W. Wilberforce Smith
| W. Wilberforce Smith MD | |||||||
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| Died | 1896 | ||||||
| Residence | 14 Stratford Place, W. | ||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||
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1890.03.11 proposed
1896.05.12 death announced
death noted in report of the council for 1896
Brabrook's Presidential address 1897: Dr. Wilberforce Smith was elected a Fellow of the Institute on March 25, 1890, and at the meeting of December 9 in the same year, joined in the discussion of Lady Welby's paper on " An apparent paradox in Mental Evolution." At our meeting on May 8, 1894, he read an excellent paper on "the Teeth of ten Sioux Indians," in which he investigated the curious fact of the superiority of savage races over civilised man in respect of the development and freedom from decay of their teeth. To this he afterwards added a note, in which he suggested that the ancient Romans owed the like superiority over ourselves to their disdain of the knife and fork, and supported his view by quotations from classic writers. He also contributed several papers to the Anthropological Section of the British Association, and served for some years on the Anthropometric Laboratory Committee and the Committee on Feeble-minded Children. In him we have to regret the loss of a colleague of high competence, from whom other communications of value might have been expected
Notes From Elsewhere
SIR,-Should Dr. Ferrier be victimised by any fanatical proceedings of the antivivisectionists, many in the ranks of the profession would, like myself, feel it a privilege should they be allowed to take the opportunity of slightly acknowledging the debt of gratitude which the profession owes to him and workers like him. I hope that he will allow himself to be indemnified in regard to any expenses that he may be put to, by the willing contributions of professional brethren and disciples, and that a fund may be opened for the purpose.-Yours obediently, W. WILBERFORCE SMITH, M.D. 3, Eastbourne-terrace, W., 11th Nov. 1881 [BMJ]
[perhaps son of?]: Smith, Douglas Wilberforce ( - 1915)
MRCS Feb 7th 1901; FRCS June 8th 1911; MB Lond 1901; BS 1901; LRCP Lond, 1901.
Died 15 June 1915 Occupation General surgeon
Educated at Edinburgh, Guy's Hospital, and in Berlin. At Guy's he was Assistant House Surgeon, Clinical Assistant in the Medical Wards, and Dresser in the Obstetric and Gynaecological Departments. He remained at the Hospital till about the year 1902, when he went abroad, and in 1905 was in practice at Mossel Bay, Cape Colony; he was also Civil Surgeon to the South African Field Force. Returning to London, he practised at 14 Stratford Place, his other address being at West End Avenue, Pinner.
He was appointed Assistant Registrar at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women, retiring in 1912; he then became Registrar. He was also for a time Emden Research Scholar in the Cancer Research Laboratory, Middlesex Hospital, and as such wrote two reports on "Squamous-cell Carcinoma in respect of Altmann's Granules" in the Archives of the Middlesex Hospital (1913, xxx, and 1914, xxxiii) Cancer Reports (xii, 153, and xiii, 56). His address latterly was at 68 Wimpole Street. On the outbreak of the Great War (1914-1918) Wilberforce Smith joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was reported killed on or before June 15th, 1915, when his name appeared in the Casualty List as Captain D W Smith, which led to the false report that Captain David Wallace Smith had fallen. His name appears in the College Roll of Honour.
Publications
External Publications
"Case of Ruptured Tubal Foetation lacking the Usual Symptoms" (read before the
South African Medical Congress). - Guy's Hosp Gaz, 1907, xxi, 277.
On the alleged differences between male and female respiratory movements [BMJ Oct. 11 1890]
Smith, W. Wilberforce, M.D. "Corset Wearing: The Medical Side of the Attack." Aglaia, July, 1893, 7, and Spring, 1894, 31-5.