British physician and medical biographer
For his father, William Hale White, see
Hale White .
Sir William Hale-White
Born (1857-11-07 ) 7 November 1857London, England
Died 26 February 1949(1949-02-26) (aged 91)Oxford
Nationality British Occupation physician
Sir William Hale-White KBE FRCP (7 November 1857 – 26 February 1949) was a Britishphysician and medicalbiographer . He was the son of writerMark Rutherford .
Hale-White was appointed an assistant physician atGuy's Hospital in 1886, a physician in 1890 and consulting physician from 1917. During theFirst World War , he was a colonel in theRAMC and was createdKBE in 1919.[ 1]
He was elected president of theMedical Society of London (1920–), theRoyal Society of Medicine (1922–1924)[ 1] and of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland (1930).[ 2]
The termulcerative colitis entered general medical vocabulary in 1888 after Hale-White published a report of various cases of "ulcerative colitis". However,Samuel Wilks in 1859 was the first person to use the term ulcerative colitis.[ 3]
Hale-White remained active inhistory of medicine following retirement. In this field, he is best known for his categorising ofWilliam Withering 's letters, bequeathed byWilliam Osler toThe History of Medicine Society at The Royal Society of Medicine, London . His literary contributions also include works onRené Laennec andJohn Keats .[ 4]
In 1886, Hale-White married Edith Fripp the daughter ofAlfred Downing Fripp and sister ofSir Alfred Fripp , surgeon to Edward VII and George V.[ 5] The couple had three sons: Alfred, Leonard (who died in 1917 whenH.M.S.Natal exploded) and Reginald – who became a physician. His wife died in 1945 and Hale-White died at his home in Oxford on 26 February 1949 aged 91.[ 5] [ 4]
Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century , 1935Keats as Doctor and Patient , 1938[ 6] Materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics (assisted byArthur Henry Douthwaite ), London, Churchill, 1949, 1959, 1963.Translation of selected passages fromDe l'auscultation mediate , Rene Laennec, 1923.[ 7] ^a b "SIR WILLIAM HALE-WHITE KBE, MD, FRCP (1870–74)" (PDF) . Society of Old Framlinghamians. Archived fromthe original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved16 May 2015 .^ Association of Physicians . associationofphysicians.co.uk.^ Mulder, Daniel; Noble, Angela; Justinich, Christopher; Duffin, Jacalyn (1 May 2014)."A tale of two diseases: The history of inflammatory bowel disease" .Journal of Crohn's and Colitis .8 (5):341– 348.doi :10.1016/j.crohns.2013.09.009 .PMID 24094598 . ^a b Davidson, Maurice (1955).The Royal Society of Medicine: The Realization of an Ideal . London: Royal Society of Medicine. pp. 169– 170. ^a b "Sir W. Hale-White Medicine And History". Obituaries.The Times . No. 51317. London. 26 February 1949. col E, p. 7. ^ Hale-White, William (1975).Keats as doctor and patient . Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions.ISBN 0883052792 .OCLC 1676269 . ^ Hale-White, William (1923).Translation of selected passages from De l'auscultation mediate .
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