Sawyer, Sir James.

Points of practice in Maladies of the Heart – [INSCRIBED / SIGNED – with a signed (monogrammed) portrait-postcard of Sir James Sawyer] – Lumleian lectures at the Royal College of Physicians of London.

First Edition. Birmingham, Cornish Brothers, 1908. Small Octavo. VIII, 96 pages. Hardcover / Original, red publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Vintage portrait-postcard of Sir James Sawyer tipped in verso endpaper. The postcard is monogrammed in ink “J.S.”. The book is inscribed by Sir James Sawyer: “W.V.Bramington, Eng. [..] from the author”. Very Rare ! [Lumleian Lectures].

Sir James Sawyer FRSE FRCP FSA JP (1844–1919) was a 19th century British physician. He was born in Carlisle on 11 August 1844 the son of James Sawyer and his wife Ann Ross. He studied Medicine at Queen’s College, Birmingham graduating in 1866. He then took a post as a resident physician at Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham becoming full Physician in 1871. He then also took on a secondary role as Physician at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. In 1875 his alma mater elected him Professor of Pathology and in 1878 he also began lecturing in Materia Medica. He became Professor of Medicine (in charge of the whole department) in 1885. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in the same year. He bought Haseley Hall (Five Ways) from Sir Edward Antrobus in 1889 and lived there for the rest of his life.
In 1891 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Alexander Gibson, William Smith Greenfield, Sir Byrom Bramwell, and Alexander Bruce. He retired in 1891 but delivered the Lumleian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians in 1908 (Points of Practice in Maladies of the Heart). He was President of the Birmingham Conservative Association and the Warwickshire Chamber of Agriculture in 1902. He died at Haseley Hall in Hatton, Warwickshire on 19 January 1919. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Cardiology · Catalogue Autumn 2020 · Catalogue Nine – Medicine · Catalogue No.9 – Medicine · Heart Diseases · History of Medicine · Inscribed · Kardiologie · Medicine – Rare · Signed
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 28865AB

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