{"title":"William Warwick James <i>OBE</i> FRCS MCh FDS FLS (1874 to 1965).","authors":"Stanley Gelbier","doi":"10.1177/09677720211064295","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>William Warwick James was one of the most inspiring and outstanding dental surgeons of his time, a key researcher in dentistry and zoology and a pioneer in maxillofacial surgery. Most maxillofacial departments hold sets of his dental elevators. He wrote a major wartime work with Benjamin Fickling on the treatment of jaw and facial injuries.</p>","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":" ","pages":"28-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10919063/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Medical Biography","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09677720211064295","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2021/12/14 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
William Warwick James was one of the most inspiring and outstanding dental surgeons of his time, a key researcher in dentistry and zoology and a pioneer in maxillofacial surgery. Most maxillofacial departments hold sets of his dental elevators. He wrote a major wartime work with Benjamin Fickling on the treatment of jaw and facial injuries.
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This international quarterly publication focuses on the lives of people in or associated with medicine, those considered legendary as well as the less well known. The journal includes much original research about figures from history and their afflictions, thus providing an interesting, fresh and new perspective which can lead to greater understanding of each subject. Journal of Medical Biography is a fascinating and compelling read, providing an insight into the origins of modern medicine and the characters and personalities that made it what it is today.