James Campbell
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| Residence |
Bangkok, Siam (care of Messrs Smith and Elder, Cornhill) [1864] HM Consulate, Bangkok, Siam c/o Messrs Henry S. King and Co., Cornhill, EC [1872] The Grange, Chigwell-row, Essex [1875] 7 Fairfield Road, Croydon [1885] | ||||||||||
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medical armed services | ||||||||||
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Contents
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Office Notes
House Notes
Staff-Surgeon R.N. [1885]
assume 1865 and 1885 refer to same
A6:1 HM Consulate
Notes From Elsewhere
Residents of Chigwell Row include two people called James Campbell MD in 1874, one described as surgeon
... James Campbell, a naval surgeon attached to the British Consulate in Siam, inquired of 104 Siamese girls of known and clearly specified age whether or not they had begun to menstruate. His report (Campbell, 1862) provides the earliest data to which a probit analysis can be applied [A history of the study of human growth by J.M. TANNER]
Her Celestial Royal Highness ... disease of cholera increased so strong that it did not give way to the treatment of any one, or even to the Chlorodine administered to her by Doctor James Campbell the surgeon of the British Consulate [The English Governess at the Siamese Court ... by Anna Leonowens]
Shortly before Anna came to Bangkok, a case was heard at the British Consulate 'of a young girl who was injured during sexual congress with a Continental European'. James Campbell, the consular surgeon (and before long Anna's doctor), was asked to state his opinion on the age of puberty in Siam. His answer, that '15 years was about the rule', went against the widespread assumption that the menses commenced 'earlier in hot climates than in cold'. His opinion was challenged by the defendant, whereupon Campbell conferred with the ex-royal physician and an old nobleman, drew up some (quite opaque) tables, read a paper to the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh when he sailed back to Scotland to get married, and had it published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal. The point of his short anonymous paper was to present the mixed results of a fact-based, nonsensational inquiry into an aspect of human sexuality in Siam, along with various speculations [Masked: the life of Anna Leonowens ... by Alfred Habegger]
Publications
External Publications
On the age at which menstruation begins in Siam
Notes on the antiquities, natural history &c of Cambodia from the mss of the late E.F.J. Forrest, and information of Rev. Dr House;
old and new divisions; the Mekong; Vintamphu; Kangkau, formerly Ponteamas and Potaimat; Upper Cambodia; Saigon; the great lake Talae Sap, or Bienho; extensive fishery; the Nakon Wat temples described; huge blocks of stone used; the Nakon Hluang; other cities reported to exist; date ascribed to these remains; the elephant; mode of killing
poisons, rhinoceros; deer and wild cattle; crocodiles; an article of export
House Publications
Polygamy; its influence on sex and population [Jnl of Anthropology no. ii Oct 1870, art. ix
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
National Archives: Siam: correspondence with James Campbell, Surgeon RN at the British Consulate, Bangkok, regarding his observations and instruments 1858-62
