Frederick Charles Pybus

Frederick Charles Pybus DCL, FRCS was an English surgeon from Newcastle-on-Tyne, who was at the forefront of research into organ transplantation.

Research

In July 1916, Pybus reported an attempt at allogenic 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.^[1], both patients subsequently died.^[2]

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.^[2]

He presented his collection of books on the history of medicine to the library of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.^[3]

Footnotes

1. ^ * Pybus F. (1924). "Notes on suprarenal and pancreatic grafting.". Lancet ii: 550–1. 
2. ^ ^{a b} 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. ISBN 1580463533. Retrieved August 2011
3. ^ "Pybus Collection". Robinson Library. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/collections/collection_details.php?id=36. Retrieved 2011-05-23. 

References

• Durh M, Newcastle D (1975). "Frederick Charles Pybus.". Lancet 1 (7909): 757–8. PMID 47530. 
• Pybus F. (1924). "Notes on suprarenal and pancreatic grafting.". Lancet ii: 550–1. 

External links

• Pybus Papers