Book Launch - Henry Gray Surgeon of the Great War

Book Launch - Henry Gray Surgeon of the Great War
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Join Tom Scotland to launch his new publication.

Henry Gray (1870 - 1938), qualified as a surgeon at the University of Aberdeen, and revolutionised the treatment of gunshot wounds during WWI saving many lives. His work was internationally recognised and after the war he was invited to take up a post as Surgeon-in-Chief at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, which usually carried high academic status. However, when the President of the RVH tried to browbeat the Principal of McGill into offering Gray the Professorship of Surgery, he became embroiled in local political infighting, through no fault of his own, which tarnished his reputation, forced his resignation and ended a professional life, which had started with such promise, in disgrace. This biography restores the reputation of a brilliant surgeon and objectively assesses his contribution to medicine.

This new book, by Tom Scotland and Ann Boyer, restores the reputation of this brilliant surgeon caught up in an academic power struggle.

Venue
Medico Chirurgical Society Hall, Polwarth Building
Contact

Melvin Morrison

wmmorrison@btinternet.com