Thomas Annandale
Thomas Annandale (born December 2, 1838 in Newcastle upon Tyne , † December 20, 1907 ) was a British surgeon.
Annandale was the son of a surgeon in Newcastle upon Tyne and studied with his father before studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh . After graduating (MD with the highest honors and gold medal for his work on injuries of the hip joint) in 1860 he became house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary and then private assistant from 1861 to 1870 to the Regius Professor of Surgery in Edinburgh James Syme, like Joseph before Lister . He was an anatomy demonstrator in Edinburgh and has been a lecturer in surgery since 1863. In 1864 he received the Jacksonian Prize from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for his dissertation on the surgical treatment of injuries and deformities of the fingers and toes. In 1865 he became an assistant surgeon and in 1871 a surgeon (Acting Surgeon) at the Royal Infirmary. In 1877 he succeeded Lister (who went to King's College in London) as Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery in Edinburgh.
Annandale is credited with the first preperitoneal surgical treatment of an inguinal hernia (1876, inguinal incision). He was a pioneer in knee surgery and described the first meniscus custom . In 1895 he carried out the first successful removal of a neuroma from the auditory nerves.
An award for surgery students (best undergraduate ) at the University of Edinburgh is named after him.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1888) and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1863). He was a surgeon for the Royal Company of Archers . In 1902 he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws (DCL) from the University of Durham .
He had been married to the publisher's daughter Eveline Nelson since 1874 and had three sons and three daughters.
Fonts
- Surgical Appliances and Minor Operative Surgery , Edinburgh, 1866
- Abstracts of Surgical Principles , 6 volumes, 1868–1870, 3rd edition, 1878
- Observations and Cases in Surgery , 1875
- On the Pathology and Operative Treatment of Hip Disease , 1876
Web links
- History of the Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery. (PDF, 51 KB) University of Edinburgh, January 21, 2011, accessed May 23, 2013 (with biography of Annandale).
- biography
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Annandale, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1907 |