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John Berchmans Devine
The only son of Sir Hugh Devine FRCS, the distinguished Melbourne surgeon, and Mary O’Donnell his wife, John Berchmans Devine was educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor, and at ...vizualizați mai multeThe only son of Sir Hugh Devine FRCS, the distinguished Melbourne surgeon, and Mary O’Donnell his wife, John Berchmans Devine was educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor, and at Xavier College, Melbourne. He graduated in 1937 from the University of Melbourne with first-class honours, and was awarded the Jamieson prize in medicine. He was resident medical officer and registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and in 1940 proceeded to the MS degree.
He joined the Australian Army Medical Service early in the war of 1939-45 and was sent on active service to the Middle East. He served through the siege of Tobruk and in Syria, with permanent damage to his health. He was mentioned in dispatches and was promoted to the rank of Major.
Coming to England immediately after the war he worked at Guy’s Hospital and took the Fellowship in 1946. He then went into surgical practice in Melbourne, and was appointed to the staffs of the Alfred and later the Royal Melbourne Hospitals. He was making a distinguished place for himself as a surgeon in practice, research, and writing, when he was taken seriously ill at the age of 39. After more than two years he recovered sufficiently to undertake part-time work again in the physiological laboratories, but died suddenly from coronary occlusion on 31 October 1955 aged 42.vizualizați mai puține