Charles Handfield Jones (1818–1890) was an English physician.

Life

The son of Captain Jones, R.N., he was born in

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, 1 October 1818. He was one of

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's pupils at

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, went on to

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in 1837, and graduated B.A. in 1840. After study at St. George's Hospital, London, he took the degree of M.B. at Cambridge in 1843, but never proceeded to that of M.D. Jones became a member of the

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in 1845, and was elected a fellow in 1849. He published a paper of observations on the minute structure of the

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, which led to his election as fellow of the

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in 1850. In 1851 he was elected physician to

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, and continued on the staff of there till his death. Jones attained a reputation as a

histologist Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy, is the branch of biology that studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissues. Histology is the microscopic counterpart to gross anatomy, which looks at larger structures visi ...

and as a clinical observer. In the College of Physicians he was junior censor in 1863–4 and senior censor in 1886, and in 1888 a vice-president. In 1865 he delivered the Lumleian lectures on the pathology of the nervous system. Resident in Green Street,

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, Jones in later years, moved to

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, London. He died there of cancer of the stomach, 30 September 1890.

Works

Jones published with

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, in 1854, a ''Manual of Pathological Anatomy'', and in 1864 ''Clinical Observations on Functional Nervous Disorders''. He wrote also papers in medical journals, the ''Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of London'', and the ''Transactions of the Pathological Society''.

Family

Jones married in 1851 Louisa Holt, and had two sons, who both went into the medical profession.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Charles Handfield 1818 births 1890 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Royal Society Medical doctors from Liverpool People educated at Rugby School Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Deaths from stomach cancer in England Histologists