Person
Gibson, John Lockhart (1860 - 1944)
- Born
- 17 July 1860
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 30 September 1944
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Ophthalmologist
Summary
John Gibson completed his medical degree in Edinburgh then studied in Vienna, Berlin and London. He returned to Australia in 1886c and started up in general practice. Then in 1895 he was appointed ophthalmologist at Brisbane's Hospital for Sick Children. In 1892 Gibson and his colleagues attributed childhood anemia to hookworm and in 1904 he discovered that house paint was causing lead-poisoning in children. He led the campaign which saw lead paint banned from houses under the 1922 Health Act. Gibson joined the Australian Imperial Force in 1915 and was sent to Limnos to take charge of the ophthalmology section of the 3rd Australian General Hospital. Because his work was so successful, casualties from other regions, including Gallipoli, were sent there. John Gibson was involved in many professional organizations including the Queensland Medical Society, the British Medical Association (both the Queensland and federal branches), the College of Surgeons of Australasia and the Ophthalmological Society of Australia.
Details
Chronology
- 1881
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1885
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Edinburgh
- 1886 -
- Career position - General practice in Brisbane
- 1886 - 1894
- Career position - Visiting Physician at the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane
- 1892
- Career position - Vice-President of the 3rd Intercolonial Medical Congress in Sydney
- 1892
- Career position - President, Queensland Medical Society
- 1895 -
- Career position - Opthamologist at the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane
- 1908
- Career position - President, British Medical Association, Queensland branch
- 1915 - 1916
- Military service - Major and Opthalmologist-in-charge with the 3rd Australian General Hospital in Lemnos, Greece
- 1920 - 1935
- Career position - Senator, University of Queensland
- 1927
- Career event - Founding Fellow, College of Surgeons of Australasia
- 1940 - 1944
- Career position - President, Opthalmological Society of Australia
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Kenny, Patrick (Sir), The founders of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Melbourne, Victoria: The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 1984), 84 pp, https://www.surgeons.org/-/media/Project/RACS/surgeons-org/files/our-heritage-archives/founders.pdf. Details
Book Sections
- Wood, Ronald, 'Gibson, John Lockhart (1860-1944), opthalmologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 652-653. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080666b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Wood, R., 'John Lockhart Gibson During the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 62 (6) (1992), 492-494. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535589. Details
- 'Gibson, John Lockhart (1860-1944)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468613. Details
See also
- Leggett, C. A. C., 'The founders of the College: Queensland', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 51 (5) (1981), 508-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1981.tb05998.x. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 February 2018
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