Russell Brock, Baron Brock

Lord Russell Claude Brock, Baron Brock of Wimbledon ( born October 24, 1903 in London, † September 3, 1980, London ) was a British Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon.

Brock was the son of the respected photographer Herbert Brock. He studied from 1921 medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School. In 1926, he received a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London ( LRCP ) and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons ( MRCS ). 1927 followed the bachelor degrees in medicine (MB ) and Surgery (BS ). He was demonstrator of anatomy and pathology at Guy's Hospital and in 1929 a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons ( FRCS ). 1929 to 1930 he was with the known thoracic surgeon Evarts Graham ( 1883-1957 ) at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1932 he was again at Guy's Hospital, where he was tutor and his specialist training ( Surgical Registrar ) continued. In 1938 he became a professor ( Hunterian Professor ). 1935 to 1946 he was a thoracic surgeon ( consultant ) at the London County Council, 1936-1945 surgeon of the Ministry of Pensions at Roehampton Hospital and 1936-1968 surgeon at Guy 's Hospital and Brompton Hospital.

It was after the war in the 1940s, one of the pioneers in surgery of congenital heart diseases such as tetralogy of Fallot, which he in 1948 successfully operated ( with a new technique to open a narrowed pulmonary valve ), as well as mitral stenosis ( as simultaneously Horace Smithy, Charles Bailey and Dwight Harken in the U.S.). He took early innovations in Europe from the United States (such as the heart -lung machine ) and exchanged views with Alfred Blalock of Baltimore.

In 1935 he was awarded the Jacksonian Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was honorary doctorates from the universities of Cambridge, Hamburg, Munich, Leeds and Guelph. He was awarded the 1961 Gairdner Foundation International Award and the 1967 Lister Medal.

In 1954 he was knighted ( Knight) and 1965 he received the Life Peerage with the title of Baron Brock of Wimbledon.

He was married since 1927 with Germaine Louise Ladavèze, with whom he had three daughters. After her death in 1978 he married again.

Writings

  • The Anatomy of the Bronchial Tree, with special reference to the surgery of abscess treatment, Oxford University Press, London, 1946, 2nd edition 1954
  • The Life and Work of Astley Cooper, E. & S. Livingstone, Edinburgh & London, 1952
  • Lung abscess, Blackwell Scientific Publication, Oxford, 1952
  • The Anatomy of Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis, Cassell & Co, London, 1957
  • John Keats and Joseph Severn, the tragedy of the load illness, 1973
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