Frederick Charles Pybus

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Frederick Charles Pybus DCL, FRCS was an English surgeon from Newcastle-on-Tyne, who was at the forefront of research into organ transplantation.

Research

In July 1916, Pybus reported an attempt at allogenic transplantation of pancreatic tissue. Despite a mild reduction in glucose excretion in one of two diabetic patients transplanted with fragments of human cadaveric pancreatic tissue.,[1] both patients subsequently died.[2]

Pybus concluded that:

...although transplants represented the most rational form of therapy, they would continue to fail as long as science did not understand the principles involved.[2]

He presented his collection of books on the history of medicine to the library of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.[3]

Footnotes

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  2. 2.0 2.1 Schlich, T. (2010) Volume 18 of Rochester Studies in Medical History: The Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930 p.74. University Rochester Press. ISBN 1-58046-353-3. Retrieved August 2011
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References

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