1. Marcus Beck was a British professor of surgery at University College Hospital.
17 Facts About Marcus Beck
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Marcus Beck was an early proponent of the germ theory of disease and promoted the discoveries of Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister in surgical literature of the time.
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Marcus Beck gave his name to the Marcus Beck Library at the Royal Society of Medicine.
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Edward Beck was a cousin of Joseph, Lord Lister who later proved to be influential on Marcus.
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Marcus Beck was educated at Queenwood College, Hampshire, Arthur Abbott's School, Hitchin and the University of Glasgow.
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Marcus Beck gained admission to the University of Glasgow in 1860 where he lived with Joseph Lister, his first cousin once removed.
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Marcus Beck became assistant surgeon to University College Hospital in 1873, succeeding Christopher Heath as teacher of operative surgery in 1875.
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In 1892, Marcus Beck became a member of the court of examiners, by which time he was practising at 30 Wimpole Street.
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The introduction of the antiseptic technique by Lister in the late 19th century was controversial and Marcus Beck was one of his greatest defenders.
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Marcus Beck was a close associate of Erichsen, who had published a popular and reputable surgical textbook, The Science and Art of Surgery which in 1860, was issued by the American government to every medical officer in the Federal army during the American Civil War.
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Marcus Beck had reported in 1870, that the French failed to adopt antiseptic measures during the Franco-Prussian War.
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Besides Howse at Guy's Hospital, Marcus Beck was among the few that understood or practised Lister's methods until Lister came to London.
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Marcus Beck contributed to articles on "Diseases of the Kidney and Secondary Affections of the Lower Urinary Tract, misnamed Surgical Kidney" to Volume V of Reynold's System of Medicine.
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Marcus Beck wrote on erysipelas for the first edition of Quain's Dictionary of Medicine, and on "Diseases of the Breast" for Heath's Dictionary of Surgery.
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Marcus Beck was elected a member of the Morbid Growths Committee of the Pathological Society.
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Roger Marcus Beck gave permission to the Royal Society of Medicine's council to form an extension of the library from the laboratory in 1923.
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Marcus Beck died at Isleworth on 21 May 1893, having had diabetes for 20 years.