Edgar Crookshank

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Edgar March Crookshank

After being born he studied ,medicine and became Professor of Comparative Pathology and Bacteriology at King's College Hospital London where he had previously been a doctor on the house.

He served in General Charles Gordon's Sudan Campaign (Medal and Clasp, Tel-el-Kebir, and Khedive's Star).

In later life he was a JP, unsuccessful candidate for Parliament as a Unionist and Tariff Reformer, chairman of two Scottish-Australian corporations and big game hunter, owning Ridge Hill Manor (later to become Saint Hill Manor).

[edit] Quote

"That vaccination is capable of extirpating the disease or of controlling epidemic waves is absolutely negatived by the epidemic in 1825, and the epidemics which followed in quick succession in 1838, in 1840, 1841, 1844-5, 1848, 1851-2. Vaccination was made compulsory in 1853, but epidemics followed in 1854, 1855, and 1856, culminating in the terrible epidemic in 1871-72 with more than 42,000 deaths. Epidemics followed in 1877 and 1881." (Inaugural Address to Medical Society of King's College, October 26th, 1894.)

[edit] Publications

  • History and Pathology of Vaccination. (vol. 1. A Critical inquiry, vol. 2. Selected essays) Publisher: 2 vol. H. K. Lewis: London, 1889.
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