William Ernest Miles
English surgeon, born January 15, 1869, Uppingham, Rutland; died 1947.
Biography of William Ernest Miles
William Ernest Miles received his education at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and College in London. He became a surgeon at the Cancer Hospital in London, at Gordon Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum and the Royal Hospital in Richmond, as well as consulting surgeon at West Harts Hospital. In 1923 he was Lettsomian lecturer at the Medical Society, London. Miles particularly concerned himself with the surgery of the malignant diseases and affections of the colon.
he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1894, Honorary Fellow of A. College of Surgeons 1930. He became professor emeritus.
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