Christopher Fleming (surgeon)

He was born at Boardstown in County Westmeath on 14 July 1800, and in 1821 graduated B.A. in the University of Dublin. He became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1824, and a member in 1826. In 1838, he took an M.D. degree in the University of Dublin, but did not obtain a hospital appointment till 1851, when he became surgeon to the House of Industry Hospitals. [1]

In 1856, he was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and in 1877 collected some papers which he had previously published in medical journals into a volume entitled Clinical Records of Injuries and Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs. His only other work is "Remarks on the Application of Chloroform to Surgical purposes", Dublin, 1851, and both are without permanent value. [1]

He married a Miss Radcliff, and had seven children, of whom a son and a daughter survived him. He retired from practice a few years before his death, and went to live at Donnybrook, near Dublin, where he died 30 December 1880. [1]

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Moore, Norman (1889). "Fleming, Christopher". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 19. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 275. ; Endnotes:
  • Sir A. Cameron's Hist. of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
  • British Medical Journal, 8 January 1881
  • Index Catalogue of Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army.