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Caesar Henry Hawkins
British physician, born September 19, 1798, Bisley in Gloustershire; died July 20, 1884.
Associated eponyms:
Alibert's disease I
A skin disease occurring in five variants, generally marked by pinkish patches, lines, or bands, bordered by a purplish halo.
Biography:
Caesar Henry Hawkins was the the younger brother of the physician Francis Hawkins (1793-1877). His father, a clergyman, was the younger son of Sir Caesar Hawkins (1711-1786), Serjeant Surgeon to the kings George II and III and surgeon at St, George’s Hospital, in which position he was succeeded by his son
The younger Caesar in 1814 became apprenticed to Sheppard in Hampton Court, 1819 pupil at St. George’s Hospital, with which he was associated for 55 years. He attended the lectures of Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783-1862), as well as those of James Wilson (1756-1822) and Charles Bell (1774-1842), at the Hunterian school in Great Windmill Street, then for several years was prosector at this school as assistant to Charles Bell and John Shaw (1792-1827).
In 1821 he became House surgeon to Lock Hospital, 1822 at St. George’s Hospital, where he became surgeon in 1829, remaining in this position until 1861, when he was appointed consulting surgeon.
Until 1830 Hawkins taught anatomy in a small amphi theatre set up by Herbert Mayo (1796-1852), then went to the newly established medical school at the St. George’s Hospital, teaching surgery first with Brodie, then with George Gisborne Babington (1795-1856), later with Thomas Tatum (1802-1879) until 1874, after which time he only gave occasional clinical lectures. From 1832 to 1834 Hawkins also lectured on forensic medicine.
In 1846 Hawkins became a member of the council of the College of Surgeons, in 1840 he gave the Hunterian oration, in 1852 and 1861 he was president, 1865 representative of the same in the Medical General Council and 1871 trustee of the Hunterian museum. Besides this he was repeatedly president of other medical bodies, 1857 surgeon extraordinary to the Queen, after the death of Sir Benjamin Brodie in 1862 Serjeant Surgeon, as the fourth in his family to hold this office (besides himself, his father Cæsar and his brother Francis, also Charles Hawkins’ brother Pennell Hawkins (surgeon at Middlesex Hospital).
Our Caesar Hawkins was consulted by four generations of the royal family.
Bibliography:
- On warty tumours in cicatrices.
London Medical Gazette, 1833; 13: 481-482.
On circumscribed scleroderma, or Alibert's disease 1.
- Lectures on tumours.
London Medical Gazette, volume XXI.
- Lectures on tumours of bones.
London Medical Gazette, volume XXIII.
- Diseases of the face.
- The Hunterian oration, presidential addresses, and pathological and surgical writings.
2 volumes, 1874.
- Lancet, 1884, II: 172./ul>
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