Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie , (1783 - October 21st 1862), Physiologist and British surgeon , born with Winterslow in the Wiltshire.

It receives its first education of his father, then, choosing medicine like profession, it settles with London in 1801 or it follows the readings of John Abernethy. Two years later he becomes pupil of Everard Home at the hospital St Georges. In 1808 he is salaried surgeon assisting in this institution or he works during 30 years. In 1820 it is elected member of the Royal Society and contributes during the four or five years following to several original papers describing its investigations in physiology.

During this period it quickly obtains broad and lucrative practice of its trade, and from time to time it writes on questions of surgery, contributing in many articles for the Medical and Chirurgical Society and of the medical newspapers. Its more important work is probably Pathological and Surgical Observations one the Diseases off the Joints - Observations pathological and surgical of the diseases of the joints in lequelle it tries to discover the origin of the diseases of different fabrics forming an articulation and to quantify the symptoms of pains like obviousness of an organic disorder. This work carried out to the adoption by the surgeons of measurement of a conservative nature in the treatments of these diseases with for consequence the reduction of the number of amputation and safeguard of many members and life. Brodie also writes on the diseases of the urinary bodies and the nervous affections local of a surgical nature

In 1854 it publishes a volume of information anonymously surgical; which the second volume in 1862 sticks of which it is this time credited. It receives many honors during its career, surgeon of Guillaume IV and the queen Victoria, Baronnet in 1834, correspondent of the Institute of France in 1844, Doctor off Laws of the University of Oxford in 1855, president of the Royal Society in 1858, Medal Copley in 1811, Royal Medal in 1850, first president of the General Medical Council. He dies in Browne Park in the Surrey the October 21st 1862.

Its work, as its autobiography were published in 1865 pennies the direction of Charles Hawkins.

His/her oldest son, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1817-1880), is professor of Chimie to Oxford in 1865 and is mainly known for his work on the allotropic states of carbon and for his discovery of the mellic Acide.

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