Person

Love, Wilton Wood Russell (1861 - 1933)

Born
16 November 1861
Hollymount, Mayo, Ireland
Died
3 January 1933
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Physician

Summary

Wilton Love was an expert in general medicine and a pioneer in bacteriology and pathology. He was also one of the first in Queensland to introduce and master the techniques of diathermy and X-rays, setting up X-ray services at the Brisbane Children's Hospital. Love was one of Australia's first paediatric specialists. Other roles included assisting the Department of Police in their forensic work, lecturing Chemistry at the Brisbane Technical and Pharmacy colleges, Secretary of the Queensland Central Board of Health and of the Australasian Medical Congress, President of the British Medical Association - Queensland branch, foundation Fellow of the College of Surgeons of Australasia and a consulting surgeon to several hospitals including the Brisbane Children's Hospital and the Lady Lamington Hospital.

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Chronology

1862
Life event - Migrated to Australia (Queensland) with his family
1884
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM), University of Edinburgh
1886 -
Career position - Practitioner in Queensland
1896 - 1915
Career position - Radiologist, Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane
1897
Career position - President, Queensland Medical Society
1927 - 1933
Career position - Foundation Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

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Published resources

Book Sections

  • Leggett, C. A. C., 'Love, Wilton Wood Russell (1861-1933), medical practitioner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 153-154. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100148b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Love, W. W. R., 'Presidential address delivered to the Medical Society of Queensland', Australian medical gazette, 15 (1897), 62-5. Details

Resources

See also

  • Paterson, R. A., 'The first fifty years of x-ray use in Queensland', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 27 (1989), 567-88. Details
  • Pearn, John, '"Images of injury": a perspective and chronology of the introduction of X-rays to Queensland 1896 - 1906', Queensland history journal, 24 (4) (2020), 356-74. Details
  • Ryan, James, Sutton, Keith and Baigent, Malcolm eds, Australasian Radiology: a History (Sydney: McGraw-Hill, 1996), 542 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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