Frederick Charles Pybus
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(2 November 1883 – 10 March 1975) was an English
surgeon from
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, who contributed to research into
organ transplantation
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.
Research
In July 1916, Pybus reported an attempt at
allogenic
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transplantation of
pancreatic tissue. Despite a mild reduction in glucose excretion in one of two diabetic patients transplanted with fragments of human
cadaveric pancreatic tissue.,
[* ] both patients subsequently died.
[Schlich, T. (2010) Volume 18 of Rochester Studies in Medical History: ''The Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930']
p.74.
University Rochester Press. . Retrieved August 2011
Pybus concluded that:
...although transplants represented the most rational form of therapy, they would continue to fail as long as science did not understand the principles involved.
He presented his collection of books on the history of medicine to the library of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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External links
Th
Professor Frederick Pybus Archiveand th
Professor Frederick Pybus Collectionis available to view a
Newcastle University Special Collections
1883 births
1975 deaths
English surgeons
British medical researchers
20th-century surgeons
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