Home, Sir Everard, 1756-1832, 1st baronet, surgeon

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Home, Sir Everard, 1756-1832, 1st baronet, surgeon

1756-1832

Everard Home was born at Hull on 6 May 1756 the son of Robert Boyne Home, army surgeon, afterwards of Greenlaw Castle, Berwickshire, and his wife Mary (nee Hutchinson). He was educated at Westminster School; Trinity College, Cambridge; St. George's Hospital; and Surgeons' Hall. At St Georges Hospital, Home was a pupil of his brother-in-law, John Hunter. He assisted Hunter in many of his anatomical investigations, and in the autumn of 1776 he partly described Hunter's collection. Having qualified at Surgeons' Hall in 1778, he was appointed assistant surgeon at the naval hospital, Plymouth. Later he went to Jamaica as staff surgeon, returning in August 1784. He resumed his assistancy with Hunter, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1785, and in 1788 received the gold medal of the Lyceum Medicum Londinense for a dissertation on the 'Properties of Pus.' In 1786 he took charge of Hunter's patients while Hunter was ill, and lived in Hunter's house from this time till 1792, when he married. In 1787 Home was appointed assistant surgeon under Hunter at St. George's Hospital. In 1790-1791 he lectured for Hunter, and in 1792 succeeded him as lecturer on anatomy. He was elected surgeon to St. George's Hospital after Hunter's death in 1793. Home had a large surgical practice, and became keeper and afterwards one of the trustees of the Hunterian collection (1817). He was member of the court of assistants of the College of Surgeons in 1801, member of the court of examiners in 1809, master in 1813, and president in 1821. From 1804 to 1813, and again in 1821, he was professor of anatomy and surgery at the college, but did not lecture till 1810, giving another course in 1813; in 1814 and in 1822 he was Hunterian orator. In 1808 he was appointed sergeant-surgeon to King George III and in 1813 he was created a baronet. In 1821 he was appointed surgeon to Chelsea Hospital, where he died at his official residence on 31 Aug 1832, aged 76. He had resigned the surgeoncy to St George's Hospital in 1827, and was made consulting surgeon. Home married in 1792 Jane Thompson (nee Tunstall) widow of Stephen Thompson, by whom he had six children. Publications: Over one hundred papers in the Philosophical Transactions; A Dissertation on the Properties of Pus , London, 1788; A short Account of the Life of John Hunter, prefixed to Hunter's Treatise on the Blood, Inflammations, and Gunshot Wounds , London, 1794; Practical Observations on the Treatment of Strictures in the Urethra and in the fsophagus , London, 1795; Practical Observations on the Treatment of Ulcers on the Legs, considered as a branch of Military Surgery , London, 1797; Observations on Cancer, connected with Histories of the Disease , London, 1805; J. Hunter's Treatise on the Venereal Disease , edited by Sir E. Home, London, 1810; Practical Observations on the Treatment of the Diseases of the Prostate Gland , vol. i. 1811, vol. ii. 1818, London; Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, in which are explained the Preparations in the Hunterian Museum , London, 1814-1828, 6 volumes; On the Formation of Tumours, and the peculiarities in the Structure of those that have become Cancerous, with their Mode of Treatment , London, 1830.

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