John David Spillane Explained

Birth Date:7 May 1909
Birth Place:Cardiff[1]
Death Place:Newport, Dyfed
Nationality:United Kingdom
Known For:An Atlas of Clinical Neurology (1968)

John David "Jerry" Spillane (1909–1985) was a Welsh neurologist[2] and a pioneer of tropical neurology.[3]

Biography

After education at Howardian High School[1] and then graduation BSc from University College Cardiff, Spillane studied medicine at Cardiff's Welsh National School of Medicine, graduating there MB BCh (Wales) in 1933. He qualified MRCP in 1936. In 1937 he went to the USA as a Commonwealth Fund fellow, studying under Paul Dudley White at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.[2] In 1938 Spillane was awarded a Harvard research fellowship and studied at the Neurological Institute of New York affiliated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1939 he returned to the UK and graduated MD (Wales) with a thesis based on his research in cardiology.[1]

In 1939 in East Glamorgan, Glamorganshire, he married Joan Rees, daughter of a Cardiganshire physician. Spillane then enlisted in the RAMC and was posted to the military hospital at Aldershot.[2] He was subsequently posted to the Middle East as an adviser in neurology to the Ninth Army. He completed his war service as lieutenant colonel and adviser in neurology to Middle East Forces. After the end of WWII he spent a year at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. He was appointed in 1946 an assistant physician to the Cardiff Royal Infirmary and then a consultant neurologist there, as well as an honorary lecturer at the Welsh National School of Medicine. His clinical research, teaching, and writing helped to establish an international reputation for the Cardiff Royal Infirmary's department of neurology. He gave weekly clinical demonstrations known as the "JD Show".[1]

Spillane was elected FRCP in 1950. In the 1960s he was one of the first to use carbamazepine for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.[2] In 1968 he published An Atlas of Clinical Neurology,[4] with in 1975 a second edition and in 1982 a third edition, which was revised by his son, John, who was also a consultant neurologist.[1] The Atlas was translated into four languages.[2] In 1972 J. D. Spillane delivered the Bradshaw Lecture on The geography of neurology.[5] In 1974 he retired and was elected president of the Association of British Neurologists.[1] Under the auspices of the Royal Society of Medicine he gave in 1976 the Hughlings Jackson lecture on Hughlings Jackson's American contemporaries: the birth of American neurology.[6] For the academic year 1976–1977 he was Sandoz visiting professor at the Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire.[1]

Upon his death he was survived by his widow, his son, and two daughters.[2]

See also

List of Welsh medical pioneers

Selected publications

Articles

Books

Notes and References

  1. Obituary. J D Spillane, MD, FRCP. 24 August 1985. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 291. 6494. 549. 10.1136/bmj.291.6494.549. 220141179 .
  2. Web site: John David Spillane. Munk's Roll, Volume VIII, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians.
  3. Poser, Charles M.. Charles Poser. Poser, Joan Crawford. Neurology in the developing world. Brain. 129. 6. 1 June 2006. 1624–1629. 10.1093/brain/awl121. free.
  4. Russell, W. Ritchie. William Ritchie Russell. Review of An Atlas of Clinical Neurology by John David Spillane. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. 31. 5. 1968. 533. 496417. 10.1136/jnnp.31.5.533.
  5. Br Med J. 27 May 1972. 2. 5812. 506–512. 1788303. The geography of neurology. Spillane, JD. 4555546. 10.1136/bmj.2.5812.506.
  6. Proc R Soc Med. June 1976. 69. 6. 393–408. 1864290. Hughlings Jackson Lecture. Hughlings Jackson's American Contemporaries: The Birth of American Neurology. Spillane. J. D.. 785475. 10.1177/003591577606900607.
  7. Macredie, Will. Strange Encounters: Post Mortem: Film Producers In The Mortuary. The British Medical Journal. 2. 6192. 1979. 724.
  8. Gooddy, William. William Gooddy. Review of Doctrine of the Nerves by J. D. Spillane. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 74. 6. June 1981. 470. 10.1177/014107688107400621. free.
  9. Nutton, Christine. Med Hist. April 1985. 29. 2. 231. 1139530. Review of Medical travellers. Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by J. D. Spillane. 10.1017/S0025727300044227.
  10. Review of Tropical Neurology edited by Raad A. Shakir, Peter K. Newman, and Charles M. Poser. Keystone, J. S.. 3 October 1996. N Engl J Med. 335. 14. 1075–1076. 10.1056/NEJM199610033351421.

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