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James Syme FRCSE, FRCS, FRSE (7 November 1799 – 26 June 1870) was a Scottish pioneering surgeon. Early life. James Syme was born on 7 November 1799 at 56 Princes Street in Edinburgh. [1] . His father was John Syme WS of Cartmore and Lochore, estates in Fife and Kinross.
Jun 2, 2024 · James Syme (1799–1870) was a Scottish General Surgeon. Referred to as the Napoleon of Surgery, James Syme was born to a family of renown in 1799 on Princes Street, Edinburgh. He attended the High School of Edinburgh before commencing his studies as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh.
Jun 28, 2019 · James Syme was born in Edinburgh in the year when Napoleon became First Consul, and in later years came to be called the Napoleon or Wellington of surgery. 1-6 As a young man he had an interest in chemistry and at age eighteen developed a method of making textiles impermeable to water by impregnating them with a coal tar derivative ...
James Syme, an Edinburgh surgeon, was to become pre-eminent among British surgeons. As a student he had devised and published a method of using rubber solution to waterproof silk, but the patent was denied him by a Mr. McIntosh from Glasgow.
Syme was an honest man whose judgment was based upon his keen observations in a busy practice. He was a sound, depend able surgeon in the finest sense of the word, who preached and practiced a high quality of proctology.
- Leon Banov, Jane Banov
- 1970
James Syme, surgeon in ordinary to the Queen of Scotland, professor of clinical surgery in the University of Edinburgh, and senior attending surgeon in the Royal Infirmary, occupied an enviable station in Edinburgh during the first half of the 19th century. 1 He was born on Princes Street, Edinburgh, into a family of wealth and position.
Jun 12, 1999 · James Syme was a consultant paediatrician at Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. He was born in Fife, Scotland, the son of James Wilson Syme, a school headmaster, and Christian Kay Syme.
