2002/06/01 by Irvine Loudon · 1 citation
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paper · doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7349.1341
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Rachel Holmes Viking, £14.99, pp 352 ![Graphic][1]</img> ISBN 0 670 89099 5 Rating: ![Graphic][2]</img>![Graphic][3]</img> James Barry started his medical training in Edinburgh and undertook further study in London under Astley Cooper. He then joined the army as a surgeon and rose to be the most senior member of Her Majesty's Inspectors General of Hospitals. He spent almost all his working life abroad, where he “established a reputation as a vain, quarrelsome troublemaker.” He was also known as a highly skilled doctor, being one of the few of his time to perform a caesarean in which both mother and child survived. As a … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif