Sir James Lomax Bardsley, M.D. (7 July 1801 – 10 July 1876) was an English physician.

Life

Bardsley was born at

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on 7 July 1801. His professional education was first under the direction of his uncle, Dr.

Samuel Argent Bardsley Samuel Argent Bardsley, MD (27 April 1764 – 29 May 1851), was an English physician. Life Bardsley was born at Kelvdon, Essex. His medical studies were begun at Nottingham, where he passed an apprenticeship to a surgeon, and followed up ...

, and subsequently at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities; he received the diploma of M.D. in 1823 at Edinburgh, and while a student there was elected president of the

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. In 1823 Bardsley settled in

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, and was appointed one of the physicians of the

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, a post which he held until 1843. He was associated with Thomas Turner in the management of the Manchester Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, and took an active part in the early proceedings of the

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. In 1834 he became president of the Manchester Medical Society, and in 1850 a similar position in the Manchester Medico-Ethical Association was given to him. He was knighted as a distinguished provincial physician in August 1853. He died at Manchester 10 July 1876. He is buried in the graveyard of the now demolished church of St. Saviour at the junction of Upper Brook Street and Plymouth Grove, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester.

Diabetes

Bardsley authored the entry "Essay on Diabetes" for the ''

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'' which recognized diabetes Types 1 and 2.Furdell, Elizabeth Lane. (2009). ''Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain Until Insulin''. Brill. p. 125. Bardsley put his diabetic patients on a

low-carbohydrate diet Low-carbohydrate diets restrict carbohydrate consumption relative to the average diet. Foods high in carbohydrates (e.g., sugar, bread, pasta) are limited, and replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of fat and protein (e.g., meat, p ...

of only animal food, with all sugar excluded but later added vegetables to the diet.

Works

Bardsley published a volume of ''Hospital Facts and Observations'' in 1830, wrote the articles on

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and hydrophobia in the ''Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine'' (1833), and made other contributions to medical science, including the retrospective address in medicine at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in 1837.
''Hospital Facts and Observations''
(1830)

References

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