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THE Lister Medal for 1939, which is awarded in recognition of distinguished contributions to surgical science, has been awarded to Prof. René Leriche, professor of clinical surgery in the University of Strasbourg, and he will deliver the Lister Memorial Lecture in 1939 at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Prof. Leriche, who was born on October 12, 1879, received his medical education at Lyons, taking his degree in 1906. In 1906–9 he was chief of the surgical clinic of the Lyons hospitals, and then became full surgeon. In 1920 he became lecturer in experimentalsurgery at Lyons, and has also held there the professorship of external pathology. In 1924 he was appointed to the chair of clinical surgery in the University of Strasbourg which he now holds. He was made an honoraryfellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1937. Prof. Leriche is chiefly interested in the surgery of the stomach, bones, joints, the sympathetic system, and diseases of arteries. This is the sixth occasion of the award, which is made by a Committee representative of the Royal Society, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Glasgow.
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Prof. René Leriche. Nature 141, 963–964 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141963c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141963c0