Alfred Ernest Maylard

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PRCPSG FSGS (1855–1947) was born in Northfleet, Kent, England but is known as a Scottish surgeon and expert in abdominal surgery who served as president of the

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. He was the eldest son of Alfred Martin Maylard, a respected London merchant and Ellen Mira French Maylard. A keen mountaineer, he was also co-founder (with William Naismith) of the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1889. In authorship he is referred to as A. E. Maylard.

Life

He was born in 1855. He studied medicine at the

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, graduating MB ChB. He then worked as a demonstrator in the Anatomy Department of

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. When the Victoria Infirmary opened in Glasgow in 1890, he was its principal surgeon alongside Robert Henry Parry. In 1907, Maylard and a colleague modified the Pfannenfstiel incision and the subsequent Maylard incision (used during abdominal surgery) is attributed to him. In 1917 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, Sir

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. He died at Kingsmuir near

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on 27 June 1947.http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=266883.0 He is buried in Peebles Parish Churchyard.

Publications

*''Climbing Considered on its Physiological Aspects'' *''Walks Around

'' *''Memories and Musings of a Hospital Surgeon'' (1920) *''The Glasgow Infirmaries'' (1933)

Family

He was married to Jane Reddie. The couple had no children.

References

1855 births 1947 deaths 19th-century British surgeons Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{Scotland-med-bio-stub