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THE GORDON BELL MEMORIAL LECTURE SCIENCE AND SURGERY' R B WELBOURN, London YOU have done me a great honour in inviting me to deliver the first Sir Gordon Bell Memorial Lecture and I am very grateful I bring you warm greetings from home - from the President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from Lord Porritt a Past-President of our College and your former Governor-General, and from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School where several of you have worked and forged personal links which we treasure greatly Most of the older ones among you learned the science and art of surgery from ' Gordie Bell as you affectionately called him and he was a surgeon known and respected by colleagues throughout the world I had the pleasure of meeting him once when he visited Britain in 1957 Francis Gordon Bell (Figure 1) was born in 1887 on a sheep farm in the province of Marlborough and received his medical education and early surgical training in Edinburgh, where he became Assistant to Professor Alexis Thomson in the Department of Systematic Surgery and Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary He served with distinction as a surgeon in France in the
Anz Journal of Surgery – Wiley
Published: Apr 1, 1979
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