Bethel Solomons (1885-1965) was born in Dublin and spent most of his professional life there. He was master of the Rotunda Hospital and organised the first sterility clinic in Dublin. He was a founder fellow of the RCOG and an Honorary Fellow of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1946. He died in 1965 of heart failure
Offered to the College Library by Michael Solomons, the son of Bethel Solomons, in January 1990. It was agreed that the collection should be placed in the College Archives
Papers of Professor Bethel Solomons relating to his research and development of gynaecological surgical procedures, comprising letters with his medical peers both in the UK and internationally discussing operations on the Fallopian Tubes for sterility and with Victory Bonney on enucleated cysts and progress on myomectomy.
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Copyright is vested in the estate of Bethel Solomons until 2035.
Reproductions are available at the discretion of the College Archivist.
Catalogued by Penny Hutchins, Archivist
Responses to a letter sent by Solomons to peers nationally and internationally with queries regarding the function of the Fallopian tubes for his use in an address for the forthcoming British Congress of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians, in particular concerning operations on the Fallopian tubes for sterility and the results of such operations, including from F J Browne, Victor Bonney, Comyns Berkeley, Clifford White, Blair-Bell, Louis Carnac Rivett, Arthur Gemmell, Morris Datnow, Beckwith Whitehouse, Wentworth Taylor, R W Johnstone, Gilbert Strachan, William Gilliatt, James Hendry, Arthur Leyland Robinson, Isidor Rubin, Charles Macafee, Joseph B de Lee, and Arthur Curtis, including their opinions on the procedure and experiences of its effectiveness. There is also a black and white photograph of unidentified sketches and a print, presumably sent with one of the responses.
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Four letters between Bethel Solomons and Victor Bonney discussing points on gynaecological surgery, in particular innovators in enucleated cysts and progress on myomectomy, including nice details of changes brought about by the war, especially Bonney’s role at Cheltenham Hospital and as inspector of the Red Cross Hospitals in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
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Letter from Herbert Spencer to Bethel Solomons discussing an attached remark sent by Solomons to the British Medical Journal in September 1931 relating to breech presentations, including a reference to the size of the husband's hat in determining treatment, including a caricature by Spencer of Solomons in a stetson hat.
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