Ford JMT. William James West (1794-1848): abdominal surgeon and distraught father.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOGRAPHY 2003;
11:107-113. [PMID:
12717540 DOI:
10.1177/096777200301100213]
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Abstract
William West was an early-nineteenth-century successful small-town surgeon-apothecary who took a major role in the local movement for medical reform. He published the first series of ovariotomies in England in 1837. His son suffered from a type of infantile spasm which West described in the Lancet in 1841, and which is now known as West's syndrome.
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