Reginald Southey
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Reginald Southey (15 September 1835 – 8 November 1899) was an English physician and inventor of Southey's cannula or tube , a type of trocar used for draining oedema of the limbs. [1]
Life
Southey was a nephew of Romantic poet Robert Southey , and the fifth son of medical doctor Henry Herbert Southey . A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford , he studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital before travelling the world. He went on to serve as a member of the Lunacy Commission from 1883 until 1898. He was Gulstonian Lecturer in 1867.
He was a lifelong friend of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll'), and encouraged Dodgson to take up photography .
References
- ↑ Southey's cannula . whonamedit.com
External links
- Biography
- Reginald Southey and Skeletons, June 1857 , photograph by Charles Dodgson
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