Albert Clifford Morson

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, (1881 - 5 January 1975), was a surgeon who pioneered radiotherapy treatments for urinary tract cancers. After the

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, he was appointed assistant surgeon to St Peter's Hospital for stone, with

Peter Freyer Sir Peter Freyer (2 July 1851 – 9 September 1921) was an Irish surgeon with an expertise in urology, genitourinary surgery, best known at first as an Indian Medical Service (IMS) officer, for making popular the procedure for crushing bladder ...

, and became consultant in 1923. In 1933, he was elected president of the Section of Urology of the

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and, in 1947, he became president of the

British Association of Urological Surgeons The British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) is a professional association in the United Kingdom for urology professionals. Its official journal is the '' BJU International'', established in 1929, which is also the journal of the Urolo ...

(BAUS). Zorgniotti, Adrian W.br>Chapter 7. Suprapubic prostatectomy: An Anglo-Indian success story
in ''Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy'' edited by Frank Hinman.

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, New York (1983), pp. 51- 54. . In 1954 he was awarded the BAUS's

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Selected publications

*''St. Peter's Hospital for Stone, 1860-1960''. Edinburgh & London, 1960
"Sir Peter Freyer and Sir John Thomson Walker".
Editorial in the ''

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''. 1 August 1949, pp. 353–358.

References

1881 births 1975 deaths 20th-century British surgeons British urologists Recipients of the St Peter's Medal Officers_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire {{UK-med-bio-stub