GEE, SAMUEL JONES
TitleGEE, SAMUEL JONES
ReferenceMS-GEES
Date
1860 - 1904
Creator Samuel Jones (1839-1911) Gee
Admin history: Samuel Jones Gee (1839-1911) was born on 13 September 1839 in London, son of William Gee, a businessman. He studied medicine at University College London, graduating MB in 1861, and MD in 1865.
Gee was appointed as a house surgeon both at University College Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1865. He became assistant physician at the latter in 1866. In 1868 he received the same appointment at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Ten years later he was elected physician there, and then in 1904 consulting physician. In the medical school at St Bartholomew's he was a demonstrator of morbid anatomy, 1870-74, lecturer on pathological anatomy, 1872-78, and lecturer on medicine, 1878-93. He also became physician at Great Ormond Street, 1875-94, where he became a leading authority on childhood diseases and was the first to identify coeliac disease.
Gee wrote many papers on medical subjects.
He was elected Resident Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1866. He was deeply knowledgeable about the history of medicine and so became the Society's librarian from 1887-99. Gee was also prominent in the affairs of the Royal College of Physicians, he was elected Fellow in 1870. In 1871 he delivered the Goulstonian Lectures, in 1892 the Bradshaw Lecture, and the Lumleian Lectures in 1899. He was a Censor of the College, 1893-94, and was Senior Censor in 1897.
Gee died suddenly of a heart attack at Keswick on 3 August 1911. His body was returned to London, he was cremated and his ashes were placed in the Columbarium at Kensal Green.
Sources:
'Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1826-1925', compiled by G.H. Brown (London, 1955) [Munk's Roll Vol. IV pp.183-4]
'Dictionary of National Biography, Second Supplement, vol. II', Sir Sidney Lee (ed.) (London, 1912) [DNB, 2nd supplement, vol. II, pp.91-92]
'The Life of Samuel Jones Gee, M.D., F.R.C.P. (1839-1911)', Oliver Garrod, from 'Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Reports', vol. LXXI (London, 1938)
Production date 1860 - 1904
Scope and ContentCollection includes eight medical notebooks with an index, 1860-90 (MS39 is missing); Lists of clinical clerks at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1879-1887, 1887-1904, manuscript of 'Caelius Aurelianus, Swift Passion Books I-III', translated by Gee, n.d., c.1872. All in handwriting of Samuel Gee.
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LanguageEnglish
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