Reginald Southey (15 September 1835 – 8 November 1899) was an
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physician
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and inventor of ''Southey's
cannula'' or ''tube'', a type of
trocar used for draining
oedema of the limbs.
Southey's cannula
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Life
Southey was a nephew of Romantic poet Robert Southey
Robert Southey ( or ; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a ra ...
, and the fifth son of medical doctor Henry Herbert Southey. A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford
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, he studied medicine
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at St Bartholomew's Hospital
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History
Early history
Barts was founded in 1123 by Rahere (die ...
before travelling the world. He went on to serve as a member of the Lunacy Commission
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from 1883 until 1898. He was Gulstonian Lecturer in 1867.
He was a lifelong friend of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ...
('Lewis Carroll'), and encouraged Dodgson to take up photography
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.
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Biography
photograph by Charles Dodgson
19th-century English medical doctors
Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
1835 births
1899 deaths
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