James Frederick Brailsford Explained

James Frederick Brailsford MD, FRCP (8 July 1888 – 28 January 1961) was a British radiologist, known as the founder and first president of the British Association of Radiologists^[1] and as the co-discoverer of the Morquio (or Morquio-Brailsford) syndrome.^[2]

He studied with Sir John Robertson, the Medical Officer of Health of Birmingham.^[3] In 1923 Brailsford qualified MB, ChB (Birmingham) and was appointed assistant radiologist to Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. In 1928 he received the higher qualification MD (Birmingham). As a radiologist and a demonstrator in living anatomy, he published 1934 his famous textbook The Radiology of Joints and Bones and thereby was acknowledged as one of the world's authorities on skeletal diseases.^[4] He received Ph.D. Birmingham (1936) and became MRCS, LRCP (1923), MRCP (1935), and FRCP (1941).^[1]

Awards and honours

• 1927 — Robert Jones gold medal of the British Orthopaedic Association
• 1931 — Roentgen Prize of the British Institute of Radiology
• 1934–1935 — Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
• 1944 — Mackenzie Davidson Lecturer
• 1943–1945 — Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Notes and References

1. Web site: Munk's Roll : Volume V, Lives of the fellows, Royal College of Physicians. James Frederick Brailsford.
2. J. F. . Brailsford . Chondro-osteo-dystrophy: Roentgenographic & clinical features of a child with dislocation of vertebrae . American Journal of Surgery . New York . 1929 . 7 . 3 . 404–410 . 10.1016/S0002-9610(29)90496-7 .
3. Grout, J. L. A.. James F. Brailsford, Ph. D., MD, FRCP, FFR. The British Journal of Radiology. 34. 400. 1961. 269. 10.1259/0007-1285-34-400-269.
4. Kapadia, H. M.. Banerjee, A. K.. Arnott, R. G.. 2004. The life and work of the Birmingham radiologist Dr. James Brailsford (1888-1961). Journal of Medical Biography. 12. 3. 128–135. 10.1177/096777200401200305. 15257346. 19392630.