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  • 1a: a substance or preparation used in treating disease

  • 2a: the science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease

  • 3: a substance (such as a drug or potion) used to treat something other than disease

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      Hicks, John Herbert
      Person · 1915-1992

      Accompanied G. Sherriff and F. Ludlow on their last expedition in 1949.

      • Studied medicine at Birmingham University, obtained his Fellowship in 1942

      • 1942-1946, served as a ship’s surgeon in the Merchant Navy

      • During his time as surgical registrar and resident surgical officer at Birmingham General Hospital he worked with H. H. Sampson, B. T. Rose, R. Scott Mason and J. B. Leather, and obtained the MCh (Orth) from Liverpool in 1950.

      • 1951, appointed surgeon to the Birmingham Accident Hospital

      • 1955, married Dr Sheila C. S. Meux in 1955 and they had two sons and one daughter

      MRCS 1940
      FRCS 1942
      MB ChB 1938
      MCh (Orth) 1950

      “His studies of the anatomy of the foot elucidated the function of the Plantar fascia and both simplified and clarified the movements of inversion and eversion: as a result, he lectured at anatomists meetings both in this country and in France and the United States. He also showed how inversion could cause the familiar lateral rotation injury of the ankle.”

      Developed what is known as a Hicks bone plate - used in many countries for internal fixation of bone fractures