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Sir David Drummund
English physician, born December 1852; died April 28, 1932.
Associated eponyms:
Drummond's marginal artery
Artery formed by branches of the colic arteries, running along the inner perimeter of the large intestine from the ileocolic junction to the rectum.
Drummond-Talma operation
Operation for the relief of ascites in cirrhosis of the liver.
Biography:
Sir David Drummund studied at Trinity College in Dublin and received further education in Prague, Vienna, and Strasbourg. He was a physician at the Sick Children's Hospital in Newcastle on Tyne, senior physician at the Northumberland War Hospital and professor of medicine at the University of Durham.
Bibliography:
- Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord. London, 1893.
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