New light on John Woodall, surgeon and adventurer

New light on John Woodall, surgeon and adventurer.

This account of Woodall's career and writings has, it is hoped, demonstrated that his place in medical history is of great importance. He was one of the earliest medical administrators as organiser of a rudimentary medical service for ships at sea. He was the first medical writer to provide a good text-book designed for the instruction of the younger men in the service. He was an innovator of t...

Surgeon-Major John Cameron

Surgeon-General John Murray

formation and solution of urinary calculi. Thus early he took up the study of a special subject, which was of great use to him in his subsequent career, and he attained considerable celebrity, when Civil Surgeon of Agra, as a lithotomist. But this was not the only branch in which he excelled ; for, in general surgery, he was well known to be a bold and skilful operator. When a young man, he pro...

Obituary - John Payne (Jack) Woodall, Co-founder of ProMED-mail

Pan African Medical Journal. 2016; 25:123 doi:10.11604/pamj.2016.25.123.11053 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/25/123/full/ © Raoul Kamadjeu et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

John Hunter – A very modern military surgeon

The history of warfare and surgery is long and complex. As Hippocrates' dictum states, war has been the crucible in which many medical advances have been pioneered, and has also been a bloody business. In the time of John Hunter, 40% of those injured on the battlefield could expect to die of their wounds. By the 20 century, with improved technique, anaesthesia and aseptic technique, this had be...