1. Harold Stiles was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire in 1863 the son of Henry Tournay Stiles MD and his wife, Elizabeth Ellen Jalland.
25 Facts About Harold Stiles
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Harold Stiles studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1885.
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Harold Stiles earned the Ettles scholarship for the most distinguished graduate of the year.
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Harold Stiles was House Surgeon to Professor John Chiene FRSE, Demonstrator in the University Department of Anatomy under Sir William Turner, and Assistant in Charge of Pathology in the university's surgical laboratory.
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In 1889 Stiles was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
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Harold Stiles was then living at 5 Castle Terrace, south of Edinburgh Castle.
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Harold Stiles trained for six months under Professor Theodore Kocher in Bern, where he learned to follow the aseptic system of surgery rather than Listerian antisepsis.
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Harold Stiles was the first surgeon to use the aseptic approach in Edinburgh.
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Harold Stiles was appointed assistant surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh and assistant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
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Harold Stiles was later made Surgeon at the Sick Children's Hospital in succession to Joseph Bell.
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Harold Stiles taught at the Children's Hospital for many years, and during this period he or his assistants published important papers on surgical tuberculosis, earning him recognition throughout the medical world.
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Harold Stiles lectured on Applied Anatomy at the university, and became known as an extremely skilled anatomist and surgeon.
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Harold Stiles was responsible for treating wounded soldiers in the Military Surgical Division at the Bangour hospital, and for his achievements was awarded a knighthood in the 1918 New Year Honours and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.
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Harold Stiles was appointed to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where he organized a surgical unit and pathological laboratory and provided practical courses in surgery.
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In 1923, Harold Stiles visited Harvard University, temporarily replacing Professor Harvey Williams Cushing.
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Harold Stiles's proposers were Sir James Alfred Ewing, Arthur Robinson, Arthur Robertson Cushny and James Hartley Ashworth.
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Harold Stiles died in his home, Whatton Lodge in Gullane, East Lothian, in 1946, aged 83.
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Harold Stiles married twice: in 1889 to Cecilia Norton Law, and, following her death in 1930, in 1931 he married Jean Morrison Thorburn.
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Harold Stiles was survived by one daughter, Dorothy who went on to marry a Mr George Rome.
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Harold Stiles showed that tuberculosis of bones, joints and cervical lymph nodes was often caused by the bovine form of the tubercle bacillus.
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Harold Stiles earned international recognition for his research into the anatomy of the breast and the pathology of breast cancer.
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Where some experts in cancer treatment, such as Joseph Colt Bloodgood, used pathological techniques to determine whether a lesion was malignant, Harold Stiles did not believe this was necessary.
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Harold Stiles was the first surgeon to transplant the ureter into the sigmoid colon as a treatment for extraversion of the bladder.
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Harold Stiles undertook many orthopaedic operations for wounded soldiers at the EMS Hospital at Bangour.
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Harold Stiles learned how to treat nerve injuries at the Scottish Military Hospital at Bangour, and became famous for this pioneering work.