Paul Wilson Brand

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Paul Wilson Brand (born July 17, 1914 in Udagamandalam , India , † July 8, 2003 in Seattle ) was a British surgeon specializing in hand surgery . He became internationally known for his methods in plastic surgery and tendon grafts in leprosy patients as well as for publications on the perception of pain and has received several awards.

Life

Paul Brand's parents, Jesse and Evelyn Brand, were British missionaries for the Strict Baptist Mission in South India. They had a year of additional medical training and were mostly medical practitioners in the small mountain range of the Kolli Malai ( Kolli Mountains ), which at that time belonged to the province of Madras and are now in the Namakkal district in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. For the birth of their son Paul Wilson, they traveled to Udagamandalam, 170 kilometers away in the Nilgiri Mountains , where he was born on July 17, 1914. Most of the journey was made by mother and child in ox carts and a litter-like stretcher to get back to the Kolli Mountains. Paul and his younger sister Connie grew up there until 1923 when they were sent to London for further schooling. The father Jesse died of malaria in 1929. In addition to his education, Paul was involved in youth work in the Baptist Church and also preached. During the air war in England he studied medicine and had to change his place of residence several times, his college was temporarily relocated to different locations. While studying, he met Margaret Berry, whom he married in 1943. Margaret Brand accompanied her husband to India in 1946, where she also worked as a doctor specializing in ophthalmology for lepers. The couple had six children. In 1967 he and his family moved to the United States.

In 1974 Paul's mother Evelyn died in the Kolaryans in South India, where she continued her medical and missionary work after the death of her husband.

In addition to his medical work, research, medical lectures and international lectures, Paul Brand also repeatedly held Christian services and devotions. His personal beliefs shaped his medical and other activities and was also repeatedly expressed in his publications.

Paul Brand died on July 8, 2003 in Seattle.

career

Paul Brand first attended a private school in London for a year, then went to University College School in Hampstead . Paul Brand left school in December 1930 and completed a five-year apprenticeship in basic construction subjects. To prepare for a job as a missionary, he attended a tropical medicine course at Livingstone Medical School after his training, and in 1936 a training center for missionaries. However, in 1937 he decided to continue his education by studying medicine at the University College Medical School.

In the air war against England , as a student and as a young surgeon in London, he had to treat numerous bomb victims with medical care. In the spring of 1944 he became a ward surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital , after a year he moved back to University College Hospital and completed the final exams as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England .

In 1946 Robert Greenhill Cochrane appointed him as a surgeon and professor at the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore . The college and hospital, which emerged in 1942 from a midwifery and nurses' school founded by Ida Sophia Scudder , were to be opened to male students and had to be adapted to higher educational demands. Cochrane also inspired Paul Brand to do research on limb deformities in lepers cared for in a leper home in Chengalpattu and at the Schieffelin Leprosy Research and Training Center in Karigiri. Paul Brand demonstrated that deformations and loss of limbs, ulcers and other injuries were due to the involvement of the nerves and the loss of feeling and not - as was usually assumed before - a direct consequence of leprosy. He then developed methods of tendon grafting to treat paralysis of some hand muscles, as well as methods of plastic surgery to restore the facial shape of lepers. For research, rehabilitation and to facilitate the reintegration of lepers into society, he founded the New Life Center ( Nava Jiva Nilayam ) in Vellore in 1950 with workshops and huts in which the patients could live and learn new skills.

Paul Brand has been a member of the British Leprosy Mission since 1952, and in 1964 he took over the worldwide management of the surgery and rehabilitation departments of this mission society. In 1967, at the invitation of the United States Public Health Service , Brand moved to the rehabilitation department of the National Leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, which he headed until he retired in 1986. He then became a medical advisor to the University of Washington in Seattle. He advised the World Health Organization and was President of the International Leprosy Mission from 1993 to 1999.

The Paul Brand Integrated Health Center, inaugurated in 2005 in Katpadi in the Vellore district, was named after him.

Awards

Publications

Web links

literature

  • Dorothy Clarke Wilson: Finger on God's Hand . 11th edition. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-417-20178-0 (American English: Ten Fingers for God . Translated by Ruth Rostock, first edition of the original 1965).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorothy Clarke Wilson: Mother Brand . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1997, ISBN 3-417-21905-1 , p. 44–45 (American English: Climb Every Mountain . Translated by Ruth Rostock, first edition of the original 1976).
  2. ↑ a b c d Dorothy Clarke Wilson: Finger on God's hand . 11th edition. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-417-20178-0 (American English: Ten Fingers for God . Translated by Ruth Rostock, first edition of the original 1965).
  3. ^ Healing touch in The Hindu , accessed December 3, 2013
  4. ↑ a b c Dr Paul Wilson Brand, Surgeon on the website of the International Leprosy Association - History of Leprosy, accessed on May 9, 2019
  5. ↑ Our Heritage - Milestones on the website of the Schieffelin Institute of Health ( Memento from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Lasker Awards given by the International Society for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled in the Historical Archive: Awards No Longer Given by the Foundation on the Lasker Foundation website, accessed on May 9, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Paul Wilson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brand, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Udagamandalam
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2003
Place of death Seattle