Alexander George Gibson

Alexander George Gibson FRCP (1875–1950) was a British physician, pathologist, and cardiologist.[4]

Not to be confused with George Alexander Gibson, physician who discovered the heart murmur known as the Gibson Murmur.
Alexander George Gibson
Born(1875-09-21)21 September 1875
Kingston upon Hull
Died11 January 1950(1950-01-11) (aged 74)
Oxford
NationalityUnited Kingdom occupation = Physician and lecturer in morbid anatomy, Oxford[1]
Known fordiscovery in 1907 of the
third heart sound[2][3]

Biography

Alexander Gibson graduated in 1895 from University College, Aberystwyth with BSc (Lond.) degree and then graduated in 1900 from Christ Church, Oxford with BA degree with first-class honours in natural science. After medical education at St Thomas’ Hospital, he graduated in 1904 BM (Oxon.). After briefly holding a house appointment at St Thomas' Hospital, he became at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary in 1904 a house physician and in 1911 an assistant pathologist.[4] He qualified MRCP in 1905 and graduated DM (Oxon.) in 1908. He was elected FRCP in 1913.[2]

During WWI Gibson served as a major in the 3rd Southern General Hospital and upon demobilisation was appointed in 1919 a full physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary. At the University of Oxford he was successively appointed demonstrator of pathology, lecturer on morbid anatomy, and reader (latterly Nuffield reader) in morbid anatomy.[4]

In the early days at Oxford, Gibson had a small general practice in addition to being engaged on pathological teaching and research as University demonstrator at the Museum and as Pathologist to the Radcliffe Infirmary. Later he embarked on consultant practice, becoming particularly interested in cardiology.[2]

... a third heart sound was described by Gibson (1907) and Hirschfelder (1907). This sound is heard in only a proportion of subjects. ... Einthoven (1907) was the first to note the appearance of vibration on phonocardiograms at the time of the third heart sound, and these vibrations have since been studied by many workers, using various types of phonocardiograph.[5]

Gibson chaired the meeting which formed the Cardiac Club on 22 April 1922.[6] The Cardiac Club became in 1937 the Cardiac Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and is now known as the British Cardiovascular Society.

In 1921 at the London Hospital Medical College, Gibson delivered the Schorstein Lecture.[7][8] Under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians, he gave in 1928 the Bradshaw Lecture on pyelitis and pyelonephritis.[2]

Gardening and natural life provided recreations for his leisure, and his understanding of the history of medicine was shown by his books, The Radcliffe Infirmary (1926) and The Physician's Art (1933), an elaboration of Locke’s De Arte Medica.[4]

For the Quarterly Journal of Medicine he was one of the editors from 1929 to 1937 and served as the secretary for the editorial board from 1907 to 1937.[2] He was the co-author with William Tregonwell Collier (1889–1932) of Methods of Clinical Diagnosis (1927).[4]

Gibson married Constance Muriel Jones. They had two sons and a daughter.[1]

gollark: I'm sure someone somewhere is studying this.
gollark: What if RF electrochemistry?
gollark: I mean, you can already 3D-print technically-functional guns. Eventually it'll probably be actually-functional ones. Within a few decades with biotech advancements you might be able to just shove together a deadly pathogen on a desktop.
gollark: I wonder if any government actually has good plans for the effect of advancing technology on this stuff.
gollark: There are an impressive amount of splinter groups.

References
  1. "Gibson, Alexander George". Who's Who. 1923. p. 1050.
  2. Campbell, Maurice (1951). "A. G. Gibson". Br Heart J. 13 (2): 255–257. doi:10.1136/hrt.13.2.255. PMC 479416. PMID 14821210.
  3. Gibson, Alexander G. (16 November 1907). "The significance of a hitherto undescribed wave in the jugular pulse". The Lancet. 170 (4394): 1380–1382. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(01)55318-0.
  4. "Alexander George Gibson". Munk's Roll, Volume IV, Royal College of Physicians.
  5. Sloan, A. W.; Campbell, F. W.; Henderson, A. Stewart (18 October 1952). "Incidence of the physiological third heart sound". Br Med J. 2 (4789): 853–855. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.4789.853. PMC 2021707. PMID 12978355.
  6. Cowan, John (January 1939). "Some notes on the Cardiac Club". Br Heart J. 1 (1): 97–104. doi:10.1136/hrt.1.1.97. PMC 503409. PMID 18609810.
  7. Gibson, Alexander George (29 October 1921). "Schorstein Lecture on the Chronic Inflammatory Diseases of the Spleen". The Lancet: 885–891. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(00)79752-2.
  8. Rubinstein, W.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hilary L., eds. (2011). "Schorstein, Gustave Isidore". The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. p. 879.
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