Hugh Cairns First Nuffield Professor of Surgery, University of Oxford

Name: Hugh Cairns First Nuffield Professor of Surgery, University of Oxford
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ISBN: 9780192620958

ISBN-10: 0192620959

ISBN-13: 9780192620958

Edition: 1991

Authors: G. J. Fraenkel, Peter Morris

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With a series of scholarships, the son of a South Australian village carpenter, Hugh Cairns entered Adelaide Medical School and, with a Rhodes Scholarship, studied medicine at Balliol College, Oxford. He served at Gallipoli and in the trenches in France. Whilst in Oxford, he rowed for the University and married the Master of Balliol's daughter. He forms a background to personal events during the first half neurosurgery from Harvey Cushing. He returned to Britain as leading brain surgeon and treated many famous people. In the 1930s his influence persuaded Oxford University and Lord Nuffield to set up the Nuffield medical departments. In charge of head injuries in the British army during the…

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List price: $89.50
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/14/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



South Australia and Gallipoli


To France


Balliol College


The Radcliffe Infirmary and the London Hospital


The Rockefeller Fellowship


Neurosurgery in London 1927-1930


Queen Square and the London Hospital 1931-1934


Plans for Oxford: 1935-1936


The Nuffield scheme announced


Starting again in Oxford


Military neurosurgery


The war at home


The Second Front, VE Day, and after


Cerebral angiography. The first Sims Professor


Tuberculosis and psychiatric surgery


The last months


Appendices