Person
Trumble, Hugh Compson (1894 - 1962)
FRCS
- Born
- 28 May 1894
Nhill, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 16 October 1962
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Neurosurgeon
Summary
Hugh Trumble was one of the outstanding neurosurgeons of his era in Melbourne being largely concerned with cerebral tumours and abscesses. Much of his surgery was ground-breaking, often utilising instruments and mechanical aids of his own invention. He was a world authority on sympathectomies. His publications ranged widely over surgery for tuberculosis, orthopaedics, intracranial tumours and the autonomic nervous system. From 1934 he led Australia's first neurosurgical unit at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, being formally appointed Neurosurgeon in 1946. Trumble was a founding member of the Society of Australasian Neurosurgeons in 1940.
Details
Chronology
- 1916
- Education - MB BS, University of Melbourne
- 1916 - 1920
- Career position - Served with the Australian Imperial Forces
- 1918
- Award - Military Cross
- 1921
- Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, London
- 1922 -
- Career position - Surgeon, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
- 1922 - 1946
- Career position - Impatient Surgeon, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
- 1940
- Career position - Foundation member, Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
- 1946 - 1954
- Career position - Neurosurgeon, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
- 1954
- Life event - Retired
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Trumble, H. C.: edited by Leonard Cox, R. S. Lawson and T. E. Lowe, The collected papers of Hugh Trumble (Melbourne: Alfred Hospital in association with melbourne University Press, 1957), 301 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Guest, J.S., 'Trumble, Hugh Compson (1894-1962), Surgeon' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 414-415. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160501b.htm. Details
- Sunderland, S., 'The Cox-Trumble contribution to Australian neurology' in Neurology in Australia, Morris, J., ed. (Sydney: Australian Association of Neurologists, 1994), pp. 99-111. Details
Journal Articles
- Cox, Leonard, 'Hugh Compson Trumble', Medical Journal of Australia, 1963 (1) (1963), 406-8. Details
Resources
- 'Trumble, Hugh Compson (18940528-19621016)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1463697. Details
See also
- Alfred Healthcare Group Heritage Committee ed., Alfred Hospital: Faces and Places volume I(-III) (Prahran, Vic.: Alfred Healthcare Group, 1996-2004), 360 pp. Details
- Curtis, J. Bryant, Miller, Douglas and Simpson, Donald, 'The Neurosurgical Society of Australasia: the first forty years', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 50 (4) (1980), 434-7. Details
- Mitchell, Ann M., The hospital south of the Yarra: a history of the Alfred Hospital Melbourne from foundation to the nineteen-forties (Melbourne: The Hospital, 1977), 299 pp. Details
- Simpson, D. A.; Jamieson, K. G.; and Morson, S. M., 'The foundations of neurosurgery in Australian and New Zealand', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 44 (3) (1974), 215-27. Details
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Created: 6 April 2018, Last modified: 30 June 2022