GODLEE, Sir Rickman John (1849 – 1925)

BENNETT, Alexander Hughes (1848 – 1901)

GODLEE, Sir Rickman John (1849 – 1925)

First instance of diagnosis, accurate clinical localization, and operative removal of a tumor of the brain, 25 November, 1884. The patient survived for one month. Preliminary report in Lancet, 1884, 2, 1090-91.

LISTER, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912)

GODLEE, Sir Rickman John (1849 – 1925)

CAMERON, Hector Charles (1878 – 1958) CHEYNE, Sir William Watson (1852 – 1932)

WILLIAMS, Sir Dawson (1854 – 1928)

MARTIN, C. J.

Lister, a pupil of Sharpey, became Professor of Surgery successively at Glasgow, Edinburgh and King’s College, London. He was the first medical man in Britain to be raised to the peerage. The founder of the anti…