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In time-honoured fashion, a Royal Commission was set up and began taking evidence on July 27. Treves's performance on July 30 was uncharacteristically poor2-- evasive, contradictory, and, as at the Dorchester dinner, inappropriately flippant in places. He was staunchly defensive of the South Af...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2000-07, Vol.356 (9227), p.418-421
Main Author: Jeffcoate, Stephen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
England
General aspects
General Surgery
History
History of medicine
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Humans
Medical sciences
Military Medicine
South Africa
Surgeons
T Treves
Towns
Treves
Treves, Frederick
Warfare
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Summary:In time-honoured fashion, a Royal Commission was set up and began taking evidence on July 27. Treves's performance on July 30 was uncharacteristically poor2-- evasive, contradictory, and, as at the Dorchester dinner, inappropriately flippant in places. He was staunchly defensive of the South African medical services. By this time, Treves was surgeon to Queen Victoria who wanted nothing bad to come of the Royal Commission, and there is a suspicion that Treves and his fellow civilian surgeon, [William McCormac], were persuaded to give evidence supportive of the status quo. He was duly rewarded: Companion of the Order of the Bath in November 1900, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in May, 1901, and a Baronetcy in July, 1902 (in Edward VIPs Coronation Honours following Treves's famous appendix operation on the royal person).
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02540-X