Frederick Charles Pybus Explained

Frederick Charles Pybus DCL, FRCS (2 November 1883 – 10 March 1975) was an English surgeon from Newcastle-on-Tyne, who contributed to research into organ transplantation.^[1]

Research

In July 1916, Pybus reported an attempt at allogenic transplantation of pancreatic tissue. Despite a mild reduction in glucose excretion in one of two diabetic patients transplanted with fragments of human cadaveric pancreatic tissue.,^[2] both patients subsequently died.^[3]

Pybus concluded that:

...although transplants represented the most rational form of therapy, they would continue to fail as long as science did not understand the principles involved.^[3]

He presented his collection of books on the history of medicine to the library of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.^[4]

References

• Durh M, Newcastle D . Frederick Charles Pybus. . Lancet . 1 . 7909 . 757–8 . 1975 . 47530 . 10.1016/s0140-6736(75)91679-7 .
• Pybus F. . Notes on suprarenal and pancreatic grafting. . Lancet . ii . 550–1 . 1924 . 5272 . 10.1016/s0140-6736(01)39800-8 .

External links

The Professor Frederick Pybus Archive and the Professor Frederick Pybus Collection is available to view at Newcastle University Special Collections.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online: Pybus, Frederick Charles (1883–1975). 1 November 2016.
2. • Pybus F. . Notes on suprarenal and pancreatic grafting. . Lancet . ii . 550–1 . 1924 . 5272 . 10.1016/s0140-6736(01)39800-8 .
3. Schlich, T. (2010) Volume 18 of Rochester Studies in Medical History: The Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930 p.74. University Rochester Press. . Retrieved August 2011
4. Web site: Pybus Collection. Robinson Library . 2011-05-23.