The annual presidential address delivered before the Obstetrical Society of London, February 1st, 1899 / by C.J. Cullingworth.

  • Cullingworth, Charles J. (Charles James), 1841-1908.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The annual presidential address delivered before the Obstetrical Society of London, February 1st, 1899 / by C.J. Cullingworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Miscellaneous. The late Dr. Reinfry showed, at the January meeting, a hydrocele of the canal of Nuck containing a portion of the left Fallopian tube. At the June meeting Dr. Macnaughton Jones read a note on a case of complete incontinence of urine cured by ventro-fixation of the uterus. This concludes my review of the year’s work. My next duty is to speak of the Fellows who have been removed from us by death, and to give a brief account of their life and work. Obituary Notices. The Society has to regret the loss during the past year of one of its Honorary Fellows, Dr. Charles West. Charles West was born in London on August 8tli, 1816. His father had originally been engaged in business, but a few years after his marriage he felt a “ call ” to become a preacher amongst the Baptists, the denomination to which both he and his wife belonged. In 1821 he became pastor of the Baptist congregation at Cheneys, in Buckinghamshire, and in order to increase his income he established a school there. After a time the school was removed to Amersham. It was at his father’s school that Charles West received his early education. In 1831, having determined to devote himself to the profession of medicine, he was apprenticed to Mr. Cray, of Amersham, with whom he remained for two years. In 1833, he entered as a student at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and in 1835 he went to the University of Bonn, where he studied for a year, gaining the University prize for an essay, in Latin, on the “Female Pelvis and its Influ- ence on Parturition.” This essay afterwards served as his inaugural thesis. In November, 1836, he went to Paris, and in April of the following year to Berlin, where he took