George Grey Turner

George Grey Turner

George Grey Turner (September 8, 1877 - August 24, 1951) was an English surgeon. He received a Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1903, and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War. As a young surgeon, he travelled around the world, being received by the Pope, Mussolini, the King of Italy and King Alfonso of Spain. Five years before his death, Grey Turner was made President of the International Society of Surgeons.

After the war, Grey Turner was briefly famous for performing one of the earliest operations to attempt the removal of a bullet from a soldier's heart. The bullet was never removed, but Grey Turner's surgery saved the patient's life. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/0vxaeub60h60cr2w/. SpringerLink - Journal Article ] ]

During the following decades, Grey Turner worked with early cancer research, and anticipated the development of chemotherapy ("We shall never overcome cancer by surgery: it will be something we will inject"). In 1925 he published an optimistic work entitled "Some encouragements in Cancer surgery". [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2779.html. George Grey Turner (www.whonamedit.com) ] ]

A type of bruising, Grey-Turner's sign, was named after the surgeon.

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