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The life and trials of Diamond Jim Beaney, colonial lithotomist Melbourne 1876
Author(s) -
MURPHY D.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
bju international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 1464-4096
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.2006.06085_70.x
Subject(s) - colonialism , history , diamond , art history , genealogy , archaeology , materials science , metallurgy
Diamond Jim Beaney, (1828–1891), otherwise known as Champagne Jimmy led a controversial and colourful surgical life in Melbourne. He arrived in Melbourne in 1857 and was elected as an honorary surgeon to The Melbourne Hospital in 1860 for 5 years and then re‐elected under controversial circumstances in 1875 until 1890. He was the first in Australia to publish a medical text book and is seen by some as a true colonial pioneer in the area of colo‐rectal as well as children's medicine and welfare, in his adopted land. He was charged with murder on one occasion. He was the subject of a controversial coronial inquest into the death of a patient, subsequent to a trans‐perineal cysto‐lithotomy. His notoriety during his life has changed to benevolent acceptance in death, in that he is remembered at The University of Melbourne for bequeathing an annual award to the principal surgical and pathology scholars, in their final exams ‘The Beaney Prize’.