John Harley (physician)

John Harley FRCP FLS (1833, Stanton Lacy, Shropshire – 9 December 1921, Pulborough, Sussex) was an English physician,[1] geologist,[2] and botanist.[3][4] He gave the 1868 Goulstonian Lectures[5] and the 1889 Lumleian Lectures.[6]

Biography

In the parish of Dawley Magna,[7] John Harley was christened on 21 November 1833.[8] He studied medicine at King’s College London and received his medical qualification in 1858. At King's College Hospital, he held house appointments and then in 1863 was appointed assistant physician. In 1871 he left King's College Hospital to join the staff of London's St Thomas' Hospital. There he began in 1871 as an assistant physician, in 1879 became a full physician, and in 1893 was created consulting physician. He also served at the London Fever Hospital.[1] He retired in 1902 and for the remainder of his life resided in Pulburough.[9]

Some of his opinions of the origins of some diseases seemed contrary to what was known about bacteriology and pathology. He was widely known for his eccentric geniality with a fixed "habit of smiling, bowing, and vigorously shaking hands on every possible occasion with every acquaintance that he met."[1]

In 1881 he lived in St George Hanover Square with his wife Maria and their five children (four daughters and a son).[10]

Harley was elected in 1863 a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London[3] and in 1867 a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.[1] He bequeathed his geological collection to the Ludlow Museum.[9]

Selected publications

Articles

References
  1. Brown, G. H. "John Harley 1833-1921, Vol. IV, page 158". History of Munk's Roll, Royal College of Physicians.
  2. Harley, J. (1861). "On the Ludlow Bone-bed and its Crustacean Remains". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 17 (1–2): 542–552. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1861.017.01-02.47. S2CID 129922704.
  3. Desmond, Ray, ed. (2020). "Harley, John (1833–1921)". Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. CRC Press. p. 318. ISBN 978-0-85066-843-8.
  4. "XI. On the Parasitism of the Mistletoe (Viscum album) by John Harley, M.D." The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 24: 175–196. 1864. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1863.tb00161.x.
  5. Harley, John (1868). "Gulstonian Lectures on the Physiological Actions and Therapeutical Uses of Conium, Belladonna, and Hyoscyamus, Alone and in Combination with Opium". British Medical Journal. 1 (378): 293–295. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.378.293. PMC 2309904. PMID 20745070.
  6. "Abstract of the Lumleian Lectures On Enteric Fever". The Lancet. 133 (3424): 722–724. 1889. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)90258-2.
  7. Lewis, Samuel (1848). A Topographical Dictionary of England. Vol. II, from Dacre to Kytes-Hardwick. p. 18.
  8. England, Shrophire Parish Registers, 1538–1918
  9. "Obituary. Dr. John Harley". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 134th Session, from November 1921 to June 1922: 45. 1920.
  10. England and Wales Census, 1881, p. 5, Piece/Folio 94/6, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,334
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