Person
Wilkinson, John Francis (1864 - 1935)
- Born
- 13 April 1864
Collingwood, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 29 March 1935
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
John Wilkinson had a medical practice in Melbourne from 1897. His particular interests were the fractional test meal and the opaque bismuth meal X-ray examination and he popularised the dietary treatment of peptic ulcer and diabetes. After seeing insulin used clinically in Canada in September 1922 he organised for it to be manufactured under licence by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in Melbourne. He was also Founder and first secretary of the Alpine Club; Wilkinson's Lookout is named after him.
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Chronology
- 1885
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), University of Melbourne
- 1886
- Education - Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne
- 1887
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Melbourne Hospital
- 1888 - 1897
- Career position - Private practice in Bright, Victoria
- 1897 -
- Career position - Private practice in Melbourne
- 1897 - 1922
- Career position - Honorary Demonstrator and Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry, University of Melbourne
- 1899
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne
- 1903 -
- Career position - Honorary Physician at the Melbourne Hospital
- 1912
- Career position - President, British Medical Association, Victorian branch
Published resources
Book Sections
- Travers, Richard, 'Wilkinson, John Francis (1864-1935), physician' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), p. 492. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wilkinson-john-francis-9103. Details
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'John Francis Wilkinson', Medical journal of Australia (1935), 603-5. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535416. Details
- 'Wilkinson, John Francis (1864-1935)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1471029. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 5 March 2018