Open AccessJohn Zachariah Laurence: ‘forgotten luminary’
Author(s) -
Jms Pearce
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in clinical neuroscience and rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2397-267X
pISSN - 1473-9348
DOI - 10.47795/fvrv6760
Subject(s) - queen (butterfly) , intellect , square (algebra) , ophthalmology , the arts , general hospital , period (music) , history , medicine , art history , management , art , visual arts , general surgery , philosophy , theology , hymenoptera , botany , geometry , mathematics , economics , biology , aesthetics
John Zachariah Laurence was one of the four medical staff appointed in 1860 to the new “Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic,” at 24 Queen Square, London. A prize-winning graduate of UCH he was known for his high intellect and skills in general surgery and in ophthalmology. After a brief period at Queen Square he left to found the South London Ophthalmic Hospital that became the Royal Eye Hospital, and the “Ophthalmic Review”, the first British journal of ophthalmology; he later served at Barts. Highly accomplished in the arts, literature and research his achievements were sadly neglected by his contemporaries.