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SIR ALFRED PEARCE GOULD, whose death at the age of seventy years we announced last week, had been a member of the honorary staff of the Middlesex Hospital since 1882, and was a consulting surgeon at the time of his death. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Master of Surgery at the University of London, of which he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1912–16, and Vice-Chancellor 1916–17. His publications include the “Elements of Surgical Diagnosis,” which went into five editions, and the Bradshaw Lecture on Cancer (1910). He was joint author of the “International Text-Book of Surgery.” Though a surgeon of wide interests, Sir A. P. Gould devoted much work to the study of the clinical treatment of cancer, and was early in recognising the valuable adjuncts which X-rays and radium were to prove in the treatment of malignant disease. At the Middlesex Hospital he acted for a number of years as chairman of the Cancer Investigation Committee, and thus held a watching brief for any new remedial agent likely to prove of benefit in the treatment of cancer. He was an excellent teacher and did not spare himself in the many services which he was asked to undertake. He was at some time president of the clinical section of the Royal Society of Medicine, of the Medical Society of London, and of the Rontgen Society. Throughout the period of the war he acted as Officer-in-Charge of the Surgical Division of the 3rd London General Hospital at Wandsworth.
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Sir A. P. Gould. Nature 109, 589–590 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109589b0
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