By D W Carmalt Jones Edited by Brian Barraclough MD FRCP FRACP, formerly Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Southampton, UK, and Psychiatrist with the Medical Research Council. Now lives in New Zealand. £35.00,  978-1-85315-905-3,  268pp,  Hardback,  July 2009

The New Zealand Medical Journal, October 2009, Vol 122 No 1304
Dr Barraclough has edited a book that should be in every library.

After a Victorian upper middle class upbringing Carmalt Jones (1874-1957) attended Uppingham, Corpus Christi College Oxford and St Mary's Hospital Medical School. He became physician to Westminster Hospital and Director of their Department of Bacterio-therapeutics. His academic interests made him Dean of Westminster Hospital Medical School. Following service in the First World War as a physician in the RAMC he was appointed in 1919 to the Chair of Systematic Medicine at Otago University. He retired in 1939 and returned to London in 1947.

Topics of special interest covered in his book include:

Experience in Almroth Wright’s Inoculation Department at St Mary’s with Fleming and Colebrook. There he met many well-known figures including Kipling, Shaw, Ehrlich and Koch.

A vivid account of Carmalt Jones’ experiences in medical service in the First World War in Flanders, Egypt and Palestine 1914-19

Jones’ life at Otago University, where he raised the standard of teaching. He advised on the placement of NZ Rhodes Scholars at Oxford and represented NZ physicians in the founding of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Jones published five books, 70 papers, scientific and literary, and founded the Proceedings of the Otago University Medical School which continues. He wrote verse for pleasure; his poem The Soldier's Monument has twice been anthologised.

A Physician in Spite of Himself is a fascinating account of this early twentieth-century physician’s life in England and New Zealand.

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