Dr Samways writes to the editor
Talk by Professor Tom Treasure (UCL)
The Faculty for the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy's final lecture for the year will be held online on Wednesday 16 June at 6pm. Please feel free to circulate details to your colleagues, students and networks.
Tracing back the history of mitral stenosis during a mid-career sabbatical, I found an article in The Lancet of 1898 by DW Samways of Mentone proposing heart surgery. He was an inveterate writer of ‘Letters to the Editor’ on many and varied topics - blood-letting, eradication of mosquitos, health spas, sea water injections, typhoid fever, vaccination - and his own tuberculosis which is what took him to the French Riviera. Unable to practise in France during the 1914-19 war, he worked at a War Hospital in Exeter. He continued to write - on the design of ambulances, treatment of contaminated wounds, banding, fractures, anaesthetics - always with scientific curiosity and humanity. Dr Samways in my guide, witness and chronicler for my Flavell Lecture.
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