Charles Smart Roy

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Charles Smart Roy (left) together with Charles Scott Sherrington (1893 in Cambridge, at the entrance to Ancient Pathology)

Charles Smart Roy (born January 21, 1854 in Arbroath , † October 4, 1897 in Cambridge ) was a British pathologist .

Life

Charles Smart Roy was the son of Adam Roy and Elizabeth Smart. Roy studied at St. Andrews and Edinburgh Universities . He received his doctorate in Edinburgh in 1878 . After pathological-anatomical studies in London, participation in the Serbian-Turkish war as a doctor and work at physiological and pathological institutes in Berlin, Strasbourg and Leipzig, he became professor of pathology at the University of Cambridge in 1884 .

Works

  • The form of the pulse-wave as studied in the carotid of the rabbit. New York: Macmillan, 1879.
  • The physiology and pathology of the spleen. 1881.
  • Charles S. Roy, Charles Scott Sherrington : Report on the pathology and etiology of Asiatic cholera as observed in Spain in the summer of 1885 . London: Assn. for the Advancement of Medicine by Research, 1887.
  • Charles S. Roy, Charles Scott Sherrington: On the regulation of the blood supply of the brain . London: Physiological Society, 1890.
  • Charles S. Roy, John George Adami : Contributions to the physiology and pathology of the mammalian heart . London: Harrison and Sons, 1892.

literature

  • L. Brown: Charles Smart Roy, MA, MD, FRS In: Br Med J 2, 1897, pp. 1031-1032. (Obituary)
  • E. Gurlt: Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlicher Nekrolog of the year 1897. In: Virchows Archiv 152, 1898, S. 552-586.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alastair Roy In: ancestry.com accessed March 28, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Roy, Charles Smart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Arbroath
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1897
Place of death Cambridge