H. P. Newsholme
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| Born | 27 August 1885 Secunderabad, India |
| Died | 21 December 1955 (aged 70) |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, writer |
Henry Pratt Newsholme (27 August 1885 – 21 December 1955) D.M., F.R.C.P., D.P.H. was a British physician and writer.
Newsholme was born at Secunderabad, India.[1] He was the son of Rev. B. Pratt Newholme and was educated at Brighton Grammar School (1903) and Balliol College, Oxford (1907).[1][2]
He obtained a B.Sc. with first-class honours in physiology from the natural science school in Oxford.[1] He graduated B.M., B.Ch. from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1910 and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians the same year. In 1911, he obtained the D.P.H. of the English Royal Colleges and took the D.M. in 1915. He was admitted F.R.C.P in 1927.[1][2]
Newsholme was house-physician at St. Thomas's and clinical assistant at the Evelina Children's Hospital.[1] He was assistant medical officer of health at Brighton Borough Fever Hospital. He was a captain in the R.A.M.C. and served in France and Italy (1915–1918).[1] He was professor of hygiene and public health at Birmingham University (1937–1941) and was appointed medical officer of health of Birmingham. He held this position for twenty-three years, until 1950.[1]
He authored medical works which stressed the importance of mind on the body.[3][4][5] Newsholme held deep religious views which he promoted in several books, Evolution and Redemption (1933), Christian Ethics and Social Science (1937) and Matter, Man, and Miracle (1951).[1] He was a theistic evolutionist.[6]
Newsholme was received into the Catholic Church in 1939 with his wife who he married in 1914. He was elected president of the Midland Catholic Medical Society in 1949. He had three sons and two daughters.[1] He died age 70 at his home in Harborne.[7]
Selected publications
[edit]- Preventive Medicine and the Healthy Mind (1926)
- Health, Disease and Integration (1929)
- Evolution and Redemption (1933)
- Christian Ethics and Social Science (1937)
- Matter, Man, and Miracle (1951)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i "H. P. Newsholme, D.M., F.R.C.P., D.P.H." The British Medical Journal. 1 (4958): 116. 1956. PMC 1978553. PMID 13269974.
- ^ a b "Henry Pratt Newsholme". Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ Macpherson, John (1929). "Health, Disease and Integration. An Essay Based on Certain Aspects of Encephalitis Lethargica. By H. P. Newsholme, M.D., F.R.C.P., B.Sc., D.P.H.Lond". Journal of Mental Science. 75 (310): 500–503. doi:10.1192/bjp.75.310.500.
- ^ "Health, Disease, And Integration". The British Medical Journal. 1 (3572): 1131–1132. 1929.
- ^ "Briton Stresses Mind as Agent in Disease". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ Bowler, Peter J. (2001). Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain. University of Chicago Press. p. 37. ISBN 0-226-06858-7
- ^ Former City Medical Officer Dies. Birmingham Daily Gazette (December 23, 1955). p. 7