Harold Stiles
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Sir Harold Stiles KBE FRCS FRCSE FRSE |
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Harold Jalland Stiles 21 March 1863 Spalding, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 19 April 1946 (aged 83) Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
Sir Harold Jalland Stiles KBE FRCS FRCSE FRSE (21 March 1863 – 19 April 1946) was a British surgeon who was known for his research into cancer and tuberculosis and for treatment of nerve injuries.
Harold Stiles was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire in 1863. He came from a family of doctors. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1885 as an M.B., C.M. He earned the Ettles scholarship for the most distinguished graduate of the year. For two years he then taught anatomy at Edinburgh. He was House Surgeon to Professor John Chiene FRSE, Demonstrator in the University Department of Anatomy under Sir William Turner, and Assistant in Charge of Pathology in the university's surgical laboratory.
In 1889 Stiles was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He trained for six months under Professor Theodore Kocher in Bern, where he learned to follow the aseptic system of surgery rather than Listerian antisepsis. Stiles was the first surgeon to use the aseptic approach in Edinburgh.
Stiles was appointed assistant surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh and assistant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He was later made Surgeon at the Sick Children's Hospital in succession to Joseph Bell. He taught at the Children's Hospital for many years, and during this period he or his assistants published important papers on surgical tuberculosis, earning him recognition throughout the medical world. At the same time he worked at the Chalmers Hospital. He lectured on Applied Anatomy at the university, and became known as an extremely skilled anatomist and surgeon. Around 1909 he visited the United States, meeting the surgical staff at the Mayo Clinic.
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