Sir Willoughby Francis Wade (31 August 1827 – 28 May 1906) was a British physician, surgeon, and professor of medicine.

Biography

After education at Brighton College and then from 1842 to 1845 at

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, he matriculated in 1845 at

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. He graduated there B.A. in 1849 and M.B. in 1851, after being apprenticed in

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to the surgeon Douglas Fox, brother of Sir Charles Douglas Fox. After graduating in 1851 and being admitted M.R.C.S. (England) in 1851, Wade held junior appointments at the Birmingham General Hospital and in 1855 set up his medical practice in the city of Birmingham. He was appointed in 1857 to the staff of the Birmingham General Dispensary and in 1860 to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. He qualified M.R.C.P. (London) in 1859 and was elected F.R.C.P. in 1872. He retired in 1898. In 1896 Wade was made Honorary M.D. of Dublin. He published many articles in medical journals and was the first to draw attention to the presence of

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. In 1880 in

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, Wade married his cousin Augusta Frances (1836–1916), daughter of Sir John Power, 2nd Baronet, of Kilfane; the marriage was without issue. In 1898 Willoughby and Augusta Wade retired to a villa near

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and in 1905 moved to Rome. Sir Thomas Francis Wade was his cousin.

Selected publications

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''On Gout: As a Peripheral Neurosis''
(1893)

References

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