Person
Cowlishaw, Leslie (1877 - 1943)
- Born
- 4 January 1877
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 11 December 1943
Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Physician and Medical historian
Summary
Leslie Cowlishaw had a private medical practice at Lindfield 1919-1943. He was also a keen medical historian and collector of early medical works, and his library forms the Cowlishaw collection in the library of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
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Born 4 January 1877. Died 11 December 1943. Educated University of Sydney (MB, ChM 1906). General practice, Cooma 1908-15, war service 1915-17, private practice, Hornsby 1918, private practice, Lindfield 1919-43. Chief sponsor of a section on medical history and literature of the local branch of the British Medical Association and of a similar group at the Australasian Medical Congress 1929, honorary lecturer in medical history, University of Sydney from 1931.
Published resources
Book Sections
- Ford, Edward, 'Cowlishaw, Leslie (1877-1943)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 127-128. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080142b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536267. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94605460. Details
- 'Cowlishaw, Leslie (1877-1943)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-624809. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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