Dr. Carey Franklin Coombs

Carey Franklin Coombs 1879–1932

Carey Coombs was only 53 when he died in 1932. In the preceding 20 years he had won world-wide acclaim for his research and writings on rheumatic heart disease and had established himself amongst the best-known physicians in the provinces. In this he carried on a long tradition of famous Bristol medical men. He was universally liked and admired and would be more frequently quoted today had it n...

Appreciating Hypertension, Quicksands and Firm Ground

Carey Franklin Coombs achieved great distinction as a physician and pioneer of cardiac research despite a relatively early death at the age of 52 years. At Bristol General Hospital he organised a University Centre of Cardiac Research where he pursued his studies of rheumatic heart disease, cardiovascular syphilis and the aetiology of other cardiac diseases, Lawrence O'Shaughnessy gave the first...

Colitis Polyposa

The subject of this paper is a specimen in the museum of the Bristol General Hospital, which seems worthy of attention because it is an example of a condition hitherto only described once, I believe, by Dr. Pope, of Leicester.1 It was taken from a patient admitted to the General Hospital in October, 1900, under Dr. Harrison, who has kindly allowed me to make use of the clinical notes. I am also...

Rheumatic Carditis in Childhood

These remarks are prompted by a survey of four recent autopsies and sixty-five cases seen during the past few years. For my pathological notes I am indebted to Dr. Michell Clarke, Dr. Cecil Williams, and Dr. T. E. Holmes. Of the clinical cases twentyfour are my own out-patients, and the remainder in-patients at St. Mary's Hospital and at the Children's Hospital, Bristol, the notes of which I am...

The Carey Coombs Memorial Lecture on the Pathology and Surgical Treatment of Cardiac Ischæmia