In memoriam Sir Edward Henry Sieveking, M.D., Ll.D., F.R.C.P., F.S.A., 1816-1904.

  • Sieveking, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1816-1904.
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[1904]
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Credit: In memoriam Sir Edward Henry Sieveking, M.D., Ll.D., F.R.C.P., F.S.A., 1816-1904. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by its founder, Sir John Forbes, who became his firm friend and whose name was given to Sieveking’s youngest son in 1857, the year in which Sieveking succeeded to the editor- ship of the Review. In addition to Sir John Forbes and his colleagues at the hospital and the Royal College of Physicians of London, he was on terms of intimate friendship with many men eminent in medicine and literature, including Sir David Brewster, Charles Kingsley, F. D. Maurice, and Henry Crabb Robinson, who knew his parents and in whose reminiscences will be found a eulogistic allusion to the son. Sir Edward Sieveking’s first contribution to The Lancet appeared in the issue of Sept. 10th, 1853, and was entitled “A Case in which Hydatids were Discharged from the Kidney during Life.” In 1854, with the collaboration of Dr. Handheld Jones (also of St. Mary’s Hospital), he published a “Manual of Patho- logical Anatomy.” In 1858 there appeared the first edition of his important work on ‘ ‘ Epilepsy and Epileptiform Seizures, their Causes, Pathology, and Treatment, ” which was reviewed in The Lancet of Jan. 16th in that year. In 1861 he published in our columns Clinical Remarks on Neuralgia in a series of five articles and also became president of the Harveian Society. Many years previously he had been appointed physician-in-ordinary to the late Duke of Cambridge, the father of the present Duke. In 1863, on the recommendation of Sir James Clark, he was appointed physician-in-ordinary to the Prince of Wales, now the King. In 1873 he was made physician-extraordinary and in 1888 physician-in-ordinary to her late Majesty Queen Victoria, having been knighted two years earlier. In 1849 he married Miss Jane Ray who survives him. By her he had five sons, one of whom is in the medical profession, and three daughters, one of whom is now the wife of Professor Starling, having previously been married to the late Dr. L. Woolridge. The following appreciation of Sir Edward Sieveking’s work as a colleague comes from a member of the staff of St. Mary’s Hospital, and shows well the esteem which he enjoyed among his colleagues as physician, teacher, and friend : “It is some years since Sir Edward Sieveking took an active part in the practice of medicine, but those who had the pleasure of his intimate acquaintance will remember him as one who, if still imbued with many of the