Christopher Fleming (surgeon)
Christopher Fleming MD FRCSI (14 July 1800 – 30 December 1880) was an Irish surgeon. [1]
Christopher Fleming | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1800 |
| Died | 1880 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
Life
He was born at Boardstown in County Westmeath on 14 July 1800, and in 1821 graduated B.A. from Trinity College Dublin. He became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1824, and a member in 1826. In 1838, he took an M.D. degree from Trinity College Dublin, but did not obtain a hospital appointment until 1851, when he became surgeon to the House of Industry Hospitals. [1]
In 1856, he was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and in 1877 collected some papers which he had previously published in medical journals into a volume entitled Clinical Records of Injuries and Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs. His only other work is "Remarks on the Application of Chloroform to Surgical purposes", Dublin, 1851, and both are without permanent value. [1]
He married a Miss Radcliff, and had seven children, of whom a son and a daughter survived him. He retired from practice a few years before his death, and went to live at Donnybrook, near Dublin, where he died 30 December 1880. [1]
Notes
- Moore 1889, p. 275.
References
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Moore, Norman (1889). "Fleming, Christopher". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 19. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 275. ; Endnotes:
- Sir A. Cameron's Hist. of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- British Medical Journal, 8 January 1881
- Index Catalogue of Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army.