William Hale-White

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Sir William Hale-White (1857-1949), was a distinguished British physician and medical biographer. He was the son of writer Mark Rutherford. During the First World War he was a colonel in the RAMC and was created KBE in 1919[1]. He was president of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland in 1930[2] and also a president of the Royal Society of Medicine[3].

His son, Reginald, was born in 1895 and also became a doctor. He was an expert on heroin[4].

[edit] Books

  • Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century, 1935
  • Keats as Doctor and Patient, 1938
  • Materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics (assisted by Arthur Henry Douthwaite), London, Churchill, 1949, 1959, 1963.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mark (William Hale White Rutherford) - LoveToKnow 1911
  2. ^ Association of Physicians
  3. ^ www.oldframlinghamian.com
  4. ^ THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION BANNING THE LEGAL PRODUCTION OF HEROIN IN GREAT BRITAIN, 1956

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