Frederick Charles Pybus DCL,

FRCS Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) is a professional qualification to practise as a senior surgeon in Ireland or the United Kingdom. It is bestowed on an intercollegiate basis by the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons (the Royal C ...

(2 November 1883 – 10 March 1975) was an English

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from

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, who contributed to research into

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Research

In July 1916, Pybus reported an attempt at

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transplantation of pancreatic tissue. Despite a mild reduction in glucose excretion in one of two diabetic patients transplanted with fragments of human cadaveric pancreatic tissue.,* both patients subsequently died.Schlich, T. (2010) Volume 18 of Rochester Studies in Medical History: ''The Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930'
p.74.
University Rochester Press. . Retrieved August 2011 Pybus concluded that:

...although transplants represented the most rational form of therapy, they would continue to fail as long as science did not understand the principles involved.

He presented his collection of books on the history of medicine to the library of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Th
Professor Frederick Pybus Archive
and th
Professor Frederick Pybus Collection
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Newcastle University Special Collections
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