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WE announce with regret the death of DR. JOHN WARD COUSINS on September 22 at the age of eighty-seven years. Dr. Cousins received his medical training at St. Thomas's Hospital, and proceeded to the degree of M.D. (Lond.) in 1859. In the following year he became a fellow by examination of the Royal College of Surgeons, and after a short time at hospital practice devoted himself entirely to surgery. In connection with this work he quickly made himself prominent by the numerous inventions and improvements in surgical instruments which he devised. His ingenuity received its reward in 1884, when he was awarded a prize by the British Medical Association and a gold medal by the International Inventions Exhibition. His administrative powers found scope from 1893–95, when he was president of the Central Council of the British Medical Association, and in 1899, on the occasion of the Portsmouth meeting of the association, Dr. Cousins was elected president.
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Obituary. Nature 108, 221 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108221b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/108221b0