Charles Ernest Lakin Explained

Birth Date:	23 February 1878
Birth Place:	Leicester, Leicestershire
Death Place:	Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Nationality:	British
Occupation:	Physician, pathologist, and dermatologist^[1]
Known For:	Presidency of the Medical Society of London (1938)

Charles Ernest Lakin (1878–1972) was an English physician, surgeon, pathologist, and anatomist.^{[2] [3]}

Biography

After education at Carter’s School and the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Leicester, Charles Ernest Lakin entered in 1896 the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1901 MRCS, LRCP. He graduated in 1902 MB BS (Lond.) and in 1903 MD.^[2] For some years Lakin was a demonstrator of anatomy and a clinical assistant in the skin department at the Middlesex Hospital and also a clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.^[1] He was also curator of the Middlesex Hospital's pathological museum and wrote its history in 1908. In 1908 he qualified MRCP. From 1904 to 1912 he performed all the autopsies at the Middlesex Hospital. There in 1912 he was appointed assistant physician and lecturer in morbid anatomy. He later also joined the London Fever Hospital's staff and became advisory physician to London's Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. During WWI he served in the RAMC as pathologist at the Addington Park War Hospital, although he continued his civilian appointment as consultant physician at the Middlesex Hospital. During WWII Lakin moved to Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, London, and continued there at least until 1950.^[2]

Awards and honours

• 1905 — elected FRCS
• 1916 — elected FRCP
• 1932 — Lumleian Lecturer on The Borderlands of Medicine
• 1934 — Lettsomian Lecturer on Disturbances of the Body Temperature
• 1938 — President of the Medical Society of London with Presidential Address on Lettsom's England
• 1943 — Annual Orator to the Medical Society of London with Annual Oration on Outside the Textbooks
• 1947 — Harveian Orator on Our Founders and Benefactors

Selected publications

• Taylor, G.. Lakin, C. E.. Perforative Peritonitis Originating in Pouches of the Large Intestine. The Lancet. 175. 4512. 1910. 495–496. 10.1016/s0140-6736(01)74775-7.
• Taylor, G.. Lakin, C. E.. A Fatal Case of Phlegmonous Inflammation of the Duodenum following Impaction of a Fish Bone. The Lancet. 178. 4586. 1911. 224–225. 10.1016/s0140-6736(01)42056-3.
• 2302044. 1915. Hort. E. C.. EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL FEVER: THE PLACE OF THE MENINGOCOCCUS IN ITS ETIOLOGY: A Bacteriological Study. (Preliminary Note.). British Medical Journal. 1. 2830. 541–543. Lakin. C. E.. Benians. T. H.. 20767550. 10.1136/bmj.1.2830.541.
• 2302188. 1915. Hort. E. C.. EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL FEVER: THE PLACE OF THE MENINGOCOCCUS IN ITS ETIOLOGY: A Bacteriological Study. (Interim Report.). British Medical Journal. 1. 2834. 715–718. Lakin. C. E.. Benians. T. H.. 20767606. 10.1136/bmj.1.2834.715.
• Hort, E. C.. Lakin, C. E.. Benians, T. H. C.. 1916. The Relationship of the Meningococcus of Weichselbaum to the True Infective Agent in Epidemic Cerebrospinal Fever. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. 26. 2. 153–188.
• 2018079. 1917. Lakin. C. E.. Case of Supposed Intrathoracic Neoplasm. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 10. Sect Study Dis Child. 7–9. 10.1177/003591571701001804. 19979911.
• 2017371. 1917. Lakin. C. E.. Discussion on the Ætiology and Treatment of Iritis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 10. Sect Ophthalmol. 54–56. 10.1177/003591571701001619. 19979871.
• 2018079. 1917. Lakin. C. E.. Case of Supposed Intrathoracic Neoplasm. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 10. Sect Study Dis Child. 7–9. 10.1177/003591571701001804. 19979911.
• 1948524. 1926. Lakin. C. E.. Anæsthesia in Relation to Disturbances of the Circulation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 19. Sect Anaesth. 27–31. 10.1177/003591572601901413. 19985153.
• 2102005. 1928. Lakin. C. E.. Case of Diabetes with Sciatic Neuritis and Muscular Atrophy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 21. 3. 446. 19986265. 10.1177/003591572802100353.
• 2102329. 1928. Lakin. C. E.. Occlusion of the Left Subclavian Artery. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 21. 7. 1167–1168. 19986490. 10.1177/003591572802100715.
• 2460265. 1935. Lakin. C. E.. Septicaemia. British Medical Journal. 1. 3875. 777–779. 20779006. 10.1136/bmj.1.3875.777.
• 2210491. 1938. Lakin. C. E.. Toxic and Infective Jaundice. British Medical Journal. 2. 4051. 437–439. 20781691. 10.1136/bmj.2.4051.437.
• 2089746. 1948. Lakin. C. E.. Our Founders and Benefactors. British Medical Journal. 1. 4543. 185–188. 18899046. 10.1136/bmj.1.4543.185.
• 2529999. 1949. Lakin. C. E.. William Cayley, M.D., F.R.C.P. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 25. 287. 404–407. 21313503. 10.1136/pgmj.25.287.404.

References

1. Web site: Lakin, Charles Ernest (1878–1972). Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Surgeons of England.
2. Web site: Charles Ernest Lakin. Royal College of Physicians, Lives of the Fellows, Munk's Roll, Vol. VI.
3. C. E. Lakin, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.P.. Br Med J. 10 June 1972. 2. 5814. 659. 10.1136/bmj.2.5814.659. 220159906.