British physician and medical biographer
For his father, William Hale White, see
Hale White .
Sir William Hale-White
Born (1857-11-07 ) 7 November 1857London, England
Died 26 February 1949(1949-02-26) (aged 91)Oxford
Nationality British Occupation physician
Sir William Hale-White KBE FRCP physician and medical biographer . He was the son of writer Mark Rutherford .
Career
Hale-White was appointed an assistant physician at Guy's Hospital in 1886, a physician in 1890 and consulting physician from 1917. During the First World War , he was a colonel in the RAMC and was created KBE in 1919.[ 1]
He was elected president of the Medical Society of London (1920–), the Royal Society of Medicine (1922–1924)[ 1] [ 2]
The term ulcerative colitis entered general medical vocabulary in 1888 after Hale-White published a report of various cases of "ulcerative colitis". However, Samuel Wilks in 1859 was the first person to use the term ulcerative colitis.[ 3]
Retirement
Hale-White remained active in history of medicine following retirement. In this field, he is best known for his categorising of William Withering 's letters, bequeathed by William Osler to The History of Medicine Society at The Royal Society of Medicine, London . His literary contributions also include works on René Laennec and John Keats .[ 4]
Family life
In 1886, Hale-White married Edith Fripp the daughter of Alfred Downing Fripp and sister of Sir Alfred Fripp , surgeon to Edward VII and George V.[ 5] H.M.S. Natal exploded) and Reginald – who became a physician. His wife died in 1945 and Hale-White died at his home in Oxford on 26 February 1949 aged 91.[ 5] [ 4]
Books
Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century , 1935Keats as Doctor and Patient , 1938[ 6] Materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics (assisted by Arthur Henry Douthwaite ), London, Churchill, 1949, 1959, 1963.Translation of selected passages from De l'auscultation mediate , Rene Laennec, 1923.[ 7]
References
^ a b "SIR WILLIAM HALE-WHITE KBE, MD, FRCP (1870–74)" (PDF) . Society of Old Framlinghamians. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015 .^ Association of Physicians . associationofphysicians.co.uk.^ Mulder, Daniel; Noble, Angela; Justinich, Christopher; Duffin, Jacalyn (1 May 2014). "A tale of two diseases: The history of inflammatory bowel disease" . Journal of Crohn's and Colitis . 8 (5): 341– 348. doi :10.1016/j.crohns.2013.09.009 PMID 24094598 . ^ a b Davidson, Maurice (1955). The Royal Society of Medicine: The Realization of an Ideal . London: Royal Society of Medicine. pp. 169– 170. ^ a b
"Sir W. Hale-White Medicine And History". Obituaries. The Times . No. 51317. London. 26 February 1949. col E, p. 7.
^ Hale-White, William (1975). Keats as doctor and patient . Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions. ISBN 0883052792 OCLC 1676269 . ^ Hale-White, William (1923). Translation of selected passages from De l'auscultation mediate .
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