Horace Dobell

Horace Benge Dobell (1 January 1828 – 22 February 1917) was an English doctor and medical writer, consulting doctor to the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest.

Horace Dobell
Dobell in the 19th century
Born
Horace Benge Dobell

(1828-01-01)1 January 1828
London, England
Died22 February 1917(1917-02-22) (aged 89)
Parkstone, Dorset, England
NationalityEnglish
EducationSt Bartholomew's Hospital (M.R.C.S.)
University of St Andrews (M.D.)
OccupationDoctor, medical writer
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Life

Horace Dobell was born on 1 January 1828.[1] His obituary in the British Medical Journal gives his date of birth also as 1 January 1828 and the place of birth as London.[2]

He gained his M.R.C.S. diploma at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1849, and gained a M.D. from the University of St Andrews in 1856. From 1859 to 1875 he was Physician at the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. In 1863 he wrote to Charles Darwin[3] to thank him for a copy of his "On the germs and vestiges of disease"[4] and in 1861 on regeneration. ML1:234. He later moved to Bournemouth, where he was consulting physician at the Mont Dore sanitorium for patients with chest diseases.[5] In 1887 he was living in Bournemouth.[6]

Dobell died at his home in Parkstone, Dorset on 22 February 1917.[2]

Works
  • Demonstrations of diseases in the chest and their physical diagnosis, 1858
  • Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease, and on the prevention of the invasion and fatality of disease by periodical examinations, 1861
  • A manual of diet and regimen for physician and patient, 1864
  • On tuberculosis: its nature, cause, and treatment; with notes on pancreatic juice, 1866
  • On diet and regimen in sickness and health: and on the interdependence and prevention of diseases and the diminution of their fatality, 1870
  • On winter cough, catarrh, bronchitis, emphysema, asthma : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, 1872
  • On affections of the heart and in its neighbourhood. Cases, aphorisms, and commentaries, London: H. K. Lewis, 1872. Second ed., 1876[5]
  • On coughs, consumption, and diet in disease, 1877
  • On loss of weight, blood spitting, and lung disease, 1878
  • The medical aspects of Bournemouth and its surroundings, 1885

References
  1. Dr Williams' Library Newgate St., London, Eng; Collection:; Nonconformist Registers 1815 - 1832; Film Number: 815924.
  2. "THOMAS SEYMOUR TUKE, M.A., M.B., B.Ch.Oxon". BMJ. 1 (2932): 350–351. 1917. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2932.350-c. PMC 2348306.
  3. http://darwin-online.org.uk/biography.html
  4. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=95&itemID=A27&viewtype=side
  5. On affections of the heart at the Cabinet for Art and Medicine
  6. Medical Register, 1887
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