2017/04/04 by Andrew Hill Watson · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · #History of Medicine Studies #Medicine and Dermatology Studies History
paper · doi:10.1136/bmj.j1603
openalex publication_date 2017/04/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Peter Gordon Watson was born in Newport, Monmouth, where his parents were running a free mobile medical clinic during the great depression. After national service as a subaltern in the Royal Horse Artillery, he read natural sciences at Queens’ College, Cambridge, before his clinical studies at University College Hospital, London. He trained in ophthalmology at University College Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital, and the Institute of Ophthalmology, and he eventually became senior lecturer to Professor Barrie Jones at Moorfields. He was encouraged to set up a scleritis clinic there, which he ran as an honorary consultant from 1970 to 1995. At the time there was effectively no treatment for scleral inflammation, and no one knew how the disease developed, which varieties were dangerous and sight threatening, and which were benign and needed no treatment at all. The clinic soon attracted patients from around the world. The …