HURST, Sir Arthur Frederick (1879 – 1944)

First description of the “dumping syndrome”, so named by C. L. Mix, Surg. Clin. N. Amer., 1922, 2, 617-22. (During WWI Hertz changed his name to Hurst; see No. 8604.)

Roughly the first half of this work is on "war neuroses." The second half is on "infective and other disorders," including gas poisoning. Hurst greatly expanded the first section after experience as a neurologist in E…