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Joseph Frank Payne

Joseph Frank Payne (1840–1910) was an English physician, known also as a historian of medicine.[1]

Life

The son of

University College, London; and then gained in 1858 a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford. He graduated B.A. in 1862, taking a first class in natural science, and afterwards obtained the Burdett-Coutts scholarship in geology (1863), the Radcliffe travelling fellowship (1865), and a fellowship at Magdalen, which he vacated on his marriage in 1883, becoming an honorary fellow on 30 May 1906. He also took a B.Sc. degree in the University of London in 1865.[2]

Algernon Charles Swinburne with nine of his peers (including Payne) at Oxford, ca. 1850s

Payne studied medicine at St. George's Hospital, London, and graduated M.B. at Oxford in 1867, M.D. in 1880.

He became a member of the

St. Thomas's Hospital, a post which he held till appointed physician in 1887. In 1900 he had reached the age limit, and became consulting physician. He was also on the staff of the Hospital for Skin Diseases at Blackfriars.[2]

In September 1877 Payne was the chief medical witness for the defence at the sensational trial in London of Louis Staunton and others for the

cerebral meningitis was the cause of death, a view which later had support. In 1879 he was sent to Russia by the British government with Surgeon-major Colvill to observe and report on the epidemic of bubonic plague then in progress at Vetlanka, but illness prevented him from achieving much. He took an active part on a committee of the College of Physicians in 1905 on the Indian epidemic of plague and was chosen as the spokesman of the committee to the Secretary of State.[2]

In 1899 Payne was elected Harveian librarian of the College of Physicians, and gave many books to the library. He was for eight years an examiner for the licence of the College of Physicians, was a censor in 1896-7, and senior censor in 1905. He discharged in 1896 the duty of editor of the Nomenclature of Diseases and sat on: the Royal Commission on tuberculosis (1890); the General Medical Council as representative of the University of Oxford (1899-1904); the senate of the University of London (1899-1906); and the committee of the London Library. He lived at 78 Wimpole Street while engaged in practice, and after his retirement at New Barnet.[2]

Failing health interrupted Payne's writing in his last year. He died at Lyonsdown House, New Barnet, on 16 November 1910, and was buried at

Bell's Hill cemetery.[2]

Works

In accordance with the terms of Dr. Radcliffe's foundation Payne visited Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, and made good use of their pathological opportunities. He described his experiences in three articles published in the

Goulstonian lectures in 1873, his subject was The Origin and Relation of New Growths.[2]

Harveian oration at the College of Physicians on the relation of William Harvey to Galen,[3] and in 1900 wrote a life of Thomas Sydenham.[4] He read (21 January 1901) a paper before the Bibliographical Society On the "Herbarius" and "Hortus Sanitatis."[2]

In 1903 and 1904 Payne delivered the first FitzPatrick lectures on the history of medicine at the College of Physicians. The first course was on English Medicine in the Anglo-Saxon Times (Oxford, 1904),[5] the second on English Medicine in the Anglo-Norman Period, covering Gilbertus Anglicus and the contents of his Compendium Medicinæ had never before been thoroughly set forth. The lectures of 1904 which Payne was preparing for the press at the time of his death address the writings of Ricardus Anglicanus and the anatomical teaching of the Middle Ages. Payne demonstrated that the Anatomy of the Body of Man, printed in Tudor times and of which the editions extend into the middle of the seventeenth century, was not written by Thomas Vicary, whose name appears on the title-page, but was a translation of a mediæval manuscript.[2]

Payne wrote articles on the history of medicine in the Encyclopædia Britannica, and in Clifford Allbutt's System of Medicine (vol. i. 1905), besides several lives in this Dictionary. During the spring of 1909 he delivered a course of lectures on Galen and Greek medicine at the request of the delegates of the Common University Fund at Oxford. His last historical work was entitled 'History of the College Club,' and was privately printed in 1909.[2] In 1907, Payne sought approval from the council of the Royal Society of Medicine to include regular discussions on the history of medicine.[6]

In 1875 Payne edited

Lumleian lectures On Cancer, especially of the Internal Organs.[2]

Payne wrote articles on plague in the Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, St. Thomas's Hospital Reports,

Epidemiological Society, of which he was president in 1892-3. In 1889 he published Observations on some Rare Diseases of the Skin, and was president of the Dermatological Society (1892-3); papers by him are in its Transactions.[2]

Family

Payner married, on 1 September 1882, Helen, daughter of the Hon. John Macpherson of

Melbourne, Victoria, by whom he had one son and three daughters.[2]

Notes

  1. PMC 2336629
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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Payne, Joseph Frank" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ Harvey and Galen : the Harveian oration : delivered before the Royal Colleges of Physicians, October 19, 1896 by Joseph Frank Payne.
  4. ^ Joseph Frank Payne (1900). Thomas Sydenham. London: T. Fisher Unwin.
  5. ^ "Review of English Medicine in the Anglo-Saxon Times by Joseph Frank Payne". The Oxford Magazine. 23. The Proprietors: 348. 25 January 1905.
  6. OCLC 47271565
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Attribution

Wikisource This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Payne, Joseph Frank". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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