John Marshall (medic)

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John Marshall

John Marshall (born September 11, 1818 in Ely , † January 1, 1891 in Chelsea ) was an English doctor and physiologist .

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John Marshall was the second son of an Ely lawyer. He studied at University College London from 1838 to 1844 . In 1844 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1849 its Fellow. Around 1845 Marshall became curator of the Museum of Anatomy and began to work under William Sharpey and Richard Quain (1816–1898) as a demonstrator for anatomy at University College London. In 1847 he became an additional assistant surgeon there. In 1853 he held anatomy lectures in front of art students at Marlborough House (later the Royal College of Art ).

On June 11, 1857, Marshall was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society . From 1866 until his retirement in 1885 he was professor of surgery at University College. In 1873 he was elected to the council by the Royal College of Surgeons, and from 1883 he was president. From May 16, 1873 until his death he taught as professor of anatomy at the Royal Academy of Arts . From June 9, 1881 he represented the college in the "General Council of Medical Education", and in 1884 he was employed as a consultant surgeon at the University College Hospital . From 1882 to 1883 Marshall held the presidency of the Royal Medical and Surgical Society of London . For four years, Marshall was Fuller Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . In 1883 he was Bradshaw lecturer, in 1885 Hunter speaker and in 1889 Morton lecturer.

Marshall introduced galvano-caustic and a surgical procedure to remove varicose veins . In the late 1870s he invented a system of round stations for hospitals.

Works (selection)

Books

  • A description of the human body: its structure & functions, illustrated by nine physiological diagrams, containing 193 colored figures, designed for the use of teachers in schools, and young men destined for the medical profesion, and for popular instructions generally . Day & Son, London 1860.
  • Outlines of physiology, human and comparative publishing house . 3 volumes, Longmans, Green & Co., 1867.
  • Anatomy for Artists . Smith, Elder & Co. , London 1878.
  • A rule of proportion for the human figure . London 1878
  • On a Circular System of Hospital Wards . London 1879
  • Neurectasy or nerve-stretching for the relief or cure of pain: being the Bradshaw Lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on the 6th December 1883 . Smith, Elder & Co., London 1887

Magazine articles

  • On the Development of the Great Anterior Veins in Man and Mammalia; Including an Account of Certain Remnants of Foetal Structure Found in the Adult, a Comparative View of These Great Veins in the Different Mammalia, and an Analysis of Their Occasional Peculiarities in the Human Subject . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . Volume 140, London 1850, pp. 133-170, doi : 10.1098 / rstl.1850.0007 .
  • The Hunterian Oration . In: British Medical Journal . Volume 1, No. 1260, 1885, pp. 363-370, PMC 2255827 (free full text).

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  • Frederic Boase: Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850, with an Index of the most Interesting Matter . Netherton & Worth, Truro: 1892–1921, 6 volumes.
  • WJ O'Connor: Founders of British physiology: a biographical dictionary, 1820-1885 . Manchester University Press ND, 1988, ISBN 0-7190-2537-0 , pp. 88-89.

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SURNAME Marshall, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English doctor and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Ely
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1891
Place of death Chelsea