Joseph Bower Siddall
 | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. (January 2012) |
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2012) |
 | This article or section is in a state of significant expansion or restructuring. You are welcome to assist in its construction by editing it as well. If this article or section has not been edited in several days, please remove this template. If you are the editor who added this template and you are actively editing, please be sure to replace this template with {{in use}} during the active editing session. Click on the link for template parameters to use.
This article was last edited by Mouseinfo (talk | contribs) 12 years ago. (Update timer) |
Dr Joseph Bower Siddall | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 4, 1840 Matlock, Derbyshire, England |
| Died | July 4, 1925 (aged 85) Malvern , England |
| Spouse | Mary Elizabeth Binns (1844-1906) |
| Occupation | Doctor, Member of British Legation to Japan |
| Known for | Medical Developments in Japan |
Dr Joseph Bower Siddall (March 4th 1840 – July 4th 1904)was a British doctor who worked as a foreign advisor in Japan, and was influential in the use of Hygiene in Japanese Military hospitals, and universal vaccination for Smallpox.
Biography
Siddall was born in Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdomin 1840. Received a Medical degree at Aberdeen University in 1865. Gained entitlement to use Letters MDCM or "Doctorem Medicinae et Chirurgiae Magistrum", after name.(1) In 1868 went to Japan as Medical Officer to the British Legation, where under the direction of Dr William Willis he took control of the hospital at Yokohama, and later Tokyo during the war of 1869-1869. Here he performed pioneering work in Hygiene control (2), and taught Japanese surgeons techniques of bandaging and splinting (3) He was a vocal enthusiast for vaccination against Smallpox.(2,3) His work on this led to his being awarded the Order of The Rising Sun, 4th Class in 1909. He was the first foreigner to be given the honour of this award, but was not given permission by the British Foreign Office to receive it until 1909.(2,3,4) The medal is held in the British Museum Coin and Medal Collection. (5) He practised for a time at Ross on Wye, and retired to Devonshire.
Sporting Interests. This information is sourced from his BMJ obituary.(2) A founding member of the North Devon Golf Club. As cricketer was a batsman for the Gentlemen of England, and among his boasts in old age were that he had played with all the Three Graces, and had once smashed the clock at the Oval.
References
(1) University of Aberdeen. http://ukpmc.ac.uk/articles/PMC2226839 (2) British Medical Journal Br Med J. 1925 August 8; 2(3371): 275–276. http://ukpmc.ac.uk/articles/PMC2226839 (3) "Military medicine: from ancient times to the 21st century" by Jack Edward McCallum p173
(1)http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/anne-ogden-boyce/records-of-a-quaker-family-the-richardsons-of-cleveland-cyo/page-33-records-of-a-quaker-family-the-richardsons-of-cleveland-cyo.shtml (2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2226839/?page=1 (3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2226839/?page=2 (4) http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/memorys/9470468.Japanese_honour_for_Malvern_doctor/?ref=rss (5) http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?currentpage=13&toadbc=ad&objectid=3299704&images=on&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&partid=1&searchtext=glass+seal&fromadbc=ad&numpages=10