Professor Robert Mason
Surgeon, Guys' Hospital
For the 2019-2020 academic year, the History of Medicine Society is bridging gaps between the past, present, and future with an eye to the anniversaries of wartime events in British History.
In this first session, two eminent speakers from the national maritime museum illustrate the special nature of nautical wartime medicine. Professor Robert Mason will inform us on 'the Injuries and illnesses of Lord Nelson'. Dr. Pieter Van der Merve will talk on 'Fatal voyage: surgeons on the Bounty, 1787-90'
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Surgeon, Guys' Hospital
Naval Historian and her Majesty's Deputy Lieutenant for Royal Greenwich
Professor Stephen Challacombe, President, History of Medicine Society, Royal Society of Medicine
Professor Robert Mason, Emeritus Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Volunteer National Maritime Museum
Dr Pieter van der Merwe, Naval Historian and Her Majesty's Deputy Lieutenant for Royal Greenwich, National Maritime Museum
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