1. Arthur Max Barrett, MD was a university morbid anatomist and histologist at the University of Cambridge, and an honorary consulting pathologist to the United Cambridge Hospitals and to the East Anglian Regional Hospital Board.
12 Facts About Max Barrett
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Max Barrett wrote numerous works, often cited in medical literature.
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The Barrett Room at Addenbrooke's Hospital is named in his honour, as is a Prize for the undergraduate Part II Pathology Tripos at the University of Cambridge.
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Max Barrett was the father of Syd Barrett, a founder member of the band Pink Floyd.
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Max Barrett won a Raymond Horton-Smith Prize for his MD degree thesis in his later life on estimating the increase in heart weight by quantifying the examination of the arteries.
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Max Barrett's solution of this problem was a notable advance in angiology, and helped in transferring histological observations from the art of opinion and impression into the exact science of quantitative measurement.
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Max Barrett worked in the wards and laboratories of the London Hospital from 1934 to 1938 and was University Demonstrator in Cambridge from 1938 to 1946, the only one in the Department of Pathology during the war years, having a large part of the teaching responsibility.
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Max Barrett was an examiner for the Institute of Medical and Laboratory Technology, London.
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Max Barrett often made histological examinations of the field fungi he carefully preserved and recorded for his collection, and gave some valued opinions on rare fungi during Autumn field meetings of the British Mycological Society.
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Inoperable cancer was diagnosed and Max Barrett died suddenly on 11 December 1961.
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Max Barrett's advice was constantly sought by pathologists in East Anglia and elsewhere, never without profit.
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Max Barrett's family life was a happy one: tea with the Barretts was fun, for he had imparted to his family his unbounded curiosity, which was, in the view of many friends, his most endearing characteristic.