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HOWARD MABSH, an eminent London surgeon and master of Downing College, Cambridge, was born on March 7, 1839, at Homersfield, near Bungay, Suffolk, the son of a gentleman farmer. He received his medical education at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was a contemporary of Alfred Willett (see NATURE, 139, 61; 1937) and qualified L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. in 1861. Five years later he became F.R.C.S. and was appointed surgeon to the Queen Square House of Relief for Children with Chronic Disease of the Joints. In 1868, he was elected assistant surgeon to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, where he afterwards became full surgeon and consulting surgeon. Between 1865 and 1870 he acted twice as private assistant to Sir James Paget, several of whose works he afterwards edited. From 1873 until 1891, when he became full surgeon, he served as assistant surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he lectured on anatomy, practical surgery and orthopaedics. In 1903 he was appointed professor of surgery at Cambridge in succession to Sir George Murray Humphry, who had died in 1896, and in 1907 succeeded Dr. Alexander Hill as master of Downing College. He was the author of “Diseases of the Joints”(1886), which went through three editions and was translated into German, “Clinical Lectures and Essays” (1902) and numerous contributions to St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports. Besides the distinctions already mentioned, Marsh was an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, president of the Clinical Society of London and a corresponding member of the Orthopaedic Society of New York. He died on June 24, 1915. A sympathetic obituary notice by Sir D'Arcy Power, accompanied by his portrait, appeared in St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports (51, 1; 1915).
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Frederick Howard Marsh (1839–1915). Nature 143, 369–370 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143369d0
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