DR. HUGH CAIRNS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 201, 10 September 1937, Page 8

DR. HUGH CAIRNS

Our Own Correspondent.)

Eminent London Specialist WELL-KNOWN IN WELLINGTON

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WELLINGTON Last Night. Dr. llugh Cairns, who is xcported by , cnblc to liave been chosen to operate ou Frank Murphy, ivho was sent io England i'or surgical aid, is one of three loading neurological surgeons in England, the other two being Sir Jeffrey Jell'erson, of. Edinburgh, and Mr Norman Dott, of Manchester. Dr. Cairns, who is well known in Wellington, several doctors here having worked under him, is declared not to be a New Zealander, but an Australian. He took his degrees of M.B., B.Sc., at the University of Adelaide. Dr. Cairns was an assistant-surgeon at the London General Hospital^ and later was neurological eurgeon to the hospital. He holds Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, and of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was at one time Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. Hc studied in the United States for some time, and for tlie last ten years has been specialising in brain surgery, and is probably the leading man in London in this field, though Sir Jeffrey Jefferson used to practise there "aitio. In England the work of brain surpery is concentrated into relatively few hands, of course, and most of the men wliu specialise in it are outstanding. Recently Dr. Cairns was appointed to oue of the chairs created at Oxford under the new seheme for a Medical School, the seheme being made possible by the benevolenee of Lord Nuffield, and it is not known liero whether he is still working in London, or has recently moved to Oxford.