Hugh Cairns
First Nuffield Professor of Surgery, University of Oxford
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 October 1991
- ISBN 9780192620958
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 242x162x26 mm
- Weight 739 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 pp black and white plates 0
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Short description:
This biography of Hugh Cairns, the first Nuffield Professor at the Medical School in Oxford, has a general and historical aspect, as well as being of particular relevance to physicians and surgeons. The book provides a fascinating insight into the development of neurosurgery as a specialty, the formation of the University of Oxford Medical School, and the treatment of head injuries during the Second World War.
MoreLong description:
With a series of scholarships, the son of a South Australian village carpenter, Hugh Cairns entered Adelaide Medical School and, with a Rhodes Scholarship, studied medicine at Balliol College, Oxford. He served at Gallipoli and in the trenches in France. Whilst in Oxford, he rowed for the University and married the Master of Balliol's daughter. He forms a background to personal events during the first half neurosurgery from Harvey Cushing. He returned to Britain as leading brain
surgeon and treated many famous people. In the 1930s his influence persuaded Oxford University and Lord Nuffield to set up the Nuffield medical departments.
In charge of head injuries in the British army during the Second World War, he developed helmets for motor cyclists, and mobile neurosurgical units in all theatres of war. With his friend Howard Florey, he introduced penicillin to army units in North Africa. In 1948, as 'Surgeon Ambassador', he reviewed medicine and medical education in Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Africa. Loyal disciples had already established themselves in these countries and in many parts of Europe. Before he
died in 1952, psychosurgery and the treatment of tuberculosis had become his dominant interests.
Gus Fraenkel's biography will be of general and historical interest as well as being of particular interest to physicians and surgeons. The book provides a fascinating insight into the development of neurosurgery as a specialty, the formation of the University of Oxford Medical School, and the treatment of head injuries during the Second World War.
Table of Contents:
South Australia and Gallipoli; To France; Balliol College; The Radcliffe Infirmary and the London Hospital; The Rockefeller Fellowship; Neurosurgery in London 1927-1930; Queen Square and the London Hospital 1931-1934; Plans for Oxford: 1935-1936; The Nuffield scheme announced; Starting again in Oxford; Military neurosurgery; The war at home; The Second Front, VE Day, and after; Cerebral angiography. The first Sims Professor; Tuberculosis and psychiatric surgery; The last months,
Appendices.
