Russell Brock
Russell Claude Brock, Baron Brock (born October 24, 1903 in London ; † September 3, 1980 ibid) was a British thoracic and cardiac surgeon and politician.
Life
Brock was the son of the respected photographer Herbert Brock. From 1921 he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School. In 1926 he graduated from the Royal College of Physicians of London (LRCP) and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS). In 1927 the bachelor degrees in medicine (MB) and surgery (BS) followed. He became a demonstrator of anatomy and pathology at Guy's Hospital and in 1929 became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS). 1929 to 1930 he was with the well-known thoracic surgeon Evarts Graham (1883-1957) at Washington University in St. Louis . In 1932 he was back at Guy's Hospital, where he was a tutor and continued his specialist training (Surgical Registrator). 1938 he became a professor ( Hunterian professor ). From 1935 to 1946 he was a thoracic surgeon (consultant) at London County Council, from 1936 to 1945 a surgeon for the Ministry of Pensions at Roehampton Hospital and from 1936 to 1968 a surgeon at Guy's Hospital and Brompton Hospital.
He had been married to Germaine Louise Ladavèze since 1927, with whom he had three daughters. After her death in 1978, he remarried.
plant
After the war in the 1940s, he was one of the pioneers in the surgery of congenital heart diseases such as the Fallot tetralogy , which he successfully operated on in 1948 (with a new technique of opening a narrowed pulmonary valve ), as well as mitral stenosis (as did Horace Smithy at the same time , Charles Bailey and Dwight Harken in the USA). Early on in Europe he adopted innovations from the USA (such as the heart-lung machine) and exchanged ideas with Alfred Blalock in Baltimore.
Honors and memberships
In 1935 he received the Jacksonian Prize from the Royal College of Surgeons. He was an honorary doctor from the Universities of Cambridge, Hamburg, Munich, Leeds and Guelph. He received the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1961 and the Lister Medal in 1967 .
In 1954 he was knighted ( Knight Bachelor ). On July 5, 1965, he was raised to Life Peer with the title of Baron Brock , of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton, and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since .
Fonts
- The Anatomy of the Bronchial Tree, with special reference to the surgery of lung abscess , Oxford University Press, London, 1946, 2nd edition 1954
- The Life and Work of Astley Cooper , E. & S. Livingstone: Edinburgh & London, 1952
- Lung Abscess , Blackwell Scientific Publication, Oxford, 1952
- The Anatomy of Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis , Cassell & Co, London, 1957
- John Keats and Joseph Severn, the tragedy of the last illness , 1973
Web links
- Brock, Russell Claude, Lord Brock of Wimbledon ( 1903-1980 ) , Royal College of Surgeons, Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, Retrieved March 20, 2020
- BROCK, Russell Claude (1903-1980) , King`s College London, Archives Catalog
References and comments
- ↑ In Guy's Hospital, where he worked for a long time
- ↑ He was the first to remove a lung with JJ Singer from a cancer patient and received the Lister Medal in 1942
- ↑ pulmonary stenosis
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brock, Russell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brock, Russell Claude, Baron Brock; Brock, Sir Russell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British surgeon and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd September 1980 |
| Place of death | London |