Trives, Frederick

Trives was the son of an upholsterer from Dorchester (county Dorset ). He received his medical education at the London Medical School and in 1879 became an assistant surgeon at the London Hospital (now the Royal London Hospital). Trives later became a teacher at the London School of Medicine. Starting as a demonstrator of practical anatomy ( 1881 - 1884 ), Trives subsequently became a lecturer in anatomy ( 1884 - 1893 ), a professor of operative surgery ( 1893 - 1894 ) and a lecturer in surgery ( 1893 - 1897 ). In 1882, Trives published his first scientific work, Scrofula and its Gland Diseases ( Eng. “ Scrofula and Gland Diseases ”). In parallel with scientific and teaching activities, Trivez successfully engaged in private practice. He founded his surgical clinic, which specialized in abdominal surgery. The practice was so successful and so profitable that in 1898, Trives resigned as a surgeon in a London hospital.

As a doctor, Trives participated in the Boer War of 1899-1902. . ^{[4] The} two most famous patients of Trives are the English king Edward VII and Joseph Merrick . In 1902, Trivez performed an operation to remove the appendix from the king. The operation was performed two days before the alleged coronation. The king did not want to postpone the coronation, but Trives insisted on the need for surgery. As a result, the coronation was postponed for a month and a half. The operation was successful, and the next year the king granted Trivese the title of baronet . Another famous patient is the “elephant man” Joseph Merrick, who is widely known for his ugliness, which modern scientists attribute to type I neurofibromatosis and Proteus syndrome. Trives left memories of Merrick, which subsequently formed the basis of the Broadway play by Bernard Pomerance and the David Lynch film. In the book of Trives, Merrick for unknown reasons is named John (instead of Joseph), which led to a widespread misconception about the name Merrick (in particular, in the aforementioned film he is also named John).

In 1877 , Trives married Anne Elizabeth Mason of his native Dorchester. After retiring, Edward VII granted Trives an estate in Richmond Park, but health problems forced Trives to move to Lake Geneva in Evian in 1920 . December 7, 1923 , Trives died. His remains were cremated, and the ashes buried in the cemetery of Dorchester. Among those attending the funeral ceremony of Trives was the English poet Thomas Hardy , a longtime friend of Trives. ^[five]

• Scrofula and Glandular Disease (London, 1882)
• Surgical applied Anatomy (London, 1883; seventh edition of 1918)
• Intestinal Obstructions (London, Cassell & Co, 1884) - the book received the Jackson Prize
• A Manual of Surgery (London, 1886) - with several co-authors
• A case of haemophilia: pedigree through five generations (London, 1886)
• A German-English Dictionary of Medical Terms (London, 1890; with H. Lang)
• A Manual of Operative Surgery (London, 1891)
• Students Handbook of Surgical Operations (London, 1892; fifth edition 1930)
• The Highways and Byways of Dorset (London, 1906) - a description of the small homeland of Trivese
• Uganda for a holiday
• The land that is desolate
• The Cradle of the Deep (1908) - West Indies Travel Description
• The Elephant Man and other reminiscences (1923) - memories of the Elephant Man