David Bayford

David Bayford, FRS (c.1739 – 1790) was a London surgeon, who practised from 1761 to 1782. In later years of his life he practised as a physician.[1]

David Bayford
Born1739
Died1790 (aged 50–51)
OccupationSurgeon and Physician
Known forDysphagia lusoria

Career

He was born in Hertfordshire and educated as a surgeon. He became a member of the Corporation of Surgeons, and practised as such for some years at Lewes, Sussex.[2]

In 1761, while still an apprentice surgeon, he made his discovery of the unique and bizarre cause—compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery—of a fatal case of obstructed deglutition for which he coined the term dysphagia lusoria and for which he is eponymously remembered. This discovery remained unrecorded until 1787, when a paper describing the case was read on his behalf before the Medical Society of London.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770, when he was described as a Professor of Anatomy at Surgeon's Hall; and many years Lecturer in that Science and the Operations of Surgery.[3]

He was created MD by Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1782. Later disbarred as a surgeon, he was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians in 1787.[2]

References
  1. Asherson, N. (January 1979). "David Bayford. His syndrome and sign of dysphagia lusoria". Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 61 (1): 63–7. PMC 2494476. PMID 369446.
  2. "David Bayford". Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  3. "=Fellows Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 17 January 2017.


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