In The Name Of Allah

The Most Powerful And Merciful

 Never believe that
a few caring people
can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all
who ever have.

(Margaret Mead)
 Hamilton Bailey
A famous Author, Surgeon and a
Teacher of Surgery
 Antecedents
• Father’s name was Dr.
James Bailey who was
born at Forfar, Scotland in
1864, the son of a mining
engineer. He gained
entrance to the Medical
School of The University
of Edinburgh and
qualified as a doctor (MB
CHB) in 1887.
• Married Margaret Bailey
and joined the mission
field.
Antecedants (Cont’d)

• In 1890, James was

appointed as the Medical
Superintendant of Church
Missionary Society
Hospital in Nablus in
Palestine.
• Returned To Scotland in
the autumn of 1891.
• Worked in Brighton and
Portsmouth, but then
found a vacant practice in
the village of Bishopstoke
in hampshire
 The Young Surgeon
• After his FRCS,
Hamilton Bailey was
appointed to the post
of Resident Surgical
Officer to
Wolverhampton and
South Staffordshire
General Hospital.
 Publications
• Physical Signs (revised
12th edition)
• Pye’s Surgical Handicraft
• Short Practice of Surgery

Hamilton Bailey sounded

out his books on the
brighter students before
publication.
 Marriage
• Hamilton Married his
secretary Veta.
• They had a son that
died in the Second
World War.
• The untimely death of
his son caused
psychological collapse
of his parents
especially Hamilton.
 To Spain…
• At Hawkinge, the Osbornes
convinced Baileys to visit
them in Southern Spain.
• In early 1960s, they arrived
in Spain, and decide to live
there.
• Bailey’s first house in
Spain, Las Golondrinas,
was on the northern edge of
Fuengirola.
 The Last Days Of Life
• In 1961, Hamilton Bailey
complained of constipation and
abdominal distension.
• Dr. Verdugo diagnosed Large
Bowel obstruction and called in
Dr. Lopez.
• Bailey refused to have any sort of
colostomy
• Bailey’s refusal was in
contradiction with his firm belief
in “staged” approaches to surgery.
 The Last Days Of Life (cont’d)
• Barium meal suggested a
tumor in the rectosigmoid.
• Dr. Lopez resected the
tumor, joined up the colon
and closed the abdomen.
• Fatally severe
complications followed.
• Dr. Hamilton Bailey died
in Malaga on 26 March,
1961.
 Doubts regarding the Dx and Tx
• Bailey had been told that he had a
volvulus of the colon.
• “we do not give blood in spain”
Bailey’s surgeon
• Electrolyte balance was being
maintained with the help of Coca
Cola (Orally 23 bottles per day).
• Toomey’s final comment was that
a proximal transverse colostomy
would have saved Hamilton
Bailey’s life.
 The resting place
• The british cemetery
in Malaga.
• “I can well understand
how a splenetic
English-man might
take his own life in
order to be buried in
this place.” Hans
Christian Andersen.
 And He Lives on..
• A Memorial Plaque to Bailey was put up
in the Parque San Antonio Hospital in
Malaga
• His photograph hangs in the International
College of Surgeons in Chicago.
• Obituaries appeared in The Lancet,
British Medical Journal and British
Journal of Surgery.
• A book case of memorabilia was set up
at the Royal Northern Hospital and when
the new Operation Theatres were opened
there in 1970, they were named after
Bailey together with McNeil Love.
 The Trust
• Hamilton Bailey Medical Libraries
• Some 200 medical schools around the
world were identified and approached.
• Those that responded favorably and
have benefited from the trust include
Mona University at Kingston,
Jamaica, The Christian Medical
College of South India at vellor, Seth
College in Bombay, Khyber Medical
College at Peshawar, and the Medical
School of Papua New Guinea.
Conclusion
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say
nothing, and be nothing.
(Elbart Hubbard)