John Syer Bristowe
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John Syer Bristowe, 1881 photograph.
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| Born |
19 January 1827 Camberwell |
| Died | 20 August 1895 (aged 68) Monmouth |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Known for | treatment of diseases of the nervous system |
John Syer Bristowe (1827–1895) was an English physician.
Born in Camberwell on 19 January 1827, he was the eldest son of John Syer Bristowe, a medical practitioner in Camberwell, and Mary Chesshyre his wife. He was educated at Enfield School and King's College School, and entered St. Thomas's Hospital as a medical student in 1846. Here he won prizes, with the treasurer's gold medal in 1848, and in the same year he obtained the gold medal of the Apothecaries' Society for botany. In 1849 he was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and on 2 August 1849 he received the licence of the Society of Apothecaries. In 1850 he took the degree of M.B. of the University of London, gaining the scholarship and medal in surgery and the medals in anatomy and materia medica; in 1852 he was admitted M.D. of London University.
In 1849 he was house surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, and in the following year he was appointed curator of the museum and pathologist to the hospital. He was elected assistant physician in 1854, and during the next few years he held several teaching posts, being appointed lecturer on botany in 1859, on materia medica in 1860, on general anatomy and physiology in 1865, on pathology in 1870. In 1860 he was elected full physician, and in 1876 he became lecturer on medicine, a post which he held until his retirement in 1892, when he became consulting physician to the hospital.
He served in many posts at the Royal College of Physicians. Elected a fellow in 1858, he was an examiner in medicine in 1869 and 1870. In 1872 he was Croonian lecturer, choosing for his subject Disease and its Medical Treatment; in 1879 he was Lumleian lecturer on The Pathological Relations of Voice and Speech. He was censor in 1876, 1886, 1887, 1888, and senior censor in 1889. He was examiner in medicine at the universities of Oxford and London, at the Royal College of Surgeons, and at the war office. He was also medical officer of health for Camberwell (1856–95), physician to the Commercial Union Assurance Company, and to Westminster School.
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