John Walshe: physician-scientist who revolutionised the treatment of Wilson’s disease

bmj;379/dec02_4/o2910/FAF1faBorn to a medical family in Kensington, London, John Michael Walshe was the younger son of Francis Walshe, an eminent neurologist, and Bertha (née Dennehy) a nurse. His parents met in a hospital in Alexandria, while on active duty there during the first world war. When his father was demobbed, the family returned to London. Walshe and his older brother, Peter, attended Beaumont College in Old Windsor.Medical trainingIn 1939 John went to Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, to read medicine, where alongside his studies he acquired a passion for brass rubbing. He later described himself as having “taken every brass rubbing available within cycling distance of the university.” In 1942 he transferred to University College Hospital (UCH), in London, where he completed his medical student training. After working at UCH as house physician to Harold Himsworth, the professor of medicine, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a captain,…
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