John Hay (25 November 1873 – 21 April 1959) was a British cardiologist.
John Hay | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 November 1873 |
| Died | 21 April 1959 (aged 85) |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | physician |
| Field | cardiology |
He was born in Birkenhead, Lancashire, the son of a Scottish architect and educated at the Liverpool Institute and the Victoria University of Manchester, qualifying M.B. in 1896.[1]
From 1900 to 1903 he was medical tutor and registrar at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. In 1905 he identified a form of second degree AV block.[2][3][4] In 1907 he was appointed Assistant Physician and set up the first specialised heart department in the north of England.
During World War I he served at the 1st Western General Hospital, becoming a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps.[citation needed]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1915 and in 1923 delivered their Bradshaw Lecture on Prognosis in Angina Pectoris.[5] In 1924 he was appointed Professor of Medicine (part-time) at the University of Liverpool. He retired to live at Bowness in the Lake District, where he died in 1959.[citation needed]
He had married in 1906 Agnes Margaret Duncan, daughter of William Duncan of Tyldesley, Lancashire. They had two sons and two daughters.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Campbell, M.; Jones, E. W. (1 October 1959). "JOHN HAY". Heart. 21 (4): 573–577. doi:10.1136/hrt.21.4.573. PMC 1017618.
- ^ synd/2824 at Who Named It?
- ^ J. Hay. Bradycardia and cardiac arrhythmia produced by depression of certain of the functions of the heart. The Lancet 1906, 1: 139–143.
- ^ Barold SS, Lüderitz B (June 2001). "John Hay and the earliest description of type II second-degree atrioventricular block". Am. J. Cardiol. 87 (12): 1433–5. doi:10.1016/S0002-9149(01)01574-0. PMID 11397375.
- ^ Hay, John (24 November 1923). "The Bradshaw Lecture On Angina Pectoris: Some Points in Prognosis Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London". Br Med J. 2 (3282): 957–962. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.3282.957. PMC 2317445. PMID 20771362.
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