Frederic Bateman
Sir Frederic Bateman (8 July 1824 – 10 August 1904) was an English physician and medical writer.[1]
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Biography
Frederic Bateman was born in Norwich, the son of John Bateman.[1] He began his medical training at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and continued it in Paris, where he took the diploma of Health Officer in 1846, and at University College London, where he qualified in 1849. In 1850 he took the degree of M.D. at the University of Aberdeen.[1] Having served as House Surgeon and Resident Apothecary at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1851, he entered into partnership with a general practitioner in the city. After several years, however, he turned to consulting practice.
He was physician to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital from 1864 to 1895, and also belonged to the staffs of the Bethel Hospital, the Royal Eastern Counties Hospital in Colchester, the Jenny Lind Infirmary and the Norfolk and Norwich Eye Infirmary.[1] In 1866 he obtained the membership of the Royal College of Physicians, becoming a fellow in 1876.
He gave special attention to brain diseases, and his best-known work, a pioneer treatise on aphasia (1870), was awarded the Alvarenga prize of the French National Academy of Medicine.
Bateman took a full part in the civic life of Norwich. He sat in the city council and in 1872 held the office of sheriff of Norwich, which his father had held before him. He was knighted on July 5, 1892 alongside George Johnson, Physician-Extraordinary of Queen Victoria. He was a member of many foreign learned societies,[2] and a fine French linguist, well read in French literature and medicine. He married in 1855 Emma Brownfield and had three sons and three daughters.
Frederic Bateman died at Norwich.
See also
Works
- On Aphasia, or Loss of Speech, and the Localisation of the Faculty of Articulate Language (1870)
- Darwinism Tested by Language (1876)
- The Idiot: His Place in Creation, and His Claims on Society (1882)
- The History of the Bethel Hospital at Norwich (1906)
Selected publications
- "On Hystero-Epilepsy," The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. XI, No. 1 (1884)
- "Hypnotism with a Criticism on Some Recent Experiences at La Salpêtrière," The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. XV, No. 5 (1890)
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References
- Anon. (1878). "Dr. Bateman on Darwinism," The Dublin Review, Vol. XXXI, pp. 139–52.
- Fiske, John (1879). "Dr. Bateman on Darwinism." In: Darwinism, and Other Essays. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., pp. 39–48.
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