Thomas Lionel Hardy

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Thomas Lionel Hardy
Born(1887-04-15)15 April 1887
ileostomy bag[1][2]

Thomas Lionel Hardy

FRCP (1887–1969) was a British physician and pioneering gastroenterologist.[3][2]

After education at

mentioned in despatches.[3]

In 1919 Hardy was appointed an assistant physician to the

Croonian Lecturer on Order and disorder in the large intestine. In 1948 he was appointed by the University of Birmingham to a personal chair in gastroenterology.[3]

He was a founder member of the

Letheby Tidy, and himself.[2]

In 1948 Hardy read a report of an American ileostomy bag. Hardy, (William) Trevor Cooke, Clifford Hawkins, and the surgeon Bryan N. Brooke, with the help of the research department of the Dunlop Company in Birmingham, developed and tested their own successful version of the rubber-based ileostomy bag. This revolutionised the therapy for ulcerative colitis.[3][4][5]

In 1914 T. Lionel Hardy married Elizabeth Clarke Ritchie. They had three sons and one daughter. After his first wife died in 1952, he married Margaret Askham in 1954[3] in Malvern, Worcestershire.

References

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  3. ^ a b c d e "Thomas Lionel Hardy". Munk's Roll, Volume VI, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians.
  4. ^ "Brooke, Bryan Nicholson (1915–1998)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Surgeons.
  5. PMID 20777868
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