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193: 44: 235:" during his undergraduate training which led him to be fluent in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic. His choice of profession, however, was medicine and he devoted his life to paediatrics, writing prolifically about childhood diseases and serving as Secretary of the Children's Clinical Club. Still worked at 327:
Still was involved in many organisations that helped promote his work.  He was the Chairman of the Medical Committee at King's, a part of the Society for Waifs and Strays, and the National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality for twenty years.  He also helped give care to
1013: 204:. During the Goulstonian Lectures on the topic of "On Some Abnormal Physical Conditions in Children", Still talks about "moral control" and his lecture is based on the same symptoms that is known as 153:, London. He was the only boy of eight children born to George Still and Eliza Still (nÊe Andrew). To distinguish him from his father, the junior Still was known by his middle name Frederic. 301:
This book includes topics on breast-feeding, Rickets, intestinal worms, Jaundice in children, Pneumonia, and many more other diseases where he specifically writes about different illnesses.
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who helped to establish paediatrics as a new discipline. He was the author of five medical textbooks, and publisher of hundreds of papers. Still first described a form of
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in London. He was from a working-class family who would otherwise have not been able to afford the fees. He was further awarded a scholarship to attend
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families who did not have the funds for treatments. Still hosted a meeting at his home with other paediatric physicians, and was the president of the
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Today, George Frederic Still's ideas are still being applied and accepted worldwide.  Some examples of the disorders that he wrote about are
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who was his mentor. His life was dedicated to improving afflicted children's chance at survival, and particularly patients at
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In 1897, Still published his doctoral thesis describing a form of childhood febrile arthritis today known as
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Kutzsche, S (2023). "Sir George Frederic Still (1868–1941) and his service to paediatrics and society".
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Granted Physician to the royal household and Knight Commander of the Victorian Order by King George VI.
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Lange, Klaus W.; Reichl, Susanne; Lange, Katharina M.; Tucha, Lara; Tucha, Oliver (December 2010).
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George Frederic Still biographical data compiled from research sources indicated therein
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Interested in the ability to prevent disability in adults by treating those in kids.
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Established the department for the diseases of childhood at Guy's Hospital in 1893.
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was reading works from antiquity in their original languages. He studied the "
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and Winchester Prizeman award during his college years. He graduated with a
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Taught the first class in the United Kingdom about children's diseases at
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was named after Still and is the disease he described in his article "
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These awards boosted his credentials and made him a well-respected
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Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition
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Piller, G. J. "Still, Sir (George) Frederic (1868–1941)".
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now. Still's descriptions are very similar to those of
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Invited to give Goulstonian lecture in 1902, later the
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Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1888, and then entered
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People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
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Still was awarded the Dawson Williams Prize in 1934.
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He was knighted upon retiring in 1937. 196:Blue plaque, 28 Queen Anne Street, London 934: 627:"Sir George Frederick Still (1868–1941)" 471:"Sir George Frederick Still (1868–1941)" 384: 191: 182:King's College London School of Medicine 518:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 227:During most of his adult life, Still's 14: 1021: 624: 468: 307:He was made an honorary fellow of the 149:Still was born on 27 February 1868 in 835: 790: 788: 786: 771: 769: 767: 765: 707: 705: 418: 166:Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 854:10.1001/archpedi.1978.02120270093020 575: 795:Thursfield, H. (1 September 1941). 294:One of his famous books is titled " 24: 783: 762: 702: 682:(4104): 1163–1168. 26 April 1902. 548:"Obituaries: Sir Frederic Still". 514: 368:at the age of 73 on 28 June 1941. 25: 1070: 999: 441: 133:as well as the common functional 1049:People from Islington (district) 1010:(1910), by George Frederic Still 941:Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 801:Archives of Disease in Childhood 625:Farrow, S. J. (6 January 2006). 419:Still, George Frederick (1909). 322: 27:English paediatrician and author 898:Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 829: 667: 618: 378: 13: 1: 992:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)74984-7 688:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)74901-X 576:Dunn, P. M. (12 April 2006). 371: 330:British Pediatric Association 187: 144: 131:juvenile idiopathic arthritis 535:UK public library membership 251:Accomplishments/Publications 245:Great Ormond Street Hospital 7: 644:10.1093/rheumatology/kei166 488:10.1093/rheumatology/kei166 469:Farrow, S. J. 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Index

Sir George Frederic Still

Still's disease
Still's murmur
Paediatrics
KCVO
paediatrician
juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Still's murmur
ADHD
Highbury
Merchant Taylors' School
public school
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
matriculated
Classical Tripos
first class
King's College London School of Medicine

Still's disease
ADHD
ADHD
ADHD
ADHD
Still's murmur
avocation
classics
Guy's Hospital
James Goodhard
Great Ormond Street Hospital

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