Memoir of Jamieson Boyd Hurry / [Warren R. Dawson].

  • Warren Royal Dawson
Date:
1930
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Credit: Memoir of Jamieson Boyd Hurry / [Warren R. Dawson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the seeds that bore fruit in his later works. He took a keen interest in medical schools, in sociological pro¬ blems, in medical and economic botany, in history and archaeology, and he was thereby enabled to treat the many topics on which he afterwards wrote with a singu¬ larly broad and catholic outlook. Before passing on, it may here be recorded that at Cambridge Hurry graduated B.A. in 1879, with honours in the Natural Science Tripos, took the M.B. in 1882, and was admitted M.R.C.S. in the same year, as already noted. In 1884 he became D.P.H. and took his M.A. degree, M.D. in 1885^ and B.Ch. in 1890. Thus equipped with academic qualifications, but still more highly endowed with energy, enthusiasm, and ability, Hurry settled after his term as Ship’s Surgeon to medical practice in Reading in 1885, where he entered into partnership with the late Mr. George May, F.R.C.S. In Reading almost the whole of his active life was spent, for he remained there until 1926. To Hurry’s kindness, skill, and sympathy as a medical practitioner many past and present residents of Reading could abun¬ dantly testify. He was, as will be seen in the sequel, a man of many interests and tastes, but he never allowed either his studies or his intellectual relaxations to en¬ croach upon his professional cares. The name of Jamieson Hurry is particularly asso¬ ciated with a remarkable series of works on Vicious Circles—the evil that begets evil—in various phases of medicine and sociology. He wrote a number of mono¬ graphs in which he clearly brought out the interaction and reflex action of causes and effects. Vicious Circles in Disease, the first of these monographs, appeared in 1911, reached a third edition in 1919? and was translated
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