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David Henry Goodsall (4 January 1843, in
Gravesend Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the Bank (geography), south bank of the River Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex. Located in the diocese of Roche ...
– 14 September 1906, in London) was an English
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who is remembered for describing Goodsall's rule. He was born in Gravesend, and educated at St. Ann's School. His father had decided to study medicine, but died while he was a student at
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, as a result of a wound sustained while performing a ''post mortem'' examination. As a result, David Goodsall's fees at St. Bartholomews were waived, as his father's wound was inflicted by a member of staff, and he studied medicine there from 1865. He became house surgeon at
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in 1870, a
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in 1872, and full surgeon in 1888. He developed an interest in rectal surgery, writing a chapter in ''Diseases of the Anus and Rectum'' in which Goodsall's rule is described. He is thought to have died of a
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in 1906.Marvin L. Corman. ''Colon and Rectal Surgery'', page 298. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005
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English surgeons 1843 births 1906 deaths People from Gravesend, Kent {{England-med-bio-stub