BRODIE, SIR Benjamin Collins, English J surgeon : b. Winterslow, Wiltshire, 9 June 1873; cl. Broome Park, Surrey, 21 Oct. 1862. His father superintended his education till was 18, after which he went to the Huntertan School of Anatomy. In 1803 he became a pupil of Sir Everard Home at Saint George's Hospital, and in 1805 was appointed assistant to Mr. Wilson, demonstrator of anatomy. In 1809 he became a lecturer of the school and assistant surgeon of the hospital. In 1810 he was elected Croonian lecturer to the Royal Society, and the excellence of his papers caused him to be elected a fellow, and in the follow ing year he received the Copley medal. His reputation as a distinguished surgeon was now established, and his professional career became one of uniform success. From 1819 to 1823 he was professor of anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1822 he was elected a full surgeon at Saint George's. He continued giv ing clinical lectures there till 1830, when the increasing demands of his profession com pelled him to discontinue them. In 1832 he succeeded Sir Everard Home as sergeant surgeon to William IV, and was made a baronet by patent in 1834. Queen Victoria con
tinued him in the same appointment. From 1835 to 1846 he was a member of the Court of Examiners of the College of Surgeons, and in 1844 he was president of the court. In 1858 he was elected president of the Royal Society, which honor he held till 1861. For some years before his death his sight failed, and for about two years he was almost totally As a professional practitioner his gains exceeded those of almost any man of like profession in his time. In 1851 he republished a selection of his earlier essays, entitled 'Physiological Re searches.' His work on 'Pathological and Surgical Observations on Diseases of the Joints) (1818) was esteemed of great value both in Great Britain and on the Continent, and went through many editions. In 1854 he pub lished a work in a colloquial form entitled 'Psychological Inquiries.' The dialogue is not controversial, and the work contains the mature opinions of the author on various speculative subjects.