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SIR FELIX SEMON, the well-known laryngologist, died on Tuesday, March 1, at his residence at Great Missenden, Bucks. Sir Felix was born at Danzig in 1849, and received his medical education at Heidelberg, Berlin—where he took the M.D. degree in 1873—and later in Vienna and Paris. He then moved to London, received an appointment, as clinical assistant at the Throat Hospital in “Golden Square in 1875, and rapidly became known as an expert on diseases of the throat. In 1885 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1893 he was one of the founders of the Laryngological Society, of which he was president for the years 1894—96. When Sir Felix retired from London in 1911 a sum of 1040l. was presented to him in recognition of his services to laryngology; this sum he presented to the University of London to establish the Semon Lecture Trust for the purpose of awarding a commemorative bronze medal for work on the treatment of diseases of the throat and nose, and to found the Semon Lectureship in Laryngology. Sir Felix received knighthood at the Diamond Jubilee in 1897, and was created K.C.V.O. in 1905. He was also the recipient of numerous foreign decorations, and was an honorary or corresponding member of many medical societies. Many articles from his pen have been published in medical journals and in the reports of scientific societies, but he will be best remembered as the founder and for twenty-five years the editor of the Internationales Centtal-blatt /itr Laryngologie und Rhinologie. His owri work was chiefly in connection with cancer of the throat and with the functions and diseases of the motor nerves of the larynx.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 50 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107050c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107050c0