Edward Haistwell, F. R. S

1970 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-187
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Society Of Friends ◽  
Library Collection ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Hospital Medical ◽  
London Hospital ◽  
George Fox

In a letter addressed from London Hospital Medical College, 3 October 1932, William Bulloch, Fellow of the Royal Society, and compiler of ‘The Roll of the Fellows of the Royal Society’ now in the library collection of that Society, replied to an enquiry from John Nickalls the Librarian of the Society of Friends in London. Nickalls’ letter of enquiry has not been preserved, but he apparently asked whether there might be a connexion between the Edward Haistwell who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1698, and the Quaker Edward Haistwell who had served for a time as the amanuensis of George Fox the founder of the Quaker movement. Bulloch’s reply was two-fold.

scholarly journals Autumn Quarterly Meeting 1978

1979 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Hospital Medical ◽  
London Hospital

The Autumn Quarterly Meeting was held in London, at the London Hospital Medical College and the Royal Society of Medicine, on 16 and 17 November 1978, under the Presidency of Professor Desmond Pond.

scholarly journals Hubert Maitland Turnbull, 1875-1955

1957 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 289-304 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Original Work ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Hospital Medical ◽  
London Hospital ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Morbid Anatomy ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Attention To Detail

Hubert Maitland Turnbull, who died on 29 September 1955 some eight years after retirement from the Chair of Morbid Anatomy at the London Hospital Medical College, occupied a position of eminence in British pathology. Not only was he greatly esteemed by his colleagues at the London but his influence extended widely throughout the medical schools of this and other countries of the Commonwealth. This was due not so much to his ability as an initiator and director of research, even though he was responsible for a considerable amount of valuable original work during his forty years at the London Hospital, but to a particular genius for accuracy of observation and meticulous attention to detail which he possessed in high degree and applied with almost religious fervour to everything that he did. Entering pathology at a time when many in this country held that morbid anatomy was a dead subject, Virchow, in their opinion, having left little new territory to be explored, Turnbull set himself to revolutionize morbid anatomical practice and to raise the subject to the level of a science. And so well did he succeed that he proved a source of inspiration not only to his fellow pathologists and those young graduates who chose to emulate him, but also to the much wider circle of clinicians who sought the privilege of working for a time in his department as a prelude to specialization in some other branch of medicine.

scholarly journals Leonard Colebrook, 1883-1967

1971 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 90-138
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
Vaccine Therapy ◽  
Hospital Medical School ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Hospital Medical ◽  
London Hospital ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Artificial Pneumothorax ◽  
Medical Missionary

Leonard Colebrook was born in Guildford, Surrey, on 2 March 1883, the fifth child and third son of May Colebrook and Mary Gower). His father, himself one of a family of seventeen children, became a man of some importance in Guildford, and took a prominent part in social service there; by his first wife he had seven children, and by his second (Mary Gower) six—three boys and three girls. The last child of the marriage was Dora, who also became a bacteriologist. Apart from these facts, Colebrook records nothing significant about his ancestry. He was first educated at the Grammar School, Guildford (1891-1896); from 1896 to 1899 he attended the Westbourne High School, Bournemouth, and from 1899 to 1900 Christ’s College, Blackheath, Kent. He commenced his pre-medical studies in 1900 at the London Hospital Medical College; thence he won an Entrance Scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital, where, having acquired (according to Sir Zachary Cope) a reputation as a quiet diligent student, he graduated M.B., B.S.(Lond.) in 1906, in the minimum possible time. By his own account the teachers that most influenced him were: in chemistry, Dr McCandy of the London Hospital Medical College; in surgery, Mr Augustus Pepper of St Mary’s Hospital, whose house surgeon he was from 1906 to 1907; and, above all, in pathology and bacteriology, Sir Almroth Wright of St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. He had originally, no doubt as one result of a strict nonconformist upbringing, intended to be a medical missionary, but only a year after he qualified he was appointed Assistant to Sir Almroth Wright in the Inoculation Department of St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, where he remained until the outbreak of war in 1914. When beds were allocated to Sir Almroth in which he could give treatment by vaccine therapy, Colebrook was the first resident medical officer appointed to these special wards. He worked in the Department on vaccine therapy from 1907 to 1910, and on vaccine therapy and tuberculosis from 1910 to 1912; in 1912 he worked on pneumonia in Rand miners in Johannesburg with Sir Almroth Wright. The rest of his time before the first World War was spent on work on the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis with artificial pneumothorax.

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