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Nationality
  
British

Name
  
James McDonagh

Fields
  
Surgery

Institutions
  
London Lock Hospital

Died
  
February 14, 1965

Institution
  
London Lock Hospital

Born
  
17 October 1881 (
1881-10-17
)

Professor James Eustace Radclyffe McDonagh FRCS (1881-1965) was a British surgeon and author.

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Biography

Born on 17 October 1881, James McDonagh was educated at Bedford School and at the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was a surgeon at the London Lock Hospital and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1916, he was appointed Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1929, he established the Nature of Disease Institute, remaining its director until 1959. Here he worked on the causes of syphilis, the common cold and influenza, reaching conclusions generally at odds with those commonly held.

Professor James McDonagh retired in 1959 and died on 14 February 1965.

Publications

  • Textbook on Venereal Diseases, 1915 and 1920
  • The Nature of Disease (three volumes), 1924–1927–1931
  • The Nature of Disease Journal (three volumes), 1932–1934
  • The Common Cold and Influenza, 1936
  • The Universe Through Medicine, 1940
  • The Nature of Disease To Date, 1946
  • The Nature of Disease Institute's First, Second and Third Annual Reports, 1948, 1949 and 1951
  • The Universe In The Making, 1948
  • A Further Study in the Nature of Disease, 1954
  • A Final Study in the Nature of Disease, 1959
  • The Nature of the Universe, Health and Disease, 1963.

    • References

    James Radclyffe McDonagh Wikipedia
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