Genetics and the Clinician

EARLY TEXT ON MEDICAL GENETICS: AN ATTEMPT TO EDUCATE THE MAJORITY OF IGNORANT PHYSICIANS.

10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, title to cover and gilt title to spine, xiii, 146 pp, illustrations, binding tight, small light spot top of front cover, light foxing to endpapers, text unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. FROM CHAPTER 1--THE PRESENT POSITON: At the present there are a few far-sighted medical men who are convinced of the importance of the relation of genetics to medicine; there are some who are mildly skeptical of its value, but who are open to conviction; but by far and away the vast majority of medical men have no conscious thought on the matter at all.

BRIGADIER SIR LINDSAY TASMAN RIDE (1898 1977) was an Australian physiologist, soldier, vice chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, and Chairman of the Anthopological Physiology Committee, International Federation of Eugenic Organisations. On 14 February 1917, Ride enlisted in the AIF. Early in 1918, he joined the 38th Battalion on the Western Front. He was twice wounded, once seriously. Subsequently, on 24 April 1919, he was 'invalided out' of the army. Ride was elected Victorian Rhodes scholar for 1922. He worked at Guy's Hospital and qualified as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, as well as a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Perhaps because of his natural ability for medical research, he was appointed professor of physiology at the University of Hong Kong in 1928. In 1938, he wrote Genetics and the Clinician (offered here). Ride became a POW and was held in the prison established by the Japanese at the Sham Shui Po Barracks after Hong Kong capitulated on Christmas Day 1941. He escaped from Japanese-occupied Hong Kong on 9 January 1942. On 9 January 1942, with the help of Hong Kong guerilla forces, he managed to escape to unoccupied Chungking, a feat for which he was appointed O.B.E. in 1942. While a colonel in the Indian Army, Ride formed and commanded the British Army Aid Group, headquartered in Guilin, Guangxi. This MI9 unit provided help, medical and otherwise, to POW escapees from Hong Kong while gathering intelligence. Due to his outstanding leadership after escaping, 'The Smiling Tiger' as he was nicknamed, was elevated to C.B.E. in 1944. From the formation in 1949 of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force Ride was appointed commandant, first with the rank of Colonel, subsequently promoted to the rank of Brigadier in 1956. Ride was appointed vice-chancellor to a dilapidated, post-war University of Hong Kong in April 1949. 22 new buildings were erected and student numbers increased threefold in the 15 years after his appointment. His HKU papers are available at the University of Hong Kong Archives.

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Publisher: John Wright & Sons Ltd.

Year: 1938

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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