Judson Sykes Bury

Judson Sykes Bury
Born(1852-05-13)13 May 1852
Salford
Died10 June 1944(1944-06-10) (aged 92)
Chinley, Derbyshire[1]
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Physician, surgeon, and neurologist
Known forClinical Medicine: A Manual for the Use of Students and General Practitioners (1894)[2]

Judson Sykes Bury FRCP (1852–1944) was a British physician, surgeon, and neurologist.[3]

Biography

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After education at Amersham Hall and then two years at Owens College, Manchester, Judson Bury entered University College London and studied medicine at University College Hospital, London. In 1877 he qualified MRCS and graduated MB (Lond.). After holding house appointments at University College Hospital, he graduated MD (Lond.) in 1879. He returned to Manchester and, after one year as a senior resident medical officer at the Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, engaged in general practice. At the Manchester Royal Infirmary he became in 1885 a registrar,[1] in 1889 an assistant physician, and in 1899 a full physician. In 1911 he became a professor of clinical at the University of Manchester. He retired from his Manchester appointments in 1912 but during WWI became a major in the RAMC[3] and served on medical boards in Manchester and Warrington.[1]

In 1893 Bury published A Treatise on Peripheral Neuritis, in large part consisting of observations by James Ross (1837–1892).[4] Ross had intended to publish the observations in a monograph.

On Ross's death at the age of 55 it was left to Bury to carry out the intention as fully as he could. The first half of the book was written from views expressed by word of mouth to him by Ross; but the rest was his own except for the section on diabetic neuritis written by R. D. Williamson.[1]

Bury was elected FRCP in 1894.

Judson Bury also published in 1894 Clinical Medicine, a manual for the use of students and junior practitioners; it met with a good response and a third edition appeared in 1912, written jointly with Albert Ramsbottom, his junior colleague at the Manchester Royal Infirmary.[1]

Bury's article Multiple Symmetrical Peripheral Neuritis, contributed to the first edition of Clifford Allbutt's A System of Medicine, contained a section on an epidemic of neuritis in Manchester caused by arsenical impurity in beer.[1][5] He gave the Bradshaw Lecture in 1901.[6] He published Diseases of the Nervous System in 1912.[3]

He was a fine runner in his youth and a keen golfer up to his death at the age of ninety-two. He was married and had one daughter.[3]

Selected publications

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Articles

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Books

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Obituary. Judson S. Bury, M.D., F.R.C.P." Br Med J. 1 (4355): 858. 24 June 1944. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.4355.858. PMC 2284420.
  2. ^ "Review of Clinical Medicine by Judson S. Bury". Birmingham Medical Review. 36: 186–187. 1894.
  3. ^ a b c d "Judson Sykes Bury". Munk's Roll, Volume IV, Royal College of Physicians.
  4. ^ "James Ross". Munk's Roll, Volume IV, Royal College of Physicians.
  5. ^ Allbutt, Clifford, ed. (1901). ""Multiple Symmetrical Peripheral Neuritis" by Dr. Judson Bury". A System of Medicine. Vol. 6. New York. pp. 671–723.
  6. ^ Bury, Judson S. (9 November 1901). "The Bradshaw Lecture on Prognosis in Relation to Disease of the Nervous System: Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, November, 5th, 1901". Br Med J. 2 (2132): 1389–1396. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2132.1389. PMC 2507083. PMID 20759873.
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