Robert Mortimer Glover

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Robert Mortimer Glover (born November 2, 1815 in South Shields , † April 10, 1859 in London ) was a British scientist, surgeon and anesthetist .

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Robert Mortimer Glover was born to merchant William Glover and his wife Catherine in 1815 in South Shields, a small town near Newcastle upon Tyne . In the spring of 1829, at the age of 14, he was hired by Thomas J. Aiken, a well-known surgeon in Edinburgh , as an apprentice to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh . In May 1830 , Glover enrolled in the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh . Here he worked at the Royal Infirmary under James Syme, John Reid and Thomas J. Aiken. He spent the winter of 1834/1835 studying with Lombard, a Swiss surgeon in Geneva. In May 1835 Glover returned to Edinburgh and was elected a member of the Medical Society of Edinburgh , in which James Young Simpson was a member. On July 18, 1837, Glover received the Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh . In November of the same year he went to Paris to work for well-known French surgeons. In the spring of 1838 he founded the Paris Medical Society and became its first vice-president.

In the summer of 1839 Glover went to Newcastle. In June 1840 he received his doctorate at the University of Edinburgh with the theses "On the Physiological and Medicinal Properties of Bromine and its Compounds" . His dissertation was based on work in Newcastle. It was named one of the best four papers of the year by the Edinburgh Medical School. In 1842, Glover described the pharmacological effects of chloroform , including its anesthetic effects, in a paper five years before the French physiologist Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens reported on the narcotic effects of ether and chloroform in dogs. However, neither of them yet recognized the benefits for medicine. However, Glover claimed the discovery for himself when James Young Simpson reported on the use of chloroform in obstetrics in November 1847 . Glover also took part in the autopsy of Hannah Greener, a 15-year-old girl who died on January 28, 1848 as a result of chloroform anesthesia.

In Newcastle, Mortimer Glover was working on the Easter Free Dispensary . An application to Newcastle Royal Infirmary was rejected despite recommendations from his teachers. Still, he later worked as an anesthetist for surgeons such as TN Meggison and Sir John Fife at the house. Glover became a faculty member at the Newcastle School of Medicine and Practical Sciences , a small medical college where he taught chemistry , toxicology , medical law, and philosophy of medicine. He later became head of the chemistry department.

In 1843 Mortimer Glover was elected a member of the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society , and on December 2, 1850 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . He also became a corresponding member of the Medical Society of London . In 1851, Glover described homeopathy as the worst kind of quackery ever and probably would ever be.

Three years later Robert M. Glover moved to London. Here he worked briefly at the Royal Free Hospital before he took part in the Crimean War as a military doctor from 1855 . He returned to London in 1856, where he was not again clinically but only scientifically active and in the same year obtained the Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians . He was heavily addicted to opium and chloroform. He was financially supported by friends.

On March 10, 1859, Glover married Sarah Hickson, a 36-year-old seamstress who until recently had been housed at Colney Hatch Asylum , the largest mental hospital in Britain at the time.

On the evening of April 9, 1859, Glover fell into a coma after apparently using chloroform . He passed away the morning of the next day.

Fonts

  • On the Physiological and Medicinal Properties of Bromine and its Compounds. Dissertation . University of Edinburgh , 1840.
  • New process for obtaining the hydrobromic and hydroiodic acids. In: Philosophical Magazine. 6/1841.
  • On the pathology and treatment of scrofula. Churchill, 1846.
  • The pathology and therapy of scrofula. Förstner, 1847.
  • Anesthetic and other therapeutic effects of the inhalation of chloroform. In: Monthly Journal of Medical Sciences. 8, 1847, pp. 415-417.
  • On the philosophy of medicine: on quackery, etc. Seville & Edwards, 1851.
  • On the Ultimate Structure of Animals and Vegetables. T. & J. Hodgson, Newcastle 1851.
  • Popular Lectures on Homeopathy. T. & J. Hodgson, Newcastle 1851.
  • Anesthesia and anesthetic agents. In: British Foreign Medico-Surgical Review. 1 (1852), pp. 123-143.
  • A Manual of Elementary Chemistry. W. Tegg, London 1855.
  • Report of anesthesia and anesthetic agents. In: Lancet. 369-70 (1858), pp. 393-394, 416-418, 444-445, 468-470.
  • On mineral waters: their physical & medicinal properties. With descriptions of the different mineral waters of Great Britain and the Continent, and directions of their administration. 1857.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Young Simpson : Anesthetic and other therapeutic effects of the inhalation of chloroform. In: Monthly Journal of Medical Sciences. 8 (1847), pp. 415-417.
  2. ^ Robert Mortimer Glover: On the postmortem appearances produced by poisoning with chloroform-vapor and by drowning. In: Lancet. i (1849), pp. 441-442.
  3. ^ Robert Mortimer Glover: On the philosophy of medicine: on quackery etc. Seville & Edwards, 1851, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Glover, Robert Mortimer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glover, Robert M .; Glover, Mortimer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British scientist, anaesthesologist and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH South Shields
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1859
Place of death London