Benjamin Collins Brodie

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Benjamin Collins Brodie

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (born June 8, 1783 in Winterslow / Wiltshire , † October 21, 1862 in Broome Park / Surrey ) was a British surgeon .

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After Benjamin Collins Brodie moved to London in 1801 to study anatomy , he began his medical studies at St. George Hospital there . Then (1808) he worked there as a surgeon and lecturer. Brodie was a member from 1805, from 1858 President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . In 1819 he became a professor of comparative anatomy in London. On February 18, 1810, Brodie was accepted as a member of the Royal Society . From 1828 he was the king's personal surgeon. On August 30, 1834 he was given the hereditary title of Baronet , of Boxford in the County of Suffolk. In 1844 he was elected to the Académie des Sciences and in 1855 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Brodie was a central figure in the medical establishment of his time. His work on joint diseases (1818) was particularly influential for surgery.

The Brodie abscess and the Brodie tumor are named after Brodie .

He died in 1862 of complications from a tumor in the shoulder area. His son Benjamin Collins Brodie Jr. , who taught chemistry at Oxford University, inherited his title of nobility.

Fonts (selection)

  • Diseases of the Joints. 1818.
  • Lectures illustrative of various subjects in pathology and surgery. London 1846.

literature

  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 211.
  • DD Howat: Sir Benjamin Brodie: His bell-glas and the story of the half-sovereign. In: J. Med. Biogr. Volume 1, 1993, pp. 17-22.
  • Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 4 : Bishārīn - Calgary . London 1910, p. 625 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 4 : Bishārīn - Calgary . London 1910, p. 625 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  2. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins. 2005, p. 211.
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 28, 2019 (French).
  4. ^ Christoph Gradmann : Benjamin Collins Brodie. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. 3. Edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 63. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
  5. ↑ Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet. Upclosed.com
personal data
SURNAME Brodie, Benjamin Collins
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British surgeon and anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterslow
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1862
Place of death Surrey (Broome Park)