Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2227

SIR JONATHAN HUTCHINSON (1859-1933) On facial neuralgia and its treatment. William Wood 1919 xiii, 216 pp., 19 leaves of plates. 21.5 cm.

Hutchinson, son of the distinguished Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (see No. 1946 ff.), studied medicine at London Hospital Medical College where he excelled academically. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1884 while serving as house surgeon to Frederick Treves (see No. 2148) at the London Hospital. He was associated with the London Hospital throughout his career, becoming surgeon in 1896 and consulting surgeon in 1920. Like his father he was very versatile; he was active in the study of ophthalmology and venereal disease serving as clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, as ophthalmic surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital, and surgeon to the Lock Hospital. He was only the fourth individual in the long history of the Royal College of Surgeons to win the prestigious Jacksonian Prize more than one time. He first won the prize in 1888 with an essay on diseases of the long bones and again in 1915 with an essay upon which the present book was based. Hutchinson greatly revised and enlarged his prize winning essay "with the hope that it will be found useful by those physicians and surgeons who are called upon to treat one of the most distressing maladies met with in practice" (Preface, p. [viii]). It is a thorough review of the various forms of surgical attack upon the trigeminal nerve dating from the early operations of William Rose (1847-1910) and Sir Victor A. H. Horsley (1857-1916). Special emphasis is placed upon the complications and poor results of much trigeminal surgery.

See Related Record(s): 1946 2148

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