he chose to go to St Thomas's Hospital. Here he acted as house surgeon to William Anderson in 1899, was elected surgical registrar in 1901, resident assistant surgeon in 1903, assistant surgeon in succession to F C Abbott and demonstrator of anatomy in 1905, surgeon and lecturer on surgery in 1916, and part-time, unpaid director of the surgical unit in 1930. In 1905 he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street, Chelsea, becoming surgeon in the following year. On 15 May 1906 he was elected assistant surgeon to the National Hospital, Queen Square, for the Relief and Cure of Diseases of the Nervous System including Paralysis and Epilepsy, where he became surgeon on 19 January 1909. From 30 March 1912 he held a commission as medical officer in the First County of London Middlesex Yeomanry (T) and on the outbreak of the war he was gazetted captain, RAMC (T), and went to France. His services as a specialist were quickly recognized, and with Dr Gordon Holmes he was employed, with the rank of temporary honorary lieutenant-colonel from 13 December 1914, to form a small neurological unit, whose aid could be invoked in difficult cases throughout the whole British Expeditionary Force in France. The work they did was not only invaluable to their colleagues but materially advanced knowledge about the localization of function in certain areas of the brain. He took charge at a later period of a department established for the treatment of those still suffering from remote injuries of the nervous system, and rendered much assistance to the Ministry of Pensions. For his services he was rewarded with the DSO in 1917 and with the CMG in 1919, and was created a Knight Bachelor in 1928. At the Royal College of Surgeons he delivered the Erasmus Wilson lecture in 1905 taking as his subject "Peritonitis, a bacteriological study", and in 1928 he acted as Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology, when he lectured on the "Surgery of the posterior cerebral fossa". In 1923 he was elected a member of Council, and at the time of his death he was acting as junior vice-president. He married in 1907 Mary Louise (d 1932), daughter of Sir Herbert Ashman, Bt, the first Lord Mayor of Bristol, who had received the honour of knighthood on the steps of the Council House when Queen Victoria visited Bristol on 15 November 1899. He died in London after an acute attack of influenza on 22 January 1933 survived by his father, two sons and a daughter, and was buried at Redland Green cemetery, Bristol. As a surgeon, Sargent operated with great dexterity, rapidity, and gentleness. His operations were models of skill and almost perfect restraint. He did not restrict himself to the surgery of the brain, but throughout his professional life he performed his duties at St Thomas's Hospital as a general surgeon. As a teacher he was brilliant, and made his rounds in the wards so interesting and amusing that one of his pupils described them as being a succession of social gatherings. As a man he was slightly above middle height with a well modelled figure and keen intellectual features, soft voiced and somewhat caustic in speech, though his remarks were always tempered with a pleasant and disarming smile. He was possessed of a strong vein of benevolence and charity, which was perhaps inherited, for two of his brothers were ordained in the Church of England, to which he himself, though born a nonconformist, was admitted late in life. His father was well known for half a century in the religious life of Bristol, and Percy Sargent was interested in the welfare of children from an early period in his career and did much work for the Children's Invalid Aid Society, where he succeeded Sir D'Arcy Power as chairman of the Battersea branch. Later in life he was the active and useful secretary of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. Early initiated in the Cheselden lodge, he made rapid progress in masonry, took high rank in many of its branches and was appointed a senior grand deacon in the United Grand Lodge of England in 1915. Lionel Horton- Smith published two copies of Latin verses addressed to him, one a birthday greeting on his coming of age, the other a mock elegy upon him as slain in a combat of wit. Publications: *The bacteriology of peritonitis*, with L S Dudgeon. London, 1905. *Surgical emergencies*. London, 1907. *Emergencies in general practice*, with A E Russell. London, 1910. Closure of cavities in bone. *J Roy Army med Cps*, 1919, 32, 83. Diseases of the appendix. Choyce's *System of surgery*, 1912; 2nd edition, 1923. Haemangiomatous cysts of the cerebellum, with J Godwin Greenfield. *Brit J Surg* 1929-30, 17, 84. Treatment of gliomata and pituitary tumours with radium, with Stanford Cade. *Ibid* 1930-31, 18, 501.
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First Title value, for Searching Savage, John James (1889 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30 2023-03-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John James Savage was born on 10 January 1889 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, the son of John James Savage and Annie Savage née O’Connor. He was educated in Western Australia, went to Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar in 1911, and completed his clinical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He held resident posts at the Metropolitan Hospital, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's, the Freemasons', the North Eastern Fever Hospital, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. He qualified in 1917, was commissioned in the RAMC and attached to the Royal Air Force, with which he served during the remainder of the war of 1914-1918. He took the Fellowship in 1926, and then returned to Western Australia, where he practised at Mackie Street, Victoria Park, Perth, and later at 40 Falcon Street, Narrogin. During the war of 1939-45 he was medical officer in command of the Narrogin Military Camp from 1940 to 1943. He was an exceptional athlete in many fields. He died at Narogin in 1948. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 3 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Scholes, John Lelean (1914 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Scotson, Frederick Charles (1869 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, James Andrew Neptune (1868 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Malcolm Leslie (1882 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Wallace Arthur (1873 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Scrase, Frank Edward (1867 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Seah, Eng Khway (1899 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Selby, Edmond Wallace (1871 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Senior, Harold Dickinson (1870 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Sequeira, James Harry (1865 - 1948)

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Occupation Dermatologist
Details Born in London on 2 October 1865, the eldest son of Dr James Scott Sequeira and Maria Rosina Rackwitz, his wife. He belonged to the sixth medical generation of his family in direct paternal descent. His great-grandfather, in the third medical generation, Isaac Henrique Sequeira, MD Leyden 1758, LRCP London 1771, was physician to the Prince Regent of Portugal in exile in London during the Napoleonic wars (see *Munk's Roll of the RCP* 2, 291). J H Sequeira was educated at King's College School and the London Hospital, which he entered with a scholarship in 1884; he took honours in materia medica at the intermediate examination in 1887 and in medicine and obstetric medicine at the MB 1890; he won the Hutchinson prize in 1893. He served as demonstrator of anatomy to Arthur Keith and Frederic Wood Jones, and was medical registrar and medical tutor for two years each. He had intended to practise surgery and took the Fellowship in 1893, but as there was no immediate surgical vacancy he developed his interest in dermatology, which began while he was house physician to Sir Stephen Mackenzie. He became MD 1891 and MRCP 1893, and further equipped himself by working with Leopold Freund and Eduard Schiff in Vienna, and with Niels Finsen at Copenhagen in 1900. He was appointed the first physician in charge of a special skin department at the London Hospital, being allowed one bed in each medical ward. He translated Finsen's book *Phototherapy* in 1901, and through the munificence of Queen Alexandra, herself a princess of Denmark, the first Finsen lamp in England was set up in Sequeira's department that year. He established and developed a complete skin and phototherapy department in the hospital, and was elected consulting physician to it on his retirement in 1927. He was a pioneer of X-rays and radium, advocating as early as 1905 the use of radium in the treatment of malignant disease, and was a lifelong sufferer from the effects of irradiation. He introduced X-ray epilation for ring-worm, and the carbon arc-light bath in the treatment of lupus. He was a skilled clinical photographer; and his Thursday morning teaching clinics were renowned. During the first world war Sequeira was a consultant in dermatology to military hospitals in London. He took a leading share in the scientific work of professional and public bodies. He was president of the dermatological section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1925-27, and a Councillor of the Royal College of Physicians 1927, having been elected FRCP in 1905. He was chairman of the executive committee of the Society for the Prevention of Venereal Disease, and a member of Lord Trevethin's Committee on Venereal Disease. It was largely through his advice to Sir Arthur Newsholme that the Ministry of Health established venereal disease clinics throughout the country. He was a corresponding member of the Danish, French, and Japanese dermatological societies. Sequeira retired from all his London activities in 1927, when he was 62, and settled at N'Gong in Kenya, British East Africa, where he at once took on a new range of medical and public work. He was president of the Kenya branch of the British Medical Association in 1930-31 and 1933-34. He drew attention to the bad health conditions in the native reserves; he made a special study of leprosy; and he criticized the unification of the colonial services, which had led to the transfer of officers from one environment to another, in every respect divergent, where their previous experience was useless. During the war of 1939-45 he served as honorary consultant in dermatology to the East African forces. Sequeira's diminutive but dynamic personality was remarkable in dignity and kindliness; his short square figure carried a leonine head, with thick white hair and wide blue eyes. He was an amateur of music. Sequeira married in 1903 Helen Adams; there were no children of the marriage. He died in Kenya on 24 November 1948, aged 83, survived by his wife and their two adopted children. His brother, W H S Sequeira, MRCS, LRCP was succeeded by his son P J L Sequeira, MB BS, who carried the medical tradition to the seventh generation. Publications: *Phototherapy*, by Niels Finsen, translated and edited, London, 1901. Use of radium in the treatment of malignant disease. *International Congress of Surgery*, 1905. Tuberculosis of the skin. Allbutt's *System of medicine*, 1911. *Diseases of the skin*, with J T Ingram and R T Brain. London, 1911; 5th edition, 1947; Spanish translation, 1926. Public health in the tropics, especially Kenya, Chadwick lecture. *E Afr med J* 1932, 9, 59-78. Editor of the *British Journal of Dermatology*, 1911-15, and of the *East African medical Journal*.
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Harold Batty (1867 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Sheen, Alfred William (1869 - 1945)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 30 April 1869, eldest of the eleven children of Alfred Sheen, MD, MRCS, surgeon to Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and Harriet Nell, his wife. A younger brother rose to be an engineer rear-admiral, Royal Navy. Their father is reputed to have performed the first successful ovariotomy at Cardiff. Educated at the University College of South Wales, he took his medical training at Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to Arthur Durham and obstetric resident. He also served as house surgeon at Bethlem Royal Hospital and at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, where he was in due course elected assistant surgeon. Sheen was the second man to set up in South Wales as a surgical consultant doing no general practice; John Lynn-Thomas alone preceded him. Sheen served in the South African war as surgeon to the Imperial Yeomanry field hospital and was mentioned in despatches. He discovered an aptitude for soldiering, which stood to him when the first world war broke out. In the meantime he renewed his Cardiff practice, duly becoming surgeon to the Infirmary, and proving himself an excellent teacher and administrator. On 1 February 1909 he was commissioned lieutenant- colonel, RAMC, and in 1914 was appointed officer commanding and senior surgeon to the 34th (Welsh) General Hospital at Netley, Hants, and went with it to India in 1916, working chiefly at Deolali, and being subsequently consulting surgeon to military hospitals in India. He was created a CBE 1918 and came home in 1919. For a year he practised as a consultant in London, and was on the staff of the orthopaedic hospital at Shepherd's Bush. Under a twenty-years' tenure rule Sheen had to resign his surgeoncy at Cardiff Infirmary at the very moment when his ability and experience were at their zenith. He was, however, called back to Cardiff to develop the new Welsh National School of Medicine. He was appointed the first professor of surgery and director of the surgical unit in 1921, and became provost of the School when he handed over the professorial chair to Lambert Rogers. On the outbreak of the second world war, 1939, Professor Rogers volunteered for service in the Navy and Sheen resumed his duties. When the Conjoint and other examinations of the Royal Colleges had to be evacuated from London on account of the air-raids and took place in various provincial capitals, Sheen was appointed to the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons and officiated at Cardiff. Sheen took an active part in the work of professional societies and served as president of the Guy's Physical Society, the Cardiff Medical Society, Cardiff Medical Students' Club, Cardiff Naturalists' Society, and the Hunterian Society of London. He was an authority on John Hunter's work. He was president of the section of surgery at the Cardiff meeting of the British Medical Association, 1928. Sheen was county director for Glamorgan of the Voluntary Aid Society, in which capacity his quasi-military leadership was notably useful. At the Senghenydd mine disaster he was among the first to reach the pit-head and did sterling service in directing the rescue parties. His manner though brusque was essentially friendly, and he was generally and popularly known as "The Colonel". He was a military member of the Glamorgan Territorial Association. He was a member of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club and the International Society of Surgery. Sheen was early an advocate of prostatectomy and of splenectomy. He wrote many articles on surgery, and was much interested in reablement after industrial injuries. He was a hospitable man, and a good talker with a fund of anecdotes. His recreations were fishing and golf. Sheen married in 1898 Christine, daughter of J P Ingledew. There were no children; Mrs Sheen died in 1939. Sheen died at the Royal Infirmary, Cardiff on 28 March 1945, one month less than 76 years old. He contracted acute heartstrain in February, by walking three miles through a severe blizzard to keep an appointment at the offices of the National School of Medicine. The funeral was at Llandaff Cathedral on 3 April. Sheen had lived at Llandough House, Cardiff, and later at Blackgates, Llandaff. A memorial lecture was founded in his memory at the Cardiff Medical Society.
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First Title value, for Searching Shepherd, Francis John (1851 - 1929)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born 25 November 1851 the second of the ten children of Robert Ward Shepherd, general manager of the Ottawa River Navigation Co, and his wife, * née* Delesderniers, who was of Swiss origin. He was born at Port Cavignal, afterwards named Como, a village about 38 miles from Montreal on the southern side of the Lake of Two Mountains. Educated at the village school he passed to the Montreal High School, and appears to have entered the Arts Faculty at McGill in 1868. On 1 November 1869 he was a member of the newly established Medical Faculty of McGill. He made a short visit to the United States as soon as he had graduated in 1873, as there was no resident appointment vacant at the Montreal General Hospital. The years 1874 and 1875 were spent in postgraduate study. He visited London first, became a student at St Thomas's Hospital, and passed the first and second examinations for the MRCS with the intention of entering the Indian Medical Service. From London he passed to Marburg and from there to Vienna, where he took out courses in dermatology under Hebra and in anatomy under Zückerkandl. Whilst he was in Vienna his friend Osler wrote in April 1875 telling him that he had been appointed demonstrator of anatomy at McGill. He accepted the post and retained it until 1883, when he was appointed lecturer on anatomy, a position he held until his retirement in 1913, when he was succeeded by Sir Auckland Geddes. When Shepherd began to teach anatomy the subjects had to be obtained by resurrectionist methods. He was instrumental in 1883 in obtaining a legal supply, and he insisted that anatomy could only be learnt by dissection. In 1878 he was appointed medical officer to the Montreal Dispensary, and in May of the following year he was elected surgeon to out-patients at the Montreal General Hospital. In 1883 he exchanged this post for that of physician to the Charity and undertook the surgical work. He was also made temporary registrar of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill. In 1908 he became dean of the Faculty in succession to Sir Thomas Roddick, and remained dean until 1914. In 1883 too he was vice-president of the Students' Medical Society, which had been established by his contemporary and colleague William Osler in 1877, and during 1882-95 he acted as librarian of the Faculty. Shepherd gave valuable advice during the building of the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1891-93, but was never a member of the staff. In a similar manner he was greatly interested in the Montreal Maternity Hospital from 1886 until his death. He married Lilias Gertrude Torrance in 1878. She died in 1892 leaving two daughters. His only son was killed in action at Cambrai. He died suddenly on 18 January 1929, probably of coronary thrombosis. Shepherd was *felix opportunitate vitae*. He came to McGill in its infancy and took a very large share in raising it to the position it now occupies. He had a life-long friend in his McGill contemporary, Sir William Osler, and like him was a frequent visitor to the medical schools in Europe. He was too a man of culture, who trained himself to a knowledge of art, was president of the Montreal Art Association, 1918-29, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian National Gallery, Ottawa. A portrait by Miss Des Clayes, painted by subscription in 1924, hangs in the Assembly Hall of the Medical Building at McGill University. Another, by Alphonse Jongerz, is in possession of the family. A memorial lecture was established at McGill University in 1953. Publications: Howell's *F J Shepherd - surgeon* contains as an appendix a list of his very numerous writings.
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First Title value, for Searching Sherren, James (1872 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Weymouth, 31 October 1872, the eldest son of John A Sherren, printer and publisher, and his wife Anne Eliza Wilkinson. He was educated at Weymouth College, but early went to sea and served before the mast. After achieving his master mariner's certificate he suddenly left the sea, and entered the London Hospital Medical College in 1894. He distinguished himself in anatomy and physiology, served the Hospital as house physician, house surgeon, and resident anaesthetist, and was demonstrator of anatomy and surgical tutor in the Medical College. He took the Fellowship in 1900 sixteen months after qualifying, was appointed surgical registrar at the London 1901, and elected assistant surgeon 1902. He was at first a follower of Sir Frederick Treves, but on the early death of Harold Leslie Barnard, a surgeon of the highest promise, Sherren took up abdominal surgery, then a rapid and growing specialty in which he quickly made an outstanding reputation. He also worked with Sir Henry Head, FRS, FRCP, on the problems of peripheral nerve surgery and of cutaneous tenderness in visceral disease, and published a useful book, *Injuries of the nerves and their treatment*, 1908. Charles Ballance had begun to attack similar problems a little earlier. Sherren became surgeon to the London Hospital in 1913, operating regularly there and at Fitzroy House, which was practically his own nursing-home. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the War Office with the rank of colonel, AMS, commissioned 12 February 1918, and was a consulting surgeon to the Army. He worked chiefly at King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, at the King George Military Hospital, and at the Yarrow Military Hospital, Broadstairs. He was created CBE for his services. During the second world war, 1939-45, he worked at the Cornelia and East Dorset Hospital, Poole. Sherren took an active share in the work of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was Erasmus Wilson lecturer 1906, a Hunterian professor 1920, and Bradshaw lecturer 1925. He was an examiner in anatomy for the primary Fellowship 1909, and a member of the Court of Examiners 1921-23. He was elected to the Council 1917, and was a vice-president 1925. He examined in surgery for London University, and was a member of the Senate. In 1926, at the height of his powers and fame, Sherren suddenly gave up all his hospital and other London connexions at the age of 54, and went back to sea. He served as a ship's surgeon, and did much to improve the medical service for merchant seamen. He finally retired to White Barn, Broadstone, Dorset. Sherren married in 1897, while a student, Madeleine, eldest daughter of George Thorne. Mrs Sherren survived him with three sons and two daughters. He died at Broadstone on 29 October 1945, after a long illness, aged 73. Sherren was a man of great ability, of honest and masterful character. He kept the markings of his rough early years at sea through his brilliant London career. But he was also a keen musician, a violinist able to take part in string quartets with professional players. Publications: Appendicitis. *Practitioner*, 1905, 74, 833. He advocated delayed treatment, as taught by Albert Ochsner (1858-1925) of Chicago in his *Handbook of appendicitis* 1902. Sherren discovered the "appendix triangle of hyperaesthesia". *Injuries of the nerves and their treatment*. London, 1908. *Lectures on the surgery of the stomach and duodenum*. London, 1921. The stomach and the duodenum, in Choyce's *System of surgery*, London, 1911. Joint editor with Sir R Hutchison of *Index of treatment*, Bristol, 1908.
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First Title value, for Searching Marriott, Sir Charles Hayes (1834 - 1910)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Kibworth in October, 1834, the son of John Marriott, MRCS, who practised at Kibworth for fifty-five years, while his grandfather practised there for over fifty years. He went to Uppingham School and was then a pupil of Henry Terry (qv), Surgeon to Northampton Hospital. After three years' apprenticeship, he proceeded in 1854 to University College Hospital, London, and lived in the house of Dr (afterwards Sir) William Jenner, then Assistant Physician to the Hospital. He often afterwards referred to the scientific knowledge and the habits of methodic and strict punctuality he gained from Jenner. He won several prizes and was House Surgeon, and, after passing the FRCS and MD examinations and acting as Physician's Assistant, was appointed Surgeon to the Leicester Infirmary in November, 1859. He served for two years and was then elected Surgeon to the Infirmary. Among the Surgeons of the Leicester Infirmary were Thomas Paget, junr, son of T Paget, senr, also T Macaulay and T W Benfield, all FRCS. Marriott came to be recognized as the foremost surgeon of the locality, carrying out operations in the country in the days before motor-cars, in the course of which he often suffered from chills, and a resultant anaemia. Assisted by his House Surgeon, C J Bond, who was afterwards his colleague on the Staff of the Infirmary, he practised, after Lister's methods, abdominal surgery, including the removal of the spleen (the specimen is in the College Museum); the simultaneous ligature of the carotid and subclavian arteries for innominate aneurysm, and ligature of the external iliac artery through the abdomen. In the progress of his operations he was not daunted by untoward occurrences. Hunting casualties were particularly frequent in Leicestershire, and thus patients of rank, both English and foreign, came under his care. He was largely instrumental in founding the Leicester Trained Nurses' Institution, on the governing body of which he was for many years a member. An admirer of Pasteur, he approved of vivisection under Government control and, being fond of animals, was for many years the energetic Chairman of the local branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Joining the British Medical Association early, he was elected to the General Council in 1874, and in 1877 was President of the Midland Branch and communicated to it a number of surgical papers. He was also a member of the Committee of the Medical Defence Union, Chairman of the Leicester Bacteriological Institute, also for two years of the Leicester Medical Society. From the commencement he served on the Leicester Committee of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. An ardent Conservative, for many years he was President of the Market Harborough Division of the Conservative Association through several contested elections. As a social reformer he was Director of the Leicester Coffee and Cocoa Company, Vice-President of the County Cricket Club, and at the age of 60 played against his sons, one of whom was a University 'Blue' and played for the Gentlemen against the Players. In 1904 a knighthood rewarded Marriott's professional and political services. In later years he had consulting rooms at 7 Welford Place, Leicester, whilst living at the family home, Harcourt House, Staunton Bibworth, where there was a beautiful garden. He died there on February 14th, 1910, and was buried in the Churchyard at a largely attended funeral. He had married at the age of 30 Lucy, daughter of the Rev John Gibson, and had four sons and two daughters. Three of the sons entered the Law, and the youngest son - Mr Cecil Edward Marriott, FRCS - was Surgeon to the Leicester Infirmary. Lady Marriott and his family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Marsdin, Frederick (1834 - 1919)

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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, Charles Devereux (1867 - 1918)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-31
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Portsmouth in 1867, the younger son of William Marshall, solicitor, Southsea. He studied at University College Hospital, where he was House Surgeon and Demonstrator of Anatomy. At the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, City Road (formerly Moorfields), he was House Surgeon, Clinical Assistant, Curator of the Museum, Librarian, and in 1902 was appointed Surgeon. In that connection he acquired a great reputation for scientific knowledge and skill; a good teacher and lecturer, he built up a practice at 112 Harley Street. Besides, he was Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, from 1899, and to the Royal Society of Musicians. At the Ipswich Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1900 he was Secretary of the Section of Ophthalmology, and Vice-President of the same Section at the Sheffield Meeting in 1908. He made numerous communications on ophthalmology, especially in the *Royal Ophthalmic Hospital Reports*, and published *Researches on Colour Vision* in collaboration with F Edridge Green, which included an experiment on the diffusion of visual purple into the fovea. His small book for students, *Diseases of the Eye*, 1912, was referred to as "probably the best that has been written for the general practitioner" - "most lucid". The same applies to the article "Diseases of the Eye" in Power and Murphy's *System of Syphilis*. An enthusiastic yachtsman, he sailed his own yacht for many years, and joined the London Division of the Royal Naval Reserve in 1903; was promoted Lieutenant in 1906, and transferred to the Medical Branch in 1909. He joined HMS *Euryalus* at Chatham at the outbreak of the War, August 2nd, 1914. In this ship he was present at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, and for some months after in the defence of home waters. He next served on the Flagship in the Mediterranean, was present at the Suvla Bay landing in 1915 and throughout the Gallipoli operations up to the evacuation. He was promoted Staff Surgeon in 1916, and a colleague wrote of him:- "I have never met any man who so completely won the esteem and affection of everyone in his ship. It was to Marshall we naturally turned when down on our luck. His religious convictions influenced his whole life he was a tender- hearted doctor he loved his life at sea; he was father and mother to every youngster on board. On that ghastly night following the landing at Gallipoli he heard that an attempt was to be made to evacuate the wounded from the River Clyde, which was at the time aground and under musketry fire from both sides. Although he had been continuously at work for eighteen hours he at once volunteered and went." In 1917 he was appointed Principal Medical Officer in the Persian Guff and Mesopotamia, was present at some of the Mesopotamian operations, and went up the Tigris in the river gunboats as far as Bagdad. He was serving on HMS *Dalhousie* when he died of cholera in the Isolation Hospital, Bombay, on September 14th, 1918. His name is on the College Roll of Honour.
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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, George Henry (1814 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, John (1783 - 1850)

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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, Peter (1809 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, William Gurslave ( - 1897)

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First Title value, for Searching Marsh, Frederick Howard (1839 - 1915)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on March 7th, 1839, was the second son and third child of Edward Brunning and Maria Marsh. His father came of an old-established East Anglian farmer stock, his mother had been the widow of a farmer in the immediate neighbourhood. The children were born at The Heath, Homersfield, an ancient Suffolk farmhouse still standing on the banks of the River Waveney. Frederick Marsh was christened Haward, the maiden name of his mother, but in later life he changed it to Howard, and he was always known as Howard Marsh. He was educated at the Eye Grammar School, which was then under the headmastership of the Rev Charles Notley, BD, who reported of him that he was the cleverest boy in the school. From the age of 16 Marsh came under the influence of Dr W W Miller, who had treated him for a severe attack of typhoid fever. Dr Miller was an example of the best type of country practitioner, and from him Marsh learnt nothing but good. He was apprenticed in 1856 to his uncle, John Marsh, who was in general practice at 88 St John Street, Clerkenwell, in the immediate neighbourhood of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Marsh entered St Bartholomew's Hospital on October 1st, 1858, and immediately became known to Sir James Paget as a fellow-countryman from East Anglia. He passed through his student career without distinction. He acted in 1861 as Obstetric Assistant to Dr Greenhalgh, Physician-Accoucheur to the Hospital, and in 1862 he was appointed House Surgeon to F C Skey (qv) on the occasion of an accidental vacancy; in September, 1862, he was chosen House Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, where he slept in an attic which was only separated from the scarlet fever ward by a narrow passage. He published the results of his surgical experience in the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Reports* (1867, 331) under the title, "On Tracheotomy in Children: its Methods: its Dangers and its Difficulties". He resigned his office on January 12th, 1865, went back to live with his uncle, employed himself in performing the numerous unofficial duties which made him known to the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital, and so paved the way for an appointment on the teaching staff of the medical school. He did not stay long with his uncle, for he was living at 19a Golden Square in June, 1865, and in the following year he was appointed Surgeon to the House of Relief for Children with Chronic Disorders of the Joints at 19 Queen's Square, Bloomsbury, which afterwards became the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease. He continued Surgeon to the Hip Hospital until 1903, and by his persistent advocacy of prolonged rest in bed did much to improve the treatment of tuberculous disease of the hip. He showed on the one hand that children with hip disease should not be allowed to run about as long as they were able to do so, as was then the custom, and on the other hand that the indiscriminate excision of joints was undesirable. He embodied his experience in a useful series of Hunterian Lectures on "Tuberculosis in Some of its Surgical Aspects" delivered at the College of Surgeons in 1888-1889, and in his *Diseases of the Joints* published three years earlier. For two periods between 1865 and 1870 he acted as Secretary and Private Assistant to Sir James Paget, and taught himself shorthand that he might perform his secretarial duties the more readily. At St Bartholomew's Hospital Marsh was Demonstrator of Anatomy from 1869-1873, and in 1869 he was also appointed Surgical Registrar in conjunction with J A Bloxham (qv) on the resignation of the post by Alfred Willett (qv). In 1870 he married Jane Perceval, granddaughter of Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister who was murdered by Bellingham at the House of Commons in 1812. She had been a Ward Sister at the Hospital for Sick Children, and at the time of her marriage was the Lady Superintendent at the Hip Hospital. By her he had Edward Howard Marsh (b 1872), who had a distinguished political career, and Helen Margaret, who married Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, KCMG. Marsh and his wife lived at 38 Guilford Street, Russell Square, until 1872, when they moved to 36 and afterwards to 30 Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, where Marsh remained until he went to Cambridge. Marsh was elected Assistant Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital on February 27th, 1873, and was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy in 1879, and Lecturer on Surgery conjointly with Alfred Willett in 1889. In 1878 he was put in charge of the Orthopaedic Department, but it was not until Nov 26th, 1891, that he became full Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital on the resignation of Sir William Savory (qv). The best years of his life as a surgeon were spent, in teaching surgery in the out-patient department. He held office until 1903, when, on July 27th, he was offered and accepted the Chair of Surgery in the University of Cambridge which had been in abeyance since the death of Sir George Murray Humphry (qv) in 1896. He moved from London in December, 1903, and took a house at Cambridge in Scroope Terrace, was granted the degree of MA, and was elected a Professorial Fellow at King's College. For a year or two he also had rooms in London, which allowed of his filling the office of President of the Metropolitan Branch of the British Medical Association. In 1907 Dr Alexander Hill (d 1929) resigned the office of Master of Downing College, Cambridge, and Marsh was elected in his place, proving himself a genial and popular Master, whilst his farming ancestry made him a welcome chairman at the rent-dinners given to the tenants of the College estates. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the City of Cambridge, and in 1909 he accepted office as a Borough Magistrate and was elected to the Town Council as a representative of the combined colleges of the University. At the Royal College of Surgeons Marsh was an Examiner in Anatomy from 1887-1892, and was a Member of the Court of Examiners in Surgery from 1892-1903. He was elected to the Council in 1892, and resigned in 1908 after serving as Vice-President in 1898 and again in 1901. He was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology in 1888-1889, when he took as his subject "Tuberculosis in Some of its Surgical Aspects", and was Bradshaw Lecturer in 1902. He was elected a member of the Clinical Society in 1868, a year after its foundation, and served every office until he became President in 1902. At the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society he was Secretary from 1885-1887 and Vice-President from 1891-1893. In 1889 he became Consulting Surgeon to the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street, but the severance of his long connection with children's hospitals did not lead to any loss of interest, for in 1886 he became one of the founders, with Miss Agnes M Bowditch, of the Children's Cottage Hospital at Coldash, near Newbury, where it was intended that children with hip disease should remain till they were cured or superannuated. In 1912 Marsh accepted the invitation of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, to become the first Commissioner of Scouts in Cambridge. He took his duties seriously, and within six months of the outbreak of the European War in 1914 his health began to fail. In spite of this he was commissioned as honorary Colonel in the RAMC (T), East Anglian Division, but on June 24th, 1915, he died without pain or distress in the Master's Lodgings at Downing, and was buried in the Borough Cemetery. He married: (1) Jane Perceval (d 1897), by whom he had a son and a daughter; (2) Violet Dalrymple Hay, youngest daughter of Admiral Sir John Dalrymple Hay, Bart, GCB, who was 'sister' of Abernethy Ward at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and who survived him. Marsh may be looked upon as the last of the surgeons of the old school. The want of an early scientific education, and the benumbing effects of a long period as Assistant Surgeon without the care of beds, prevented him from appreciating the tremendous changes which were taking place in surgery, and until late in life he had difficulty in accepting the germ theory of disease. He had, on the other hand, the virtues of the older surgeons. He was a good practical anatomist, an excellent teacher of students in the out-patient room, and a fine clinical surgeon. His professional life was largely spent in advocating and extending the principles of surgery laid down in John Hilton's *Rest and Pain*, and he did much good by advocating the physiological treatment of chronic disease of the joints as opposed to early operative interference. As a man Marsh was generous, somewhat impulsive, and a good companion. He had an unbounded respect for Sir James Paget (qv), whose various works he edited.
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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 Larkins, Thomas Brooks (1812 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Kent, Robert Thomas (1854 - 1902)

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First Title value, for Searching Kent, William (1805 - 1862)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-13 2019-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon Naval surgeon
Details He was perhaps a son of William Kent, surgeon, of Nantwich, who died in February, 1831. He was educated at St George's Hospital, where he entered as a twelve months surgical pupil to Sir Everard Home on October 5th, 1826. He was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, reached his Seniority on July 20th, 1838, and was still on the Active List in 1849. He practised at Nantwich, Cheshire, and died in August, 1862. See below for an expanded version of the published obituary: He was perhaps a son of William Kent, surgeon, of Nantwich, who died in February, 1831. He was educated at St George's Hospital, where he entered as a twelve months surgical pupil to Sir Everard Home on October 5th, 1826. He was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, reached his Seniority on July 20th, 1838, and was still on the Active List in 1849. He practised at Nantwich, Cheshire, and died in August, 1862. William Kent was a naval surgeon who served as the assistant surgeon on board the *Beagle* from 1833 to 1836, during Darwin’s epic voyage. He was born in Nantwich, Cheshire in around 1805, the son of George and Mary Kent. He gained his MRCS in January 1828 and joined the Royal Navy as a naval surgeon in April of the same year. He served on the *Samarang*, *Pylades* and *Spartiate* ships, and then on 18 September 1833 joined the *Beagle* from Montevideo as the assistant surgeon, serving under Benjamin Bynoe, the acting surgeon. By this time, the *Beagle* had already been at sea for almost two years. While a member of *Beagle* crew, Kent, along with several others, including Robert FitzRoy and Bynoe, helped Darwin gather natural and geological specimens. In early 1834, Kent collected rocks in the Falkland Islands, which Darwin noted in his ship’s journal and later acknowledged in his 1846 paper ‘On the geology of Falkland Islands’ (*Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London* 2: 267-279): ‘[m]y examination was confined to the eastern island; but I have received through the kindness of Captain Sulivan and Mr Kent, numerous specimens from the western island, together with copious notes, sufficient to show the almost perfect uniformity of the whole group.’ Some of the specimens Kent collected are now held in the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences in Cambridge. Kent stayed with the Beagle until she returned to England, arriving at Falmouth, Cornwall on 2 October 1836. He was discharged from his duties on 17 November 1836. He later served on the *Charlotte* and *Clio*, again as an assistant surgeon. In March 1839, he was promoted to surgeon and appointed to the *Serpent*. His last posting was a four-year term as surgeon on the *Aigle* from 1841 to 1845. He then retired on half pay. He was elected as a FRCS on 26 August 1844. In 1841 in Nantwich he married Charlotte Deane, who was born in Barbados. They settled in Nantwich and had five children – Charlotte Deane, Emmeline Maria, William George Henry, Richard Elwood and Edward Salmon. William Kent died on 9 August 1862. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Sir James Ranald (1796 - 1874)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, on May 12th, 1796, the twin son of the Rev Donald Martin, and was educated at the Royal Academy, Inverness. He remained a student at St George's Hospital and at the Windmill Street School of Medicine until 1817, when on September 5th, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon on the Bengal establishment of the HEICS. In 1818 he was Assistant Garrison Surgeon at Fort William, and then spent three years in Orissa. In 1821 the Governor-General appointed him Surgeon to his Bodyguard. Towards the end of 1823, on the advice of Simon Nicolson, then the leading physician in Calcutta, he was selected by the Governor-General, Lord Amherst, to go to Haidarabad to attend Sir Charles Metcalfe, the Resident, who was seriously ill. He treated him successfully, brought his patient to Calcutta, and resumed his position in the Bodyguard. He served with this corps in the First Burmese War of 1824-1826 and was present at the capture of Donabew. On his return from Burma he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the General Hospital in Calcutta, and on September 22nd, 1828, reached the rank of Surgeon. Later in the year he was appointed Surgeon to the Governor-General, Lord William Bentinck. In 1829 Martin was Garrison Surgeon at Fort William and Officiating Surgeon of the General Hospital. In 1830 he became a Presidency Surgeon, and in November of the same year succeeded Simon Nicolson at the Calcutta Native Hospital - appointments he held until January, 1840. Martin retired from the Indian Medical Service on May 20th, 1842, settled in London, and lived for some time in Grosvenor Street. On March 31st, 1860, being then Physician to the Secretary of State for India, he was nominated one of the seven members of the Senate of the newly established Army Medical School at Fort Pitt, Chatham, and on October 31st, 1864, he was appointed President, with the rank of Inspector-General, of the Medical Board of the India Office. He was also a member of the Army Sanitary Commission. Martin resigned his appointments on November 17th, 1874, and died of bronchitis ten days later at his house in Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square. He married in 1826 a daughter of Colonel Patten, CB. Martin was considered by Lieut-Colonel Crawford (*History of the Indian Medical Service*, 165) to have been "one of the most distinguished officers who have ever served in the Indian Medical Service". Whilst carrying on a large practice in Calcutta he found time to put forward many plans for improving the condition of the city and of the Indian Medical Service. For the latter he recommended in 1835 that medical officers should be called upon to write medico-topographical reports on their stations and districts, and set them an example by his *Notes on the Medical Topography of Calcutta*. In 1838 he submitted minutes on promotion and pension in the IMS, and in 1856, after his retirement, he wrote an important minute on the status of the army medical officer. He was also instrumental in obtaining the grant of such military honours as the Victoria Cross, the CB, and KCB to officers of the Army Medical Department and of the Indian Medical Service, though it was not until 1860 that he was himself decorated CB and made a Knight Bachelor. He had been elected FRS in 1845. Martin also recommended that the Medical Corps should be looked upon as a scientific corps and should rank next after the Royal Engineers. Sir Ranald Martin was one of the first surgeons who used injections of iodine for the treatment of hydrocele. Publications: *Notes on Medical Topography of Calcutta*, 1837, Calcutta, 2nd ed, 1839. *On the Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions*, 1841; 7th ed., 1856, re-written; 8th ed, 1861. *A View of the Formation, Discipline and Economy of Armies* (with JOHN GRANT), London, 1845. It contains an account of Robert Jackson, the famous Army Surgeon (1750-1827).
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Robert (1792 - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Martin, William (1814 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Martyn, William (1815 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Masfen, John (1795 - 1854)

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First Title value, for Searching Mash, James (1797 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Mason, Francis (1837 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Kimbell, Jonathan Henry (1820 - 1894)

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First Title value, for Searching Nunn, Thomas William (1825 - 1909)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at Royston, Herts, in 1825, the eldest son of William Nunn, MRCS, who practised in Royston for many years. William Nunn's father, Thomas Nunn, was a surgeon in the Navy, and the wife of this Naval surgeon was a descendant of Sir Edmond Butts, Physician to Henry VIII. Both the father and mother of T W Nunn were members of the Society of Friends. Nunn was educated at a private school in the country, and at the age of 17 entered as a medical student at King's College, London, finding himself among distinguished contemporaries, Fergusson being then one of the prominent teachers in the Medical Department. He was much befriended by R Partridge, then Professor of Anatomy, who appointed him one of his Student Demonstrators, and by John Simon. Qualifying at the age of 21, he obtained the post of Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, which had then been established about eleven years in succession to the famous Hunterian School, and proved very popular, his demonstrations being largely attended. At about this time he was appointed Surgeon to the Westminster Western Dispensary, and here in 1849 he succeeded in ligaturing the external iliac artery, which made no little stir in London surgery at the time. He now began to publish his works on varicose veins and on anatomical subjects, and in 1858 was elected Assistant Surgeon to Middlesex Hospital, becoming full Surgeon in 1863, and Consulting Surgeon in 1879. His wards included those set apart for the treatment of cancer as well as the general wards, and his publications bear witness to his interest in and knowledge of malignant disease. Nunn was devoted to the welfare of the student, and was Secretary of the flourishing Middlesex Hospital Club from 1869-1883, being the last of the original members at the time of his death. He taught anatomy for sixteen years and then practical and operative surgery till 1873. As a teacher he was deservedly popular, and his old pupils referred affectionately to 'Tommy Nunn', who lightened their labours with his good humour and facilitated their comprehension of difficult matters by his skill as a draughtsman and frequent colloquial expressions. Eminently practical and always kind, Nunn set a fine example in dealing with patients, who were likewise his friends, in the days when medical teaching was perhaps less academic than it is to-day. Greatly interested in military matters, Nunn served in his early days as a combatant officer in the 3rd Middlesex Militia, and in a few years took a medical commission in the West Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, from which he retired as Hon Surgeon Major, receiving the Volunteer Decoration for his more than twenty years' service. Of this honour he was very proud. At the time of the Crimean War he had offered to form and join a medical company. Nunn for many years after 1879 kept up his connection with the Middlesex as a member of committees or as chairman at convivial meetings. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon, not only to his own hospital, but also to the Central London Throat Hospital, and to the London Hospital for Skin Diseases, Fitzroy Square. At one time he had seen a good deal of practice in Paris, where he was during the commune of 1871. Throughout the whole of his active professional life he lived in Stratford Place, but a few years before his death moved to 27 York Terrace, York Gate, NW, where he still saw some of his old patients. Latterly he spent part of his time at his country seat at Kneesworth, Royston; here he died on April 13th, 1909, and was buried in Royston Cemetery. Nunn married: (1) Isabella, daughter of Kenneth Maclay, of Nevermore, Ross-shire, and (2) Rosalie, daughter of George White, of Kensington, who survived him. A good portrait of him accompanies his biography in the *Middlesex Hospital Journal*, 1909, xiii, 79. There is also a portrait of him in the College Collection and a photograph in the Fellows' Album. Publications:- *Observations on Varicose Veins and Varicose Ulcers*, 16mo, London, 1850. *Inflammation of the Breast and Milk Abscess*, 12mo, London, 1853. *Observations and Notes on the Arteries of the Limbs*, illustrating the natural division of main arteries into what he termed segmental and trans-segmental branches for the supply of the proximal and distal segments of the limbs respectively, 8vo, London, 1858; 2nd ed, 1864; French translation in *Jour de l'Anat et Physiol*, 1874, x, 7. *Ward Manual: or Index of Surgical Diseases and Injuries*, 8vo, London, 1865. *On Cancer of the Breast*, 4to, 21 coloured plates, London, 1882. *A Page in the History of Ovariotomy in London*, 8vo, London, 1886. *On Certain Disregarded Defects of Development chiefly in Relation to the Curves of the Spine*, 8vo, 2 plates, London, 1888. *Growing Children and Awkward Walking*, 12mo, London, 1894. *Cancer Illustrated by One Thousand Cases from the Registers of the Middlesex Hospital and by Fifty Selected Cases of Cancer of the Breast*, etc, 12mo, 11 plates, London, 1899. *The Inaugural Lecture, Session* 1863-4, *delivered at the Middlesex Hospital Medical College*, 8vo, London, 1863. *Notes on Personal Hygiene*, No. 1, 8vo, London, 1865. "Maternal Conditions in Congenital Syphilis." - *Brit Gynaecol Jour*, 1891-2, vii, 435.
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First Title value, for Searching Nutt, Richard Clarke (1803 - 1894)

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First Title value, for Searching Oakden, William Marshall (1886 - 1928)

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First Title value, for Searching Obré, Henry ( - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching O'Brien, Peter Joseph (1806 - 1882)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05 2022-10-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Galway on November 19th, 1806, and received his professional training at Calcutta Medical College and at St George's Hospital. He was Uncovenanted Medical Officer with the Gwalior Contingent from March 2nd, 1846, to November 19th, 1853, when he joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon, being promoted to Surgeon on November 15th, 1864. He was nominated for the Army by J Cotton on the recommendation of Sir James Ronald Martin (qv) for his services as an Uncovenanted Medical Officer. His active service included Central India (1844-1850), when he was present in minor operations; Burma (1852-1853), when he was at the capture of Ava; and during the Indian Mutiny (1857-1858), when in the Central India Campaign. He took part with the 3rd Bombay European Regiment in the actions at Madapura and Betwa, the siege and storm of Jhansi, the action of Kunch, and the capture of Lahuri and Kalpi (Medal with Clasp). He retired on July 6th, 1866, practised for a time at Tudor Square, Tenby, South Wales, and died at St Helier's, Jersey, on March 24th, 1882. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 1 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Peter O’Brien was a surgeon in India. He was born in Galway on 19 November 1806. On 24 May 1822 he was listed for the first time in the *Bengal Almanac* as an assistant apothecary attached to the 38th Regiment of Foot. On 7 October 1825 he went with the regiment to Burma for the First Burma War and was promoted to apothecary, serving in the field hospital at Rangoon. The Burma War ended in 1826 and, a year later, in July 1827 in Calcutta, he married Alice Hemsol Linford, the daughter of William Linford of the 14th Regiment of Foot and Martha Linford. In 1831 O’Brien was working at the Simla Dispensary. From 1831 to 1842 he practised in Calcutta, becoming interested in treating tetanus and other convulsive diseases with Indian hemp or ganja. In 1842, after 21 years’ service, he applied to retire, which was granted. He received a pension of £60 per annum. Leaving his wife and children in India, he sailed to London on 17 October 1842 and studied at St George’s Hospital. He was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 9 June 1843. He returned to India, and, in March 1846, he joined the newly formed Gwalior Contingent, a body of troops in the service of Maharajah Scindia, the pro-British ruler of Gwalior. He was classified as an ‘uncovenanted civil surgeon’ – a lower rank of surgeon – or named in records as a ‘doctor’. He served in various infantry and cavalry regiments of the Gwalior Contingent until 1853, when on 19 November, at the age of 47, he was made an assistant surgeon of the Bengal Medical Service. At the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, he was serving with the Gwalior Contingent at Lullutpore in the northwest. As well as being the civil surgeon he was also the joint magistrate. O’Brien managed to use his tact and linguistic ability to calm a very tense situation. Instead of the garrison officers and wives being killed, the mutinous Indian officers and troops saluted O’Brien and turned their horses towards Gwalior. There then followed three months of privations at the garrison, but eventually the officers and wives were released and walked to Saugor, where O’Brien was attached to the 3rd Bombay European Regiment. In 1858 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and on 15 November 1864 he was made a surgeon, at the age of 57. He finally retired on 6 July 1866. For his service in Burma he was awarded the Army of India medal with the clasp Ava. He went to England, where for a few years he practised in Tenby, south Wales. He then moved to an address in Bayswater, London. He died in St Helier, Jersey, on 24 March 1882 at the age of 75. Paul Hellier
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First Title value, for Searching O'Connor, Thomas (1813 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Odell, William (1851 - 1925)

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First Title value, for Searching O'Donnell, Henry (1813 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Ogilvie, Fergus Monteith (1862 - 1918)

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First Title value, for Searching Okes, John (1793 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Oldham, Charles James (1845 - 1907)

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First Title value, for Searching Oldham, James (1817 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Oldham, Riton ( - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Baker, Seán Christopher (1923 - 2008)

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by Pierce Grace
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2012-12-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details At the edge of Bantry town, by the harbour, is a beautiful walk called Béicín loop. The way markers for this heritage walk are dedicated to the memory of Seán Baker, who was chairman of Bantry Town Commissioners and, for many years, the sole county surgeon at Bantry Hospital. Seán truly practised general surgery; a typical list would range from thyroidectomy, to gastrectomy, to pining a fractured neck of femur, to prostatectomy. Lots of west Cork tonsils and adenoids were also removed, and trauma was grist to his mill. Being of a generation of surgeons who were well trained and knew what to do, he just got on with it, and rarely referred patients to Cork, which was a 56-mile journey by bad roads. In the words of one of his contemporaries, he was last of the 'county surgeon king emperors'. Seán Christopher Baker was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, in 1923. He was the second son of Michael J Baker and Bridget Baker (née O'Dwyer). His secondary schooling was at St Flannan's College, Ennis, where the dominant recollection of students from the depressed 1930s was of being half-starved. In 1943, during what was called the 'Emergency' in Ireland, and the Second World War everywhere else, he entered University College Dublin at Earlsfort Terrace to study medicine. He was an excellent student and declared an early interest in surgery by winning both the university's and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital's gold medals in surgery in 1949. In June 1953 he took the fellowship examination of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and spent the evening before going around the Dublin hospitals with some of his co-examinees, looking for likely cases. It was a fool's errand, as none of the cases they saw turned up in the exam. However, he was successful and celebrated in the usual manner at 'the Swan' in York Street, at the back of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin. He later added the English FRCS to his credentials. From 1951 to 1953, Seán Baker was a registrar at the Mater Hospital, Dublin, before following the path, well-trodden by Irish doctors, to Britain, where he became a consultant surgeon to the Archway group of hospitals from 1955 to 1957. Along the way he met and married an anaesthetic colleague, Marie Courtney, in 1954. However, home beckoned, and in 1957 he returned to Ireland as county surgeon at Monaghan County Hospital. In the late 1950s the county was still the administrative unit for health in Ireland and each had a county hospital for acute care and a county home for the long term care of the elderly and disabled. County surgeons worked on their own and in many hospitals the permanent medcial staff comprised one surgeon and one physician, the latter being responsibe for obstetrics. Disconcertingly, sometimes the county hospital existed across two sites, for example, in County Wexford, with the medical hospital in one town and the surgical hospital miles away in another. In 1959 Seán Baker moved south to Bantry, where he would spend the rest of his life looking after the patients of west Cork and contributing significantly to the local community and to the medical profession in Ireland. While working in Bantry, Sean Baker published a number of reports in the *Journal of the Irish Medical Association* of interesting cases he had treated there, including 'Spontaneous epigastric haemorrhage' (*J Ir Med Assoc*. 1959 Jun;44[264]:178-9) and 'Spontaneous rupture of the urinary bladder' (*J Ir Med Assoc*. 1964 Mar;54:96-7). In the 1970s an attempt was made to regionalise the Irish hospital system, which would have reduced the number of county hospitals considerably. Seán Baker was to the fore in ensuring that Bantry Hospital would not be a casualty of that process. He became chairman of the Southern Health Board, with responsibility for administering health services in Cork and Kerry, and in 1977 he was appointed to the centralised consultants' appointment board, Comhairle na nOspidéal. Nationally, he was active in the Irish Medical Union (IMU), a representative trade union for Irish doctors founded in 1962. He later became president of the IMU and a trustee of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association when it was established in 1987. He was a strong advocate of an independent medical profession and was involved in politics, medical and local, all his life. In Bantry he was instrumental in enhancing the town square and erecting a statue to his hero, Theobald Wolfe Tone, a leader of the eighteenth century United Irishmen. Tall with white hair, he had a commanding presence and bounding energy. He had two children, Letty and Mary, was a keen golfer and an excellent fly fisherman. He was greatly loved in Bantry and esteemed for the work he did there.
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First Title value, for Searching Bansal, Satish Chandra (1938 - 2008)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2014-10-14
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Satish Chandra Bansal was an orthopaedic surgeon who worked in Kansas, USA. He gained his FRCS in 1971.
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First Title value, for Searching DeBakey, Michael Ellis (1908 - 2008)

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by Roger M Greenhalgh
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2013-09-02
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Occupation Cardiovascular surgeon
Details Michael DeBakey was a pioneering cardiovascular surgeon. He was born on 7 September 1908 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, one of five children of Shaker and Raheeja DeBakey, Lebanese immigrants who had first gone to Canada and then Louisiana. He would refer to himself as a 'cajun', to denote this pathway. The whole family, who spoke French at home, were expected to achieve: they rose at 4am because it was considered sinful to lie in bed. His father was a pharmacist and his mother a seamstress. He liked the doctors who came into his father's shop and wished to become one of them. He did not remember a time when he was uncertain of his future occupation. He studied at Tulane University, New Orleans, where he was influenced by the surgeons Rudolph Matas and Alton Ochsner. In his spare time he became involved in research in the department of medicine. The research team wished to bypass the circulation and were making better progress with the oxygenation than with the pump mechanism. In other words, they could replicate the lungs more easily than the pumping action of the heart. DeBakey researched every kind of pump by reading journals in engineering libraries. He said that he was especially useful as he could read original works in French and in German, as well as English. Eventually he came up with the idea of what became the 'roller pump' for open heart surgery and the problem was solved, unfortunately, no one else saw so clearly the potential for this discovery. In 1935, he went to Strasbourg (to work with René 'Papa' Leriche) and Heidelberg (with Martin Kirschner). Alongside Leriche was Jean Kunlin, who was soon to do the first leg bypass, but DeBakey described Kirschner as the better technical surgeon and Leriche as a great thinker. In 1948 he became chairman of the department of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. The Methodist Hospital became his base within Baylor College of Medicine, of which he became chancellor and for which he raised huge sums of money, over $200 million. In 1953 he was to adapt Dacron to replace the abdominal aorta diseased by aneurysm. He went to a shop for ladies' undergarments, where, he said, he 'felt distinctly uncomfortable'. He took a length of Dacron home and sewed it into a tube and put it into dogs. 'It worked so I used it for humans.' The inert Dacron bypass thus came into practice and remains central to open surgical practice today, 60 years later. Cid Dos Santos (later professor in Lisbon), son of Reynaldo Dos Santos, head of surgery at the university, was asked to remove a thrombus from a femoral artery. His father gave the instruction. Cid pulled a little hard and out came part of the arterial wall and by chance, the first endarterectomy was performed, by mistake. The result was surprisingly good. DeBakey was first to use this new method on a blocked carotid artery on 8 August 1953 and this worked as well. He did not write it up for 19 years. The reason for this delay is uncertain, but he said that time needed to elapse to be sure that it was safe procedure. Felix Eastcott of St Mary's Hospital was of a similar vintage to both DeBakey and Cid Dos Santos, and reported the first carotid procedure in November 1954. The associates of DeBakey were also very distinguished, especially Denton Cooley and Dr Stanley Crawford, both of whom would not have been the men they were without the example of DeBakey. The difference was that Stanley Crawford recognised this and attributed all of his success to 'Mike'. Denton did not, and incurred Mike's wrath. Once, when visiting the president of the United States in Washington, it is alleged that DeBakey received congratulations that his centre had just put in the world's first mechanical heart. The problem was that DeBakey had forbidden Denton Cooley to use the mechanical heart, which DeBakey had declared was not yet ready. Legend has it that Cooley was sacked forthwith. However, Cooley went on to build the Texas Heart Institute, which towered over the Methodist Hospital where DeBakey worked. They did not speak for years, but were reconciled before DeBakey died. 'They were both great men and friends of mine,' said Stanley Crawford, who felt that one hospital was too small for both egos. DeBakey went on to operate on the Duke of Windsor, the Shah of Persia and President Yeltsin in Moscow. He was a celebrity and appeared on the front page of *Time* magazine. With all great people there is another side. He came over as difficult to approach, except to those that he would allow to be close. This is possibly because his attitude was that every moment had to be filled with doing something of significance. He demanded standards higher than many could achieve. He was disappointed if a resident did not have as wide an education as he had had. He demanded good results. DeBakey was indeed a great technical surgeon and had difficulty accepting that some mere mortals fell below his own very high standards. Those few who had the privilege to see DeBakey at the bedside saw a memorable doctor- patient relationship. He had a way of reassuring patients that they were now in his hands and that he would personally see to it that all would be well. The patients, doctors and nurses around him realised that he was absolutely dedicated to their wellbeing. His interaction with his patients was an object lesson that no one would ever forget. It was known by all that he was not just a great surgeon and inventor, but that his presence raised the horizons and ambitions of those around him. Michael DeBakey died on 11 July 2008 at the age of 99, just as his 100th birthday celebrations were being planned. His first wife, Diana Cooper DeBakey, died in 1972. He was also predeceased by his sons, Ernest O DeBakey and Barry E DeBakey. He was survived by his wife, Katrin, daughter Olga and sons Michael and Denis.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Henry (1810 - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Hetman Charles ( - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Harris, John (1782 - 1855)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Came of a West Country family which held property in Cornwall and Devon and used coat-armour from the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He was one of eight children, and in 1810 married Miss Delpratt, a Huguenot, by whom he had two sons. He was educated near Plymouth, was apprenticed to Samuel Luscombe from 1798-1802, and learned surgery afterwards under John Sheldon, who lived in Exeter after his retirement as a teacher in the Hunterian School in London. Harris was elected Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital on May 23rd, 1815, in succession to Peter Radford, and died at his house at Southernhay as Senior Surgeon on June 30th, 1855. He was in partnership with Mr Cornish, a well-known surgeon of Exeter, and was the first of the hospital surgeons to take part officially in the municipal affairs of the city. He was sheriff twice, mayor once, and was for many years the senior magistrate and deputy mayor. He was a member of the old 'Chamber' and was one of the Charity Trustees, as well as a Surgeon to the Exeter Dispensary and Lying-in Charity. Brought up as a Quaker, he became a staunch member of the Church of England. He passed for a wit, was an excellent draughtsman, and was a lover of the animals which Wombwell often brought to the city. He became a singularly graceful operator, with a vein of originality, both in carrying out operations and in planning treatment. He is described as "rather tall, of pink complexion, with comical eyes and a laughter-provoking expression". His portrait in oils hangs in the Hospital, having been given in 1889 by his grandson, J Delpratt Harris, Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, James Penn (1817 - 1892)

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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 West Cowes, Isle of Wight, on May 2nd, 1817. After an apprenticeship he studied at University College Hospital in Liston's time, John Marshall being a fellow-student and friend. He commenced in Liverpool as House Surgeon to the old Northern Hospital in Leeds Street; then he practised, first in Clarence Street, and afterwards in Rodney Street. He acted as Surgeon to St Anne's Dispensary, the Ear and Eye Institute, and the Asylum for Orphan Boys. At the St Anne's Dispensary, subsequently known as the Liverpool Eastern Dispen¬sary, he had as colleague John Nottingham, who became Surgeon to the Royal Southern Hospital. He was besides a member of the Medical Institute, a Fellow of the Liverpool Northern Medical Society, and a member of the Royal Archaeological Institute of London. In connection with these societies he published addresses which he had delivered. Some three years before his death he was seized with a severe illness in Naples, perhaps typhoid fever. He retired from practice and died on May 20th, 1892, after a long and painful illness. He was survived by his widow, but there was no issue of the marriage. There is a photograph of him in the Fellows' Album. He is described as a tall and handsome man, reserved and retiring in disposition, but courteous in manner and of much personal dignity.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Samuel (1794 - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Harris, William (1808 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Harris, William ( - 1878)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-29 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at University College Hospital; was Surgeon to the Surrey House of Correction; served as Assistant Surgeon to the 88th Regiment in the Crimean War, and was awarded the Medjidie Medal and Crimean War Medals. He later practised at Truro, and died between November 2nd, 1878, and 1879.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Wintour (1807 - 1889)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Edward Thompson David (1820 - 1907)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details A member of one of the oldest families in Montgomeryshire; he practised at Welshpool, near Montgomery, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary, to the Parish of Welshpool, to the Pool and Montgomeryshire Workhouse, and later on Medical Officer to the Forden Union Workhouse and to the Royal Montgomery Militia, in which he rose to the rank of Surgeon Major; subsequently to the 4th Battalion of the South Wales Borderers. He was also JP for Welshpool and four times Mayor of the Borough. He retired at some time between 1880 and 1890 to Cornwallis Crescent, Clifton, Bristol, where he died on April 3rd, 1907.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, George ( - 1864)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, George ( - 1849)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, George (1806 - 1866)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Howard Davidson (1888 - 1921)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Graduated at the University of Toronto, then proceeded to the University of Pennsylvania, where he held a Fellowship in Anatomy. He completed his surgical studies for the FRCS at the London Hospital. On the outbreak of the War (1914-1918) he was at first Medical Officer on a troopship between India and Europe, then attached to a large hospital in Wales, when he carried out over 2000 major operations. He returned to Toronto in the latter part of 1917, and continued surgical practice among returned members of the Canadian contingent, and at the Western Hospital, Toronto. His friend and biographer, Dr John Ferguson, described him as of a most intensive nature and everything he did was done with all his might, whether a surgical operation, a game of cards, or a round of golf. He died on August 21st, 1921. His last words were: "I am not going to make the grade; it is hard luck" - possibly referring to hospital promotion.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002136
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, James (1820 - 1862)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born March 13th, 1820, joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on April 5th, 1842, was promoted Surgeon in 1856 and Surgeon Major on April 5th, 1862. He saw active service in the First Sikh or Sutlej War (1845-1846), being present at the Battle of Ferozeshah and receiving the Medal. He served also in the Second Sikh or Punjab War (1848-1849), being present at the Siege of Multan, and at the Battles of Sadullapur, Chilianwala, and Gujerat, receiving the Medal and Clasp. He died at Hillingdon End, Uxbridge, Middlesex, in October, 1862. Publication: *Origin and Progress of the Bengal Medical College*, 1857.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, John (1787 - 1873)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on July 7th, 1787, entered the Army as Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff unattached on December 30th, 1808. He was appointed to the 1st Foot Guards, later the Grenadier Guards, on June 29th, 1809, with which he served in the Walcheren Expedition (1809), at Cadiz in the Peninsula (1811-1813), in the expedition to Holland (1814), in the Netherlands and France (1814-1818), being present at the assault of Seville, the bombardment of Antwerp, the storming of Bergen-op-Zoom, the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, and the taking of Péronne. He was gazetted Battalion Surgeon to the Grenadier Guards on April 29th, 1824, Surgeon Major to the same regiment on March 17th, 1837, and retired on half pay on April 17th, 1840. He died at 14 Randolph Gardens, Kilburn, London, NW, on March 21st, 1873. His son was Brigade Surgeon Lieut-Colonel C F Harrison, Grenadier Guards.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, John ( - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, John (1808 - 1880)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The third of six sons of George Harrison; was for more than fifty years a prominent man in Chester as Surgeon to the Infirmary, then Consulting Surgeon, also three times Mayor. His eldest brother, George, practised as a partner with his father until his death about 1850. Another brother, Job, MRCS, was in active practice in Chester at the time of John's death. John Harrison studied at St Thomas's Hospital supplemented by instruction at the Aldersgate School, and began to practise at Knutsford; later he returned to his native Chester, where he was Surgeon and then Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary, as well as Surgeon to the Lying-in Charity. In 1866 he was Secretary at the second meeting of the British Medical Association in Chester, and a representative of the Chester Branch. He began to fail in health more than eleven years before his death, which occurred at 18 Nicholas Street, Chester, on June 3rd, 1880.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, John (1809 - 1870)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon; later being House Surgeon at the Lock Hospital. He practised at 2 Albany Courtyard, Piccadilly, W, and for some years from 1835 he lectured on anatomy at Lane's Medical School in Grosvenor Place, having Samuel Lane as his colleague. Amiable and retiring, he never gained a large practice, which apparently concerned venereal disease. He died after a long illness, terminating in dropsy, on January 3rd, 1870. Publications: *On Stricture of the Urethra*, 8vo, London, 1852. *Venereal Disease*, 8vo, London, 1840. "Urethral Discharges, not Gonorrhoeal." - *Lancet*, 1859, ii, 459.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, James Bower ( - 1890)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of the Rev William Harrison, belonging to a clerical family dating from 1662, and a cousin of Harrison Ainsworth, the novelist; was articled to W R Whalton, FRS, a well-known Manchester surgeon. He completed his medical studies at Manchester and at University College Hospital, London. After qualifying he became Resident Assistant Physician at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Later he gained a large practice, and was Surgeon to the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary. He was a prolific writer on medical subjects, largely from a popular point of view, and was instrumental in leading to a Government inquiry into the condition of children employed in unhealthy occupations. He died at The Mount, Higher Broughton, Manchester, on January 2nd, 1890. Publications: *Observations on the Contamination of Water by the Poison of Lead*, 12mo, London, 1852. *Familiar Letters on the Diseases of Children*, 16mo, London, 1862.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, James Stockdale (1797 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Reginald (1837 - 1908)

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Publication Date 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Stafford on August 24th, 1837, the eldest son of Thomas Harrison, Vicar of Christ Church, Stafford, by Mary his wife. He was educated at Rossall School, and after a short apprenticeship at the Stafford General Hospital he entered as a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He was appointed House Surgeon at the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, in 1859, and in the following year became Senior House Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary - a post he held until 1862 - and Medical Officer of the City Lunatic Asylum. He was Surgeon to the Cyfarthfa Iron Works at Merthyr Tydfil from 1862-1864. He returned to Liverpool as assistant to E R Bickersteth (qv) in 1864, and practised first at 18 Maryland Street and from 1868 in Rodney Street. He was appointed Surgeon to the Liverpool Bluecoat School in 1864. At the Royal Infirmary School of Medicine he was elected Demonstrator of Anatomy in 1864, becoming Lecturer on Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy in 1865; he was Assistant Surgeon from 1867-1874, and full Surgeon from 1874-1889. He also served as Quarantine Officer to the Port of Liverpool for a part of this time. He was Surgeon to the Northern Hospital from 1867-1868. In 1878 he visited the United States to watch Bigelow's earlier cases of lithotrity at a single sitting. In October, 1889, he came to London on his election as Surgeon to St Peter's Hospital for Stone and other Urinary Diseases in place of Walter Coulson (qv). He immediately took a prominent position in the social and medical life of the metropolis, becoming a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, President of the Metropolitan Street Ambulance Association, Lettsomian Lecturer at the Medical Society of London in 1888, and President of the Society in 1890. In 1903 he visited Egypt officially to inspect the School of Medicine at Cairo on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons, and was rewarded with the 1st class of the Imperial Ottoman Order of the Medjidie. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Member of the Council from 1886-1902, Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology in 1890-1891, Vice-President for the years 1894-1895, and Bradshaw Lecturer in 1896, taking as his subject "Vesical Stone and Prostatic Disorders". He retired from practice in April, 1905, when he resigned his office of Surgeon to St Peter's Hospital, died on April 28th, 1908, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. He married in 1864 Jane, the only daughter of James Baron, of Liverpool, and left one son and two daughters. There are good photographs of Reginald Harrison in the Council Album and the College Collection. As a surgeon, Harrison was interested throughout his life in the surgical disorders of the male genito-urinary organs. His chief claim to remembrance, however, lies in the fact that he was one of the small but active band of workers and teachers who raised the Royal Infirmary School of Medicine at Liverpool to the position of a well-equipped University of Liverpool. The private school of the Infirmary became a joint-stock company in 1869. Money was raised and new laboratories were built. Harrison as secretary-manager sought to fill each lectureship as it fell vacant with a young and energetic man who was as yet unhampered by the demands of private practice. The school, thus improved, became University College, which existed as a separate body from 1882-1903, when it was merged in the University. Harrison also took an active part in establishing the system (already in use in the United States of America) of street ambulances which long made Liverpool remarkable amongst the towns of Great Britain. He was active in promoting the Street Ambulance Association for developing the system throughout England, and was President at the time of his death. Publications:- *Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Urethra and other Disorders of the Urinary Organs*, London and Liverpool, 1878. *Lectures on the Surgical Disorders of the Urinary Organs*, 2nd ed, 1880; 4th ed, 1893. *Selected Papers on Stone, Prostate and other Urinary Disorders*, 8vo, London, 1899. *The Use of the Ambulance in Civil Practice*, Liverpool, 1881.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Howard Duncan (1938 - 2009)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-28 2014-05-14
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Howard Smith was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, Princess Royal University Hospital, Bromley and Queen Mary's, Sidcup. Born in Macclesfield on 4 April 1938, he was the son of Frank, a coachbuilder and his wife Annie née Holland. His secondary education was at Hanley High School in Stoke-on-Trent and Selhurst Grammar School in Croyden. From there he proceeded to London University and trained at Charing Cross Hospital graduating MB, BS in 1961 and passing the fellowship in 1967. He was the first trainee to do the full rotation of the Percival Pott Rotation in orthopaedics at St Bartholomew's Hospital from 1968 to 1973. During this period he attended the Edinburgh hand surgery course (1968) instructed by Charles Manning, Alan Lettin and Geoffrey Fisk, followed by the Charnley hip course (c.1972) with Ken McKee, J. G Taylor and John Fixen. He joined the Bromley Hospital Group as consultant orthopaedic surgeon in 1973 and became clinical director in 1993, retiring in 1998. A special interest was children's orthopaedics and hip and knee replacement in very young patients. In 1960 he married Marion Joyce Mardle and they had 4 children; Graham (born 1963) who was an accountant, Rosemary (born 1966) a veterinary surgeon, Neil (born 1970) an IT specialist, and Katherine (born 1975) a graphic designer. He enjoyed golf, travel and gardening. He died on 24 March 2009, aged 70 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Walder, Dennis Neville (1916 - 2008)

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by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2011-11-28 2013-06-12
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Occupation Occupational physician
Details Dennis Walder, professor of surgical science at the University of Newcastle, was a leading researcher in the field of decompression sickness ('the bends') and hyperbaric medicine. Surgery as a specialty has always been encompassed by wide boundaries, but Dennis' research must surely rank as a topic that stretched those boundaries to new limits. Dennis was born in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, the son of Horace Hampton James Walder, an architect, and Alice Wilhelmina Walder née Heide. He qualified from Bristol University in 1940. After military service, which ended in 1946, he secured surgical training posts in the North East of England, where he spent the remainder of his professional career until retirement. His interest in decompression sickness stemmed from his time as a medical officer in the wartime RAF, when he saw the problems faced by bomber pilots flying at great height without the benefits of pressurised cabins. He began studying why some pilots were more susceptible to sub-atmospheric compression sickness, and designed an apparatus to measure the surface tension of blood serum to help in these studies. In 1948 the Medical Research Council (MRC), faced with a high incidence of the bends in miners, divers and tunnel builders, invited Dennis and William Paton (later Sir William Paton, professor of pharmacology at the University of Oxford and professor of pharmacology at the Royal College of Surgeons) to monitor the health of workers working in compressed air as they constructed the pedestrian tunnel under the river Tyne. The results of their research set the standard for understanding and dealing with these workers' problems. In the sixties Dennis Walder masterminded the first code of practice for work in compressed air, which led, in 1996, to regulations for governing work in such conditions. Paton and Walder founded the Decompression Sickness Panel, of which Dennis was chairman for many years. From this grew the Decompression Sickness Registry, which kept copies of all the X-ray examinations of the major joints of compressed air workers. In the seventies Dennis won two major MRC grants to further the work of the registry, and led the transfer and computerisation of half a million records for over 4,000 workers. His studies demonstrated that the incidence of aseptic bone necrosis was directly related to the number of hours worked in compressed air. He set out to find why only some of the tunnel workers experienced health problems. In 1965 Dennis was awarded a Hunterian professorship for his research on problems relating to working in a hyperbaric atmosphere. He was awarded a MD and ChM, and became a member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine. In 1966 he was promoted to professor of surgical science at Newcastle University. With the growth of diving activity in the North Sea in the search for oil, the clinical need for his expertise rose to high levels in the sixties. He would often be called out to oil rigs, sometimes in the night, to treat divers with the bends, and would transport the diver by boat or by helicopter back to the decompression chamber at Newcastle University, sometimes getting into the chamber himself to attend to the patient. He experimented on animals, mainly pot-bellied pigs, which have a similar physiology to humans, but did not exclude himself from such experiments. (He sometimes had to be admitted to the intensive care unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, when his experiments brought him close to death.) Even though he retired in the eighties, he continued to contribute through the Compressed Air Working Group. In 2002 he was the first medical practitioner to be awarded the James Clark memorial medal of the British Tunnelling Society for services to the tunnelling industry. Part of his citation read: 'The younger members of the Society will not appreciate how such a man could possibly contribute to our industry to the level that he is honored, but it is not for his skills as a surgeon that we owe him so much but for his continued quest to improve the lot of the compressed air worker.' Dennis married Winifred Osman Jones, a fellow graduate of Bristol University, in 1940. She died in 2005. They had two sons and a daughter. Dennis died on 4 September 2008, aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Wakelin, John Leach ( - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-29 2012-12-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Leach Wakelin trained at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he became senior registrar in the ENT department. In 1944 he is recorded as serving in the RAMC as a lieutenant. In the 1971 *Medical Directory*, he is listed as being an honorary consultant ENT surgeon to the Bulawayo Government Hospitals in Rhodesia and this is given as his address until he moved to Andorra in the early 1980s. He died in Andorra on 29 November 2005, survived by his daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Lee, Frederick Fawson (1839 - 1899)

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First Title value, for Searching Lee, Henry (1817 - 1898)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-21
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details The son of Captain Pincke Lee, of Woolley Firs, Maidenhead Thicket. He entered King's College, London, as a student in 1833, but transferred to St George's Hospital in 1834, where he became one of the first, if not the first, Surgical Registrar, and later Curator of the Museum and Lecturer in Physiology. Seeing that promotion was slow at St George's Hospital, he gladly took the opportunity of connecting himself with the newly-founded King's College Hospital, where he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in 1847. About the same time he also became Surgeon to the Lock Hospital, and laid the foundation for his reputation as a syphilologist. In 1861 there were two vacancies on the staff at St George's Hospital, caused by the simultaneous resignation of Caesar Hawkins (qv) and E Cutler (qv). Henry Gray (qv) proposed to stand, but died from confluent small-pox. Lee consented then to transfer back to St George's Hospital, and he and Timothy Holmes (qv) were elected. Two years later, in 1863, Lee became full Surgeon and retired in 1878, at the age of 60, to make way for junior men, his immediate successor being T Pickering Pick (qv). Lee's connection with the Royal College of Surgeons was long and honourable. He was awarded the Jacksonian Prize in 1849 with a dissertation "On the Causes, Consequences and Treatment of Purulent Deposits"; he was a Member of Council 1870-1878, and in 1875 delivered the Museum Lectures on Surgery and Pathology as Hunterian Professor, his subject being "Syphilis and Local Diseases affecting principally the Organs of Generation". Lee is to be remembered as a pathologist, a syphilologist, and a surgeon. He was a disciple of Brodie, and an ardent admirer and follower of the teaching of John Hunter. His contemporary and old friend, Holmes, who wrote his obituary notice in the *Lancet*, was of the opinion that his works most likely to stand the test of time were his treatise on practical pathology, his lectures on syphilis at the Royal College of Surgeons, and his treatise on venereal diseases in Holmes's *System of Surgery*. In addition to these he was the author of many works and contributions to scientific journals. He was always interested in the diseases of veins, and revived one of the most successful of the palliative operations which were in use for the treatment of varicocele and varicose veins in the period before the introduction of antiseptic surgery enabled surgeons to use the methods of excision and injection. This method consisted in blocking the circulation in the vein in two places by pins thrust under its course with a figure-of-eight ligature wound about each, and then dividing the vein subcutaneously between the pins. In 1856 he read a paper at the Medico-Chirurgical Society on "Calomel Fumigation in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Syphilis", which was claimed as a real and important improvement on the current practice of the administration of mercury. Lee retired in 1878, living for twenty years afterwards. He died at his residence, 61 Queensborough Terrace, Hyde Park, on June 11th, 1898. He was twice married, and was survived by his widow and by daughters of both marriages; his only son predeceased him. A fine portrait of Lee, by James Sant, RA, hangs in the Secretary's room of the Royal College of Surgeons, and his bust by Brock is in the Hall. Publications: *On Diseases of the Veins, Haemorrhoidal Tumours, and other Affections of the Rectum*, 8vo, 2nd ed, London, 1846. "Statistical Analysis of One Hundred and Sixty-six Cases of Secondary Syphilis observed at the Lock Hospital, 1838-9," 8vo, London, 1849; reprinted from *Lond Jour of Med*. *On the Origin of Inflammation of the Veins, and on the Causes, Consequences and Treatment of Purulent Deposits*, Jacksonian Prize Essay, 1849, 8vo, plate, London, 1850. The original MS of this essay is in the Royal College of Surgeons' Library. *Pathological and Surgical Observations, including a Short Course of Lectures delivered at the Lock Hospital, and an Essay on the Surgical Treatment of Haemorrhoidal Tumours*, 8vo, 2 plates, London, 1854. *An Essay on the Surgical Treatment of Haemorrhoidal Tumours; read before the Medical Society of London*, Feb 11th, 1854, 8vo, London, 1854. *On the Radical Cure of Varicocele by Subcutaneous Incision*, 8vo, London, 1860. *On General Principles in Medicine: an Introductory Address, delivered at St George's Hospital*, 1863, 8vo, London, 1863. *Lectures on Syphilitic and Vaccino-syphilitic Inoculations: their Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment*, 2nd ed, 8vo, 5 plates, London, 1863; translated into French by EMILE BAUDOT, 1865, and into Portuguese by MARQUES, 1863. *Lectures on some Subjects connected with Practical Pathology and Surgery*, 2 vols, 3rd ed, 8vo, London, 1870. *Lectures on Syphilis, and on some Forms of Local Disease affecting principally the Organs of Generation*, 8vo, London, 1875. *On Syphilitic Inoculation*, 1862. "Syphilis" and "Gonorrhoea" in Holmes's *Surgery*, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions; also "Venereal Diseases" in 3rd edition. "Phlebitis" and "Diseases of the Veins" in Cooper's *Surgical Dictionary*. *Phlebitis*, 1850. "Secondary Deposits and Mortification from Diseases of the Arteries." - *Brit and For Med-Chir Rev*, 1857, xx, 214. "Mercurial Fumigation in the Treatment of Syphilis." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1856, xxxix, 339. "Abscesses and Purulent Infiltration of Bone." - *Lond Jour of Med*, 1851-2. "On Repair after Injuries to Arteries and Veins" (with L S BEALE). - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1867, 1, 477. "On the Tapetum Lucidum and the Functions of the Fourth Pair of Nerves," 8vo, London, 1887; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1886, lxix, 239, and *Lancet*, 1886, i, 203.
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First Title value, for Searching Leese, Lewis senior ( - 1848)

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First Title value, for Searching Paul, Sudhansu Bhusan (1931 - 2010)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-29 2014-11-25
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Subhansu Paul was an orthopaedic surgeon. He was born on 1 January 1931 in Karimganj, Assam, the son of Sachindra Mohan Paul, a medical practitioner and his wife, Muktakeshi. Educated at Maulvibazar Government High School in Sylhet and the Presidency College Calcutta, he studied at Calcutta Medical College graduating MB, BS in 1955 with honours in anatomy. From 1958 to 1963 he was demonstrator on anatomy at the Calcutta medical College and then became clinical tutor in surgery to the NRS Medical College. On moving to the UK in 1972 he was appointed associate specialist in orthopaedics to the St Helier Group of Hospitals in Carshalton, Surrey remaining in that post for 20 years. He lived in Cheam and enjoyed gardening, DIY and carpentry. His death on 17 November 2010, aged 79 years, was reported by his son. Publication: A new technique of operative restoration of active internal rotating of the hip *Calcutta med J* 62, Nov 1965.
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Charles Gunning (1811 - 1887)

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First Title value, for Searching Devi, Rasiklal Shivlal ( - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2015-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Rasiklal Shivlal Devi's last known address was in Vadnagar, north Gujarat, India. Devi gained the FRCS in 1966 and died on 3 September 2013.
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First Title value, for Searching Easton, Alfred Leonard Tytherleigh (1921 - 2012)

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by Claire Lewis
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-02-19
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Leonard Easton was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at the London Hospital. His background was unusual. His parents, Leonard Tytherleigh Easton, an elderly insurance broker, and Maria Bertrand Easton née de Lis met in Japan and he was born in Tientsin, China, on 11 July 1921. His education at Harrow was paid for by a wealthy uncle and there he excelled at rugby and science. Although diminutive, he was fast and fiercely competitive. His early passion for beetles, butterflies and the contents of rock pools from his beloved Cornish beaches, where he spent his childhood, evolved into a passion for human creatures: he never considered any career other than medicine. His studies led him to Cambridge, and he was always immensely proud of his years at Pembroke College. He went on to the Middlesex Hospital, where he met his future wife, Mary Josephine Latham, a highly spirited nurse who later became a prize-winning theatre sister. They married in 1946 and had two children. He had decided early on to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology, and loved surgery from the outset. He had small hands, but they were steady as a rock, almost until he died. He carried out his National Service in Egypt and then went back to the Middlesex. He was a senior registrar there and then became a lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Birmingham. He was appointed as a consultant at King George's Hospital, Ilford, and Ilford Maternity Hospital, and became a consultant at the London Hospital in the late 1950s, where he remained until his retirement in the late eighties. He was immensely proud of the London and all his colleagues with whom he worked. He felt passionately about his job, and he and his colleagues were determined to bring down maternal mortality. He regularly went out on visits with the local obstetric flying squad and campaigned for supervised and hospital births. And, by the 1960s and 1970s, maternal mortality had significantly decreased. Early on he had to make a decision about where he stood on the issue of termination of pregnancy. As a Catholic, it was for him a defining moment. He knew he had to decide between what he thought was medically right and ethical and what the church was telling him. He decided that women had the right to choose termination if the circumstances were medically and socially appropriate, and never went to church again. As his daughter, I rarely saw him during my childhood. My memories are only of high days and holidays. Christmas was always special: he took my brother and me onto the wards and always carved the ward turkey dressed as Father Christmas. We met the nurses and patients, and felt part of his profession. I also remember him teaching me to swim in those Cornish rock pools, where he also saved a colleague's daughter from drowning. He wouldn't allow me to have my first two babies at home, when I was championing the natural childbirth renaissance in the 1970s. I remember him saying to me that you shouldn't expect to enjoy labour: the whole idea was to ensure the health of the mother and child. We had quite an argument about that, but I lost. He was a progressive, liberal thinker and a real supporter of women. And he did make a difference. I am very proud of him and what he achieved in nearly 50 years of medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Gye, Richard Spencer Butler (1926 - 2012)

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by Louise Goldrick
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-03-07
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Richard Gye ('Dick') was one of the foremost neurosurgeons in Australia and a pioneer in his field. He was born in Sydney on 18 January1926, the youngest of three sons of Eva and George Butler Gye, both professional journalists. In infancy his parents divorced, leaving Eva to raise her family on her own at the start of the Depression. With support from her extended family, her journalist career took her to England and Europe on three trips without her sons. In Sydney she joined *The Australian Women's Weekly*, owned by Sir Frank Packer, as a writer and later as editor. Richard's eldest brother died of influenza at a young age. Attending several schools throughout his education, his final years were completed at Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga, on the upper north shore of Sydney, from 1942 to 1944. He described this period as being amongst the happiest of his life, where he came to understand the meaning of fellowship and friendship that endures despite the uncertainties of time and distance. He was a good athlete and keen footballer, house prefect and captain. He was to enjoy a lifelong association with the school as a parent, later becoming an active member and past president of the Senior Knoxonians. He enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy in January 1945, serving in the South Pacific, advancing to the rank of sub-lieutenant. Whilst serving on HMAS *Lachlan*, he undertook surveys of the northern coastline of Australia, some areas of which had been chartered by Matthew Flinders, including the first complete survey and charting of King Sound, Western Australia. It was during this period that Richard was befriended by the ship's surgeon, who recognised his potential, encouraging him to seriously consider a career in medicine. He was discharged from the Navy in 1947 after being injured in a mine explosion whilst commanding a mine clearing patrol boat in north Queensland. In 1948, he enrolled in medicine at the University of Sydney. In 1953, he graduated with honours and obtained his MB BS, also with honours, in 1955. It was early on in his medical studies that his interest in neurology was apparent when he was asked by the university's professor of anatomy to review the vascular components of the optic radiation of the human brain. He was awarded the (shared) Norton Manning prize in psychiatry in 1955. It was also during this time that he met his future wife, Margaret Waddell. They were married in 1956. Margaret looked after their growing family. Their son Nicholas was born in 1958 and their daughter Louise was born in 1960. On graduating, Richard was appointed to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where he trained as a neurosurgeon. After gaining his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1960, he was awarded a Nuffield Dominion travelling fellowship in neurosurgery to further his studies and clinical experience in neurosurgery in Oxford. He was admitted as a member of Worcester College, Oxford, and in 1967 was awarded a doctorate in philosophy for his thesis, 'A clinical and experimental study of sub-dural effusions'. The department of neurological surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary, headed by Joe Pennybacker, was a major neurosurgical facility, one of four in the country established in the 1930s. Demands were heavy, with the department providing neurosurgical services to over four million people; in consequence he rapidly gained vast clinical experience, training and guidance. On arrival, he was appointed as a house officer, later becoming a senior registrar. Returning to Sydney in 1964, he was appointed as a senior lecturer in neurosurgery at the University of Sydney. He developed the first academic unit of neurosurgery in Sydney, becoming an associate professor and academic head of neurosurgery at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He also held clinical posts at other teaching hospitals in Sydney. Richard appreciated the need for other neurosurgical services in more remote places, including the Northern Territory. His principal research interest was nerve transplantation, and the preparation and use of nerve grafts in treating Aboriginal patients at the East Arm Leprosy Hospital in Darwin, who had suffered extensive damage to the nerves in their limbs due to leprosy. Several trips were made to Melville, Bathurst and Goote islands. He was also asked by the government of Fiji to provide a neurosurgical service. Between 1965 and 1970, Richard and his team successfully performed major operations on brain tumours and other conditions in Fiji, visiting the country two to three times a year during this period. In 1971, following the impending retirement of his mentor, Joe Pennybacker, Richard accepted an appointment as head of the department of neurological surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He had many friends from his earlier years and this proved to be an exciting and rewarding period in his professional life as a surgeon. In 1974, on his return to Australia, he was appointed as the first full-time professor and dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Sydney, a post he held for 15 years. This was a time of major changes to the undergraduate curriculum, increasing numbers of academic staff and departments, and the opening of new teaching hospitals, including the planning, development and building of Westmead Hospital. He was involved in university administration, teaching hospital management, and state and federal health department policy development up to ministerial level. In addition, he continued with his clinical duties as a neurosurgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and other teaching hospitals. From 1979 he was deputy chairman of the Menzies Foundation that led to his contributing, amongst other things, to the establishment in 1985 of a major medical research institute in the tropical Northern Territory, the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, which is linked academically to the University of Sydney. Richard was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to medicine in 1988, before retiring from the deanship in 1989. He continued as professor of neurosurgery and was engaged as a visiting professor in neurosurgery at the Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, before his retirement from the University of Sydney. He became an emeritus professor at the University of Sydney in 1992 and was appointed as a consultant emeritus to the department of surgery, neurosciences, at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He also worked as a medico-legal consultant in private practice. He believed that the excellence of an institution is not a function of bricks and mortar, but it is dependent upon the people who work within it, and the traditions which ensure that the highest principles and standards are passed on from one generation to another. In retirement Richard pursued his abiding interest in drawing and painting. He enjoyed reading historical biographies and attending orchestral concerts. He had been a member of the Australian Club since 1976. His was an inspiring life, well spent and with many great contributions made. He will be remembered for his generous and warm nature, his devotion and loyalty to his family and friends, his sensitivity and for his consideration and thoughtfulness for others. Richard died on 25 December 2012, aged 86. He was survived by his wife Margaret, their daughter Louise and four grandchildren. Their son, Nicholas, predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching James, Peter Ashman (1921 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2015-11-20
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Occupation Radiologist Thoracic surgeon
Details Peter James was a consultant thoracic surgeon in Uganda and latterly a consultant radiologist at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. He was born on 19 September 1921 in Nailsea, north Somerset, the son of Walter Ashman, a chartered surveyor, and Hilda Ashman née Kitley, a nurse who had served at sea with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service during the First World War. He was educated at St Goar's School, Bristol, and at Bristol Grammar School, where he was a Peloquin scholar. He then studied medicine at Bristol University, gaining his MB ChB in 1943. He was a house surgeon to Arthur Rendle Short in Bristol and then, between 1944 and 1947, he was a captain in the RAMC, mainly with the 7th Indian Parachute Field Ambulance. After the war, he trained in Bristol, Gloucester and Newport as a general surgeon, and then at Morriston, Brompton and Great Ormond Street hospitals as a thoracic surgeon. From 1960 to 1967 he was a consultant thoracic surgeon in Uganda and an honorary lecturer at the University of East Africa. He was a member of the council of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa and president from 1965 to 1966. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Medical Education in East Africa in 1966. He was awarded an MBE in May 1963. In 1967 he left Uganda, re-trained in Canada and Bristol as a diagnostic radiologist, and was appointed as a consultant in radiology for the Manchester teaching area at Wythenshawe Chest Hospital and Manchester Chest Clinic. He wrote various papers on tuberculosis and medical education and contributed a chapter on thoracic surgery to *Companion to surgery in Africa, etc* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone, 1968). Outside medicine, he enjoyed sailing, bridge, driving, flying and competitive bowls. He died on 23 May 2013 in Southbourne, aged 91. He was survived by his widow Jean James (née Tregear), a former dermatologist, whom he had married in 1947.
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First Title value, for Searching Parkes, William Barney (1811 - 1863)

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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 Parkinson, William Robert (1885 - 1926)

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First Title value, for Searching Parrott, John (1790 - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Pickard, Robert Gordon (1939 - 2012)

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by James R Wallace
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Robert Gordon Pickard was a general surgeon at Law and Stonehouse hospitals, Lanarkshire, and later at Wishaw General Hospital. He was born on 19 May 1939 in Sheffield, the son of Reginald Pickard and Eileen Pickard née Alexander. He had two younger brothers, Roy and John, who went on to become a university librarian and author, and professor of neurosurgery at the University of Cambridge respectively. An uncle, Cecil Pickard, was head of radiology in Dundee. Robert's father was a headmaster in Preston when Robert was a pupil at Preston Grammar School. He obtained both a state scholarship and a college exhibition to study medicine at Clare College, Cambridge, where he had a distinguished undergraduate career. He continued his clinical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. He won the Hallett prize in the primary examination of the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, and secured both the MRCP and FRCS whilst working in junior posts in London, Stoke, Chester and the Birmingham Accident Hospital. He spent two years in neurosurgery at Atkinson Morley Hospital, the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and the Wessex Neurological Centre, before returning to the St George's rotation (St George's Hospital, Winchester and the Royal Marsden) to train in general surgery. He held a Cancer Research Campaign clinical fellowship in 1973. During this time, he survived hepatorenal failure and hepatitis B, thanks to King's College Hospital's liver unit. Research carried out in 1973 led to his thesis for his MChir, entitled 'The use of xenografted human colonic tumours as a model of the clinical disease; with particular reference to the kinetic aspects'. Later papers reflected his continued interest in colorectal surgery, and the wide range of his other surgical interests. In 1982 he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon in Lanarkshire. He made a huge contribution to surgical care and to undergraduate and postgraduate training in the area. Initially he undertook a very wide range of general surgical work, with major interests in gastrointestinal and peripheral vascular work, but also encompassing breast, thyroid and paediatric surgery. He had a prodigious capacity for hard work, seemed seldom to be away from the hospital, and caused consternation among the hospital managers by insisting that his outpatient clinics should start at 8am not 9am. When he was appointed as a consultant at Law and Stonehouse hospitals, gastrointestinal endoscopy was at an early stage of its development and at that time the hospitals had no medical gastroenterologist. Cases for gastroscopy and colonoscopy were added to the end of general surgical lists, which was far from ideal. Robert played a major role in the eventual establishment of a purpose-built endoscopy and investigative unit, shared with a newly appointed gastroenterologist. With increased specialisation within the surgical service, he focused on gastrointestinal and in particular on colorectal surgery. He was one of those most involved in the development of laparoscopic surgery in the area, and was the first to practise transhiatal oesophagectomy in the hospital. He was a larger than life character who, with his southern English accent, came as something of a surprise to the largely working class, post-industrial population of the urban parts of Lanarkshire. His evident kindness and concern for his patients soon endeared him to them and to his colleagues. Clearly his migration north had not changed him, as one of his London colleagues, John Quayle, recalls: 'Apart from his well-known, wide intellectual hinterland, sense of humour and delightful eccentricities, such as his shambolic attire, which only marginally improved for a vital job interview, I especially remember him for his complete lack of pomposity, his warmth and thoughtfulness for everyone regardless of status, his willingness always to lend a hand, and his gentle mockery of the over-assertive surgical stereotype. On many of my late night duty rounds at old St George's, Tooting, I would spy a distant figure along a long, draughty and otherwise deserted corridor, limping, occasionally shuffling, as the result of yet another masochistic long distance run. It would be Bob, off duty, but looking in on his patients, full of cheer and only too ready to help if an extra assistant was needed with a difficult case. At clinical meetings, an off the wall reference to some related but obscure historic fact would invariably issue from the back of the room, his usual hiding place, which would devastate us all and bring discussion to a halt.' In Lanarkshire he would often appear to be asleep in some tedious meeting, but had the uncanny ability to wake in an instant to deliver some entirely apposite comment, only to fall asleep moments later. He could often be seen at lunch time in an old vest and pair of shorts running in the country lanes around the hospital. On one occasion he was stopped by a police patrol after one of the nurses apparently phoned to report that one of the patients had escaped and was heading towards the nearby town of Carluke. She mentioned that, if stopped, he might well claim to be a surgeon at the hospital. From childhood, Robert was an avid reader. He was able to interject valuable comments in any clinical discussion or meeting. His command of the English language was impressive. When linked to his quirky sense of humour, it was sometimes used to bait his colleagues and, in particular, members of the hospital management team. On one occasion, Robert successfully defended himself in court against a speeding charge. He was able to show that the police radar detector had not been adequately calibrated. Later he found time to study for a law degree. In retirement, he was able to use this to support the ultimately successful claim by the theatre ancillary staff for improved remuneration. Even though by then unwell, he trawled through a multitude of papers on the NHS' pay and grading system, Agenda for Change, and related law in order to assist them. He enjoyed listening to classical music, and was particularly fond of works by Handel. His interest in art was fostered by an uncle, and his flat in Glasgow and later his home in Motherwell displayed a most impressive collection of beautiful paintings. He married in 1991, and set up home with his wife Catrina, then a theatre nurse and later a clinical nurse specialist, in a beautiful former manse on the Baron's Haugh nature reserve overlooking the flood plain of the Clyde on the outskirts of Motherwell. They had two children, Justin and Colette. At a routine blood test three years before his death, he was found to have hepatitis C, most probably due to an unrecognised needle stick injury during surgery. Vigorous treatment of the condition, including the use of interferon, resulted in severe arthropathy, but unfortunately the disease progressed to cirrhosis and inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma. Robert Pickard died on 12 August 2012, aged 73.
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First Title value, for Searching Maxwell, Richard Drummond (1873 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching May, Sir Arthur William (1854 - 1925)

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First Title value, for Searching Phillips, Llewellyn Caractacus Powell (1871 - 1927)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details The only son of James Mathias Phillips, MD, and of Mary Anne Powell, his wife; born at Tir Caradoc Taibach, Glamorganshire, on July 28th, 1871. He was educated at Epsom College and was admitted a pensioner at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on October 1st, 1889. Here he was a scholar from midsummer, 1891, to midsummer, 1892. He graduated BA after gaining a 1st class in the first part of the Natural Science Tripos in 1892, having been awarded the Smart Prize for botany in 1891. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was an Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School after acting as House Surgeon. After acting as House Physician at the Royal Free Hospital, he practised for a time in Cardigan, and in 1901 was appointed Resident Surgical Officer at Kasr-el-Aini Hospital, Cairo. Subsequently he became Physician to the Hospital and Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Medical School until he retired in 1925. He acquired a large practice, both native and European, for at the beginning he made an excellent impression by his fine work during a cholera epidemic. During the War (1914-1918), in the Gallipoli Campaign, he served as Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC in Command of the British Red Cross Hospital at Giza, his wife acting as Matron. He was four times mentioned in dispatches, and received the 3rd class Ottoman Order of the Medjidie and the 3rd class Order of the Nile. He made a remarkable collection of old Arab glass weights and coins, and died at his house in Cairo in January, 1927. Publications: Phillips published important papers on Tropical Medicine including:- "Phlebotomus Fever" in Bryan and Archibald's *Practice of Medicine in the Tropics*, v *Amoebiasis and the Dysenteries*, 8vo, London, 1915.
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First Title value, for Searching Schroeder, Henry Sacheverel Edward (1827 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Pick, Thomas Pickering (1841 - 1919)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born on June 13th, 1841, the son of Thomas Pickering Pick, merchant, of Liverpool. After going to the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, he entered St George's Hospital in 1857, at a time when the staff numbered such men as Caesar Hawkins, Prescott Hewett, the Lees, and George David Pollock; Timothy Holmes was then Curator and Surgical Registrar. Pick became House Surgeon in 1863, was Surgical Registrar and Demonstrator of Anatomy from 1864-1866, and Curator of the Museum, 1866-1869. He shone as Demonstrator of Anatomy, being rapid and correct, with a full knowledge of Gray's *Anatomy*, of which he edited the 10th edition, 1883; the 11th, 1887; the 12th, 1890; the 13th, 1893; the 14th, 1897; the 15th, with Professor Robert Howden, 1901; the 16th, also with Howden, 1905. For many years he was HM Inspector of Anatomy for England and Wales. In 1869 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to St George's Hospital, became Surgeon in 1878, and after the customary twenty years in that office, Consulting Surgeon in 1898. He was also Surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital, to the Victoria Hospital for Children (1886-1891), and to the Home for Incurables. Pick as a surgeon passed through the great epoch of surgical development instituted by Lister, accepting the new order without enthusiasm, not denying the aim for asepsis, yet not joining in the advance. He edited the 5th edition of the previous standard text-book, the *Treatise on Surgery, its Principles and Practice*, by Timothy Holmes, 1888. He himself was the author of *Fractures and Dislocations, excluding Fractures of the Skull*, 1885, which was translated into German (Leipsic, 1887), and *Surgery, a Treatise for Students and Practitioner's*, 1899. At the Royal College of Surgeons he served as Examiner in Anatomy from 1876, and upon the Court of Examiners in Surgery from 1884-1894. In 1894 he was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology, when he dealt with "Diseases of the Ends of the Long Bones in Children", displaying a knowledge of the surgery of children's diseases, published in the *Lancet* (1894, i, 1543, etc.) of that year. The subject of his Bradshaw Lecture in 1898 was "Union of Wounds". He was elected to the Council of the College in 1888, and was Vice-President in 1898 and 1899. In 1900 he wrote the *Souvenir of the Centenary* - 1800-1900, a copy of which, finely illustrated, together with Sir William MacCormac's *Address of Welcome*, was given to the guests at the Centenary Dinner in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Pick retired from the Council on the election of Sir Henry Howse as President in succession to Sir William MacCormac. He was a handsome man, of polished manners; his head, finely held, was covered with thick, curling hair, which became white. Warned by a slight paralytic stroke, he retired some years before his death to The Nook, Great Bookham, Surrey, and found recreation in photography. He died on September 6th, 1919. A half-length oil painting is in the possession of the Royal College of Surgeons. He married Adeline, daughter of John Lawrence, of Liverpool. Two of his sons entered the medical profession, one at the time of his death being Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy.
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First Title value, for Searching Rayner, Edwin (1845 - 1922)

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First Title value, for Searching Rayner, Herbert Edward (1865 - 1914)

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First Title value, for Searching Pilcher, Jesse Griggs (1839 - 1917)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on March 25th, 1839, studied at Dublin and Edinburgh. He entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Oct 1st, 1860; after his batch, entry to the service was closed for five years. He was gazetted Surgeon on October 1st, 1872, Surgeon Major on July 1st, 1878; Brigade Surgeon on May 14th, 1888; and Deputy Surgeon General on March 29th, 1890. The greater part of his service was as Civil Surgeon at Howrah. He was at Darjeeling for two years as Superintendent of the Central Prisons at Allahabad, as Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals in Bengal and in the North-West Provinces. He retired on March 29th, 1895, latterly living at 133 Gloucester Road, London, SW, and died there on July 3rd, 1917.
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First Title value, for Searching Scratchley, James (1784 - 1849)

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First Title value, for Searching Read, Raphael Woolman (1819 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, John ( - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Rose, William senior (1814 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Rose, William junior (1847 - 1910)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-14 2013-02-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, on July 18th, 1847, the son of William Rose (qv) and nephew of Sir Philip Rose. He came of a race of surgeons, and, as his biographer, Sir John Cockburn, KCMG, says - "He affords a striking instance of the coincidence of an hereditary faculty with circumstances peculiarly favourable to its development.... He was nursed in an atmosphere of the healing art. Long before he entered as a medical student at King's College he had learnt from his father, the leading surgeon in High Wycombe, something more than the rudiments of the profession, with the result that having the end in view, he was able to appreciate more thoroughly than the younger and less experienced students the meaning and bearing of the teaching facilities which a great medical school affords. Endowed by nature with an exquisite sense of touch and manual skill, he lost no opportunity of cultivating a wonderful dexterity in manipulation, which made him a most expert operator. "As a boy he was the fortunate possessor of a fine turning lathe and well-equipped workshop. Here he spent most of his leisure, and served his appren¬ticeship in handicraft. The hand that for the first time touched the instruments of surgery was already ripe with experience in handling all manner of tools. "William Rose was not one who required to practise with the saw on the human femur. He was possessed of prodigious strength. It was one of the sights of student days to see him with one hand grasp a heavy chair by the top rail, extend it at arm's length, and by sheer power of wrist raise it to a horizontal position. But this strength was tempered and regulated with a wonderful tactile sensibility. His touch conveyed a sense of restrained power, which commanded confidence and rallied the recuperative power of a patient. There was a veritable virtue in the laying-on of his hands." William Rose entered the Medical School of King's College Hospital in his twentieth year and was a resident pupil with Henry Power (qv) during his student life. After taking the Fellowship in 1874 he acted for a time as House Physician at the Brompton Hospital. Early in his career he attracted Sir William Fergusson's (qv) attention, and assisted that great operator in his private practice, taking rooms, by his advice, in Old Cavendish Street instead of carrying on the family practice at High Wycombe as his father had hoped. Having been successively House Surgeon and Surgical Registrar to King's College Hospital, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in 1876, became full Surgeon in 1885, and Consulting Surgeon in 1902. During the five-and-twenty years that Rose served on the staff of King's College Hospital he built up for himself a great reputation as a practical surgeon, while his name became familiar to many generations of students because of his participation in the authorship of a most popular textbook on surgery. From being Fergusson's dresser he rose to be his colleague, participating with the master in all his great operations. A colleague, once his dresser, has described Rose's marvellous dexterity, his skill with his instruments, and his jealous care of them. To an onlooker who knew how instruments should be used it was a great pleasure to watch Rose operating. Though he had large and apparently clumsy fingers, they were in reality extraordinarily dexterous. To see his fingers working inside a small mouth when operating upon a cleft palate, or to watch him using the finest catgut in the finest curved needle in a hare-lip operation, was to feel that one had met a master surgeon - one in whom co-ordination between brain and finger-tips was absolutely perfect. His kindness to patients under his care was seen best by the house surgeons in charge of his beds or by the ward-sisters, for he was not a man to make any display of this side of his character. He would often come to the hospital at the dinner hour or at teatime in order to see for himself how the patients fared. It was no good telling Rose that such-and-such a patient took his food well, for to say this was to create a suspicion in his mind that there was something wrong, and nothing would satisfy him but to see for himself. This was a little point upon which he was often misunderstood. He would seem to disbelieve what was told him by house surgeons and dressers, sisters and nurses. In reality, he was not so much testing their accuracy as their judgement; he was training them to be sound in making reports, and in the value of evidence which lay before their eyes. Rose was devoted to animals, and his love of horses was well known. He was a first-rate whip - "A coach team or tandem were as a plastic mass in his hands." He was constantly seen driving his four-in-hand, and is said to have caused a window to be made at the end of his hall, through which he could look at his beloved horses in their presumably very clean stable. He shot well and his hall was adorned with antlered trophies. He was a musician and played the drum admirably! His hospitality was boundless, and his dinners to his dressers were grand events in these young men's lives. He had a keen sense of humour: told a story well, and his laugh, which could be heard in the next street, was infectious. His common sense often stood him in good stead. As Surgeon to the Great Eastern and London, Brighton & South Coast Railways he was an expert witness in railway cases, and often saved the Companies from being imposed upon in Maims for damages. Asked, for instance, to report on a case of alleged spinal concussion, he found the patient in bed and apparently bedridden. Rose had been kept waiting a long time before being admitted to see the patient, but was able to diagnose the case as one of flagrant malingering, when on putting his hand into one of the man's boots under the bed he found it was warm! In 1880 he married Marian, youngest daughter of Mr Robert Clark, solicitor, but had no children. A portrait of Professor Rose accompanies his biography in the *Lancet*. His London address was 17 Harley Street, W, and his country house was at Penn, near High Wycombe. Here he dispensed hospitality and was much beloved by his poorer neighbours, whom he charitably benefited by his surgical skill and experience. He died on May 29th, 1910, and at the time of his death was Emeritus Professor at King's College, as well as Member of its Council and Hon Fellow, these honours having been conferred on him at his retirement from the Professorship of Surgery in 1902, when, as before mentioned, he was made Consulting Surgeon at King's College Hospital. He was also Consulting Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, and to the Stanhope Street Dispensary, the London, Brighton and South Coast and the Great Eastern Railway Companies, St John's Hospital, Twickenham, the High Wycombe Cottage Hospital, and the Eagle Insurance Company. He was at one time Consulting Surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary and Senior Surgeon to the Actors'Association. Publications: *A Manual of Surgery for Students and Practitioners* (with ALBERT CARLESS, FRCS), 12mo, London, 1898; 12th ed, 8vo, plates and illustrations, London, 1927. Professor Rose's literary reputation is securely founded on this classic. It was the best text-book of surgery in the English language for students not aiming at the highest examinations, and was frequently republished in New York. "Case of Double Hare-lip in Man aged 30." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1883, i, 202. "Recurrent Aneurism of the Superficial Femoral Artery after Ligature of the External Iliac, treated by Excision of the Sac," 8vo, London, 1885; reprinted from *Med Soc Proc*, 1884, vii, 75. "Gunshot Wound of Knee-Joint." - *Med Soc Proc*, 1888, xi, 355. "Wound of Median Nerve; Suture." - *Ibid*, 1889, xii, 300. "Severe Injury of the Wrist-joint, with Division of Nerves, Vessels and Tendons, treated by Conservative Surgery," 8vo, London, 1887; reprinted from *Med Soc Proc*, 1887, x, 348. "Removal of the Gasserian Ganglion for Severe Neuralgia." - *Lancet*, 1890, ii, 914. (This operation was done by the maxillary route, which was afterwards superseded by the Hartley-Krause route.) *On Harelip and Cleft Palate*, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1891. "General Surgery."-*Year Book of Treatment*, 1895-6. "A Few Details in the Operative Treatment of Inguinal Hernia," 12mo, London, 1892; reprinted from *Med Press and Circ*, 1891, lii, 546, etc. *The Surgical Treatment of Neuralgia of the Fifth Nerve* (*Tic Douloureux*), 8vo, London, 1892. All these papers "display him as the careful, skilful, practical surgeon".
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First Title value, for Searching Hunter, Adam Irvine ( - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20 2014-06-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Adam Irvine Hunter was born before the turn of the century in Dunedin. He was educated at Waitaki Boys' High School where he showed remarkable athletic ability being in both the first XI and XV and winning the school gymnastic championship. After leaving school he entered Otago Medical School, qualifying MB ChB in 1925. At this time he achieved prominence as a scratch golfer. He became a house surgeon at New Plymouth and then left for England. He was awarded his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1934 and, while in London, made friends among many prominent figures in the theatrical, business and golfing worlds. He diagnosed and assisted at the operation of the first insulinoma recognised in Great Britain. Until the beginning of the second world war he was in general practice in Twickenham. He entered the RAMC and was in Iceland at the time of the sinking of the *Bismarck* and attended some of the survivors. He also served in the Near East and became a Colonel in charge of the surgical divisions of the general hospital in India. After the war he settled in general practice in Invercargill where his abundant energy and skill soon won him an extensive practice. With his wide experience he soon realised the parochialism of the local hospital scene and served six years on the hospital board as he attempted to correct the state of affairs. Despite advancing years he continued to practice as long as possible and took part in a wide range of activities. He was a keen fisherman and deer hunter and won the New Zealand Gold Medal for philately. With so many varied interests his circle of friends and acquaintances was immense. Even when he was forced to retire on account of ill health his active mind took up a new interest in an invention involving farming and the business world. He was actively engaged in this when died suddenly on 20 June 1978 survived by his daughter Jean and son, John.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, William (1803 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Sir William Henry (1860 - 1918)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20 2013-08-12
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Occupation Physiologist
Details Born in Granard, Co Longford, and was educated at the Dundalk Institution, whence he passed on to Galway College in 1879, where he carried off all the available scholarships in mathematics and medicine, finally graduating with the highest honours and a 1st class exhibition in the Royal University of Ireland in 1883. Subsequently he was appointed a Demonstrator of Anatomy in Trinity College, Dublin, was engaged for four years in private teaching, and thought of practising surgery. Taking up the study of physiology, he held the chair of Dunville Professor of Physiology in Queen's College, Belfast, from 1893-1902, and was made a Member of the Physiological Society January 20th, 1894. In 1902 he was elected to the chair of the Institutes of Medicine in the School of Physic, Trinity College, Dublin, and continued to hold this position to the time of his death. His outlook had been widened by a long course of post-graduate study at Galway, Dublin, London, Leipzig, Paris, Marburg, Heidelberg, and under Pavlov at St Petersburg. His studies had been concerned with food metabolism and nutrition, and to these subjects he accordingly devoted himself at Trinity College. He was an honorary member of the Imperial Military Academy of Medicine, St Petersburg. Soon after the outbreak of the European War, having made provision for the discharge of his duties in Trinity College by the appointment of a substitute, he offered his services and took up asylum work in Scotland in order to set free a medical practitioner of military age. Later on he was brought to London as scientific adviser to the Ministry of Food. In this capacity his knowledge of food values and the experiments he carried out in connection therewith helped him to give advice of great national importance to the Food Controller in the drafting of schemes for rationing the food of the nation. In recognition of his services the King decorated him in January, 1918, a Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 1902 he was appointed Examiner in Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons, and held office for many years. In 1914 he resigned the Fellowship of the College, writing to the Council on October 20th to say that he resigned "in consequence of his having been elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, and thereby having become subject to a by-law of that College forbidding him to be a Fellow of any College of Surgeons." At the same time he enclosed a cheque for ten guineas, the amount of the fee payable by a Fellow on resignation in accordance with Section XVIII of the by-laws. At their meeting on Thursday, November 12th, 1914, the Council resolved to accept the resignation, which, so far as we know, is unique in the annals of the Fellowship, and to deliver to him an "Instrument declaratory of his having ceased to be a Fellow of the College". Early in 1916 he read a paper before the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, in which he gave a detailed survey of the food-supply of Great Britain on the lines of the Eltzbacher report brought out in Germany a year earlier. Sir William Thompson met with an unusual death. The news of the sinking of the *Leinster* by a submarine in the Irish Sea reached Dublin, on October 9th, 1918, and considerable anxiety was felt for the safety of Thompson, who was one of three medical men on board. He had dined at Commons in Trinity College on the evening preceding the disaster; and had stated that it was his intention to sleep on board the mail boat that night and cross to London on the following day. About a fortnight later it became known that he had gone down with the ship, and that at the time of the disaster he had probably not left his berth and had no means of escape. He was survived by Lady Thompson - who was the eldest daughter of Professor Peter Redfern (qv), whom he had married in 1894 - a son and four daughters. His Dublin addresses were at 14 Hatch Street, and Trinity College. Publications: Thompson contributed numerous papers on physiological subjects to the medical journals. Translation of Pavlov's *The Work of the Digestive Glands*, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1902; 2nd ed, with bibliography, 1910. "Descending Degenerations from Lesions of the Superior Temporal Convolution in a Monkey." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1892, i, 817. "Descending Degenerations from Lesions of the Occipital Lobe" (with Dr C Shaw). - *Ibid*, 1896, ii, 630. "Anaesthetic and Renal Activity." - *Ibid*, 1906, i, 608, etc. "Die Vaso-motorischen Nerven der Glieder Venen." - *His u du Bois-Reymonds Arch*, 1893, Phys Abth, 102. "Nature of the Work of the Kidney, as shown by the Influence of Atropine and Morphine upon the Secretion of Urine," First communication, 8vo, London; reprinted from *Jour of Physiol*, 1894, xv, 433. "Physiological Effects of Peptone when Injected into the Circulation." - *Jour of Physiol*, 1896, xx, 435; 1899, xxiv, 374; 1899-1900, xxv, 1; 1905, xxxii, 137. "Die physiologische Wirkung der Protamine and ihrer Spaltungsprodukte." - *Zeits f Physiol Chem*, 1900, xxix, 1. "Systematic Food Production: What could be done in Ireland." - *Irish Times*, 1915, Aug 30. *The Food Value of Great Britain's Food-supply*, 8vo, with bibliography, Dublin, 1916.
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First Title value, for Searching Pitman, Henry (1818 - 1882)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on January 4th, 1818, at Fort William, Calcutta, the eldest son of Captain Pitman, of the 59th Regiment. He was appointed to the Bombay Army as Assistant Surgeon on January 17th, 1844, was promoted Surgeon on August 27th, 1861, and Surgeon Major on January 17th, 1864. He was a passenger on the transport *Julia* when she was wrecked, and for his services was thanked by the Government in General Orders on August 4th, 1857. He retired on February 5th, 1871, lived at the Manor House, Alstone, Cheltenham, and died at Wyborne on September 1st, 1882.
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First Title value, for Searching Vawdry, Thomas Glascott ( - 1858)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at St Austell, Cornwall, where he was Medical Officer to the Union. He died there on July 19th, 1858.
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First Title value, for Searching Veasey, Henry (1819 - 1911)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at Guy's Hospital and practised at Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire, where he died at the age of 92 on January 17th, 1911. Publication: *A Memoir of the late Thomas Parkes, Ex-Surgeon and Apothecary at Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire*, 8vo, portrait, Woburn, 1854.
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First Title value, for Searching Ross, Daniel (1812 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Ross, Daniel McClure (1850 - 1924)

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First Title value, for Searching Ross, James Tyrrell Carter (1823 - 1897)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on April 5th, 1823, the son of James Tyrrell Ross, of Ringwood, Hampshire; he studied at St George's Hospital, and joined the Medical Establishment of the Bengal Army on July 26th, 1845. In 1846 he served with the Field Hospital of the Army of the Sutlej; in 1848 and 1849 with the field force throughout the Punjab Campaign and gained the Medal; in 1851 with the first Muranzi Expedition under Captain John Coke; in 1852 with Sir Colin Campbell's force against the tribes in the Ranazai Valley; in the affair on the Kohat-Kohtul in 1853, for which he was awarded the Medal and Clasp. The Chief Commissioner of the Punjab, afterwards Lord Lawrence, reported in praise of his "benevolent exertions which have had a wide range in and beyond his district; the presence of such a man tends to strengthen our rule". During the Mutiny Ross was in medical charge of the Cavalry Brigade commanded by Sir Hope Grant up to the reoccupation of Futteghur, for which he was awarded the Medal and Clasps. He was Principal Medical Officer with the Duffla Expedition and Operations in 1874-1875 on the North-West and on the North-East Frontiers; Sanitary Officer to the Camp of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi in 1876, and received the Silver Medal. He was the Chief Commissioner of the Committee which was formed at Stafford House under the Duke of Sutherland for the relief of Turkish soldiers in the Russo-Turkish War of 1876-1877. He had been promoted Surgeon on April 24th, 1859, Surgeon Major on June 26th, 1865, and Deputy Inspector-General on December 10th, 1872. He retired on December 18th, 1879, having served in the Zulu War. In 1885 he acted as Commissioner of the Princess of Wales's Branch of the National Aid Society for the relief of the wounded in the Egyptian Campaign of 1885, for which he received the thanks of the Princess. He lived after his retirement at The Grove, Ryde, and died at the end of April, 1897. He married in 1857 Sarah, daughter of Thomas Wadham, of Frenchay House, Gloucestershire. His portrait is in the Council Album. Publications: Ross edited the *Indian Medical Gazette* in 1869 and 1870.
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First Title value, for Searching Roth, Bernard Matthias Simon (1852 - 1915)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details The eldest son of Dr Matthias Roth, of Wimpole Street; studied at University College Hospital, where he was House Surgeon under Sir Henry Thompson, and also in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, and Berlin. He joined his father in orthopaedic practice in 1875, devoting himself especially to lateral curvature of the spine, then common among girls and young women. He opposed in particular the treatment by mechanical supports. As regards other orthopaedic conditions he followed his friend, H O Thomas, of Liverpool, attended his clinics, and introduced his splints into London practice. He practised first with his father at 48 Wimpole Street, later at 38 Harley Street, and for twenty-seven years he combined this London practice with one at Brighton, where his addresses were 20 Gloucester Place and Wayside, 1 Preston Park Avenue. He held posts - Surgeon to the Orthopaedic Department of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, and to St John's Convalescent Home for Children at Brighton. Roth was much interested in coins and was Vice-President of the British Numismatic Society and of the Royal Numismatic Society. He also served as JP both for Middlesex and Brighton. After severing his connection with Brighton he had a house at Kingswood, Enfield, Middlesex. He died on March 29th, 1915, having married in 1878 Anna Elizabeth (d 1929), third daughter of the Rt Hon John Bright, MP. She survived him with two children. His son, Paul Bernard Roth, MB, FRCS, followed his father and grandfather in orthopaedic practice. Publications: "Early Treatment of Flat-foot." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1882, ii, 989. "Case of Lateral Curvature of Spine." - *Trans Clin Soc*, 1882-3, xvi, 144. "Two Hundred Cases of Lateral Curvature." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1885, ii, 819. "Scoliosiometry." - *Ibid*, 1888, ii, 927. *Flat-foot*, 8vo, London, 1888. *Curvature of Spine*, 8vo, London, 1889; 2nd ed, 8vo, London, 1899.
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First Title value, for Searching Rouch, James Ryall (1838 - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Roughton, Edmund Wilkinson (1863 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20
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Occupation Dental surgeon General surgeon
Details Son of a naval officer; studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he had a brilliant career, and gained many honours at the London University. He was successively House Surgeon, Ophthalmic House Surgeon, Resident Midwifery Assistant, and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy from 1886-1890, at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1890 he was appointed, at St Mary's Hospital, Demonstrator of Anatomy and later Warden of the College, holding the posts for seven years. In the meantime he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, Lecturer on Surgery at the London School of Medicine for Women, and Surgeon in Charge of the Throat and Ear Department. A tall, handsome man, he was apt to assume a rather brusque, superior manner, and his temperament did not allow him to subordinate his views to those of his seniors. Hence he lost their support, and when a vacancy occurred for an Assistant Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital he was not elected. As regards diagnosis and skill as an operator he well maintained his early promise without devoting himself to original research. Whilst a House Surgeon he had added to Cline's side splint a foot-piece to prevent extension of the foot when a Pott's fracture was treated on the side, and this splint was named after him. He was Visiting Surgeon to the National Dental Hospital, and published some good communications on oral sepsis and cancer of the mouth, as well as a *Text-book of Oral Surgery* (8vo, London, 1898) for the use of dental students. In the Special Throat and Ear Department he operated skilfully on the mastoid antrum and nasal septum. He was Examiner in Elementary Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1895. Nearly a year before his death he found that he was suffering from inoperable intestinal cancer. He retired from 38 Queen Anne Street to Lauderdale Mansions, Marylebone, but continued his hospital work as long as possible, courageously and uncomplainingly facing the end, which occurred on June 10th, 1913. He married but left no children. His portrait accompanies the obituary notice in the *Lancet* (1913, i, 1685, 1775) by his colleague, Dr Walter Carr, and a biographical notice by A S W appeared in the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal* (1912-13, xx, 182).
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First Title value, for Searching Rouquette, Stewart Henry (1887 - 1919)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20 2013-02-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of George Alfred Rouquette, of 3 Grassington Place, Eastbourne; after going to Eastbourne College, he was admitted to King's College, Cambridge, on October 6th, 1905, and graduated BA with 2nd class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1908. He became a student at St Thomas's Hospital in 1909, where he held the appointments of House Surgeon, Resident Anaesthetist, Casualty Officer, Surgical Registrar, and in 1912 won the Solly Medal. He was one of the younger surgeons specially kept at home during the War to serve the needs of the civil population at the hospitals, and held the appointment of Resident Assistant Surgeon at St Thomas's from 1914-1918. He also acted as Consulting Surgeon to Lady Ridley's Hospital at Carlton House Terrace, and later to the French Hospital. He was thus given abundant opportunities for exhibiting his remarkable manual skill which was combined with a judgement notable in so young a surgeon. At the suggestion of Sir Hector Mackenzie he acted as assistant to T P Dunhill at thyroidectomy operations, and then himself carried out a brilliant series of operations for Graves' disease so successfully that he had nearly completed a hundred of such operations without a fatality. Among war injuries he was particularly skilled in the repair of nerve lesions. All his surgical work was done at high pressure in the absence abroad of many of the surgical staff. He died after a short illness on February 27th, 1919.
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First Title value, for Searching Rouse, James (1829 - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Paul, John (1793 - 1861)

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First Title value, for Searching Peach, George A (1778 - 1856)

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First Title value, for Searching Peacock, Henry (1813 - 1900)

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First Title value, for Searching Webb, Sir John (1772 - 1852)

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First Title value, for Searching Webb, Joseph (1817 - 1909)

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First Title value, for Searching Webb, John Rheece Wynne (1852 - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Webb, Robert ( - 1890)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30 2013-08-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised successively in East London - at 266 High Street, Poplar, as Surgeon to the Poplar Hospital; at Camborough House, East India Road, where he was in addition Surgeon to the Poplar Union; at 1 Coborn Terrace, Bow, where he was Surgeon to the Bow District and Public Vaccinator. Before 1881 he retired to Westwell House, Tenterden, Kent, where he died before 1890.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003451
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First Title value, for Searching May, George junior (1826 - 1909)

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First Title value, for Searching Webster, George (1809 - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Weddell, Thomas (1792 - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Maynard, Frederic Pinsent (1864 - 1921)

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First Title value, for Searching Pitt, John Ballard ( - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at University College, London, and practised at Norwich, where he was Surgeon to the Henstead Union, and filled other posts, residing in St Stephen's Street. Among his posts were: Surgeon to the City Dispensary; Medical Referee to the Norwich Union Life Assurance Society; Hon Secretary to the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, later the British Medical Association; Member of the Pathological Society of Norwich; Surgeon to the Oddfellows; Surgeon to the Norwich Union; Member of the Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society. Before 1881 he had moved to Grove House, Scarning, East Dereham, as Medical Officer of Health for the Henstead Rural District, and Surgeon to the Boys' Home, Norwich. He had retired for thirteen years before his death at Scarning in 1900.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002960
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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Alexander Thom (1820 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Richardson, Thomas (1799 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Richmond, Charles Ernest ( - 1915)

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First Title value, for Searching Medd, John (1805 - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Medhurst, John Vincent ( - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Melles, James (1781 - 1846)

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First Title value, for Searching Plaskitt, Joshua (1834 - 1912)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was House Surgeon and Resident Medical Officer, and practised in London. At one time he was Resident Surgeon and Apothecary at the Western General Dispensary, and Assistant Surgeon at the St Marylebone Workhouse and Infirmary. For many years he practised at 25 Chapel Street, Belgrave Square, in partnership with Messrs Chilver and Septimus William Sibley (qv). He died at his residence in Chapel Street on December 1st, 1912.
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First Title value, for Searching Mercier, Charles Arthur (1852 - 1919)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01
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Occupation Physician Psychologist
Details Born on June 21st, 1852, the son of the Rev Lewis P and Anne Mercier, of French Huguenot descent. On the death of his father, the Mercier family were left in such straitened circumstances that after a few months' education at the Merchant Taylors' School in 1862, Mercier went as a cabin-boy on a voyage to Mogador; he then worked in a city woollen warehouse as a clerk. Rescue came; he entered the London Hospital, distinguished himself as a student, and qualified MRCS at 22, only one year above the minimum age. Whilst acting as a Medical Officer at the Buckinghamshire County Asylum, near Aylesbury, at the City of London Asylum, and at Flower House Private Asylum, Catford, by hard study and with great ability he gradually attained the highest qualifications - in 1904 the FRCP London, and in 1905 the MD of the University of London with the Gold Medal in Mental Science, thus becoming a remarkable combination of psychologist, physician, and logician. In this achievement he was influenced in particular by two teachers - at the London Hospital by Dr Hughlings Jackson; and by the writings of Herbert Spencer founded on Darwin and Evolution. Attention was drawn to Mercier by a continued series of publications beginning with a "Classification of Feelings" in *Mind* (1884, ix, 325, 509) and by his *Text-book of Insanity* (8vo, London, 1902; 3rd ed, 1921). He was appointed Lecturer on Insanity, first at Westminster Hospital, then at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Physician for Mental Diseases from 1905-1913, and lectured on the subject, 1906-1913. At the London University he served as Examiner; at the Oxford Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1904 he was President of the Section of Psychiatry. As a member of the Departmental Committee on the Treatment of Inebriety he contributed largely to the Report. He represented the Royal College of Physicians of London before the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded. For long a member, he also held the office of President of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland; he was also a most valuable member of the London Medico-legal Society. It was on the interrelations of insanity and crime that Mercier's genius found its particular expression. His work *Psychology, Normal and Morbid* (8vo, London, 1901) made his name widely known in philosophical circles. He entered upon the discussion of the foundations upon which Criminal Law rests, and was twice awarded the Swiney Prize - in 1909 for his work on *Criminal Responsibility* (8vo, Oxford, 1905), and in 1919 for his *Crime and Criminals* (8vo, London, 1918), his last work. As a dialectician, wit, controversialist, he was ready to argue at Oxford on the uselessness of logic as taught, and to abuse Aristotle as having done irreparable damage to the human mind. In spite of his sheer cleverness in controversy and a caustic pen, he had a warm generous heart. In later years he was the victim of osteitis deformans showing the classical symptoms and signs. He suffered very great pain, sank four inches in height, had an enlarged head bent forwards and bowed legs. It in no way impaired his mentality; indeed, the disease came to a standstill. His general health enabled him to recover after an operation for gangrenous appendicitis. All this came upon him after a great loss - the death of his wife. Never complaining, he worked to the end, as he promised, "with all flags flying like Barère's 'Vengeur'." He died at Moorcroft, Parkstone, Dorsetshire, on September 2nd, 1919. Publications:- *Lunatic Asylums: their Organisation and Management*, 1894. *A New Logic*, 8vo, London, 1914. *Astrology and Medicine: Fitzpatrick Lectures*, 1913, 8vo, London, 1914. *Leper Houses and Mediaeval Hospitals: Fitzpatrick Lectures*, 1914, 8vo, London, 1915. *On Causation, with a Chapter on Belief*, 8vo, London, 1916. *Spiritualism and Sir Oliver Lodge*, 12mo. London, 1917. *The Principles of Rational Education*, 8vo, London, 1917. *Human Temperaments. - Studies in Character*, 12mo, London, 1916; 2nd ed, 1917. Editor, with Preface, of Lépine's *Mental Disorders of War*, 1919.
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First Title value, for Searching Meredith, William Appleton (1848 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Lawson, Robert Sharp (1886 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01 2013-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic geneticist
Details Born 25 March 1886 at Blackford, Perthshire, the third child and second son of John Lawson, banker, and Lillias J Sharp, his wife. He went to school at Crieff Academy and then entered Edinburgh University, where he graduated in arts and later took first-class honours in medicine. He served as house surgeon to Sir Harold Stiles at the Royal Infirmary, house surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and demonstrator in anatomy and assistant in the pathological department at the University. He was also for a time Stiles's private assistant. He served next as medical superintendent and resident surgical officer in the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich. During the first world war Lawson served as a temporary surgeon in the Royal Navy 1914-18, and took the English Fellowship 1916, though not previously a Member of the College, after postgraduate study at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After the war he worked with Sir Robert Jones at Liverpool, and in 1919 settled in practice at Leicester, where he was elected surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and became consulting surgeon to Carlton Hayes Hospital. He instituted the Infirmary's orthopaedic and fracture service. Lawson was president of the Leicestershire and Rutland branch of the British Medical Association, and an original member of the Provincial Surgical Club, acting for two years as its secretary. He was equally interested in general surgery and in orthopaedics. Lawson married in 1916 Elsie M Hunting, who survived him, but without children. He had an attack of coronary thrombosis before the outbreak of the second world war in 1939, but returned to his work and was active throughout the six busy war years. He died at Milton Hayes, Manor Road, Leicester on 27 May 1945, and was buried at Knighton after a funeral service at St Peter's, Highfields, Leicester. He had practised at 230 and 240 London Road, Leicester. A predecessor as surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Claude Douglas, died within a fortnight of Lawson's death. Lawson was a man of courteous friendship and hospitality. Publication: Latent adrenal tuberculosis with subacute adrenal insufficiency. *J Roy Nav med Serv* 1915, 1, 329.
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First Title value, for Searching Méric, Victor de (1811 - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Strasbourg on June 28th, 1811, of a good French family not indigenous to Alsace. He came to England when young and was engaged in teaching and literature until 1844. At the age of 33 he started to study medicine at Trinity College, Dublin; passed on to Glasgow, where he graduated MD in 1847, then to Paris, where he was chiefly under the teaching of Ricord, of whose lectures he published a translation in the *Lancet* (1847, 443, etc; 1848, i, 6, etc.). From this time syphilis became the principal subject of his study and the chief source of his practice. In 1856 he gained the Jacksonian Prize for an essay on this subject, and in 1858 treated of it in the Lettsomian Lectures at the Medical Society of London, which were published in the *Lancet* (1858, 28, etc.). He also wrote *Prophylactic and Curative Syphilization* (8vo, 1853) and *Cases of Syphilitic Affection of the Third Nerve* (8vo, 1870). He became Surgeon to the German Hospital and to the Royal Free Hospital, and in 1875 was President of the Medical Society of London. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society after 1867, and at the time of his death a member of its Library Committee. De Méric was well known and esteemed as a journalist and an active member of the Medical Societies. He was the writer for many years of the *Lancet*'s "Mirror of Hospital Practice", the inventor of that kind of medical journalism which he did remarkably well. His gentle, courteous manner made him an acceptable visitor in all hospitals ; he was gladly assisted; he was prudent and judicious in his selection of the cases, and his commentaries on them often showed a much larger knowledge of his profession than his seeming limitation of himself to syphilis would have led one to suspect. He was one of the witnesses examined at length by the Committee appointed to inquire into the Pathology and Treatment of the Venereal Diseases; he advocated the preventive measures - such as were authorized in the Contagious Diseases Act. He was an excellent speaker, and his last contribution to the study of syphilis was in the debate at the Pathological Society (*Trans Pathol Soc Lond*, 1875-6, xxvii, 341), when, though he was feeble through recent and still present illness, he spoke with an attractive fervour, and all the clearness and force of well chosen-words, which made him, whether in debate or in ordinary conversation, one of the pleasantest men to listen to. He practised at 52 Brook Street, London, W. For years he suffered from chronic bronchitis; early in 1876 he was attacked by prostatitis, later he exhibited signs indicating pyloric obstruction. He died on August 29th, 1876. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. His son, Henry de Méric, MRCS, continued the work of his father without success, and died in very reduced circumstances in 1920.
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First Title value, for Searching Merry, Robert (1811 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Metcalfe, Edmund (1820 - 1905)

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First Title value, for Searching Metzgar, Charles (1863 - 1889)

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First Title value, for Searching Pearce, George (1839 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Weir, Arthur Nesham (1869 - 1902)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on June 12th, 1869, at the house of his grandfather, William Nesham, Surgeon to the Newcastle Lying-in Hospital and Out-Charity. He was taken out as a baby to Singapore, where his father, James Weir, was a merchant. After two years his family returned to Scotland and he was sent to Kelvinside Academy, next to a private school. He entered Merchant Taylors' School in January, 1883, where he was on the classical side; at the age of 16 he was the youngest boy in the Sixth Form and was in the School XV playing forward, and rowing bow in the School VIII. He left in 1886, and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1887, gaining the Entrance Scholarship; in 1888 the Junior Scholarship, and in 1892 the Brackenbury Surgical Scholarship. As a keen athlete he would begin the day in summer by a swim in the Serpentine. He was Captain of the Hospital Rugby Football Team in 1890-1891, playing also for the United Hospitals and for Middlesex. He acted as House Surgeon to Sir Thomas Smith, and was extern Midwifery Assistant. For three years he was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. In 1899, after a holiday in Italy, he was for eight months Medical Inspector, Burials Act Department at the Home Office. He then went out to South Africa as Civil Surgeon to Princess Christian's Hospital, arriving just when the hospital was moved from Cecil Rhodes' garden at Cape Town to Princetown, ten miles from Durban. Here he worked in harmony with Colonel Matthias, RAMC, and his friend, Dr G V Worthington. On one occasion Weir set out to bring in the wounded after an engagement twenty-four miles away at 4 pm, and got back at 8 am the next morning, forty-eight miles in sixteen hours with horsed ambulance. In January, 1901, he returned to England in charge of transport, and after a fortnight's stay returned to No 19 Stationary Hospital, Harrismith, where, with Colonel Matthias, he with two others had charge of 300 beds - mostly typhoid cases. With all his hard work he found time to lay down three dust tennis-courts, which were well patronized. He again came back to England in charge of the convalescent transport *City of Vienna* with about 750 patients under three surgeons, in July, 1901. After holidays in Wales and Switzerland he was appointed in October, 1901, Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham, and had already devised a scheme for an Isolation Hospital, when on Jan 24th, 1902, whilst travelling in a train between Brockley and New Cross, a woman saw him fall out of the train on the wrong side. The train was stopped and Weir was taken at once to Guy's Hospital. He was conscious on arrival and told the House Surgeon that his right humerus was fractured. He became unconscious, was trephined, but died on January 25th, 1902, when it was found that the base of the skull had been extensively fractured. A verdict of 'Accidental Death' was returned at the inquest, and he was buried at Kensal Green. The funeral was attended by many medical representatives, including representatives of athletic clubs. The President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, Dr F W Pavy, referred to Weir as "a man of great natural refinement, with an unusually keen sense of honour. These two factors combined to make a most lovable character. He was a man of considerable ability, of sterling qualities, and a highly promising member of our profession."
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First Title value, for Searching Weir, Robert Fulton (1838 - 1927)

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First Title value, for Searching Weiss, Hubert Foveaux (1855 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Swann, Jack Lindsay (1921 - 2013)

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by Carolyn Barraclough
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Jack Lindsay Swann was a general surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Caulfield, Melbourne, on 17 November 1921, the only child of Roy Barker and Irene May Swann née Matchett. His early education was at Caulfield Grammar School and his final four years of school were at Scotch College in Melbourne. He was a good sportsman and was a particularly successful high jumper. He was captain of athletics for Gardiner house and a prefect in his final year, 1939. Jack studied medicine at Melbourne University from 1940 to 1945. (The medical course had been condensed from six years to five due to the war.) Upon graduation, he went to Ballarat, a regional city in Victoria, as a resident medical officer, then a registrar. He then worked at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, and the Devon Hospital, Latrobe, Tasmania. During 1951 and 1952 Jack worked as a surgical registrar at Lambeth Hospital and then St Stephen's Hospital, London. He received his FRCS in December 1951. He was fortunate to meet Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor and, like many other surgeons around the world, he thereafter received Christmas cards from this eminent British surgeon. Jack returned to Australia at short notice following the sudden death of his father. On his return to Melbourne, he worked as an assistant surgeon briefly at Prince Henry's Hospital and then at the Royal Melbourne Hospital for five years. From 1959 to 1964 Jack worked as an assistant surgeon at both St Vincent's Hospital and the Footscray and District Hospital in Melbourne. He received his FRACS in 1961. In 1964 he was appointed as a senior surgeon, in those days an honorary position, at the Footscray and District Hospital. He remained a senior general surgeon there until his retirement in 1986. By this time the hospital had been renamed Western General Hospital. In recognition of his long and outstanding service, the hospital appointed him as a consultant emeritus in surgery. In December 1958 Jack married Janice Margaret Turner at the Scotch College Chapel. They had two children, a daughter, Carolyn, and a son, David. His main recreational activity was golf and he was a member of the Victoria Golf Club for many years. As a university student Jack had enjoyed holidays at Lorne, a coastal town along the Great Ocean Road of Victoria's west coast. The purchase of a beach house at Lorne ensured the continuation of this enjoyment with his family. Jack died on 22 August 2013, aged 91. He was survived by Jan, Carolyn and David, and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Leete, John Griffith (1806 - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Leggatt, Alfred (1815 - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Talalla, Andrew (1924 - 2000)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-21
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Andrew Talalla, a neurosurgeon, was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 29 November 1924. His father, Hewage Benjamin Talalla, was an industrialist who married Lily Olga Fernando. There were two older brothers, both of whom served in the RAF in the second world war, the elder being killed flying a Typhoon in the Normandy campaign. Two younger brothers were respectively a diplomat and a high court judge. Andrew Talalla remained in Malaysia when it was occupied by the Japanese. When some Japanese ships were sunk, the family were accused of espionage and imprisoned. Talalla himself, who was 16 at the time, was kept in solitary confinement for 18 months. When the war was over, he went to England to complete his education. On leaving school, he went to Queen Mary College, London University. He entered the medical school at the London Hospital, Whitechapel, from which he graduated with the conjoint qualification. He did not take the MB BS, an omission which caused him considerable trouble later. His pre-registration house appointments included general medicine, general surgery and neurosurgery. In the latter he took a precocious and keen interest under the influence of D W C Northfield and J V Crawford, the two consultants in the neurosurgical department at the London Hospital. He determined on a career in the specialty, undertook the FRCS examination, which he obtained in 1962, and shortly afterwards was appointed registrar and senior registrar at Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Wimbledon. At the time, under the direction of Sir Wylie McKissock, this was the most distinguished department in England and knowledge of the natural history and treatment of subarachnoid and intracerebral haemorrhage in particular was greatly increased by systematic studies carried out there. McKissock was a hard taskmaster, but those who succeeded with him were in a very strong position in applying for consultant posts. Talalla did not relish any of the appointments available at the time and decided to go to the United States. He was appointed, in 1967, as associate professor of surgery (neurological surgery) at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, but to his dismay, on taking up the employment, found that his basic qualification was not acceptable, as it had not been awarded by a university. All efforts to get around this problem failed, and he had to take the MD in Los Angeles. He remained in Los Angeles until 1972, during which time he became interested in microsurgery, which was well developed in that department. He formed an association with Robert Pudenz of the Huntingdon Institute of Applied Medical Research, who had done much original work on the mechanism of head injuries and devised one of the earliest and most successful ventricular shunts for the treatment of hydrocephalus. With Pudenz he wrote on the local effects of electrical stimulation of the brain. He was a keen teacher of undergraduates and was largely responsible, while in Los Angeles, for formulating an integrated clinical course in neurosurgery, which won an award. In 1972, he left to take up an appointment as associate professor in the department of surgery at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, where he remained until his retirement, becoming Professor in 1982. He brought with him to McMaster the use of the operating microscope and, after spending sometime with Irving Cooper in 1980, introduced cryogenic stereotaxic surgery. The MD programme at McMaster was an innovative one and Talalla continued his interest in student teaching while there. At the time of his death he was compiling a teaching manual for students and residents. His scientific work at McMaster was concerned with the control of bladder function by electrical stimulation of the sacral nerves, about which he wrote extensively, the effects of pinealectomy, the use of intrathecal Baclofen in the control of spasticity, and vagal stimulation of epilepsy. During his time at McMaster, he was visiting professor in New York Medical College, Westchester, New York, and spent six months working in his old hospital, the Royal London. After retirement, he continued to practise neurosurgery as a locum in the Northern Ontario Underserved Area. Andrew Talalla married Mary Fisher, a nursing sister from the London, and there were two sons, Dominic and Piers, and a daughter, Andrea. He was a person of considerable personal charm and elegance of appearance and manner. A keen sailor, he owned a yacht on which he sailed from the Great Lakes down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico in 1997. His health in later life was affected by diabetes and vascular disease, and he died of a stroke following recurrent cardiac surgery on 27 May 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Legrand, Frederick William (1805 - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Leigh, Henry Thomas (1807 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Leigh, John (1819 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Lennander, Karl Gustav (1857 - 1908)

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First Title value, for Searching Leonard, Daniel ( - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Lestourgeon, Charles (1808 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, James C (1928 - 2008)

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by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Jim Thompson was an outstanding surgical scientist and educator, arguably without parallel in the latter half of the 20th century. His publications, almost all relating to gastrointestinal physiology, totalled nearly 1,000; he trained 131 research fellows and was the recipient of 265 visiting professorships. He was also a much loved 'character', who had a distinctive panache and style. One of his obituarists characterised him as 'colourful, outrageous, funny, bombastic, eloquent, sometimes inoffensively vulgar, charming, engaging and never dull'. Thompson's early life was inauspicious. He was born to a relatively poor family, his father being the owner of a hardware store in the small town of Hebbronville, south Texas. Jim attended school in Hebbronville and at the age of 16 entered the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, where he graduated in just two years with a degree in science. In 1948 he entered medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. After one year he dropped out and worked fulltime as a laboratory assistant in order to earn sufficient funds to finance his continued education. He qualified in 1951 and, after a year of a rotating internship in Galveston, applied all over the country to obtain a residency in surgery, with a total lack of success. Eventually he was accepted as a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania owing to a mistaken belief that he was the relative of a famous alumnus known to the chief of surgery! He never looked back. After a year in the research lab he entered the clinical surgery residency programme, which he completed in 1959, after a two-year period of military service in Germany. In the Army he was classified as a physician rather than a surgeon and was assigned to a daily sick parade in which he saw soldier after soldier with gonorrhoea. As soldiers with venereal disease were at risk of demotion the good hearted Jim, while treating them appropriately, recorded in the notes they had laryngitis. The Army medical headquarters in Washington DC became alarmed at the apparent outbreak of laryngitis in Munich and sent a team to investigate, whereupon Jim's misdemeanours were uncovered. However, the inspectors were so impressed with his kindliness and ingenuity they covered up for him and no untoward consequences followed. On finishing his residency, he moved to the Pennsylvania Hospital as an assistant surgeon, where he set up a surgical research laboratory and began his academic studies into gastrointestinal physiology. He quickly succeeded in getting grants from major agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an institution whose support was to continue for more than 40 years. His steady output of high class papers, mainly on the gastric antral inhibitory hormone, began to attract attention throughout the USA and perhaps it was no surprise when in 1963 he was recruited to the University of California Los Angeles-Harbor General Hospital, where he continued his research, becoming chief of surgery in 1967. In 1970 he was recruited by his alma mater, UTMB, to return as professor and chief of surgery. He remained there for the rest of his career. Throughout his life his research focused on basic and applied gastrointestinal physiology and in particular the identification and function of GI hormones. He elucidated the physiological and pathological roles of several gut peptides, including gastrin, cholecystokinin, somatostatin, bombesin and neurotensin. He elucidated the role of these agents in neoplasia and in the mucosal adaptation that occurs in old age. Hundreds of papers in peer reviewed journals appeared over the years, together with some 120 book chapters. During this time he trained 131 research fellows in research techniques, as well as over 200 surgical residents in clinical surgery. He was an invited visiting professor in numerous institutions across the USA and also in Europe, India, Africa, South and Central America, and the Far East. In addition to this exceedingly busy activity in Galveston, Jim Thompson also actively participated in the wider aspects of surgical life. He was elected to 56 US professional and scientific societies and became president of the Texas Surgical Society and later the Southern Surgical Association. He was elected to the presidency of six national organisations, including the American College of Surgeons and the American Surgical Association. He was on the editorial board of nine high impact journals, including the *New England Journal of Medicine*. Honours and awards were legion - the distinguished service award and the lifetime achievement award of the American College of Surgeons, the lifetime achievement award from the Society of University Surgeons, and honorary fellowships from 11 foreign countries were just some. Others that were especially treasured by Jim were the Golden Apple award for outstanding teaching, the Herman Barnett award for outstanding teaching of surgery, a merit award by the NIH, and honorary professor for life from the University of Beijing. He also particularly valued his election to the prestigious American Philosophical Society. Outside of medicine Jim was highly cultured. He had a personal library of several thousand books and was well read in literature, art and music. He painted in watercolour, grew orchids and was devoted to his six children, seven grandchildren and long-time companion Bebe Jensen. The writer of this memoir was delighted to enjoy his stimulating company over many years and to admit him to the honorary fellowship of this College at the time of our bicentenary celebrations in 2000. In his seventies Jim underwent three open-heart operations, the last of which caused complications, which were nearly fatal, but he recovered, only to develop disseminated prostate cancer, from which he died in May 2008, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Lewis, Thomas ( - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Verling, James Roche (1787 - 1858)

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First Title value, for Searching Vernon, Bowater John (1837 - 1901)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on October 23rd, 1837, the second son, in a family of nine, of the Rev Henry Mark Vernon, who was for forty-four years Vicar of Westfield, near Battle, Sussex. He was educated at Marlborough College from 1847-1856, where he had a good reputation as a scholar and fine athlete. In 1856 he became a pupil of Frederic William Jowers (qv) at the Brighton Hospital. Three years later he entered as a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where, after another three years, he was appointed House Surgeon for a year (1862) to Thomas Wormald (qv), and in 1863 was House Surgeon to James Paget (qv). He won the Hospital Scholarship in 1862. He was now so good an anatomist and clean and excellent a dissector that he was chosen Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1862, was elected Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1864, and held the post for some years. His student career had been distinguished and he now directed his attention to eye work. He attended the practice of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and soon became Clinical Assistant to John Cawood Wordsworth (qv), and, after the retirement of Charles Bader, Curator of the Museum and Pathologist to the institution. These posts brought him into immediate relations with the best and most skilful ophthalmic surgeons of that day - Sir William Bowman, George Critchett (qv), J W Hulke (qv), and others of equal renown, from whom he learnt many niceties in the delicate art he practised, and became an excellent judge and critic of the operative abilities of others. Whilst admiring - as all did who witnessed them - the operations of Sir William Bowman, he highly appreciated the manipulative dexterity of Hulke, whose hand, he would say, "though large was as steady as a rock". Vernon became an adept in the use of the ophthalmoscope not long after it had been devised by Helmholtz and had begun to attract great attention. He also witnessed new operations (such as iridectomy, the linear operation for the extraction of cataract, and various operations for the relief of lachrymal obstruction) as they were performed by master hands. It was not surprising, then, when the need for someone specially skilled in the knowledge of diseases of, and operations on, the eye began to be felt in the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital, that Vernon should be elected as Demonstrator of Eye Diseases in association with George Callender (qv) in 1867. The importance of the department was immediately perceived, and the Governors determined to build two eye wards, one for males and one for females, over 'Casualty' Ward. These were completed in July, 1870, and opened by the then Prince and Princess of Wales in the summer of that year. Henry Power (qv) and Vernon were appointed respectively Senior and Junior Surgeon, with twenty-six beds and a child's cot to be divided between them. The arrangement proved a fortunate one. The two surgeons worked together in the most amicable way, sometimes one, sometimes the other monopolizing the wards, whilst in cases of emergency a bed could still always be found - through the address of Miss Davies, 'Sister Eyes', to whose kindly offices, untiring assiduity, and admirable management of the wards both were always willing to admit they were deeply indebted. The Ophthalmological Society was founded in 1880, and Vernon was an original member, but attended very few meetings, as late hours were uncongenial to him. He was for twenty-seven years Ophthalmic Surgeon to the West London Hospital, in the affairs of which he was much interested, and was Ophthalmic Surgeon on the Staff of the Great Northern Hospital. As an ophthalmic surgeon, and as a clinical teacher, he was in all respects admirable. Constant in attendance, he rarely kept his class waiting for a moment. Considerations of light led, as a rule, to the operations which had been decided on previously being undertaken early in the afternoon. As soon as the patient had been wheeled into the operating theatre, and whilst chloroform was being administered, he would give a short history of the case, call the attention of the class to the salient points which it presented, state the different methods of treatment that had or might have been adopted, and gave the reasons for the particular operation he was about to perform; next, after a careful examination of his instruments and satisfying himself of their sharpness and cleanliness, he proceeded to operate. He was then seen at his best. Clearly recognizing what had to be done in each case, every cut was accurately limited, every closure of the scissors did what was required and no more. He was a beautiful operator, and this was the more meritorious because his wrists were often swollen with rheumatism and were tender and painful. For the most part his cases were highly successful. His talents as a teacher were not less conspicuous. As soon as the operations were over he entered the wards which adjoined the operating-room, and in each case would find something important to dwell upon, some useful bit of knowledge the thoughtful student might carry away with him. Finally, the out-patients had to be seen, which often occupied two hours more, yet at the close he was as calm and deliberate, as willing to answer questions, as if he had just entered the hospital. He was an ideal teacher. Gifted with humour and often caustic, he only visited with satire the best men in his class and let off the dull ones. He loved to be posed in discussions on the theory and practice of his art, and to his students he was magnetic. Bowater Vernon was a master of the technique of the microscope, though his talents here were scarcely appreciated. He loved flowers, birds, and beasts, and was a keen sportsman, a day's shooting in September being his chief delight. His canaries were famous. His death was unexpected. He had seen his patients at St Bartholomew's on Saturday, January 19th, 1901, was seized with some kind of cardiac spasm on the 20th, and died on the 28th. He was buried in the churchyard of Westfield, Sussex, close to the west door. A tablet to his memory was placed on the west wall of the Church of St Bartholomew-the-Less, which is within the gates of the Hospital. "His body was committed to the grave", says Henry Power, "on the 1st February, when the guns of the warships in the Solent were proclaiming the passage of the Queen, to whom he was so intensely loyal, to her resting place at Windsor. "He, too, has gone to his rest; and he may well have thought, in the solemn moments that precede dissolution, that he had worked honestly and truly to the best of his ability for the good of the great Hospital to which he belonged, and that he bequeathed to those who succeed him a shining example of that gentleness, courtesy, and rectitude of purpose in his relations alike with his friends upon the staff and with the patients of the Hospital, which has in the past, as we may well hope it may continue to do in the future, made St Bartholomew's so useful and so great an institution in the history of the country." He was not tall; the head was well set on the shoulders, the complexion dark, with deep lines on the face and below the lower lip, an expressive mouth, a fine forehead, almost black hair. He gave the impression of being a delicate man, but was really strongly built, and at Marlborough had been a good cricketer. He wrote very little, as his teaching took up so much of his energy, and this is to be regretted, for he had a wide experience of cases and was well read and wrote well. His London address was 14 Clarges Street, W. At the time of his death, among other offices, he was Senior Ophthalmic Surgeon and Lecturer on Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery at St Bartholomew's. He married, but had no children. His younger brother, Mark, practised at Horsham. Publications:- "Congenital Myopia." - *St Bart's Hosp Rep*, 1866, ii, 93. "Herpes Ophthalmicus." - *Ibid*, 1868, iv, 121. "Tubercle of the Eye." - *Ibid*, 1871, vii, 181. "Reports on Ophthalmology." - *London Med Record*, 1873 onwards.
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First Title value, for Searching Vicary, George (1794 - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Vinall, John ( - 1889)

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First Title value, for Searching Rowland, William (1803 - 1858)

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First Title value, for Searching Welch, Francis (1810 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Rowntree, John ( - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Roy, Gopaul Chunder (1844 - 1887)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Calcutta on May 16th, 1844, the son of Babu (Mr) Loke Nath Roy; after Hindu schooling he studied at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, where he obtained prizes for proficiency in medicine, surgery, anatomy, and chemistry, and during two years was Senior Scholar. He was appointed House Surgeon under Sir Joseph Fayrer (qv), and at the same time taught the vernacular class at the College. Afterwards Roy taught for two years (1865-1867) in the Nagpore Medical School. He then came over and obtained English and Scottish qualifications, being the first Hindu to become a Fellow and to graduate at Glasgow sixth out of a class of forty candidates. He completed the Netley course with great credit, and late in 1872 was appointed Assistant Surgeon Inspecting Medical Officer in the Burdwan District during an epidemic of the cholera, endemic in Lower Bengal. Other posts were held in succession - Superintendent of the Prison Camp at Dehri, Civil Surgeon of the Ranchi Circuit. In 1878 he was appointed to the permanent post of Civil Surgeon at Beerbhoom. On March 30th, 1884, he was promoted to Surgeon Major. He saw active service in Burma in 1886 and received the Medal. He died in Calcutta on February 4th, 1887. Publications: Roy wrote on cholera: *Calcutta Jour Med*, 1869, ii, 297; *Ind Med Gaz*, 1873, viii, 120. On papaya juice: *Glasgow Med Jour*, 1874, vi, 33. On snake poison: *Ind Med Gaz*, 1876, xi, 313; *Ibid*, 1877, xii, 315; *Ibid*, 1882, xvii, 292. *Burdwan Fever*, 8vo, Calcutta, 1874; London, 1876.
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First Title value, for Searching Royle, Octavian Newcome ( - 1900)

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First Title value, for Searching Pearse, Francis Bryant ( - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Lingen, Charles (1811 - 1878)

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First Title value, for Searching Linton, Robert Pilkington (1810 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Lipscomb, John Thomas Nicholson (1819 - 1898)

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First Title value, for Searching Lister, John (1816 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Thomas David (1869 - 1924)

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First Title value, for Searching Michael, David (1831 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Little, Louis Stromeyer (1840 - 1911)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on November 23rd, 1840, in Finsbury Square, the third son of Dr W J Little, Physician to the London Hospital, a pioneer of modern methods of orthopedic surgery in this country, and the first to describe that form of spastic paraplegia now known as 'Little's disease'. His mother, Eliza, was a daughter of R W Tamplin (qv), the orthopedic surgeon. The child was named after Louis Stromeyer, of Hanover, originator of subcutaneous surgery, who had operated on Dr W J Little for talipes equinovarus due to infantile paralysis. He entered St Paul's School at the early age of 7, and when 14 years old was sent to continue his studies at Hanover and Kiel, where his excellence in Greek and Latin and his ignorance of mathematics, even of arithmetic, greatly surprised his teachers. He might, had he continued on the lines of his St Paul's School education, have become only a fine scholar, but he became a mathematician under De Morgan at University College, to which institution he was sent after his return to England. He was one of the last, if not the last, to hold the singular position of articled pupil to the Royal College of Surgeons, Thomas Blizard Curling, FRS (qv), being his master. He received his professional training at the London Hospital, where he was Lecturer in Anatomy and Curator of the Museum. In the year in which he qualified, at the age of 21, he was elected Assistant Surgeon. He also held appointments at the National Orthopaedic Hospital and at St Mary's Dispensary for Women and Children. His work soon showed that the honour was not undeserved. As an operator he was original in design, whilst he was cool, rapid, neat, and resourceful in performance. At the London Hospital he did the first subcutaneous osteotomy in this country for bony ankylosis of the knee, the case being recorded in the *Medico-Chirurgical Transactions*, 1871, liv, 247. In a preceding volume of the same *Transactions* (1870, liii, 93) he recorded a case where, with a hooked probang passed through the mouth, he successfully removed a gold plate and teeth from the oesophagus of a woman; the plate is preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. About the same time, as Surgeon to the National Orthopaedic Hospital, he performed the first osteotomy in this country for bow legs. From February to May, 1864, Little was Surgeon with the Troops in Schleswig during the Schleswig-Holstein Campaign. His duties were arduous, especially as an operator, and after the storming of Düppel he had on his hands some 2000 wounded Danes, Austrians, and Russians. He was then continuously on his feet for some forty hours, and recorded his experiences in a paper in the *London Hospital Clinical Reports* (1864, i, 274). In 1866 he worked extremely hard in the East End of London during a cholera epidemic, and was a pioneer of saline infusion into the veins as a means of treatment. He published a paper on the results of this procedure, which was then a novelty, in the *London Hospital Reports* (1866, iii, 132). In 1869 he was appointed full Surgeon at the London Hospital, but shortly afterwards accepted an important post in Shanghai, where he was in sole charge of the General Hospital till his retirement thirty years later. His two elder brothers, Archibald and Robert, had preceded him to China, where the former was well known as a traveller and writer on that country, and the latter was for many years editor of the *North China Herald*. None the less, his acceptance of the distant post was a speculation. He rapidly gained the leading surgical practice in his new sphere. Despite his strenuous life, he indulged in intellectual recreations; he founded an observatory at Shanghai, where he photographed the transit of Venus, and in conjunction with Mr Tainter, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, settled for the first time the longitude of Shanghai. In recognition of this work the Royal Astronomical Society elected him a Fellow. On his retirement from China he travelled home via Australia and South Africa. The Boer War was in progress, and he volunteered his services, and for three months was in charge of the surgical beds in No 9 Hospital, Bloemfontein. His health then failing, he returned to England, where he settled at Whitehill, Bletchingley. He was awarded the South African Medal. He gave evidence before the South African Commission appointed after the war in 1900-1901 to inquire into the shortage, etc, of hospital accommodation in Bloemfontein during the typhoid epidemic. His health during his closing years was ruined by the effects of an early infection with syphilis contracted during an operation, and by the effects of an attack of sprue. He was rigorously treated, but tabes could not be staved off. Throughout his life books had always been to him a great resource, and with increasing feebleness and diminishing powers of locomotion they became still more a means of comfort and solace. He died at Bletchingley on Oct 4th, 1911. He married Rosetta Anne, a daughter of Dr R Miller, Physician to the London Hospital, who survived him with an only child, Rear-Admiral C J C Little, CB, Director of the Naval Staff College at Greenwich. Publications: A busy life apparently prevented Little from publishing much, and his bibliography has yet to be written. His paper on abscess of the liver, published in the medical journal of the French Navy, excited much attention and bears witness to the importance of his researches when in the East.
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First Title value, for Searching Michell, Slyman (1817 - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Michell, Samuel Vincent Pryce ( - 1906)

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First Title value, for Searching Michell, Thomas (1835 - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Michell, Tobias ( - 1858)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at Redruth, Cornwall, and was Surgeon to the mines there. He died after retirement in 1857 or 1858.
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First Title value, for Searching Michels, Ernst (1863 - 1926)

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First Title value, for Searching Middlemore, Richard (1804 - 1891)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-15
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on October 12th, 1804. He was descended from the family which had been Lords of the Manor and owners of estates at Edgbaston and other parts of Worcestershire and Warwickshire from the time of Henry II. He was apprenticed in 1820 to Chawner, a well-known surgeon at Lichfield, and in 1823 entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was dresser to Abernethy and to Vincent, gaining their favourable regard. Among other Birmingham fellow-students were Edwin Bartleet, Frederick Ryland, and Richard Owen, who became his life-long friend. Abernethy recommended him warmly to Joseph Hodgson (qv), Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital. Middlemore was for three years Hodgson's dresser at the hospital, and for ten years Hodgson's assistant. But it was to Sir William Lawrence that Middlemore owed the direction which determined his life. In 1831 he gained the Jacksonian Prize for his dissertation "On Diseases of the Eye and its Appendages, and the Treatment of them", which in 1835 he extended to *A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye and its Appendages* (2 vols., 8vo, London, 1835). The Birmingham Eye Hospital had been founded in 1823. Middlemore was appointed Assistant Surgeon, then Surgeon from 1828. In 1836 he issued a prospectus of a journal of ophthalmology which failed for lack of support; but he frequently published lectures, reports, and papers on ophthalmology which made him the chief authority at the time in this country, and he was quoted abroad. It was no unusual thing for him to be engaged upon magazine and review work for a great part of the night, and then begin to see free patients, after an early and meagre breakfast, until ten o'clock. He would afterwards attend to his private patients till three in the afternoon, and would drive to Lichfield, Leamington, or some other town for a consultation, taking a hasty meal on the way. In 1877 he founded a Triennial Prize in Ophthalmology to be awarded by the British Medical Association, a body he warmly supported from its earliest days. In 1888 he made a donation of £1000 to endow a course of post-graduate lectures in ophthalmology at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, and in 1890 gave £2000 to the Birmingham Asylum for the Blind, which he had been instrumental in establishing in 1838. He continued in practice until 1889, and maintained his active interest in ophthalmology until his death at The Limes, Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, on March 1st, 1891.
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First Title value, for Searching Middleton, Alfred Hancock ( - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Charles Edmunds (1807 - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Frederick J H Hale (1799 - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Henry Alexis (1863 - 1924)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Edinburgh, one of the seven sons of an eminent Edinburgh business man and a highly cultivated mother. He was educated at the Royal High School, and, before becoming a medical student, spent two years at the Realschule of Hanover and in France, where he became well acquainted with French and German. His career at the University of Edinburgh was distinguished. He gained medals in surgery, both systematic and clinical, and graduated with honours at the age of 22. He then acted as House Surgeon in the Sick Children's Hospital and in the Royal Infirmary under John Duncan, for whom he afterwards acted as clinical tutor and private assistant. After being a few months in general practice he commenced practice as a surgeon in 1887. In conjunction with Harold Stiles he at this time ran a successful coaching class in anatomy and pathology for the second professional examination at Edinburgh. He was one of the earliest workers in the College of Physicians' laboratory when this was in Lauriston Lane, and it was here that he did a great deal of work for his MD thesis on "Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints". For this work he received a gold medal five years after graduation and was appointed joint holder of the Freeland-Barbour Fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians. He was for a time Assistant to Professor Greenfield, and under him laid the foundation of his lifelong interest in surgical pathology. About the year 1888 he began to lecture on surgery at Minto House, where he was associated with Johnson Symington (qv). In 1892 he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and in 1894 Surgeon to the newly-opened Deaconess Hospital. His reputation as a teacher and operator had so grown during the years of his work at the Royal Infirmary that he stood in the front rank of Edinburgh surgeons when, in 1909, Professor J Chiene retired from the Chair of Systematic Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. The office had been rendered illustrious by the names of Spence and Chiene, and it was universally felt that Alexis Thomson would carry on their tradition. He occupied the Chair of Surgery for a period of fourteen years, till the spring of 1923. He illustrated his lectures with demonstrations, and was one of the pioneers of the epidiascope and was probably the first British surgeon to employ the cinematograph as a means of education. Films of exceptional cases and operations were made under his supervision. His lectures seemed to gain in force as the years advanced, and perhaps his best course was his last in 1922-1923, when over 300 students were present. He was a brilliant and successful operator. He possessed wide knowledge and sound judgement, which were most in evidence in difficult cases. His clinics were crowded, and his practice was one of the largest in Scotland. He travelled widely in order to study the methods of medical schools in England, on the Continent, and in the United States. He was recognized in America as a representative European surgeon, and was one of the first to value the immense progress in organization and technique which was developing in America, and did much by his practice and teaching to incorporate the improvements and methods which he had observed there, and to introduce them into the Edinburgh Medical School. On the outbreak of the Great War Thomson joined the staff of the 2nd Scottish General Hospital at Craigleith with the rank of Captain. Early in 1915, after obtaining leave of absence from his Chair, he proceeded to France, spent a short time at a Base Hospital, and then rendered eminent service as Consulting Surgeon to the Third Army of the British Expeditionary Force, with a commission as Colonel, AMS. In something over a year he was invalided home with trench fever, which doubtless undermined his health. He gave his last course of lectures in 1928, and on his last appearance his students made a touching farewell demonstration and presented him with a testimonial. His active career as a surgeon ceased in March, 1928, and he retired from his Chair in October. He was a Member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, frequently representing the College at Medical Congresses. But for ill health he would have been President in 1923, the year of his retirement. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and to the Deaconess Hospital. He had practised at 39 Drumsheugh Gardens. A few weeks before his death he went to the South of Spain, where he had before spent Easter holidays. He died at Algeçiras on March 5th, 1924, and was buried at Gibraltar. He was survived by his widow, Ethel K, daughter of G Grey Wotherspoon, of Hillside, Aberdour. His portrait accompanies his biography in the *British Medical Journal*. Thomson made valuable contributions to medical literature. Much of his reputation is based on these, and they are discussed at some length in his *British Medical Journal* biography, where also will be found an admirable appreciation of the man and his importance in the Edinburgh Medical School by his close friend, Sir Harold Stiles. Publications: *Manual of Surgery* (with ALEXANDER MILES), 2 vols, 8vo, illustrated, Edinburgh and London, 1906; 6th ed, 3 vols, 1921-2 - which was the text-book of its time. *Operative Surgery*, 3rd ed, 8vo, illustrated; London, 1920. A companion volume to the *Manual*. *On Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints*, 8vo, 10 plates, Edinburgh, 1890. *On Neuroma and Neuro-fibromatosis*, 4to, 20 plates, Edinburgh, 1900. A notable work which added greatly to his reputation and was translated into French. "Surgical Interference in Traumatic Rupture of the Abdominal Viscera." - *Edin Hosp Rep*, 1895, iii, 583. "Operative Interference in Perforating Ulcer of the Stomach." - *Lancet*, 1896, ii, 11. "Steel Pegs in Surgery of the Bones and Joints." - *Internat Clinics*, 1899. "Differentiation of Partial from Total Transverse Lesions of the Spinal Cord." - *Edin Med Jour*, 1907, xxii, 26. "Fibromatosis of the Stomach and its Relationship to Ulcer and to Cancer" (with J M Graham) - *Ibid*, 1913, NS xi, 7. "Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Ulcer of the Stomach and Duodenum." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1909, i, 648. Thomson was joint-editor from 1902-1909 of the *Edin Med Jour*, frequently contributing valuable papers to it and to the *Edin Med-Chir Soc* meetings.
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First Title value, for Searching Sampson, George ( - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Sampson, James King (1817 - 1902)

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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, Edward Harford (1836 - 1908)

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First Title value, for Searching Middleton, Thomas (1813 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Baker, Raymond Harry ( - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-06-27
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Raymond Harry Baker was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Children's Hospital and King Edward VII Hospital, Sheffield. He studied medicine at Sheffield University, qualifying MB ChB in 1960. He gained his FRCS in 1966. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital in Oswestry, and then a senior registrar at Sheffield Royal Infirmary. He died on 14 March 2012.
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First Title value, for Searching Vine, George John (1818 - 1897)

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First Title value, for Searching Soltau, Alfred Bertram (1876 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Sowry, George Herbert (1870 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Spencer, Charles George (1868 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Spencer, Walter George (1858 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 27 September 1858 at Little Chalfield, Wilts, the eldest son and first child of Walter Spencer, farmer, and his wife Mary Hulbert, of Lenton, Wilts. Educated at Weymouth College, he entered the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1881 and soon made his name. He won the junior scholarship in 1882, the senior scholarship in 1884, served as house surgeon to Alfred Willett in 1885, and was awarded the Lawrence scholarship and gold medal, which enabled him to undertake research work under Sir Victor Horsley at the Brown Institute. The results were published in the *Philosophical Transactions* in 1891: "On the changes produced in the circulation and respiration by increase of the intracranial pressure or tension", and in 1894: "On the results of Faradaic excitation of the cerebrum in the monkey, dog, cat, and rabbit". He also spent short periods of postgraduate study in Berlin and Halle. At the Westminster Hospital, then in Broad Sanctuary opposite to Westminster Abbey, he was elected assistant surgeon on 19 July 1887, surgeon on 20 July 1897, and consulting surgeon on 27 November 1923. In the Medical School attached to the hospital he was appointed lecturer on physiology in 1893 and lecturer on clinical surgery in 1897. He was a member of the house committee from 1895 until his death nearly half a century later. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was awarded the Jacksonian prize in 1889 for his essay on "The pathology, diagnosis, and surgical treatment of intracranial abscess and tumour." He was a member of the Court of Examiners 1908-18 and of the Council 1915-26, serving as vice-president for two successive years, 1924-26. He was Arris and Gale lecturer in 1895, when he chose as his subject "The pathology of the lymphadenoid structure", Erasmus Wilson lecturer in 1896-97, Vicary lecturer in 1922, and Bradshaw lecturer in 1923. The Vicary lecture he devoted to "Vesalius, his delineation of the framework of the human body in the Fabrica and the Epitome". In 1920 he gave three lectures as Hunterian professor on animal experiments and surgery. It was noticed that he usually shut his eyes when he stood up to speak. During the war he held a commission as major, RAMC(T), was surgeon to the 4th London General Hospital, and was decorated OBE. He was elected a member of the Senate of the University of London, and worked there hand and glove with his friend Sir Ernest Graham Little, MP, with whom it was his custom to take a long country walk every Sunday. He married Elizabeth Chorlton on 21 February 1891. She survived him with one son. A daughter died in March 1923, whilst holding a resident appointment at the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea. He died at 41 Harley House, NW1, on 29 October 1940. Mrs Spencer died on 29 December 1944, aged 91. Spencer had many interests outside surgery. He was especially interested in the organization of libraries. He worked at the London Library under Sir Charles Hagberg Wright; at the British Medical Association's library, when the Association moved from the Strand to new premises in Tavistock Square; served as honorary librarian of the Royal Society of Medicine; and was very useful during his term of office as chairman of the library committee of the Royal College of Surgeons. To the end of his life he kept himself *au courant* with the work going on in the world of surgery at home and abroad. Having undertaken to translate Celsus for the Loeb Library series, he produced three volumes in which he was able to use his knowledge of surgery to explain many debatable points which had puzzled previous editors. He also did excellent service as a joint editor (1930) of Plarr's *Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons*. He left unfinished a fuller *History of the Westminster Hospital* than the "outline" which he published, and at the time of his death he had collected notes for a translation of Galen's surgical writings. Using a rich Wiltshire dialect he enjoyed discussion, and his feelings were never hurt if he were left in a minority of one. Publications: Pathology of the lymphadenoid structures, Erasmus Wilson lectures. *Lancet*, 1897, 1, 648, etc. *Outlines of practical surgery*. London, 1898. *Animal experiments and surgery*, Hunterian lectures. London, 1920. *Westminster Hospital, an outline of its history*. London, 1934. Celsus *De medicina*, edited and translated. Loeb Classical Library, 3 vols, 1935-38. Butlin's *Diseases of the tongue*, 2nd edition by Butlin and Spencer, 1900; 3rd edition by Stanford Cade and Spencer, 1931. Walsham's *Surgery*, 8th edition, 1903, and 9th edition, 1906. *The practice of surgery*, with G E Gask. London, 1910.
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First Title value, for Searching Spicer, William Thomas Holmes (1860 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 15 August 1860 at Saffron Walden, Essex, the second child and only son of William Spicer and Anne Holmes, his wife. His father owned a considerable amount of land as well as the Rose and Crown Hotel in Saffron Walden; his mother came of a family of brewers in Yorkshire. Holmes Spicer was educated at Saffron Walden School and at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. He went to Cambridge, matriculated and, after living for some time as a non-collegiate student, entered Gonville and Caius College in March 1879. He graduated with third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos 1880, and then went to St Bartholomew's Hospital. Here he won the Bentley prize and the Brackenbury surgical scholarship, and became president of the Abernethian Society. He served a year of office as house surgeon to Alfred Willett, and was for six months ophthalmic house surgeon to Henry Power and to Bowater J Vernon. For a short time he was in general practice, first in Pimlico and later in Bedford Square, but soon determined to devote himself to the study of diseases of the eye and became a clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. In 1890 he was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea, a post he held until 1899. During this period he did much good work in connexion with the disease then known as "scurvy rickets" or "Barlow's disease", which was common amongst the improperly fed children attending his clinic. In 1896 he was elected dean of the newly organized School at the Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital. He carried out the duties admirably, and was made surgeon to the hospital in 1898 on the resignation of Edward Nettleship, holding office until 1920. At St Bartholomew's Hospital he became ophthalmic surgeon in 1901 upon the death of Bowater J Vernon, and held the post until 1925, when he retired on reaching the age of sixty-five. He was complimented by being made consulting ophthalmic surgeon and a governor of the Hospital, and was for several years a member of the house and visiting committees. He was an active member of the Ophthalmic Society of the United Kingdom and of the ophthalmological section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and of this latter he was president for the years 1918-20. In 1923 he was awarded the Gifford prize for his work on parenchymatous keratitis. He married twice: (1) Florence, daughter of the Rev Enoch Mellor; she died during a pleasure trip in Spain; (2) Helen, daughter of James H Dunham of New York, who survived him and died on 27 March 1937. There were no children by either marriage. He died on 8 August 1935 at Elmley House, Wimbledon Common, and his ashes were buried in the old Parish Church at Wimbledon. Spicer was a good organizer, an excellent teacher, and an admirable operator, for he had great delicacy of touch. Tall and heavy in build, he spoke quietly and with some apparent reluctance, so that he shone more in the teaching of small classes than in the lecture room. He had a pretty wit, which was never sarcastic but was given with a quiet smile peculiarly his own. He did not court popularity, not was he eager to cultivate practice. His real interest in life seemed to lie in water-colour sketching, in which he was really proficient and was especially happy in depicting the colouring and moods of the sea and rocks. Publications: Parenchymatous keratitis; interstitial keratitis; uveitis anterior. The Gifford Edmonds prize in ophthalmology. *Brit J Ophthal* 1924, Monograph supplement No 1. The essay is illustrated with Spicer's own drawings. Nettleship's *Diseases of the eye*, 6th edition, revised by W T H Spicer. London, 1897.
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First Title value, for Searching Vines, Charles (1810 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Pennington, William ( - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Penny, Henry James (1816 - 1901)

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First Title value, for Searching Penny, William John (1857 - 1904)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The eldest son of William Penny, of Crewkerne, Somerset. He studied at King's College Hospital, where he was a brilliant student who attracted Lord Lister's attention by mastering the details of antiseptic methods. He was House Surgeon, Sambrooke Surgical Registrar, Resident Accoucheur, and Demonstrator of Anatomy, also Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a distinguished football player, captained the Hospital XV, played for the United Hospitals, for Somersetshire, and from time to time for England. After serving as Surgeon on RMS *Dublin Castle*, in 1884 he was appointed House Surgeon to the Bristol General Hospital for three years, and he then settled in practice at 42 Caledonian Road, Clifton; shortly afterwards he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Bristol General Hospital, Demonstrator of Anatomy at University College, Bristol, and in 1889 Surgeon. In early life he looked one of the most robust, of a well and strongly built frame, but after eight years as Surgeon, ill health forced him to retire to his birthplace, Crewkerne, and in his forty-eighth year he died unmarried near Mombasa in British East Africa on December 25th, 1904.
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First Title value, for Searching Sprigge, Sir Samuel Squire (1860 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Journalist
Details Born at Watton, Thetford, Norfolk on 22 June 1860, the eldest son of Squire Sprigge (d 1877), MRCS 1846, LSA 1847, and Elizabeth, daughter of John Jackson, solicitor, who practised at Dutton Hill and Bury St Edmunds. His father had been educated at the London Hospital and was district medical officer to the Wayland Union. Squire Sprigge had his early schooling under the Rev J R Pilling at East Dereham, and entered Uppingham in August 1873 when Edward Thring was headmaster. He left in July 1878 and matriculated from Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 1878, taking a "poll" degree in 1882. He received his medical education at St George's Hospital, where he dressed for Timothy Holmes, and after qualifying held resident posts at the West London and the Brompton Hospitals. He was attracted for a time to literature, wrote some short stories, became associated with Sir Walter Besant, and was secretary to the newly founded Society of Authors, of which he was president in 1911. With Sir Walter Besant he represented the Society at the Chicago Exhibition in 1893. During this period he acted as secretary to Sir Russell Reynolds, afterwards president of the Royal College of Physicians. Sprigge's connexion with *The Lancet* began in 1903, and after a short period of probation he was appointed sub-editor of the journal. Dr Thomas Wakley, junior, the grandson of the founder of the paper, died in 1909, and Sprigge then became editor, a position he held with distinction until his death in 1937. He married twice: (1) in 1895 Beatrice, daughter of Sir Charles Moss, Chief Justice of Ontario; she died in 1903 leaving him with two children: Cecil Sprigge, financial editor of the Manchester Guardian, and Mrs Mark Napier (Elizabeth Sprigge, the novelist); (2) in 1905 Ethel Courselles, daughter of Major Charles Jones; she survived him with a daughter. He died of a pulmonary embolism on 17 June 1937. Sir Squire Sprigge did much to improve the position of medical journalism by a succession of small and unobtrusive changes in *The Lancet*, which made it acceptable as an organ of the profession and agreeable to the reader who had no special knowledge. He was the embodiment of sound common sense, shrewdness, and tolerance. He wrote once to an assistant: "You are too outspoken, bounders do not always bound, boasters do not always lie, and third-rate persons sometimes produce second-rate stuff." Throughout his editorship he was keenly alive to the great advances which were being made in every branch of medicine, and was interested in the education of the student and in the welfare of his teachers. During the war he did much good, in 1914, as secretary of the Belgian Doctors' and Pharmacists' Relief Fund. In 1928 he went to the United States and delivered a Hunterian lecture before the American College of Surgeons. He was rewarded with the honorary Fellowship of the College and took the opportunity of visiting some of the American and Canadian universities. This oration was his only signed contribution to *The Lancet*, except for articles in December 1936 under the heading of "Grains and scruples by a Chronicler", his name as author of these being given in the half-yearly index. Publications: *Methods of publishing: the cost of production*. London, 1890; 2nd edition, 1892. *The life and times of Thomas Wakley*. London, 1897; re-issued 1899. *Odd issues*. London, 1899. Editor of *Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant*. London, 1902. *An industrious Chevalier*. London, 1902; new edition, 1931. *Medicine and the public*. London, 1905. *Some considerations of medical education*. London, 1910. *Physic and fiction*. London, 1921. Editor of *The conduct of medical practice*. London, 1927. Grand curiosity as exemplified in the life of John Hunter, Hunterian lecture before the American College of Surgeons, Boston, October 1928. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1928, 47, 877, and *Lancet*, 1928, 2, 739. Grains and scruples by a Chronicler. *Lancet*, 1936, 2, 1358-60, 1422-24, 1485-87, 1542-44.
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First Title value, for Searching Minter, John Moolenburgh (1816 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, John ( - 1857)

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First Title value, for Searching Sandifer, Henry Stephen (1866 - 1917)

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First Title value, for Searching Saner, John Godfrey (1885 - 1923)

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First Title value, for Searching Sankey, William (1789 - 1866)

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First Title value, for Searching Currie, John Alexander ( - 1984)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-06-27
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Occupation General practitioner Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Alexander Currie was a consultant urologist in Cape Town, South Africa. He was the son of James Oswald Currie, a medical practitioner, and was educated at Diocesan College ('Bishops') in Cape Town. During the First World War he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery. He then went on to study medicine at Guy's in London, gaining his MRCS LRCP in 1923 and his MB BS in 1924. He returned to South Africa, where he was a general practitioner in Wynberg, Cape Province. He then went back to London to study urology and obtained his final FRCS in 1938. In the same year he was awarded his masters in surgery. During the Second World War, he served in the South African Medical Corps. After the war he established a private urological practice in Cape Town. He was also appointed to the staff of Groote Schuur Hospital and Victoria Hospital, Wynberg. Currie was president of the Medical Association of South Africa in 1961. After retiring from his private practice in Cape Town, he became a general practitioner on the island of St Helena for a year or so. He was married to Gertie, a former nurse, whom he had met at Victoria Hospital. Currie died on 23 August 1984.
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First Title value, for Searching Stawell, Rodolph de Sails (1871 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Ger, Ralph (1921 - 2012)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2012-10-31
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Ralph Ger was a clinical anatomist and innovative surgeon, who spent most of his working life in New York at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He emigrated from South Africa during the period of apartheid, and obtained much of his surgical training in the United Kingdom after war service in the South African Medical Corps. Born on 20 February 1921, he was brought up in a modest home in a working class neighbourhood of Cape Town. His father, Morris Ger, emigrated as a young man from Lithuania. In his adopted country he worked first as a butcher and then as a meat inspector. He married Mary (née Shattenstein), who was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants. Ralph had an older brother, Lazarus, who became an accountant and, a younger sister, Zelda. Ralph went to the local school and matriculated at the age of 15, during which time he also received teaching in the synagogue. Subject to bullying, his undoubted scholastic ability, a natural flair in sports and his considerable height countered the verbal abuse and stone throwing he experienced on his way to school. He had visions of becoming a veterinary surgeon, but at the time the only centre for this was at the University of Pretoria, where the tuition was in Afrikaans and not in English. Ralph turned to medicine. Entering the University of Cape Town, he graduated at the early age of 21 in 1942. From 1938 he was appointed as a student demonstrator in the department of anatomy. At university he excelled in many sports: he enjoyed playing soccer in the Cape Town league, and was excellent at tennis and table tennis. For most of his adult life Ralph was a keen golfer. Indeed, his retirement present was a new set of golf clubs. He obtained his licence from the South African Medical Council on completion of house appointments at Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. In 1944, Ralph joined the South African Medical Corps as a lieutenant and was posted to a military hospital as a medical officer on the tuberculosis ward. He was then ordered to board the Liberty ship *Nirvana*, a well-worn vessel built in the USA and billed as a 'mule ship', capable of only a few knots and used to transport mules from South Africa to Karachi for use in the Burma campaign. Ralph was responsible for the welfare of the crew and the muleteers, although at times he was called on to help the ship's 'vet' relieve large bowel obstructions by dis-impaction of solid faeces. He returned to South Africa when peace was declared and was posted to the medical division at Springfield Hospital, Natal, before being discharged in 1946 with the rank of captain. Ralph continued to demonstrate anatomy for a further year in Cape Town, but decided on a career in surgery rather than pure anatomy. In pursuit of this he decided to continue his training in the United Kingdom, as did so many South African, Australian and New Zealand doctors, and became a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Anatomy held no terrors for him and he passed the primary FRCS in 1948, before going to the Walton Hospital, Liverpool, as a junior registrar in surgery. At the time large numbers of post-war trainees were competing for posts in the UK, but family circumstances dictated that Ralph should return to South Africa, where he spent a year as a resident at the Somerset Hospital, Cape Town. Returning again to the UK, Ralph registered as a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh to prepare himself for the final FRCS examination. He obtained posts as a registrar in the UK, firstly at the Wingfield-Morris Hospital in Oxford in orthopaedics (in 1952) and then at St Catherine's Hospital in Birkenhead during 1953. Study did not come easily as the posts were very busy, and sleep deprivation almost drove him to a nervous breakdown. A short-lived early marriage failed, and this did not help his health. It was in Liverpool that he worked for a superb teacher with a great knowledge of basic sciences, Alfred Mark Abrahams, and during this period he passed the final FRCS, first in Edinburgh and then in London. The Abrahams were very hospitable and Ralph met their three-year-old son, Peter, who was later to become a doctor and is now an anatomist. Little did Ralph know that he and Peter would later be co-authors of *Essentials of clinical anatomy* (London, Pitman, 1986). Ralph's final posts in the UK were at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, and St Thomas' Hospital throughout 1954, as a senior registrar in general surgery and urology. When he returned to South Africa he went to Baragwanath Hospital, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for over a year in 1955. This well-known trauma centre was very busy and his future wife, Dorrit, was working there as an occupational therapist. Dorrit Neumann was the only child of Jacques Neumann and Charlotte Neumann née Silberberg. Jacques was born in Würzburg, Germany, and graduated from the University of Hamburg and built up a successful practice there as a consultant physician. In 1937 Dorrit's parents emigrated to Johannesburg in order to escape the horrors of Nazi persecution. Jacques Neumann repeated three years of medical training in order to practice in South Africa as a general practitioner. It is believed that Charlotte Neumann's family all died in the Holocaust: she herself died when her only daughter, Dorrit, was 11. Ralph Ger spotted this tall and attractive occupational therapist on the hospital tennis courts and, having tracked Dorrit down to the appropriate department, invited her out for a meal - the beginning of a long courtship. They married in 1958 in Johannesburg, by which time Ralph had an increasing private practice as a surgeon in Cape Town, whilst still retaining a strong interest in anatomy as a lecturer in the medical school. He had other appointments between 1958 and 1966, as a consultant in surgery at Cape Town University Medical School and was attending surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital. He was also an examiner in basic sciences for the College of Physicians, Surgeons and Gynaecologists of South Africa, and became the director of programmes in anatomy to the college. He was also appointed to the staff of Somerset Hospital, a non-white institution. As he wrote in an unpublished memoir: 'This appointment brought joy to my heart, because I was able to do something to improve the situation that had arisen in a country where the civil rights of the majority of the population were non-existent. I always had mixed feelings of living in a racist community, but the apartheid government was reaching new lows. I met a man who belonged to a Christian organisation and who was trying to ameliorate the conditions under which the blacks lived, and I arranged a weekly clinic for those who needed surgery, driving them to hospital where I could treat them.' Some university students became militant on the problem of apartheid, and one of their number recognised that their actions might lead to situations needing medical care. Ralph agreed to treat them, irrespective of the cause of their problems. One night the security police visited the Ger home and, after a thorough search, took Ralph to prison, where he was interrogated throughout the night. He was released in the morning, only to find that the student who had asked for medical support had had his accommodation ransacked by the police several days earlier. The police had found an address book incriminating Ralph Ger as the movement's medical attendant. The very next day, following his release, the front page of an Afrikaans newspaper pictured Ralph as the 'movement's doctor'. His hard-earned hospital appointments were immediately terminated by order of the government. Emigration for Ralph and Dorrit and their three children seemed the only option. He turned to a South African friend, 'Effie' Ephron, who was working at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine and had also trained in the UK. Following his advice, Ralph travelled to the USA and was successful at an interview for a post at the Lincoln Hospital, managed by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. So began a long association with the Albert Einstein, after sad farewells to friends and relations in South Africa. Ralph and Dorrit settled in Great Neck, New York. Their three children all attended local schools and had successful careers. Their daughter Amanda married Jerry Gitilitz after studying early childhood education. Their son, Michael, studied mechanical engineering and now works for Oracle. Kevin, the youngest, studied aeronautical engineering and works for Jetstar airlines in Australia. Ralph Ger's long association with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine encompassed a 10-year post as assistant professor of surgery from 1966. He soon became chief of surgery at the Jack D Weiler Hospital on the campus of the medical college. Happily Ralph had access to the dissecting room and, by 1968, Ralph and his colleague 'Effie' Ephron had reshaped the anatomy course with an emphasis on clinical anatomy. Ralph left the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1986 to become chair of the department of surgery at Winthrop University Hospital on Long Island, but he continued his commitment to the Einstein anatomy courses for another 20 years, as a popular, witty lecturer. He gave his last lecture in 2009, at the age of 88, on the abdominal wall and hernias. So popular was his teaching that he received many awards. Using a blackboard, coloured chalks and very few projected slides, he was able to make his subject come alive and easily remembered. He was a logical choice as director of courses on operative surgery. Ralph played a major role in the creation of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) in 1983. He first went to the 1982 Liverpool meeting of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists (BACA). He was also pleased to find at national meetings that many American surgeons shared his concerns and vision for teaching relevant clinical anatomy. He became president of AACA after Ollie Beahrs of the Mayo Clinic and Robert A Chase of Stanford University, California, and was the driving force for the publication of the transactions of AACA meetings, first in *American Surgeon*. Later he and Ray Scothorne, Regius Professor of Anatomy at Glasgow University, became the first editors of *Clinical Anatomy*, a joint publication of AACA and BACA. Many innovations in his surgical practice were based on sound anatomical principles, and were the source of numerous publications and scientific presentations. Ralph was one of the first to perform laparoscopic hernia repair: he was a pioneer in the use of muscle transposition to aid healing of chronic ulcers in many areas of the body, including sacral sores, lower limbs and feet. Ralph and Dorrit were gracious and warm hosts and friends. Guests were met with Ralph's winning smile. He was very knowledgeable when golf tournaments were televised, and any spare moments on his way back from hospital duties were spent at a driving range at his country club. Wimbledon fortnight was compulsive viewing in the Ger household. They were also fond of theatre, visiting Stratford-upon-Avon for performances of the bard's works. Ralph Ger died on 6 April 2012. He was survived by Dorrit, his children, Amanda, Michael and Kevin, and his grandchildren, Jason, Andrew and Alexa.
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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, Joseph Thomas (1799 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Mitchelson, William ( - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Moger, Robert George ( - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Mole, Harold Frederic (1867 - 1917)

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First Title value, for Searching Monckton, David Henry (1829 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Montefiore, Nathaniel (1820 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, John Augustus ( - 1874)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-04
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Occupation Physician
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. He was the second son of Lieut-Colonel Herbert Lloyd, of Chelsea. Settling as a medical practitioner in Bath in 1829, he practised there for more than forty years, holding various medical appointments. At the time of his death, and for many years previously, he was Physician to an Institution for Diseases of the Chest and Cancer, at Bath. In 1870 he was appointed JP. His death occurred after a long illness at his residence, 17 Bennett Street, on April 29th, 1874.
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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, Thomas (1809 - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised at 3 East Ascent, St Leonards-on-Sea, and at the time of his death was Medical Referee to the Industrial and General Assurance Society. He died on June 20th, 1876. Publications: "Case of Placenta Praevia, with Twins." - *Lancet*, 1846, ii, 124. "Case of Spontaneous Cure of Ovarian Dropsy." - *Ibid*, 515. "Strangulated Femoral Hernia." - *Ibid*, 368.
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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, William (1791 - 1870)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on January 19th, 1791, and received his professional training at the University of Edinburgh. He became Hospital Assistant to the Forces on May 12th, 1815, and was gazetted Staff Assistant Surgeon on November 9th. On September 18th, 1835, he was promoted to Surgeon of the 36th Regiment of Foot, and retired on half pay on June 11th, 1841. The fact of his being a half-pay Surgeon is noted in the Fellows' *Register*, where his regiment is wrongly given as the 26th. He saw active service in the Waterloo Campaign and in the Kandyan Rebellion, 1817, in Ceylon. He died on February 13th, 1870.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Charles Hewitt (1821 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Perkins, Houghton (1808 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Edward (1804 - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Moore, George ( - 1888)

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First Title value, for Searching Power, James Joseph (1807 - 1866)

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First Title value, for Searching Jacobson, Isaac ( - 2002)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-07-04
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Isaac Jacobson was a urological surgeon in Cape Town, South Africa. He was educated at SACS (South African College Schools) in Newlands, Cape Town, and then went on to study medicine at the University of Cape Town, qualifying in 1935. He travelled to London intending to train as a surgeon, but, with the intervention of the Second World War, joined the RAMC. He served in the Army for six years and was imprisoned in France. He worked in hospitals in France and Germany caring for fellow prisoners of war, until he was banned from practising medicine because he was Jewish. After three years he was repatriated to London, where he was based until his demobilisation in 1945. He gained his FRCS in 1947 and returned to Cape Town in 1948. He joined Groote Schuur Hospital as a urologist and a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. During his 54 years' service at Groote Schuur he helped found the uro-oncology combined clinic and advanced stoma therapy in Cape Town. In 1998 he was made an honorary member of the South African Urological Association. Outside medicine, he enjoyed reading literature and playing the violin. In 1940 he married Joan. They had three daughters, Carolyn, Linda and Mandy, six grandchildren and a great grandchild. Isaac Jacobson died on 10 July 2002. His family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Saunders, Arthur Richard ( - 1915)

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First Title value, for Searching Saunders, Henry William ( - 1924)

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First Title value, for Searching Saunders, Sir Edwin (1814 - 1901)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Occupation Dental surgeon
Details The son of Simon Saunders, senior partner in the firm of Saunders & Otley, publishers and librarians, in Brook Street, Grosvenor Square. From an early age he showed great mechanical aptitude, and would have devoted himself to civil engineering, for which, however, there were no good prospects, as canal construction was nearly over and railways had not yet been introduced. Between the ages of 12 and 14 he experimented in the propulsion of vessels by hydraulic power, and he invented a crane for raising great weights, and a sweeping machine for the city thoroughfares by which the refuse was left in an even line at the side of the street, similar to that in use at the present time. Turning to dentistry as a livelihood, Saunders was articled to Mr Lemaile, a dentist in the Borough. At the end of three years he was so well grounded in dental mechanics as to feel himself qualified to give a course on elementary mechanics, anatomy, and phrenology. Frederick Tyrrell (d 1843), Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, happening to attend one of the lectures during the second course, was so struck by the lecturer that he invited him to apply for leave to lecture in the Medical School of St Thomas's Hospital. Permission was granted and Saunders lectured unofficially from 1887-1889, when, having become a member of the College, he was appointed Lecturer on Dental Surgery and held office until 1854. He was also dentist from 1884 to the Blenheim Street Infirmary and Free Dispensary. In conjunction with Mr Harrison and Mr Snell he opened in 1840 a small institution for the treatment of the teeth of the poor. It was the first charity of the kind and lasted about twelve years. Saunders had always been interested in the economic value of the teeth, and at the very beginning of his practice published a small popular work under the title, *Five Minutes' Advice on the Care of the Teeth* (16mo, London, 1837), setting out the principles of dental hygiene. Charles Wing in 1840 issued his large work on *The Evils of the Factory System,* in which he showed that there was great falsification in the register of the age of employed children, and that measurements of girth, weight, and chest were useless to establish even the approximate age of children. Saunders took the matter in hand, collected extensive tables from personal observation of children between the ages of 9 and 13, and embodied his results in *The Teeth a Test of Age Considered with Reference to Factory Children* (8vo, London, 1837). He followed this up by papers in the *London Medical Gazette* in which he pointed out the characters of the teeth in the first and second dentitions. Saunders was employed for some time in inventing prosthetic appliances for use in patients with cleft palate, and obtained an introduction to Mr Stearne, of Massachusetts, who was fitted with an unusually effective obturator. He obtained plans of the apparatus and, finding that Alexander Nasmyth (qv) was also working at the dental treatment of cleft palate, joined forces with him. In the spring of 1846 Nasmyth was suddenly incapacitated by a stroke of paralysis, and Saunders, as a friend, undertook his practice at an hour's notice at 13 George Street, Hanover Square, where he remained until he retired to Wimbledon. Saunders, having first ascertained that such an arrangement would not act prejudicially in case Nasmyth recovered, accepted the appointment of Surgeon Dentist to Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort. In 1856 Saunders, with others, petitioned the Royal College of Surgeons of England to grant a diploma in dental surgery, and was thus amongst the first to maintain that dentistry was a part of medicine and to attempt to make it a profession. It was not until September 8th, 1859, that the College obtained powers to examine candidates and grant a diploma in the dental art. The Odontological Society was founded in the house of Samuel Cartwright FRS in 1857 to consolidate the new profession still further. Saunders was the first Treasurer, and was President in 1864 and 1879. He was also trustee of the first dental hospital and school established in Soho Square, London, in 1859. The institution prospered, and in 1874 the hospital was opened in Leicester Square, and was handed over to the managing committee free of debt. It became affiliated to the London University as the Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery. Saunders rendered important services to the new hospital, which his colleagues and friends recognized by founding in the school the Saunders scholarship. Saunders was president of the Dental Section at the International Medical Congress which met in London in 1881; in the same year he was President of the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association; and in 1886 he was President of the British Dental Association. He was created a knight bachelor in 1883, being the first dentist to receive the honour of knighthood. From 1853 he occupied Fairlawn on Wimbledon Common, died there on March 15th, 1901, and was buried in Putney Vale Cemetery. He married in 1848 Marian, eldest daughter of Edmund William Burgess, with whom he celebrated his golden wedding. His photograph is in the Fellows'Album; there are also a woodcut in the *Medical Circular *and a lithograph by G R Black, dated 1877, at the Royal Society of Medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Worthington, William Collins (1800 - 1885)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on February 26th, 1800; was a resident pupil at Norwich County Hospital under Rigby and Philip Martineau, from whom he learnt surgery, and in particular lithotomy. He then entered Middlesex Hospital under Sir Charles Bell, and also studied anatomy at Joshua Brooks's School. In 1822 he began to practise at Lowestoft, and soon established a Cottage Hospital, which had grown to contain thirty beds by the end of his life. For half a century he was active in an extensive practice, a continual contributor to medical literature, and a keen pathologist who lost no opportunity of making a post-mortem examination, by which he collected a number of interesting specimens. Meanwhile he was also Surgeon to the Lowestoft Infirmary. He attributed his good health and longevity to total avoidance of alcohol. He died in retirement at London Road, Lowestoft, on January 31st, 1885.
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First Title value, for Searching Ridley, George Walter (1861 - 1911)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-07
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on October 6th, 1861. He studied at the Medical College and was House Surgeon and Surgical Registrar at the Royal Infirmary At one time he was Resident Medical Officer at the Newcastle Dispensary and House Surgeon at the Ingham Infirmary, South Shields. He was then appointed Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and was instrumental in establishing a Throat and Ear Department, to which he became Surgeon-in-Charge. He was also for a time Surgeon to the Newcastle Hospital for Sick Children, Examiner in Elementary Anatomy at the Durham University, President of the Northern Division of the London and Counties Medical Protection Society, and Surgeon to the Ocean Accident Insurance Association. He was a careful diagnostician and a successful operating surgeon - genial, a general favourite, and a good golfer. Rheumatism and cardiac disease followed upon a wetting caught when visiting a distant patient. He died at 6 Ellison Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on January 18th, 1911, and was buried in Elswick Cemetery.
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First Title value, for Searching Rigby, George Owen ( - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Rigby, John ( - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Riley, Francis ( - 1919)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-07 2018-06-08
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at Westminster Hospital, where he was Guthrie Scholar in 1891, President's Prizeman and Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1893, and later House Surgeon. He served next as Medical Officer on the steamships Fifeshire, Mound, and Buteshire, then practised for a time at Winton, New Zealand, when he was Public Vaccinator. About 1900 he returned to practice at Pen-y-bryn, Hereford, subsequently at 3 Culverden Gardens, St John's Road, and finally at Howard Lodge, Mount Zion, Tunbridge Wells. He died in or before 1919.
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First Title value, for Searching Ring, Thomas Edward ( - 1856)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-07
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Occupation Naval surgeon
Details Was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy; he died on or before June 5th, 1856.
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