Professor Dugald Gardner ScD (Cantab), MD, PhD (Edin), MSc (Manch), FRCP (London and Edinburgh), FRCSEd, FRCPath £16.99,  978-1-85315-661-8,  440pp,  Hardback,  October 2005

Medical Science History
It has been said that behind every great man there is a great biographer. Professor Gardner demonstrated this principle in his biography of Henry Wade…This elegantly produced book suggests to the reviewer that there must been shed-loads of documents, correspondence and photographs that required reading and notation. The result is a meticulous description of a dedicated surgeon who revered his medical school and hospital.

Surgeons News
Gardner has not just researched deeply the individual and his life's work. He has provided valuable commentary putting into historical and medical context, the phases of the career of a surgeon who saw, introduced so many of the things we now take for granted: a blood transfusion service, antibiotics, the National Health Service…RSM Press have produced a handsome volume.

Surgeon
This is much more than the biography of a fascinating individual. It offers colourful and detailed insights into the times and the various worlds in which he lived…Dugald Gardner has a writing style that makes for easy reading. The page layout and the illustrations are easy on the eye, making this book a delight to read. I hope we shall see more like this.

The Ulster Medical Journal
Dugald Gardner's biography is painstaking and draws on Wade's own accounts, letters to understand his life, times, and work. Many photographs, sketches and drawings have been tracked down, to illustrate the great achievements of this many-sided creative Surgeon. Highly recommended.

University of Edinburgh Journal 2008
Weighty and sumptuously produced it is replete with illustrations, map reference notes and appendices. (...) There is much here to interest the reader whether he is surgeon, scientist or soldier or simply interested in early twentieth century Edinburgh.

Highly Commended in New Non-Clinical Book category of RSM & Society of Authors Book Awards 2006

RSM Press is proud to present Surgeon, Scientist, Soldier,: the life and times of Henry Wade by Professor Dugald L Gardner. Featuring over 150 images (including both colour and black and white photographs), complete with a captivating commentary on the life of Henry Wade, one of the most distinguished and eminent surgeons of the past 100 years, this book will be a welcome addition to all of those interested in surgery and the history of medicine.

Born in Falkirk, Wade became a Resident House Surgeon in the 'new' Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh before serving with the army in South Africa. Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1903 and election as Conservator were followed by pioneering cancer research and a period as an hospital pathologist.

During military service in the 1914-1919 war Wade took a large number of photographs in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine which remain of extreme interest and many are featured in this book. Awarded the DSO and appointed CMG, he returned to Scotland, married and established a nursing home. In 1935 Wade became the 153rd President of the RCSEd. He retired in 1939 but continued on the General Medical Council and was influential in the creation of the Scottish NHS. A principal theme of Surgeon, Scientist, Soldier: the life and times of Henry Wade is the evolution of twentieth century surgery. Wade was a pioneer who achieved success in surgery, prominence in science, honour in war and great influence in medical politics.

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