Memoir of Jamieson Boyd Hurry / [Warren R. Dawson].

  • Warren Royal Dawson
Date:
1930
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Credit: Memoir of Jamieson Boyd Hurry / [Warren R. Dawson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEMOIR OF JAMIESON BOYD HURRY TAMIESON BOYD HURRY, son of the Rev. Nicho- J las Hurry of Liverpool, was born on the 8th June, 1857. He was educated, first at Neuchatel, Switzerland, and afterwards at the City of London School, from which he passed to St. John’s College, Cambridge, with which so many great names in science and literature are associated. Hurry from boyhood had the taste and an exceptional capacity for medicine. In 1882 he graduated M.B. at Cambridge, and in the same year obtained his diploma as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. On leaving Cambridge, Hurry completed his medical education at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he became resident obstetric physician under James Matthews Duncan, who since 1877 had been senior obstetric physician to the hospital. It has just been said that at Bart’s Hurry ‘completed’ his medical education: it was there completed merely in the aca¬ demic sense, for Hurry himself held that in so progres¬ sive a science as medicine, education must never cease. All his life he followed the progress of medical science with studious care, and to the day of his death kept in close touch with current medical literature and with his active professional colleagues. On leaving the hospital, Hurry’s first appointment was that of Ship’s Surgeon, and in the course of a year he had travelled to Australia, India, and South America, and thus acquired the taste for travel that he was able to gratify in later years. Hurry’s travels were not those of an idle tourist. During his visits to America, Egypt, Morocco, and almost every corner of Europe, he sowed
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